Bizarre and Unsettling

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On Saturday evening, Montgomery County, Maryland police got an urgent and fake message claiming that someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer’s home. (In fact, he was fine and actually not even in town.) A perimeter was set up around the home, the whole deal.

What makes this jump out to me is that something seemingly almost identical happened at roughly the same time at the Michigan home of Rep. Mike Rogers (R). (Our Pema Levy confirmed the story around noon today.)

No evidence that the two incidents are connected. But uncanny and more than a bit unsettling.

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