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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/02/2026

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

everything else sucks so bad except the story of the dam removals and the returning salmon. i guess if we all die at least we die with salmon

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members. They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2025

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: propub.li/4nhXQua

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 09/09/2025

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

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Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2025

i like that the administration is run by dilettantes whose pathological unseriousness is illustrated by their total disregard for human life

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Tweet from Stuart Stevens:

When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party.
They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions

CDC headquarters windows with visible bullet holes

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/08/2025

RFK Jr. is a danger to millions of American children, mothers, and families. If he does not remove this kook before he fully unleashes his crackpot conspiracy theories on America’s vaccination efforts, Trump will be responsible for the preventable deaths that result. beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over health care, issued the following statement today after Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attacks on vaccine science and public health prompted the attempted firing of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and the departures of other key CDC leaders:

“President Trump must fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he further endangers millions of American children, mothers, and families. If Trump does not remove Kennedy before this kook fully unleashes his crackpot conspiracy theories on America’s vaccination efforts, Trump will bear the responsibility for the unnecessary and preventable illnesses and deaths that result.

“Kennedy has already shown that he is incapable of running this agency by his appalling callousness towards the workforce he leads following the recent attack on the CDC. As Dr. Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer suggested, that attack was inspired by the very anti-vaccine quackery Kennedy and others have peddled.”

“Vaccines are safe, and they are essential to saving lives and ensuring that children are healthy and protected. RFK Jr.’s threat to vaccines represents a clear and present danger to the health and wellbeing of ordinary Americans, and any mentally capable president would recognize that and remove him at once.”

In addition to Director Monarez, other departures of top public health leaders from the CDC in the past 24 hours reportedly include Dr. Debra Houry, CDC chief medical officer; Dr. Jen Layden, Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who published a scathing resignation letter accusing Kennedy of using the “CDC as a tool to generate policie…

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/08/2025

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

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Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

REMINDER: in this moment, the thing you want your Congressperson to do is (1) demand resignations and (2) threaten endless hearings. Impeachment isn't going to work. Read the article if you don't want to take my word for it - Larry is the most respected health law expert in America.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/08/2025

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

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Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray

Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

oh apparently the literal coup was a literal literal coup

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said Mr. Kennedy summoned Dr. Monarez to his office on Monday and demanded that she resign. When she refused, Mr. Kennedy demanded that she remove the agency’s top leadership by the end of the week.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It would be great to push RFK out now. Also: If we had pushed RFK out after the CDC shooting, we wouldn't have to worry about four open leadership positions at CDC with whoever steps in next. Every crisis where we wait to make this the objective means the damage will be worse when we regain power

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15/01/2025

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 18/08/2025

Way too many Liberals think making and sharing AI memes is "resistance". It's not resistance. It's compliance. Every time you use AI for some entertainment bullshit you're lining the pockets of the oligarchs who support Trump. You are passively supporting Trump with your AI slop. Do the work.

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The structural core of U.S. society — settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and heteronormative patriarchy — is being reasserted through state and vigilante violence in order to crush insurgent social and demographic movements that threaten its 400-year-old power. It’s violence all the way down.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is not a new observation but it is one that needs to be continually repeated: this is a government of rapists, by rapists, for rapists. That is the constituency

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

wait watch the live one instead it's even better

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T Pain War Pigs

YouTube video by Working 2gether Inc.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

have i posted my firm belief on here yet that eventually, possibly pretty soon, luxury companies will emerge to sell the old internet and other interfaces unmediated by "ai" back to us at a premium

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/07/2025

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy

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‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 12/07/2025

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

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SEIU California | SEIU California Demands Release of CSU Faculty Member Brutalized By ICE

SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he…

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Philosophy professor Jonathan A. Caravello of California State University, an observer, was also snatched by ICE in Camarillo, CA yesterday. He hasn't been released.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation

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