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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 13h

it's gonna be like the end of Magnolia up in this bitch

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 13h

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3h

The preferences, they have been revealed

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 4h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 9h

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 8h

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h

I just want to bring back Rich Hall's best sniglet: funching. That was all over Word of the Day calendars in the 90s.

www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comme...

From the GenX community on Reddit: If you know what a Sniglet is, you might be GenX…

Explore this post and more from the GenX community

www.reddit.com

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 8h

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

www.wusa9.com

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently providing aid to foreign countries benefits America. Now, if only we had an agency for that sort of thing…

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8h

Breaking news that I don't think anyone else had about the, uh, Department of Justice for some reason telling employees at the, uh, National Institutes of Health that they could not attend a major public health association's annual meeting.

Per one NIH source: "What the actual fuck?"

Why Is the DOJ Telling NIH Staff They Can't Attend a Public Health Conference?

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! On Wednesday, employees at various parts of the National Institutes of Health received an odd email. Sh...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8h

Okay quick thread of the sort of stuff you'll get if you pay a modest monthly or yearly amount to read Gravity Is Gone:

Today's newsletter, about the shutdown and RIFs and how employees are so in the dark that their bosses want them to email UP the chain if they get fired.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 8h

This is why there can be no deals. Make the GOP pass their own bill. Or get resignations in exchange for votes. (And make sure the resignations come first!)

Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 12h

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 8h

Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 14h

This is awesome.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 16h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

For some reason, though, people seem to have difficulty bringing that same analytical distance to politics. To take one very obvious recent example: all the sudden, everyone was talking about trans girls in high school sports. I'd venture to guess that 99% of the people involved ...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 8h

I giggle every time I play this album.

Holiday in Cuba
High Fidelity
THE CUBAN ORCHESTRA
HOLIDAY
IN CUBA
in
mambo
tempo

It's You

Black Cocoa

Caracoles

Miu Piao

Cuca

Mambo #5

Silbando Mambo

Mambo en Espana

Pianolo

Dance Mambo

By Way Of Mambo

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