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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 1d

Preach

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 1d

"you don't owe anyone your emotional labor"

yes you do! that's what a friendship is!

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Odds of insider trading going on? 100%?

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day

The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.

www.cnbc.com

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty worrying that the only solution to a blatant violation of the Appropriations Clause is the political one that will not happen. Everybody goes on about how we can’t have a system based on norms but it’s turning out a critical mass views adherence to the rule of law as a norm.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Closing down disease monitoring is like a Bob Loblaw approach to pandemic management.

- WHY SHOULD YOU GO TO JAIL FOR A CRIME SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Protesters getting cuffed should insist on calling the arresting officers “Daddy” just to make them feel weird as hell about the whole thing.

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 1d

The ideal conference outfit doesn’t exi-

A still from a Thom Browne runway show of a person with an alien mask on holding up a little sign with a green bar on. They are dressed in a gray outfit with a white button down and tie, where the jacket has multiple arms and the pants have multiple legs, wearing platform heeled shoes that look like saddle shoes.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 1d

What’s especially galling about these many of the CDC firings is these are technical positions, not political ones, yet there has been (and won’t be) any policy-based explanation, even a nonsensical one, from Kennedy et alia as to why they were fired. Impeach Kennedy. Impeach him now.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

RIF notices also sent to the CDC’s 2023 and 2024 class of civilian EIS officers known as its main disease detectives, per sources. These are the people who are typically the first responders in an outbreak. 4/4

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is shocked at how easy it was to turn the US into a personalist dictatorship (we're squarely on the way but not quite there) & claims to be having a lot of fun

All these actions reflect a buoyed commander-in-chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first 9 months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it is all proven to be.

While the war in Ukraine continues to bedevil Trump, causing him the most frustrations, he doesn't face the discontent, sniping and disagreements that characterized his first term, said David Urban, a long time ally. " This time, he's having way more fun," Urban said.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

Measles (Rubeola)
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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 2d

Law is more like Tinkerbell than an animal. Death is not final. When/where we believe, it lives.

Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 3d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

I truly think a bunch of pundits and consultants have told them “democracy messages didn’t work in 2024 so you shouldn’t use them”

This ignores the extremely different contexts imo. In 2024 Biden was president and people had sanewashed trump 1. Now there are violent secret police in the streets

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

Words cannot express how furious I am

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

Parents at the neighborhood public school are lining the streets and offering children escorts home because of the very legitimate fear that our federal government will kidnap them

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

“I’m a very patient guy. I mean you should just see how long I go between porn sessions. I really wait a long time. Incredible patience. Just ask my son!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 3d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 3d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 3d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 3d

It’s under grave threat; it’s not entirely dead.
Mostly dead is different

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 3d

No I’m using it right here! The speech act makes it real!

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