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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors in senior leadership positions, began hearing early Tuesday morning that they are losing their jobs, part of a vast restructuring that will winnow down the agencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
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Trump Administration Begins Layoffs at CDC, FDA and Other Health Agencies (Gift Article)
The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss 10,000 employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Make America Healthy Again! www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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NPR @npr.org · 10/03/2025
Jet fuel is spilling into the North Sea after a U.S.-flagged fuel tanker collided with a cargo ship off the eastern coast of England. Thirty-seven people have been brought to shore.
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U.S. tanker is leaking fuel in the North Sea after a collision with a container ship
Jet fuel is spilling into the North Sea after a U.S.-flagged fuel tanker collided with a cargo ship off the eastern coast of England. Thirty-seven people have been brought to shore.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump’s Veterans Affairs Secretary says his goal is firing 80,000 workers at the VA.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Because of Elon Musk and his team’s actions, more people are at risk of getting cheated by their banks, more seniors are at risk of losing Social Security, and more veterans are at risk of losing access to their benefits.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/03/2025
the feminine urge to
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Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Seriously, that has been the Republican MO since Reagan. Trump/Musk is not an anomaly. We are seeing decades of that party's work manifesting. R voters acting surprised Pikachu is mad annoying.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Here’s the link for the unpaywalled version: archive.ph/xzFUr Also it should be not surprising at all that this group of people are predominantly white and predominantly male. Shouldn’t be the least surprising to anybody
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I think I'll go with the expert on the subject at hand-- Thank you for warning, Dr. Arendt
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 08/03/2025
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“I don’t know anyone with Long Covid!” I promise you that you do. Long Covid is an invisible illness. You won’t know someone is impacted unless they choose to tell you. Many folks hide their disabilities because the world is NOT kind to disabled people. Be an ally. Be someone we can confide in
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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Also, true story
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
As fun as this schadenfreude is, I'm pretty sure Elon is betting he's going to make more money pilfering the US government's defense budget...
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A lesson in preserverence if I've ever seen one.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 07/03/2025
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What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.
Silicon Valley may value imperfect virtual PhDs more than universities pay real ones.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A 2024 report found that the IRS netted savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns — a return that “would leave Wall Street hedge fund managers drooling,” per the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
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Four Legs Good @4legsrgood.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At $250 it’s STILL way overvalued
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Posted by @attorneycrump.bsky.social: “Target, once a corporate leader in DEI, now faces a 40-day boycott led by Rev. Jamal Bryant after scaling back its diversity efforts. The retailer currently faces declining sales, tariff pressures, and customer visits dropping more than rival competitors.”
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A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD official derided it as “monopoly money.”
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U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD offic...
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ok, is it just me or is that an obvious dog whistle specific to *white* South Africans...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization papers. And the SAVE Act would require these documents to register to vote.
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SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans
Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Dying at this study of sexual habits that used the Gini index to compare P-in-V inequality to income inequality onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The National Survey of Family Growth data shows that in 2002 the most sexually active top 20% of American heterosexual men had 12 lifetime sex partners while the top 5% had 38 partners.3 Ten years later, in 2012, the most sexually active top 20% now reported 15 lifetime sex partners and the top 5% of men reported 50 lifetime sex partners. There was no change in the median number of sex partners.

Using the Gini index, it is found that the distribution of the number of sex partners both for men and women throughout their lifespan is as unequal as the distribution of wealth among the most unequal countries in the world (South Africa Gini 0.63 in 2014 and Namibia Gini 0.59 in 2015).
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NPR @npr.org · 07/03/2025
An unknown number of fired CDC workers got their jobs back this week. Among them was Bri McNulty, who had shared her story with NPR.
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She got her dream job at CDC back. But she's already moving on
An unknown number of fired CDC workers got their jobs back this week. Among them was Bri McNulty, who had shared her story with NPR.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/03/2025
In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word “gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.
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War heroes, military firsts and the Enola Gay are among 26,000 Pentagon images flagged for removal in DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts…
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm torn because I thought it was super disrespectful when the Rs interrupted Obama 'in protest' - and, they are truly deluded into thinking they were principled like Al. On the other hand, it feels like we are way past any semblance of decorum in govt... I just miss Obama and Michelle yall
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
BREAKING: Homeland Security suddenly and illegally announced that it's ending a legally binding collective bargaining agreement with 50,000 TSA workers and their union.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2025
The United States has a shortage of more than 7 million affordable rental homes for low-income people. The country is also experiencing record homelessness. DOGE’s cuts to HUD are now set to exacerbate these dueling crises. Read @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's report:
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DOGE’s cuts to HUD will only make the housing crisis worse
But resistance is building.
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I want to watch my Black American Princess do princess shit, Luke. It's not about you
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Seriously, I just want to watch my Black American Princess do princess shit. It's not that difficult a concept to understand. #WithLoveMeghan
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This makes me so incredibly nervous
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NPR @npr.org · 22/01/2025
At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.
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Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service
At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Wait... seriously??
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This man is a profound danger. Every American should oppose his nomination.
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Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
H5 bird flu found in wastewater in New Jersey and Las Vegas, according to CDC's wastewater program. New Jersey don't have any known cases of H5N1 bird flu in poultry or dairy cattle.
A map of the US showing wastewater sample stations and if H5 bird flu was detected.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/01/2025
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It's terrifying people still defend him
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I'm still not over the Heard Depp case. They say it sets no precedence but I disagree. Have people not read the court documents from the UK?? It's so gross. The PR machine scaffolding these men is evil
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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Yo! That’s My Jawn :: The Podcast @yothatsmyjawn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"I always say, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is my biggest influence. There is something about the mood here. The fear, insanity, corruption, filth, despair, violence in the air was so beautiful to me." - David Lynch || @phillyvoice.com www.phillyvoice.com/david-lynch-...
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'Very pure, very filthy': A guide to David Lynch's life-long roast of Philadelphia
The 'Twin Peaks' director has teased a new project dropping Wednesday. He was heavily influenced by his early years in Philly, a city he loves to hate in interviews.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Here’s a (very long) fact sheet on the Biden Administration’s record of accomplishments. Please feel free to share this ahead of his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office tonight at 8 pm EST. 🇺🇸
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The Biden-Harris Administration Record | The White House
Letter from President BidenFour years ago, we stood in a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities. We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in a
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 16/01/2025
If you don’t have a library card, go get one today. They’re free!
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Is this a joke?
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elle @pu186.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
But maybe they could also realize that no one owes them a relationship regardless? The mentality that women should give them sex because they have skills, are "high value," is so unhinged. They could literally be Inspector Gadget & she can still not be interested. Entitlement ugh
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The right stayed a steady and consistent course for over 40 years to get to this point. One thing the left has to let go of is the romanticized idea of how change happens.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
a comic about blocking
A 4 panel comic

The first two panels are titled “Blocking someone on Twitter”

Panel 1: Blue guy holding a door open. Red guy stands in the doorway

Panel 2: Blue guy slams door on Red guy, however the door has large glass panels, so Red Guy can still keep watching Blue guy like an absolute pervert.

The second two panels are titled “Blocking someone on Bluesky”

Panel 3: The Blue guy is reaching down and picking up a large piece of machinery. The red guy watches him.

Panel 4: The large piece of machinery is revealed to be a shoulder mounted nuclear cannon. Blue Guy uses the cannon to blast Red guy completely out of existence.
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