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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1h

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/f...

Trump refuses to negotiate
Speaker Johnson refuses to bring House Republicans back in session
Senate Republicans refuse to negotiate

Now this 42 MILLION people could have SNAP BENEFITS CUT..Food for Families and Children
And your insurance premiums rise

Scoop: Trump administration warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps if shutdown continues

It's the administration's latest warning of painful consequences of a lengthy government shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 2h

RFK,Jr. just laid off 1,000 employees of HSS. A deliberate act to further decimate the nation's CDC, which serves to investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses, and collect data.

Expect sickness & deaths.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1h

The US Supreme Court is making up facts to further judicial tyranny and thus MAGA tyranny. Nothing about the court is more disturbing.

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Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts

It is striking that many early-stage SCOTUS orders have either reversed or supplanted factual findings of lower courts.

slate.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 17h

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Hey uhhhh who the fuck approved this headline

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 16h

What's "unusual" is that it was honest.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Nice recap

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 16h

He has bad doctors who lie a lot and it’s oddly comforting

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 17h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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proud rebel scum ⚛️ @proudrebelscum.bsky.social · 16h

excellent for morale!!!

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 23h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 22h

I wouldn’t be surprised if he flunked, but more likely IMHO is that Melania wanted him living in the White House for security reasons

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 22h

Insane

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 23h

Man, I loved some damn Diane Keaton.

A solid broad. Self-possessed, effortless style, never felt like she took herself too seriously.

We lost a real one.

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 2d

Now when does she start on the missing kids displaced by her husband? When will they be reunited?

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AnitaLaLouise @anitalalouise.bsky.social · 2d

So the Russians abducted 19,546 Ukrainian children, but Melania wants props for getting 8 children released, and you had to rewrite the story because they weren't even Ukrainian?

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 1d

Um…excuse me??? What the actual fuck

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

*decades

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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