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Shecky @adrastosno.bsky.social · 2h

Caturday: Ready To Help

Meow from Finn.

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2h

ffs

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 4h

new from me: 🐈‍⬛🐈
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Caturday: Ready To Help

Meow from Finn.

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 21h

dude should look in a mirror.

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

FOX helped, and the rest is Miller.
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Remember when he sprayed his hair on during the last Trump shutdown?

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

more importantly: what is Putin blackmailing Melania over. that is the real catalyst for this nonsense whitewashing of a murderous maniac.

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

OK Grandpa, time to get you back to your room.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

fuck him

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

find these people so they can be arrested

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

record everything you see

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

Grandpa is senile. how do you not know this?

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

Remember when he sprayed his hair on during the last Trump shutdown?

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 23h

OMG HE IS SENILE.
where the fuck is the press on this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We're heading to Chicago, because we want to save Chicago. Do you know they had over 4,000 people killed in Chicago over a short-- 4,000 people. And I have to watch this slob of a governor stand up and say, 'Well, everything is okay.'"

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heatherlynn8571 (2) @heatherlynn8571.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Pee Wee German's Big Adventure
https://first-draft.com/2025/10/09/pee-wee-germans-big-adventure/

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 1d

wtf?

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury reut.rs/42vjyCE

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

reut.rs

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 1d

not "Congress"

REPUBLICANS

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2d

new from me: there’s no insurrection in the US.
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Remember when he sprayed his hair on during the last Trump shutdown?

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2d

senile old man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Are you worried at all that Bibi Netanyahu make be deposed?

TRUMP: That Bibi may go a little bit out of whack?

Q: That he may no longer be prime minister

TRUMP: Look, that's politics. It could be. I don't know.

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Shecky @adrastosno.bsky.social · 2d

Your Thursday matinee with Cassandra.

Remember when he sprayed his hair on during the last Trump shutdown?

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2d

new from me: there’s no insurrection in the US.
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Remember when he sprayed his hair on during the last Trump shutdown?

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2d

meh i'm over a decade younger than he is and I see my PCP every 6 months. it's normal as you get older.

strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2d

the pepper ball guy is a Presbyterian minister.

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strange opera @strangeopera.bsky.social · 2d

but so are people who voted for Harris.
there are a lot of Dems in red areas. I'm one of them. closing rural hospitals affects Dems too. this vindictive approach is not a good look.