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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2h

there's a years ago tweet that basically said that anyone writing TV or movies by definition managed to land their extremely-hard-to-get dream job and it colors how they think about work and jobs and wish fulfillment in the stuff they write, and i think about it a lot

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2h

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

Six Dead, At Least 12 Injured in Three Mississippi Shootings

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

buff.ly

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17h

there's really just zero motivation for Ds to negotiate when they're saying things like this. if they're just going to rule by recissision anyway, might as well make them admit they're gutting the fillibuster in order to destroy healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

The very mangy failed "lion" Aslan talks a big "game" but he and the radical antiwi were very unfair to the white witch. The witch—they call her a witch but she was a queen, she was a queen from the great land of Charn—was very white. Very white, and that's OK. They say not OK but I say OK.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

I am hereby putting a 200% tariff on all fauns dryads and talking beavers as well as turkish delight. Narnia has been very bad to us.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 15h

my final update from the TX redistricting hearing in el paso 🫡

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15h

NEW: A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 18h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Nick Hare @nickhare.bsky.social · 1d

The modern American RW seems to stop reading after the Second Amendment, which, to be fair, is farther than they get in the Ten Commandments.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

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:

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16h

Brian Allen

Rep. Swalwell cornered Kash Patel on live record.

Swalwell: “Did you tell 🍊💩 his name is in the Epstein files?”

Patel: “I’ve never spoken to 🍊💩about it.”

Swalwell: “Did you tell the Attorney General?”

Patel: [stammers, crashes]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Bethany Erickson @shoomer5.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly! See, you get it.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 23h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 20h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 4d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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CJ 🦋 @cjeanmartini.bsky.social · 3d

In war-ravaged Portland...
#Portland
#frog
#SafetyDance
#IStandWithPortland

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

an interfaith group of protesters is leading the crowd in song.

things are chill. vibes are good.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

Hakeem Jeffries on Mike Johnson getting upset at a press event today, banging the lectern, trying to blame Dems for troops not being paid amid the shutdown:

"I don't get why my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are getting emotional about their failed approach ... to governing."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Bethany Erickson @shoomer5.bsky.social · 1d

Also hides his face from the feds

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