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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14m

This guy makes me incensed that he’s my Senator.

The other one is an embarrassment too. But not a surprise.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25m

Maria Bartiromo tries to reassure Fetterman: "You know, senator, what you just said, it's really shamefully on your colleagues. You feeling isolated -- that is absolutely outrageous. You are a breath of fresh air. I know our viewers are grateful."

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

I’ll be aggressively blocking those people.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 12h

Mezerkis Law of Increasing Stupidity HR Edition

Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 12h

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 12h

…really?

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 13h

We're sending squad-sized elements to secure the Bass Pro Shop

Screencap of an AP article

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — National Guard troops patrolled in Tennessee’s second-largest city for the first time Friday while soldiers in Illinois were engaged only in planning and training after a judge handed a loss to the Trump administration and blocked their deployment to the Chicago area.

At least nine armed Guard members began their patrol at the Bass Pro Shops located at the Pyramid, an iconic Memphis landmark, about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from historic Beale Street and FedEx Forum, where the NBA’s Grizzlies play

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16h

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

edition.cnn.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 13h

Ish. Although the water view is a little better than that.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 13h

[unprintable unprintable extremely unpleasant shit], and I wish her well.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 13h

Anybody you know?

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

Was it Antifa?

Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 14h

WJTV – A shooting in the Main Street area of Leland, in Mississippi, has left six people dead. Authorities say a total of 16 people were shot on the night of the city’s homecoming game. https://www.wjtv.com/news/state/4-killed-4-critically-injured-in-leland-mass-shooting/

www.wjtv.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

yoda says do or do not , there is no try .

ALT: yoda says do or do not , there is no try .

media.tenor.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14h

It's like watching a kindergartner learn they get just as much attention for listening to their parents as they do for acting out.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 19h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14h

I... do not believe this was a "procedural lapse."

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15h

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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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry meant to link this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Na...

1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

Was reading this for a different purpose. But. The 1939 MSG Bund rally of “Nazis” was protected as free speech at great cost. In some ways to discredit them & to defend free speech.

Whereas the fascists today, declare peaceful civil protests ie No Kings as terrorists & say “they must be stopped”.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 14h

explanation: this is a securities class action alleging that musk defrauded twitter investors by delaying disclosure of his nearly 10% stake prior to making his acquisition offer. musk is being evasive about whether he intends to argue -

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

That’s fucking dark.

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 15h

It isn't just ICE.

Texas police are using Flock cameras to conduct nationwide searches for women they suspect of leaving the state to have abortions: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

Funny. I’d say it’s the exact opposite. Optimism is self-delusional bullshit to keep you moving.

(Hopefully it’s obvious I think both these views are wrong)

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14h

Clowns with flamethrowers.

Unless the point is to fuck it up and be incompetent and make everything fail. I don’t see how this happens. Or if it does how you don’t get in a lot of trouble for fuckign it up.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

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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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15h

Just visiting

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15h

Let us celebrate our Saturday night by the adding of gin to tonic.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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