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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 15h

Keep on this. We cannot allow the wholesale obliteration of our public health, science, and medicine to continue.

Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 1d

RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 15h

Remember that if the Democrats take power again, they will go into great detail telling you why they can't do things.

You will tell them that Trump did those things, and they will say he broke the law.

You will then ask why he hasn't been arrested, and they will be very quiet.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 12h

Also sampled their NA red: malty as hell, but I like my NAs IPA mein sunshine.

Still a solid 3.0 on the Untappd. But that hop water…hooooo-oh orange and lime and jalapeño and hops for days. Resinous. Complex. on a day my liver doesn’t need a vacation would like to try with teqIola, tajín rim.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 13h

had my first baseball-related hangover today. slept in, was super productive once up, groceried and got what i had intended to get for dinner; got invited to the broadway grill.

obviously on a 0.0 day given hangover. the cycling frog thc soda + the spicy citra citrus hop water? SO GOOD.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 14h

a vpn alone won't save you. use one anyways.

watch for unusual signal strength in places where it's shit. verizon has a bad dead area on powell in the 20s and up in the park blocks by/behind PSU. question more than 2 bars there. goose hollow is bad on AT&T, etc.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 14h

I suspect you're right. There's a lot of AI corpo dipshit money behind Vivek; there's gonna be a lot of whoit hate money behind whatever opposition coalesces.

The GOP could be fragmenting. Or it could somehow stay together through an election. I love this fucking timeline.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

The employees "were sent incorrect
notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction," a senior administration official said. "Any correction has already been remedied."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 15h

The people who founded this country mentioned both Muslims and Hindus explicitly.

Vivek is a dipshit. But he's a dipshit who has every right to be here no matter what a bunch of baby Nazis think.

Maybe he'll learn from this. Or maybe he remains a dipshit. But you too can grow, Vivek.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Vivek Ramaswamy goes to a Turning Point USA event in Ohio and quickly finds out that he is not on the team.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 15h

Piper has a good addendum to the keep going mantra.

Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social · 17h

and help each other survive <3

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 16h

crunchy mountain dew? hmm. i'm interested if it's blaja...er, baja blast zero!

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 17h

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 17h

We shouldn’t hold our breath for some mythic future moment of contrition from people who were arguing in bad faith the whole time. “Making America Great” wasn’t ever their goal. It was always a euphemism for white nationalists to direct state violence at real and perceived enemies. Masks are off now

twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 18h

I'm still curious how this is "great again" but the whoits who voted for this can't bother to explain for some reason.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 17h

Portland is decidedly not on fire but a bunch of people are wearing gang clothes today that say MARINERS on them.

We have been randomly high-fiving in the WinCo, though.

Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 1d

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 18h

assuming we still have a society in 20 years this will age about as well as stephen miller.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Request denied/unanswered.

twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 18h

The far-right tries to put their twisted parody of "G-d" into everything.

They opened the door. They did this. Now if you'll excuse me, let's chapter and verse them with the Book of Psalms tied behind our back just to make it fair.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 18h

I'm still curious how this is "great again" but the whoits who voted for this can't bother to explain for some reason.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Gore-ac @mnorac.bsky.social · 6d

the lubchansky tweet comes to mind whenever eric adams is in the news

say what you will about eric adams: no really.
say whatever you want and it will probably be true. he acts like someone that's been struck by lightning dozens of times

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 18h

Enjoy! One of the 10 best pies on the East Coast. Fiddlehead on tap, maybe the best eastern new england" "house of pizza" style pie, great people!

And lovely to slowly be reconnecting with my Tweeps.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

Right now, the most radical thing you can do is survive.

Keep waking up. Keep moving. Keep walking.

There will be an end to this. It may take a spell. But have you lived through 3-5 economic collapses to fold now?

No. No you didn't. Get some rest. Reconvene tomorrow. Keep living. It's radical.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

man i had the weirdest dream the mariners won a playoff series and are going to the ALCS

wait that actually happened

it's gonna sink in but it's gonna be, like, sitting in line at dutch bros in 10 hours. it's still this blur.

Seattle vs. Toronto. as G-d intended, an MLS beef crosses over to MLB.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

Right now, the most radical thing you can do is survive.

Keep waking up. Keep moving. Keep walking.

There will be an end to this. It may take a spell. But have you lived through 3-5 economic collapses to fold now?

No. No you didn't. Get some rest. Reconvene tomorrow. Keep living. It's radical.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

It's music about falling out of bed in six hours, mentally reloading, and going out there and killing again.

It's about hope. And the thing is...they all yearn for better, but do it in an explicitly earthly way.

Living the values is what servants do. It's servant rock. On my knees if I have to...

twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

This song is a daily affirmation. And I know people call this band "Christian Rock."

No, it's like U2, it's like Book of Love.

It's rock with Jesus' values. He's not my Savior; he might be yours. But the thing is...this is music about living the values.

Not about who you sleep with.

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

Once met Michael Been by chance at Pizza My Heart in downtown Santa Cruz one afternoon. I was waiting for the Highway 17 Express to get me back on the meh side of the hill.

"People like us, in places like this?
We need all the hope we can get. And I still believe!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Ed...

I Still Believe (Great Design)

YouTube video by The Call - Topic

www.youtube.com

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

(Took her next year to the Hayden Homes show, along with her mom, little sister, and an excuse to go to Tastee Treet. I love Deschutes and Crook Counties. I just wish an Oregonian could, you know, afford Oregon. Well, the experience is still worth more. I can remember all the shit I didn't miss.)