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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah I agree it’s weird. And he should be able to give you a ballpark expectation at some point. Especially where it’s out of pocket.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 7h

Only legitimate reason I can think of
Is related to proposed rate changes for things like the hospital costs and costs for supplies for the surgeries.

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 17h

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

-Queso? What is this?

*Iz cape! In SEASONALS! Very festive.

-Did you ask Nutsy first?

*But SEASONALS! Looks! Included latte!!

Momma.

-I know buddy. She’s just trying to help.

Help iz doing a heavy liftings here, Momma.

Grumpy faced brown tabby cat with a Starbucks frappe pumpkin spice latte and an orange buffalo check cape

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

Hard agree.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

And confirmed by the Israeli government.

🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t official until we see confirmation from the Israeli government. We’ve been in this spot over and over.

US says- cease fire reached

Israeli far right says- Not so fast my friend

Bibi says - cease fire? What cease fire?

Fingers crossed but braced to be disappointed

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 1d

Gaza ceasefire takes effect as government approves deal to free the hostages https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-ceasefire-takes-effect-as-government-approves-deal-to-free-the-hostages/

Gaza ceasefire takes effect as government approves deal to free the hostages

Most far-right ministers vote against agreement to halt fighting with Hamas; Kushner and Witkoff tell cabinet that IDF's 'bravery' and Netanyahu's 'difficult decisions' enabled agreement

www.timesofisrael.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

this kid’s a good egg

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

Good girl

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

Queso- we don’t pee on Gramma’s bed

Also goof girl, peeing on the My Pillow a guy bedding.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

There’s always a line. And it’s officially been tripped

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

*snort*

ANYONE who’s trying to imply that Portland PD is woke is full of it. They’re one of the most conservative, major city PDs in the U.S.

Madam- THEY DO NOT LIKE YOU. Or ICE. That’s a very, very telling thing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1d

Haaaaai!

Floofy grey and white kitten reaching for the camera

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

This is a critical crack point. MTG isn’t fully bulletproof from attack, but no MAGA voter is going to accuse her of being woke.

What this is doing is dropping this convo into the social media feeds of more conservative voters. Which means local news with a conservative bent also reports on it.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 2d

These MTG clips are remarkable. Going on CNN, calling it the ACA, this is actually an attempt to persuade rather than just empty attention-getting.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect that MTG breaking with them due to healthcare dropped that argument into the algo for people who hadn’t been seeing it. Which translated to phone calls the last few days.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

Bad news, they’re planning a cliffhanger and an equal. GRR Martin is writing it

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

It feels like there aren’t enough chapters left for a plot twist this year so let’s just wrap this up huh

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

Bad news, they’re planning a cliffhanger and an equal. GRR Martin is writing it

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

Pope is Dope.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

You do that. We all ready don’t have enough ATCs.

These idiots are finally seeing why past GOP leaders negotiate

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY DUFFY SAYS FAA COULD DISMISS TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS WHO REPEATEDLY FAIL TO SHOW UP FOR WORK - INTERVIEW

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

New American Vatican edition. It’s the one I used during RCIA class and it’s just kind of stuck as my default.

For online discussion I generally refer to KJV

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

So as of now this sounds like Bibi is on board. It does require a cabinet vote in Israel.

(Per JPost/Times of Israel)

🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t official until we see confirmation from the Israeli government. We’ve been in this spot over and over.

US says- cease fire reached

Israeli far right says- Not so fast my friend

Bibi says - cease fire? What cease fire?

Fingers crossed but braced to be disappointed

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

If Trump is saying it, I’m double checking it.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t official until we see confirmation from the Israeli government. We’ve been in this spot over and over.

US says- cease fire reached

Israeli far right says- Not so fast my friend

Bibi says - cease fire? What cease fire?

Fingers crossed but braced to be disappointed

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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