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cbeezwax
@cbeezwax.bsky.social
· Jan 20
I feel like we need to brand our new form of authoritarianism as McFascism, because clowns & lots of french fries in the White House now.
Oh gawd a stranger just invited me to start a friend streak on Duolingo. Should I ignore them or disappoint them?
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Oh gawd a stranger just invited me to start a friend streak on Duolingo. Should I ignore them or disappoint them?
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WHY IS THE MILITARY IN ANY US CITY
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
WHY IS THE MILITARY IN ANY US CITY
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February 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jesus
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Man charged in Florida shooting thought victims were Palestinians, police say
Mordechai Brafman is accused of firing 17 bullets at a car in Miami Beach, injuring two. An Israeli man later identified himself and his father as the victims.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
jesus
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The US and Russia will be holding "peace negotiations" regarding Ukraine.
The Ukrainians themselves have not been invited.
Trump and Putin plan on carving up Ukraine for their own repulsive goals.
The Ukrainians themselves have not been invited.
Trump and Putin plan on carving up Ukraine for their own repulsive goals.
February 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The US and Russia will be holding "peace negotiations" regarding Ukraine.
The Ukrainians themselves have not been invited.
Trump and Putin plan on carving up Ukraine for their own repulsive goals.
The Ukrainians themselves have not been invited.
Trump and Putin plan on carving up Ukraine for their own repulsive goals.
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This is looking much more like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which two stronger frenemy powers divide up the caught-in-between smaller power. But there's another player here: Europe, which is rightly reacting with alarm and sees, accurately, a alliance of autocrats.
“Ukrainian officials will not attend Russia-US talks to be held in Saudi Arabia in the coming days, the BBC has learned. A government source tells BBC News that Ukraine has not been invited and will not send a delegation” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Ukraine not attending US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, government source tells BBC
Elsewhere, European leaders are preparing for an emergency summit in France as the continent responds to US moves on Ukraine.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is looking much more like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which two stronger frenemy powers divide up the caught-in-between smaller power. But there's another player here: Europe, which is rightly reacting with alarm and sees, accurately, a alliance of autocrats.
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There's no escaping the dumbardment.
February 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's no escaping the dumbardment.
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On Feb 15, a critical line of defense was eliminated: the CDC's Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS). This program trained highly skilled scientists to be "disease detectives," deploying them to respond to public health threats & test for everything from viruses to toxins.
www.cdc.gov/lls/php/our-...
www.cdc.gov/lls/php/our-...
Fellows' Stories
Fellows' Stories
www.cdc.gov
February 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On Feb 15, a critical line of defense was eliminated: the CDC's Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS). This program trained highly skilled scientists to be "disease detectives," deploying them to respond to public health threats & test for everything from viruses to toxins.
www.cdc.gov/lls/php/our-...
www.cdc.gov/lls/php/our-...
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This order, from Amir Ali, really gets to the core of what is happening: The government is, wholesale, canceling existing contracts.
No Republican should endorse this. Neither should they try to pretend something else is happening.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
No Republican should endorse this. Neither should they try to pretend something else is happening.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Plaintiffs have made a sufficient preliminary showing that the loss of funding at issue in
this litigation “threatens the very existence of [their] business.” Wisconsin Gas Co. v. FERC, 758
F.2d 669, 674 (D.C. Cir. 1985). And they have likewise shown that the “obstacles” created by
Defendants’ conduct “make it more difficult for the [plaintiffs] to accomplish their primary
mission.” League of Women Voters of United States v. Newby, 838 F.3d 1, 9 (D.C. Cir. 2016). The
Global Health Plaintiffs have also adduced evidence indicating that terminations and resulting
harms have continued, and possibly increased, in the two days since this lawsuit was filed. Since
the filing of their motion for a temporary restraining order, multiple plaintiffs that had not
previously received terminations or stop-work orders have started to receive them. See Glob.
Health, ECF No. 19 at 3. At the request of the Court, Defendants submitted documentation
showing that just in the two days after they were sued, they have cancelled roughly 230 additional
contracts, which Defendants say do not include the contracts cancelled by the State Department
and may not reflect all the contracts cancelled by USAID in those days. Glob. Health, ECF Nos.
20, 20-1. Absent temporary injunctive relief, therefore, the scale of the enormous harm that has
already occurred will almost certainly increase. Plaintiffs have made a strong preliminary showing
of irreparable harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibbdjbd6rdfgrgjg7ratewiqyr2q7dnuq3f2hpyg5z63srapropki@jpeg)
February 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This order, from Amir Ali, really gets to the core of what is happening: The government is, wholesale, canceling existing contracts.
No Republican should endorse this. Neither should they try to pretend something else is happening.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
No Republican should endorse this. Neither should they try to pretend something else is happening.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If you're not following the lawsuits v Trump, your eyes are probably glazing by the flood of them. I recommend everyone read this order, bc it really conveys the degree to which two billionaires have just decided to start canceling contracts willy nilly.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The unitary executive theory is about to get its test case. SCOTUS will decide whether to give Trump the keys to the destruction of our federal government.
A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit has left intact a lower-court order that temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop the Office of Special Counsel.
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
DOJ has already said it plans to go to #SCOTUS, which would make this the first Trump II case to get there.
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
DOJ has already said it plans to go to #SCOTUS, which would make this the first Trump II case to get there.
media.cadc.uscourts.gov
February 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The unitary executive theory is about to get its test case. SCOTUS will decide whether to give Trump the keys to the destruction of our federal government.
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Beyond the cruelty, there’s the dumbfounding incompetence.
First, they push through an announcement that 2200 employees would be fired from the Indian Health Service, removing doctors & nurses from our poorest citizens.
Then they reduced it to 950 layoffs.
Now it’s zero
ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...
First, they push through an announcement that 2200 employees would be fired from the Indian Health Service, removing doctors & nurses from our poorest citizens.
Then they reduced it to 950 layoffs.
Now it’s zero
ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. rescinds Indian Health Service layoffs
The last-minute decision to rescind the layoff order for IHS came as healthcare workers waited for bad news
ictnews.org
February 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Beyond the cruelty, there’s the dumbfounding incompetence.
First, they push through an announcement that 2200 employees would be fired from the Indian Health Service, removing doctors & nurses from our poorest citizens.
Then they reduced it to 950 layoffs.
Now it’s zero
ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...
First, they push through an announcement that 2200 employees would be fired from the Indian Health Service, removing doctors & nurses from our poorest citizens.
Then they reduced it to 950 layoffs.
Now it’s zero
ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...
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I hope this email causes you to spontaneously combust
February 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I hope this email causes you to spontaneously combust
Madness
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Madness
Can't wait until all the diseases we were keeping at bay with USAID start spreading unchecked and the Zombie World War starts.
Silver lining is the tech-hoes are going to overestimate their power to control the outcome in their own lives.
Silver lining is the tech-hoes are going to overestimate their power to control the outcome in their own lives.
February 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Can't wait until all the diseases we were keeping at bay with USAID start spreading unchecked and the Zombie World War starts.
Silver lining is the tech-hoes are going to overestimate their power to control the outcome in their own lives.
Silver lining is the tech-hoes are going to overestimate their power to control the outcome in their own lives.
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I have started to hear about specific National Cancer Institute firings of experts and professionals that will have immediate impacts, like regarding the safety of drugs in clinical trials and so on.
They are trying to kill people with cancer.
They are trying to kill people with cancer.
Quick story here on what I've heard about cuts at NCI and NIH, and a few other things:
February 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I have started to hear about specific National Cancer Institute firings of experts and professionals that will have immediate impacts, like regarding the safety of drugs in clinical trials and so on.
They are trying to kill people with cancer.
They are trying to kill people with cancer.
!!!
Women in STEM are having their work and bios removed from government websites. One woman started womeninstemus.blogspot.com?m=1 to document these “lost works” for future generations. They are taking submissions! Please share
#womeninstem
#womeninstem
U.S. Women in STEM
womeninstemus.blogspot.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I'm running out of words that aren't swears over here
February 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm running out of words that aren't swears over here
buffoon wrapped in a turd
Vance at the Munich Security Conference: "The threat that I worry that most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within."
February 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
buffoon wrapped in a turd
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
I got my tx refund before the dodgy one got his greasy claws on it!
February 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I got my tx refund before the dodgy one got his greasy claws on it!
Also, a friendly KMA to everyone one you sad ostriches who thought we hysterical loons for hollering FASCISM IS COMING for 4 + 4 years.
February 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Also, a friendly KMA to everyone one you sad ostriches who thought we hysterical loons for hollering FASCISM IS COMING for 4 + 4 years.
AMERICA FIRST!
SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED
wrd.cm
February 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
AMERICA FIRST!
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Will no one rid us of this turbulent boer?
February 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Will no one rid us of this turbulent boer?