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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1h

These "errors" keep happening.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

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

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

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 8h

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

“Reid, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, can no longer work because of her illness and has no other income … The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has helped her maintain a balanced diet critical for her health.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

“Tequaila Reid, a mother of five, fears a government shutdown could cut off the nutrition assistance programs that help her feed her children while she battles breast cancer.” www.13wmaz.com/article/news...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1h

I wouldn't believe anything Peterson's daughter says about his health. Whatever she says is the product of a conceptual scheme warped by woo and chronic grifting.

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 8h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 3h

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime - The Atlantic apple.news/AJqXZ5jM8SbC...

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime — The Atlantic

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3h

Billionaires are living the meme

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Biden wasn’t president yet. These folks aren’t too bright

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Vought is a key figure in the world of Trumpism, with a rare – and dangerous – combination of ideological zeal and operative competence, a fully committed extremist causing massive harm to millions of people.

But if you only listened to The Daily, you wouldn’t get any of that.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

If the fire department says Portland's not burning, Noem will accuse them of being in on the conspiracy, too.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

The administration is vilifying the local cops in Portland who keep trying to work with them but won't make up statistics or arrest people who aren't breaking the law. The reason there are modest numbers of arrests, Noem suggests, is that the cops are in on it!

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

I was furious at the "both sides" headline the Times ran about how there's a debate over whether Portland is a burning hellscape. The Times has reporters there, they know full well that it isn't. The story is that Trump is lying to justify military occupation.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d

On 10/2, Trump unilaterally slashed foreign farmworkers wages.

At the end of the season, when workers who might protest are no longer in the fields, he cut 400,000 people’s wages by as much as 1/3.

Workers with H-2A visas who earned $19.94 this year will earn $13.90 next year flip.it/ywmNTR

Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers

At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23h

The gunman who murdered the state lawmaker is a far-right conspiracy theorist and evangelical Christian.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

There's no other explanation that makes sense. And the people who think this won't come for them are the biggest bubble of all.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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