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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 2h

...I.... I bring my own stress balls. They're of cats.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 11h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Making a period piece is Ralph ineson in it yes you're good no cast him

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 5h

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 4h

Just had my first-ever experience of a delivery guy needing to collect a tariff from me in order to give me my package. Only a bank or cashier’s check is accepted, so no way for me to pay, I have to go to the bank tomorrow and the postman will try again. Very cool new system, America is great again

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 3h

NICE.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 5h

I've started watching Twin Peaks The Return for the first time (with 10mg) and honestly that's way calmer and more comforting than the timeline, Jesus Christ.

This is why we got pizza, fuck it.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 7h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 9h

I love this image.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 6h

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 5h

Granola and not a pancake? Weird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjac...

Flapjack (oat bar) - Wikipedia

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 5h

Oh man the interaction I just had with my Scottish husband, lmao. He insists it's a British treat!

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 5h

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 8h

This is what I’m talking about! It is extremely batshit!

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14h

One surreally insane thing about the current moment is that when you go through a TSA checkpoint Kristi Noem is talking propaganda to you the whole time on multiple screens around you

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 16h

profrogteering

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 16h

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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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 11h

This is badass.

A pastor offering communion to an ISP officer. He is declining.

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 11h

a little girl wearing a pink jacket is sitting at a table

Alt: a little girl wearing a pink jacket is sitting at a table

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 11h

O_o How.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 13h

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

Suzette Smith

www.portlandmercury.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 13h

boy it would be nice to have an opposition party reacting to this in a way that suggests there’s going to be justice for it someday

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

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)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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