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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 9h

Are Trump fans going to get surgery to have a vag-neck, too, now?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9h

In 1933 Adolf Hitler banned Antifa.
In 2025 Donald Trump banned Antifa.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13h

In prison, Israeli guards told him again & again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family–a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside...

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In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside her – alive, waiting, and all of them delirious with relief and joy.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Today reveals that Hamas treats its hostages better than Israel treats its 'prisoners'.

That tells you everything you need to know.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

israelpalestinenews.org/return-to-ga...

Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble

"There is nothing here that can be called life. We remain alive, struggling and enduring only for the sake of survival—nothing more. We have nothing.”

israelpalestinenews.org

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

#FuckIsrael: www.instagram.com/reel/DPuHMks...

The beloved Saleh Al Jafawari just announced the ceasefire day o ago full of hope, happiness, EVEREPEACE and joy. Today he was murdered.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

How the hell can you put 'dies' what is wrong with you Sky News are you denying death now?

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Basu @basuwu.bsky.social · 1d

“We aren’t the Gestapo”

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 1d

Straightforward from here:
1. Medicare cuts lead to rural hospital closures
2. HHS kills mRNA vaccine development under BARDA
3. RIF eviscerates CDC
4. H5N1 acquires mutations that increase human infectivity
5. The Stand Is Real

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

Israel isn’t moving out of Gaza. They’re paying militias in Gaza to kill Palestinians.

Never trust anything an Israeli says.

Ever.

It’s always a lie.

There’s another angle that Israelis are doing behind everyone’s backs as usual.

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

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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crimsongash.bsky.social @crimsongash.bsky.social · 1d

This book by Daniel Rachel about those ska bands was a really good read

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t give TWO SHITS if you think it’s perfectly fine to have a Qatari air base in Idaho!! I DO NOT TRUST A SINGLE THING FROM THIS REGIME.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

Platner is so, so good at this.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

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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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 4d

Ironically, some CDC staff furloughed for the shutdown were called back just to carry out the firings. According to one legal expert, that could make the RIFs (Reductions in Force) illegal on procedural grounds.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher @repfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration is using the government shutdown to dismantle our public health infrastructure.

The people laid off from the CDC are our first line of response for disease outbreaks. This will cost lives.

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

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

Vance could not give a straight answer to questions about:

➡️ Tom Homan's alleged acceptance of a bribe
➡️ Trump's accusations that J.B. Pritzker is a criminal
➡️ Layoffs at the CDC

Read/Watch: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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