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@heldincontempt.bsky.social

Lawyer, mom, music lover, malcontent. Underestimate me; that will be fun.

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CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

14.02.2025 19:58 — 👍 10883    🔁 5634    💬 565    📌 1315

Me, a Yankees fan

14.02.2025 20:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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film still #42

Woe’s Hollow album cover

#severance

07.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 5703    🔁 427    💬 225    📌 76
Elon Musk Quoted tweet: Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. 

This needs to stop NOW!


Mario Nawfal Quote tweet: Should the treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn't happen?

Elon Musk Reply: Yes!

Elon Musk Quoted tweet: Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. This needs to stop NOW! Mario Nawfal Quote tweet: Should the treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn't happen? Elon Musk Reply: Yes!

We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.

02.02.2025 23:59 — 👍 3346    🔁 905    💬 88    📌 119

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—

Oh wait.

03.02.2025 00:16 — 👍 21026    🔁 3727    💬 376    📌 108
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Federal judge blocks Trump federal spending freeze after a day of chaos The federal government fell into chaos Tuesday as officials braced for potential interruptions to programs that range from protecting food safety to responding to natural disasters.

Breaking news: A judge temporarily blocked President Trump from imposing a sweeping pause on federal spending, after the new White House policy disrupted programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure low-income Americans have access to healthcare.

28.01.2025 22:31 — 👍 1017    🔁 189    💬 55    📌 23
Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

28.01.2025 20:17 — 👍 39558    🔁 7427    💬 508    📌 682
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funniest possible end game event has entered the field of play

28.01.2025 19:31 — 👍 2988    🔁 694    💬 68    📌 134
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This photo was blown into our yard during the Eaton Canyon fire. Anyone from Pasadena/Altadena recognize these people?

13.01.2025 07:23 — 👍 2172    🔁 1309    💬 48    📌 46

Oh my god you fucking simpleton, the CA is for California. Ontario, CA is in San Bernardino County.

11.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 5269    🔁 880    💬 380    📌 256

i am sorry to my gen x coworkers but you have to understand i am never, under any circumstances, going to answer a teams call without a message outlining why we need to talk first

03.12.2024 20:08 — 👍 8362    🔁 505    💬 365    📌 156
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Matt Gaetz allegedly paid an adult woman for sex in 2017, attorney says The woman, who was 19 at the time, said she encountered Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department at an invitation-only party in Orlando, Florida.

NBC News confirms:
Matt Gaetz paid two women for sex while he was a member of the House, the women's attorney told NBC News.

nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

19.11.2024 02:21 — 👍 1742    🔁 432    💬 109    📌 67

Never giving a goddamn dollar to NPR again.

15.11.2024 22:10 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I love Maine and I spent many summers there and if they re-elect Susan Collins after two more years of her being Concerned and strategically voting against Trump only when her vote is not needed I will burn the place to the ground

14.11.2024 02:13 — 👍 128    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Saucesplaining

27.08.2023 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the chess ban makes sense to me. i’m always crushing up my estrogen pills into a fine dust and throwing it into the eyes of my cis woman opponents, allowing me to rearrange the pieces while they rush to the chess arena’s eyewash station

17.08.2023 22:15 — 👍 909    🔁 133    💬 25    📌 2

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

17.08.2023 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

boss: you failed the drug test

me: I had an everything bagel

boss: they found high levels of ketamine in your blood

me: yeah I put it on the bagel

17.08.2023 14:10 — 👍 333    🔁 70    💬 5    📌 4
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I can’t help sounding like that all the time it’s just how God made me

16.08.2023 13:33 — 👍 249    🔁 28    💬 22    📌 2

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