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QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 19m

Hundreds of fired CDC workers' fates hang in the balance after a week of chaos www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of fired CDC workers' fates hang in the balance after a week of chaos

The Trump administration laid off around 600 employees, but a judge has temporarily blocked the terminations.

www.nbcnews.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

How FEMA Is Forcing Disaster-Struck Towns to Fend for Themselves

www.nytimes.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4h

My brothers and sisters.... baes and theys ... the stupid have inherited the earth...

we must beat them back with high order thinking ... and good ole fashioned book learning.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

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

Trump promised farmers a bailout. Time is running out.

The White House blames Democrats and the government shutdown for the delay of their multibillion-dollar bailout, but that’s just one of many problems the administration faces.

www.politico.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

U.S. support for Argentina could hit $40 billion

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an additional $20 billion in private-sector loans for Argentina could effectively double the value of a U.S. rescue plan.

www.nbcnews.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

lolololololololol

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million in Vegas playing blackjack

The billionaire Illinois governor, who is on the 2028 presidential short list, reported the earnings in his latest tax filings after playing blackjack at a Las Vegas casino.

www.nbcnews.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

www.rollingstone.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3h

The average age here is 28. Not exactly children

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 20h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 3h

Every time I see a story about farms struggling because of this administration's policies, I'm reminded that JD Vance invested in a fund that buys up farm lands.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

(ABC News) - The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to President Trump’s immigration raids ..

abcnews.go.com/US/family-fa...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 3h

Dirk has his homemade plates. Klay has his homemade…

Mortgage Freeman @notoriousgrc.bsky.social · 3h

Whatever Meg put in that bottle… I #NeedThat

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QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 1h

Goodies…?

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 12h

This isn’t just unethical. It’s authoritarian. Trump is institutionalizing corruption to consolidate power. He’s rewarding loyalty, profiting from public office, and turning the state into a personal fiefdom.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term

Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on

www.theguardian.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

I am mourning the untimely death of the word deadass, which passed away the second Glenn Beck used it here

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h

Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 3h

Where we are as a nation: the Vice President of the United States is telling people they shouldn’t be upset because grown adults in his party love Hitler, want to send people to gas chambers, are racists, & are antisemites.

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QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 1h

My internal dialog narrated this in Howard Cosell’s voice from the Forman vs. Frazier fight.

QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 2h

He should be a case study in undermining a spouse. How she hasn’t tripped him down a flight of stairs and buried on the family golf course is a miracle.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

From Epstein’s Chief Accuser, a Memoir Both Sad and Devastating

www.nytimes.com

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 2h

So Big News DC Folks!
This Dec 26-28
@feloniousmunk.blacksky.app returns to DC Comedy Loft!

And I'm your opening act! Get your tickets now! Let's sell out this bit show!

www.dccomedyloft.com/events/113749

The Comedy Loft of DC | Felonious Munk

www.dccomedyloft.com

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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 3h

Bingo

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Translation: If Dems vote for the CR, Thune will allow a vote on extending ACA subsidies then Mike Johnson will kill that in the House.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 3h

tired: cybertrucks

WIRED: who drives a cybertruck? everyone from a dude who says “women don’t like the vehicle” to another dude who says it’s “just a vehicle” and shouldn’t be political but also plead guilty to a january 6 capitol attack charge and was later pardoned by trump

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

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QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 2h

Saw it on @solomonmissouri.bsky.social ‘skeet line and thought the same thing.

QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 2h

Local news, cause WTF is wrong with some of ya’ll?!?

a midsummer nightmare @unhingedcatboi.bsky.social · Nov 18

4. random thing that gives you anxiety?

QuietRiot @quietriot10.bsky.social · 2h

Johnny Quest, but I think it was the theme song more than anything else.

a midsummer nightmare @unhingedcatboi.bsky.social · Nov 18

3. what was your favourite cartoon growing up?

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