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I want to live in a meritocracy and if you don't you're a goddamn coward. https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member Don't go along quietly, call/email/write ✍️
Russ Vought v @russvought The RIFs have begun. 12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views
Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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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:
11.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 15399 🔁 8460 💬 853 📌 1114
Happy Mother's Day, America. As a gift, Elon Musk slashed programs that help pregnant women and moms...so he can fund huge giveaways to his own companies. Fighting Musk is fighting for moms. #teslatakedown
11.05.2025 20:23 — 👍 298 🔁 125 💬 8 📌 2
Google are you okay?
11.05.2025 20:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Crushes wages and strangling the labor market is one of the first key steps of the conservative Plot to Enslave America
03.05.2025 17:37 — 👍 114 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1
I never want to hear the phrase 'unify the country' ever again. Based on their policies and their voter demographics, Democrats *are* the party of the working class. We are not obligated to prove our virtue and authenticity to the psychos ruining the economy and disappearing people off the streets.
24.04.2025 11:18 — 👍 2453 🔁 306 💬 37 📌 37“If this project is terminated, which is the likely outcome, and then other projects are terminated as well, people are going to die.”
Life-saving tuberculosis and A.L.S. research and more are at stake over the government's attack on Harvard and #HigherEd.
More below:
"It's clear now, in a quest to sell the company, Shari Redstone and others will bow to presidential pressure. 60 Minutes is one of the crown jewels of American broadcast journalism, and they have no problem crushing it in their race to make a deal and make themselves richer."
23.04.2025 00:42 — 👍 414 🔁 108 💬 19 📌 9
“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.
gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
Great work by @justcalma.bsky.social here! Of course I love getting cited again but there are lots of great quotes throughout from people who know the space
www.theverge.com/environment/...
“Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it.”
07.04.2025 23:57 — 👍 1525 🔁 463 💬 24 📌 8I just used the word 'synergy' when I could have said 'relationship,' someone put me in the ground
18.03.2025 11:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from *constituents* to vote NO on cloture:
Angus King (ME)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Brian Schatz (HI)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Gary Peters (MI)
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
This man did nothing after two teachers and nineteen third and fourth graders were slaughtered on his watch. Nothing.
13.03.2025 20:22 — 👍 66 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1This needs to be read together with installation of loyalists at the head of military and FBI, and removal of lawyers who might honor their oaths, as preparations to crack down on mass protests.
The question then to ask is what does he plan to do that he expects will generate mass protests
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
As a measure of how quickly standards are declining here, Trump was impeached for secretly pausing transfer of weapons to his Ukraine in his first term.
04.03.2025 02:23 — 👍 999 🔁 284 💬 23 📌 6Or even better:
u24.gov.ua
It's small and maybe insignificant, and I personally would purchase without expectation that an order would actually arrive -- but you can support Ukraine by purchasing their trench art here:
ukraineaidops.org/products/ukr...
Fine, it was a translation error, but 'costume' was spot. on.
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Atlantic Opinion: "Its Weird that Eggs Were Ever Cheap"
Oh my fucking god
28.02.2025 20:39 — 👍 7906 🔁 1030 💬 352 📌 734I’m glad to see parents protecting their children through vaccination, but it’s important to know with an average incubation period of 10 to 14 days, up to 21; and so highly infectious, it’s imperative to vaccinate before the outbreak ever begins.
26.02.2025 22:31 — 👍 76 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
I just want to talk to the maker of this children's toy
26.02.2025 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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04.02.2025 01:33 — 👍 1264 🔁 852 💬 123 📌 39Well there's photo realism and then there's whatever Léo Forest is doing
09.02.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Husband has "what does the fox say" stuck in his head but I have "simply having a wonderful Christmas time" stuck in mine so we're both having a pretty rough evening.
09.02.2025 02:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Okay, I've thought about it and there are a few things I think the Democrats could do that are more productive than what they're doing now.
- Crash and livestream the GOP coke parties.
- Getting death threats? DOX THE SENDER
- Dare that rent-a-cop to shoot you.
