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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 1h

I spent the week on the Hill, which was amazing & one of the best parts of my job, but the best moment of the week was when a guy told me I couldn’t lift him, I told him I could, & then guessed his weight exactly.

Pretty sure it was the first time he’s been terrified & turned on at the same time.

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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 2h

The tea I drink every day at home just tastes different the first time I make a pot after having been gone. It tastes like it did when I first had it. It reminds me why I buy a pound of it three times a year.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 2h

It continues to be wild that Dems require you to do their messaging for them

They're fighting a political negotiation on the battleground of optics at the moment and I've not seen them do any signalling

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Craig Harrington @handle.invalid · 21h

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 2h

Me, watching LH play Ghost of Yotei: I feel like your horse gallops better than mine [in Assassin’s Creed: Shadows] does.
LH: He does a lot of things better than your horse.
Me: Hmrf.
LH: ::casually summons a wolf to fight along side him::

I’m really getting game envy over here.

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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 8h

Are only women pilots allowed to fly into CLT? Or do the men just get special training so they can find it?

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JoshFry.Art @joshfry.art · 11h

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A beautiful crisp fall morning here, and some flowers still showing!

The trees and sky are magnificent today. Yellows and reds all-round. Blue delight is the skys' sight.

#bloomscrolling #nature #garden #gardenreport #flowerreport #photography

Tall panoramic photo of the trees out back, and the sky. So blue today, ner' a cloud in sight. The leaves are turning for the fall.

A delightful yellow flower with dewdrops.

Another yellow flower, brighter than the last, yet to unfurl in the sunlight.

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amohr @amohr.org · 15h

Rose campion holding raindrops
#flowerreport #bloomscrolling #pnw #garden #macro #photography #eastcoastkin

A reddish purple rose campion flower with five broad, slightly tattered petals holding onto big rain droplets under an overcast sky.

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 14h

#SixOnSaturday this week is definitely #Autumn looking flowers and cattails. The flowers of one of my aloes looks like nature’s candy corn 😂 a drought busting nor’easter will arrive later today

#Flowers #Plants #GulfOfMexico #noreaster #FlowerReport #WildFlowers #Gardening

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 28

THIS BEAR JUST WANTS TO SERVE U ICE CREAM
DO NOT STOP IT FROM FULFILLING ITS DREAM

CASE CLOSE

Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · Aug 27

This photo is amazing. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Bear found behind the counter of a South Lake Tahoe ice cream shop

Deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office arrived to find a bear Sunday at the ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe, according to a news release.

www.latimes.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17d

I SEE NO BAG OF BAGELS HERE
THIS PUPS INNOCENCE SEEMS TO BE QUITE CLEAR

CASE CLOSE

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 17d

This is Radley. He's being accused of stealing a bag of bagels. That's ridiculous. He was just keeping this one warm for you. 13/10 please show some appreciation (TT: carrie.pietz)

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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 14h

It is!

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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 3d

This review for Beach Chalet in SF has just set the bar for dogs inside restaurants:

yelp.to/Z_5PA-zQu-

Jazzy C. s Review

17 days ago

A dog gave birth while we were eating.
This restaurant has great food, kind servers, and a beautiful view. But they allow dogs inside the restaurant, not just in the patio area but upstairs as well. I was having a fantastic time until a persons dog started giving birth at the table next to us. The patron with the dog didn't even realize it, someone at the table next to us had to say "excuse me your dog just gave birth". I watched the dog finish giving birth, eat the umbilical cord, and then walk around with afterbirth on it, and it made me so nauseous. The woman after getting some help from the staff (getting a to go box for the puppy) seemingly sat back down and finished her meal. Unsure what happened after we left but am not happy that situation even happened.
Giant health violation. She should've been out of there.
There's even an outdoor space at the restaurant. Turned an amazing meal into a really gross experience. And for $140+ not worth it.

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Thanks 5
Love this 3
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InCameraNet @incameranet.bsky.social · 19h

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 14h

the USA PATRIOT Act and its progeny are anti American but few people seem to care anymore.

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14h

what happened, happened

Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill

The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.

www.wired.com

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14h

and that fact, which i don’t have to prove, because i already did in print when it was happening, is going to be the basis of the scandal i plan to cover first… five years from now, when the lawsuit i haven’t filed yet finally bears fruit

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15h

chuck schumer, mark warner, and other democrats with big national security boners interfered right before trump took office to ensure federal agents could install wiretaps at data centers without a court order or any form of review.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15h

i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.

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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 14h

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15h

more people should examine the FISA court’s opinions because you would see, even though it failed at the time, the DOJ’s goal is an AI exemption to the 4th amdt. it doesn’t matter who’s president. these things are well supported.

🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 14h

Get boosted, friends!

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 23h

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

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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🕷️💀 Reg Ipsa Spookquitur 🦇🪦 @regipsaloquitur.com · 14h

This is honestly delightful!

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 23h

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

His immediate dawning understanding of just exactly how much he could fuck things up made him go "That's a GREAT analogy," heh

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 23h

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14h

if you ran any of these for instance, a random assortment of websites i found, i might call a lawyer right now

stopice.net
redadalertas.com
deportationtracker.live/report-raid
staysafe.la
icelistcd.com
fucklapd.com
icespy.org
watchthewatchers.net
filmthepolicela.com
mrcheckpoint.com

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