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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 23m

Nice throw football head. #Seahawks

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 35m

This was a fun night. Memorial Stadium with around 5k people and at least that many ghosts.

Frank MacDonald @frankmsounders.bsky.social · 1h

#OTD 1995 – Sounders win Seattle's 1st pro soccer national championship over Atlanta, taking 3rd and deciding game, 1-1 (2-1). Jason Farrell equalizes at 82', David Hoggan & Peter Hattrup convert shootout attempts and Marcus Hahnemann, making clinching save, is finals MVP.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 47m

When you find out Xi has the Epstein files.

Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 1h

President Trump on the rising trade tensions with China:

#economy #markets #trade #tariffs #china

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 57m

I like how the football game b-roll for Jacksonville is like “idk, here’s a bridge.”

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 10h

What a cool currency. Love my money to randomly lose 1/5 of its value. At least I can’t buy anything with it.

Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 11h

Crypto: "most top coins down a mere fifth or so over the 24 hours to noonish London time, wiping a mere $388bn off the market cap of the top 100 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies”

www.ft.com/content/75fa...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 14h

Yikes.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, at first I was just annoyed then the rest of the building started going off and I could hear people in the hallway. 😂 Fortunately they turned off when I stopped mine.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 14h

Weirdly, nothing. Just wings in an air fryer that weren’t even close to done. Apparently they’re just super sensitive because I didn’t smell any smoke.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned the fire alarm in my apartment is wired to the alarms in the entire building in an unfortunate way.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 14h

The tandoori pork chop was so good I went full Gollum when others at my table wanted to try it.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 15h

I'm confident this wasn't an error. They had to pull HR workers off furlough to process the layoffs, which is cruel in and of itself.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16h

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 17h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely evil.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

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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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 17h

I see a nice spot for another up there. #Sounders

Sounders FC @soundersfc.com · 18h

Unmatched ⭐️ ️

The only MLS club with all five annual trophies.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 17h

Billy, this is Brayden Thomas. He’s the most undervalued player in the draft. His defect is that his mom sucks at throwing BP balls.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 17h

Pitcher for the extra inning derby has to be a parent of a player.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 17h

A home run derby to decide the winner might be fun. 😂

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 17h

I’m glad that it’s impossible for the Sounders to go 15 innings tonight.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 20h

If as a journalist you don't know which photos or videos to trust on social media any more you might ask why the news media is not positioning itself to prosper from the pending consumer rush back to trusted sources.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 1d

We are well and truly on our own.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Our new CDC at work.

Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Renowned Ole Miss scientists.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

Ole Miss commercial has the shot.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Special session!

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