Saturday Night Live reunited Amy Poehler and Tina Fey for a brisk cold open skewering Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem — from Fey’s rifle-toting pose to a line about being a brunette Trump listens to. Bondi cheered the bit on X, suggesting a Chicago photo re-creation and praising Poehler. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, in a note to Entertainment Weekly, said the Democrats’ shutdown “does need to end.” The sketch also nodded to Noem’s memoir with a dark Old Yeller gag: “Dogs don’t just get shot. Heroes shoot them.”

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