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Eric Michael Garcia

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

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Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNBC Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him [email protected]

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21h

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 57m

A Houston #ActuallyAutistic teenager who went missing for almost a week has been in ICE custody for several days, according to a local organization.

www.fox26houston.com/news/missing...

Houston: Missing teen with autism in immigration custody, ICE reports

ICE confirmed with FOX 26 that a teen who went missing in Houston for a week had been in immigration custody since Monday.

www.fox26houston.com

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 2h

It’s so interesting watching @annamerlan.bsky.social’s Conspiracy Singularity in real time.

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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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

You also see this with folks like Benny Johnson and others saying that all the deportations means that Democrats will never be able to win elections. Voter ID laws begin to proliferate in state legislatures after the 2010 midterms because there was a belief Obama’s win was a fraudulent usurpation.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Her performance in the end of the Godfather where Michael becomes the Don is so sad and also chilling.

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 5h

Francis Ford Coppola remembers Diane Keaton.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

SPY put bros:

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t put this evil on us

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I am going back to reading time everyone pray no more infinity tariff announcements interrupt me

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

AHHHHH I was trying to take a break and read my civil war book for like 30 minutes

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

This is why we declared independence

David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 13h

Attlee taught Labour to walk, now he watches on as they fly

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Definitely! Thank you.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you!

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Yes indeed!

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Corrected: PR’s current governor is a Republican!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Meant to say its former delegate and current governor. Its current commissioner delegate is a Democrat

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Oh my mix up! I was still thinking of Colon!

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21h

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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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you!

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you. Always fun to do.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Walked by Kramer Books on my way home and signed a copy of my book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. Go pick it up if you don’t have a copy. The staff is also great too.

The same man holding up the book, which is white and says “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.”

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14h

1999 Dave Chappelle: Abba Zabba you my only friend
2025 Dave Chappelle: Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Salman you my only friend

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

nbcnews.to

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 15h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

The Republican Party of my youth celebrated this. This is why my mom and Dad supported Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.