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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 8h

Polluters realized that democracy was incompatible with letting them destroy the planet and passing the costs to everyone else. So they're destroying democracy.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 9h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

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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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 11h

That’s part of my problem.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

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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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

... and doing so for two reasons:

1. He speaks the Spanish.
2. He has a spine whereas they do not.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

"Please enjoy this encore presentation of The Mike Francesca Show already in progress."

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

(I really need to find the time to get back to writing at least periodically.)

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

Absolutely. It is predictable. I wrote a warning about this a few weeks after the 2024 election.

When this ultimately all falls apart—and it will, one way or another—the overwhelming desire from elite quarters will be to just move on. It's in the past. We're looking forward.

Not this time.

When the country is left examining the wreckage of this administration and the movement which swept it back into power, those responsible and their enablers will seek to escape accountability on ratlines to the speaker's circuit for lucrative fees or slink off to the Harvard IOP fellows program. History informs us that the odds are in their favor. It is also instructive that the lack of accountability only begets further destructive actions. This past election is an acute example of this failing and we will all suffer as a result.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16h

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez

www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US

An agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, father of two, during a massive immigration sweep.

www.reuters.com

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

We randomly had WGN in Oakland at my grandmother's house so it was very weird to grow up with the team productions for the A's (KRON/KICU), Giants (KTVU), Braves (TBS) and the Cubs (WGN).

(Weirdly did not get WGN in nearby Hayward nor Danville.)

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

PCA has no composure, like, ever.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

Bay Area native

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16h

Andrew Vaughn? Really?

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 18h

Mackenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife, is a rare exception. Nobody is mad at her—other than Jeff Bezos anyway.

It would be very easy to be a billionaire people actually liked but they choose evil time and again.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 18h

… which is why everybody needs to be prosecuted once they are out of power.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 18h

Jimmy Carter was famously blasted by the press and Republicans for “indecision” because he announced a big energy *speech* and ventures to Camp David for a few days to work on it then canceled it.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 19h

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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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 18h

It’s all cartoonishly corrupt!

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19h

Oh sure why not 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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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 20h

“I’m [nominee], running for Congress. Things are tough for Americans just trying to get by. Republicans are enabling Donald Trump’s assault on our rights, our health care, and our ability to provide for our families. You don’t have to take my word for it. Here’s one of his biggest supporters.”

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 23h

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23h

I still don’t get how the major reporting doesn’t frame this as obvious. It’s as if the administration just randomly shut off all traffic lights, in the absence of a plausible reason I think we could assume the goal is pain and chaos.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

They are trying to kill us

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 23h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d

They really don’t give a shit. If they think it helps people or costs big business money, they don’t want it. They are ideologically opposed to the mere concept of collective action. Meanwhile the technofascists who want to head their own Network State fiefdoms are fully ob board.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 1d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

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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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d

All the people they will inevitably kill will just be dismissed as “unhealthy” and a burden being let go.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d

I always assumed it was some kind of metaphor for relief.