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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 1h

Glad you followed your intuition and checked. But it's a damn shame we have to and there are a lot of other, less aware, folks who will rue the day we let ourselves fall off the eradication wagon.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 8h

A wishcast, I fear. Pete ain't going anywhere until he does what he was hired to do: shoot some American civilians.

Pentagon Pete Will Be First Big Scalp of Trump 2.0

The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief issued a fearless forecast for the ever-embattled defense secretary.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

slate.com

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 8h

This story is being repeated a lot throughout the military. Undocumented parents here for decades, their children joining the services and ICE seeing an easy target, other than a family committing to the United States. Enraging and self sabotaging at the same time.
apnews.com/article/immi...

This family visit to a military base ended with ICE deporting a Marine's dad

A U.S. Marine says his parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they visited a California military base and one of them was later deported.

apnews.com

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 2h

I am in the generation that only received one vaccination for measles. I am eternally grateful that my PCP understood my concerns and got me an MMR a few weeks ago. I'm too old to rebuild my immunity from the ground up.

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 1d

Surprisingly, measles outbreak page at CDC still updated this week (we see you and thank you, career public health professionals👍🏻)
-1,595 confirmed cases
-92% of those unvaccinated, another 4% with only 1 vaccine
-3 deaths

Worst year since 1992 (could still catch 🤦🏻‍♂️)

www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Measles Cases and Outbreaks

Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.

www.cdc.gov

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 1d

Surprisingly, measles outbreak page at CDC still updated this week (we see you and thank you, career public health professionals👍🏻)
-1,595 confirmed cases
-92% of those unvaccinated, another 4% with only 1 vaccine
-3 deaths

Worst year since 1992 (could still catch 🤦🏻‍♂️)

www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Measles Cases and Outbreaks

Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.

www.cdc.gov

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17h

Soooo, DOJ is just like declining to argue its own position on the merits?

This is in the shutdown RIFs TRO order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

4 As noted below, at the hearing defense counsel declined to discuss the merits of the motion,
despite being requested to do so several times by the Court.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 2h

Him and the aptly named Jenny McCarthy.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3h

They should add that to the subtitles. I'd have missed it if I hadn't seen your comment. 👍

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3h

They're not ready for the anger. Not ready for the way folks are rising against them. Not a single one of these assholes thought they could win against this woman. Good for her.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

Transphobia is evil and, if there is a God, will be punished in the hereafter.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 7h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 7h

And shenanigans. Don't forget shenanigans.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 7h

We do if we're desperately trying to distract the public from personal presidential involvement with a pedophile. See also, 'tariffs wrecking economy.'

spoOoOopymama! @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 8h

do we normally announce covert cia ops

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

We live in a racist country and have racists who sit on the Supreme Court, making racist decisions that impact 350 million people for decades.

First they abolish the New Deal; then they abolish the Great Society - just so White men can stay in power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

NYT homepage of 5 stories about how SCOTUS "appears skeptical of key provisions of Voting Rights Act"; a graphic showing without section 2 of the VRA, democracy loses to Republicans in the South.

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 1d

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Weird how this stuff keeps happening to Republicans!

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

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Jennifer Caputo-Seidler “began noticing many doctors asking how to treat polio.
"Today, the people who are training to be pediatricians, they're not taught how to recognize a case of acute polio when it comes in… the doctors practicing today have never managed it." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Florida's plan to end vaccine mandates elicits concerns about diagnosing polio

Health experts worry the policy change could lower vaccination rates and lead to a rise in preventable diseases — like polio, which most U.S. doctors have little experience spotting or treating.

www.wusf.org

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

More info on the Charlie Kirk fan who mowed down two teens in NJ:

"The suspect also was behind two SWATing incidents and that police allowed the teen's father to drive him away from the victim's home after the second SWAT hoax call"

nj1015.com/police-misco...

SWAT calls and stalking warnings: Inside the NJ police connections behind the Jeep homicides

In Cranford, the tragic loss of two teen girls raises questions about police favoritism and the suspect's troubling behavior linked to law enforcement ties.

nj1015.com

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 19h

The literal embodiment of the shit Musk is working to rain down on every person on this planet.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19h

Current figures:
There are 11,000 active satellites in orbit around the Earth, and Elon Musk owns about 65% of them.

There Are 10,000 Active Satellites In Orbit. Most Belong To Elon Musk

It’s a milestone that showcases decades of technical achievement, but might also make it harder to sleep at night if you think about it for too long.

www.forbes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 4d

I bet this is a lie. Like using a stick or your hiking pole to test out ice/snow for firmness. They pushed down and it cracked a little too loud.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

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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