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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 10h

MTG is running circles around the most progressive democrats and I’m wondering how they let that happen
Saying silent and incoherent doesn’t make you safe

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

“These poor women.”

Marge making even more sense with Tim Dillon on Congress failing to address the cost of living/health care prices… and the truth about what’s really in the Epstein files. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DPsYFQ-...

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 15h

This was literally the first video when I opened TikTok just now. That’s happening more and more these days, and it’s becoming hard harder to tell when the video is fake.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 17h

The destruction of truth and substitution of a chosen narrative is a core element of fascism. Look at what generative AI is already doing to information systems - spreading lies at scale and causing people to doubt actual facts.

The nazis WISH they had such a tool back then.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23h

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

“We will see a similar pricing pattern from last year, where we will have higher prices in late fall and winter due to large bird flu outbreaks. Egg prices could double during that time period, and then, as we get closer to summer, when the bird flu is ramping down, we will see a decrease...”

Egg prices could skyrocket as bird flu cases are spiking earlier than expected

Culls of millions of birds are sending egg prices soaring, with experts warning there’s no end in sight

www.independent.co.uk

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h

Burn it all down.
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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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9h

we evidently need to bring back Ra

𓂀! 𓂀! 𓂀!

𓁛𓇳! 𓁛𓇳! 𓁛𓇳!

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h

Incompetence or evil? Doesn’t matter when the result is the same.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

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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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

They did this to a child. Shameful.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 21h

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

you can abolish ICE... by melting it down into a new agency

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

The actual process of how you replace ICE is an interesting one because the obvious answer is more or less recreate legacy INS while hitting the ERO dudes with the Camden model *but* that runs the risk that eventually the new ERO dudes take over the culture/agency

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

i mean you can probably consolidate ERO and USCIS into a new agency and give HSI tracks to BATF/DAE/FBI etc and the reapplication process filter a lot of people out

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

guys i'm beginning to think they haven't thought this through

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14h

Ok I have been informed that this woman did not suddenly grow a conscience.

She just hates Speaker Mike Johnson perhaps more than any of us hate Trump and delights in ratf—ng him.

Bless.

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

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I've been in the Capitol, and there's two things I couldn't find this week: I couldn't find anywhere the Epstein files and also couldn't find the Republican plan to fix the absolutely destroyed health insurance industry."

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9h

we evidently need to bring back Ra

𓂀! 𓂀! 𓂀!

𓁛𓇳! 𓁛𓇳! 𓁛𓇳!

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

Biofuels are a bad climate solution and a huge waste of land, food and millions in subsidies. Burning crops for fuel only pushes us further away from our climate goals.

But biofuel production is only growing across the planet.
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9h

🎶corn is a shitty solar panel🎵

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14h

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 15h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 13h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 13h

Good news: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social signed the bill! Congrats to @davidpomerantz.bsky.social @earthjustice.org and TURN!

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 5d

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians.

Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates?
energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending

State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.

energyandpolicy.org

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 15h

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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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

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

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

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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