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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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crimsongash.bsky.social @crimsongash.bsky.social · 7h

Well that money is needed for important things like weapons for Israel and bailing out Argentina's peso. #AmericaFirst

Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report

Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker

www.theguardian.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d

Standup comic John O'Donnell does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media:

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

This is not how science is supposed to work: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social interviews #FDA staffers on how the agency is being asked to investigate issues of interest to Health Secretary Kennedy. “It’s like the tail wagging the dog.... Go find data to support this." www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

www.statnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 9h

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the more than 2,200 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience do not link to research items even once.

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Apr 1

The team decided to run our algorithm across all available episodes of the Joe Rogan Podcast.

At 2261 eps, 3-4 hours long, this was a big task.

The algorithm detected not a single citation in nearly 7,000 hours of content.

The Altmetric team shed a collective tear.

It had worked flawlessly.
9/17

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 9h

Could be a sign of what is to come this winter/ holiday season for other countries.
Japan sees early flu activity, with school closures www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

Japan sees early flu activity, with school closures

Japan typically reports increased influenza activity at the end of November.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 1d

Are Trump fans going to get surgery to have a vag-neck, too, now?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

In 1933 Adolf Hitler banned Antifa.
In 2025 Donald Trump banned Antifa.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

In prison, Israeli guards told him again & again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family–a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside...

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In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside her – alive, waiting, and all of them delirious with relief and joy.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Today reveals that Hamas treats its hostages better than Israel treats its 'prisoners'.

That tells you everything you need to know.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

israelpalestinenews.org/return-to-ga...

Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble

"There is nothing here that can be called life. We remain alive, struggling and enduring only for the sake of survival—nothing more. We have nothing.”

israelpalestinenews.org

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

#FuckIsrael: www.instagram.com/reel/DPuHMks...

The beloved Saleh Al Jafawari just announced the ceasefire day o ago full of hope, happiness, EVEREPEACE and joy. Today he was murdered.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

How the hell can you put 'dies' what is wrong with you Sky News are you denying death now?

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Basu @basuwu.bsky.social · 2d

“We aren’t the Gestapo”

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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NIH CAS coordinator @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 2d

Straightforward from here:
1. Medicare cuts lead to rural hospital closures
2. HHS kills mRNA vaccine development under BARDA
3. RIF eviscerates CDC
4. H5N1 acquires mutations that increase human infectivity
5. The Stand Is Real

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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