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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 10d

Here we are.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10d

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 5h

Peace Frogs on the Peace Train 🎵
Cat Stevens

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 5h

Seems very bad.

Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 5h

What about the watches?
Those are good investments, right?
/s

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Context matters

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 5h

RIP

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

🔥 🚨🔥 Meet Randy Erwin. Randy is the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees — a union representing ~ 150k employees across the country. We need more RANDY ERWIN ENERGY in this country! Sound ⬆️ & Share. 1/2

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 6h

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — Zen Shin.

medium.com/@ak_finch/li...

Life Is Not a Competition

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — Zen Shin.

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 7h

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 6h

a black and white photo of donald trump with the words " person woman man camera tv " written below him

Alt: a black and white photo of donald trump with the words " person woman man camera tv " written below him

media.tenor.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 7h

Shakespeare quote below this post

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 8h

Rose Mary Woods from the beyond...

a group of people are sitting around a table waving their hands .

Alt: Seance in process a group of people are sitting around a table Woman having the seance is waving her hands

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 9h

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 8h

In charge of the employee whistleblower s.

Makes perfect sense for this administration.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks.

Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 8h

Naked.
In the bathtub.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

Another judge ruling against the Trump admin based on facts, rejecting the govt’s claim that reality is whatever the president says.

Good. If they don’t have to change laws to get new powers, they simply have to lie about the facts and say existing laws applies, that’s unlimited dictatorship.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 12h

Frog and Toad were caught in the rain. They ran to Frog’s house.

“I am all wet,” said Toad. “The day is spoiled.”

“Have some tea and cake,” said Frog. “The rain will stop. If you stand near the stove, your clothes will soon be dry.”

Frog and Toad stand in Frog's house, dripping wet. Frog has prepared a nice hot pot of tea for the pair.

From "The Corner"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Laura @lauraapollo.bsky.social · 9h

Any insight on the relationship between TBS, TNT, and TRU?
Switching from one game to the next was extremely weird.

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Jocelyn Fox @jfoxtales.bsky.social · 14h

This was not what I wanted to see today.

So you should see it too.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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