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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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📉📉📉

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

submitted 9 hours ago • 579 comments

I hope this is true.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

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Without friends

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I have been pushing Elections Canada to take steps to protect our democracy from American/Musk interference. We have only to look at Germany to see how the Trump machine will undermine democracay to promote the far right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The States of America. Let’s start practicing this and getting used to it. Because DT, E M, & the Project 2025 billionaires are effectively eliminating the “United” portion of this democracy.

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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#TMobile committed fraud by tricking me into getting a “free” watch which tirned out to be the wrong watch & refused to take it back then refused to cancel the watch line after so many calks but the king kicker?? They told me in the store that I’d get a $850 credit and ended up 1/2

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Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

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Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

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I’m more sure than ever that I belong with Slough House & the Slow Horses. You?

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Love me some Mrs. Betty Bowers salt.

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Dark Pence is back.

submitted 2 days ago • 4561 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 2 days ago • 2180 comments

Boycotts work. Please join & share. February 28 - Economic Blackout. Let’s see our power hit billionaires’ wallets.

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Yet ANOTHER colossal fuck up: USDA SCRAMBLING to rehire officials working on bird flu virus www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

submitted 5 days ago • 340 comments

True words.

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We the People are pissed! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

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Share it if you agree. Buy nothing. Not even using the ATM. Not even gas : #February28 #Feb28Boycott #EconomicBlackout #EconomicBlackout2025

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We know there’s a real endgame for Musk & I think Mark Cuban just nailed it. The 4 Tech Oligabro Horsemen of the Apocalypse will trounce the aged POTUS & aged Congress who clearly have no concept of technology and esp using technology to harm.

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A drunk renaming a US military base after a foreign power who fought to kill the US military seems as bit traitorous, no?

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#MAGA yep.

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