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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 2h

I think we need a more granular unit of measurement than month here, I’m thinking days/hours

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

I doubt anyone can keep track of it all. Trump racks up more scandals in any given month than most administrations manage in eight years.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

I’m part of the problem because I completely forgot about this

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 8h

I have to think he’s
going to hate that picture though, makes him look even older

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Zach Schermele @zachschermele.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: Check out this explainer on the Education Dept.'s layoffs of special ed staff ->

TLDR, as one person put it: "This is a time when parents have to really saddle up & be ready to be the most aggressive advocate for their child that they've ever been."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Dept. layoffs threaten special ed system, advocates warn

The Education Department laid off almost everyone in its special education division. From 504 plans to IEPs, here's how the firings could impact you.

www.usatoday.com

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 10h

Benjamin Dryer is the really the guy you want to to talk to on here about this

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 10h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Eel

Reservoir Dogs

Muskrat Love

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 10h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Oysters

Big Lebowski

Happy Birthday

Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 10h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Canned tuna

Pineapple Express

Closer to Fine

Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 10h

i will be the one humming 867-5309

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 10h

make room for me

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 11h

sorry did not mean to preach at you, meant to bolster your point

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 11h

WHAT

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 15h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 11h

It has never been the gold standard of treatment. Saying something over and over again - as the private for-profit credentialing company has been for doing twenty years - does not make it true.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 13h

We got a peace deal before the Epstein files.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 13h

Wow.
Never give up telling the truth.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for showing up, thank you for being joyful with your daughter. Kids are watching and scared, and it’s our job as adults to show them the best way forward in all this mess. You did that, and she’s a lucky kid.

Ignore the critics.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15h

Gratifying to read a respected voice is sounding the alarm about the unitary executive theory and warning about it, but it would seem it’s going to take a hell of a lot more voices screaming about it to change the trajectory we’re on.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16h

please do not get excited about this, signed a law professor who wishes law professors had this much power www.rawstory.com/humphreys-ex...

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

www.rawstory.com

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15h

Deeply sorry for the horror and loss of your uncle, and all that he suffered. Blessings on you for your deep compassion on those who also suffer.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15h

Menopause is freedom, pass it on 👍

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15h

Don forget $50,000 cash in a bag to Tom Homan ON TAPE but FBI drops the investigation

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 15h

living that horror right now, as i listen to a crew tear apart my kitchen ceiling as I type this

an interior room of a home that used to be a kitchen that is stripped down to bare studs. a lonely kitchen cabinet remains where a sink used to be and the range and a center island are wrapped in protective padding. Industrial fans and dehumidifiers are placed over the bare subfloor.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 16h

a man in a king 's costume says [ crying lip ] in a dark room

Alt: King George III as portrayed in the Broadway production of the musical Hamilton is pouting. A caption reads [crying lip]

media.tenor.com

Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 16h

The range of facial expressions during the guitar intro alone is worth it

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 16h

I am more keen to learn who’s profiting from this than I am concerned about who’s “funding” #NoKings

US Taxpayers are paying for ICE to fill up for-profit detention centers and deportation flights

How many of these privateers gave Tom Homan bags of cash to ensure they got first bite at the apple?

Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 16h

We at the El Paso Times have new updated photos of the East Montana ICE detention facility. It has massively expanded since we published the first photos back in August. The office of U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar told me there over 2,000 immigrants detained there*.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Areal photos of ICE's East Montana immigration detention facility in El Paso show the massive expansion of the site since August.

Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 16h

Echoes of Carter/Reagan and the Iranian hostages.

www.texasstandard.org/stories/ben-...

More than 40 years later, a Texan reveals a secret that may have swayed an election

Ben Barnes went to the Middle East with John Connally to delay the release of American hostages in Iran – and potentially help Ronald Reagan win the presidency.

www.texasstandard.org

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