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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

Every day it gets worse.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 8h

lol

3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 9h

😁

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 11h

🎉

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MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 12h

At our local record store/cafe

Notice
Anyone purporting to be an agent of ICE or any other federal agency who enters these premises with the intent of arresting and or detaining any person(s) within:
Must wear clothing that accurately represents the agency they represent.
Must not wear a mask or anything else that conceals their true identity.
Must possess an official warrant signed by a federal judge and agree to show it to anyone who asks to see it.
Must agree to any photography, video, and/or audio recording of their activities.
Must provide detailed information of where their arrestees will be sent and allow full due process as required by the Constitution.
The United States is a democratic republic and the rights of everyone must be respected.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 12h

Supreme Court justices are going on the Sabbath Gasbag shows now? To discuss the court’s work? What the fuck?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 11h

Hero

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3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 11h

I remember this so vividly. These protestors were heroes.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 13h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 1d

With news that they are trying to fire the staff of the MMWR, I thought I would note that AIDS first came to the attention of public health workers broadly from an MMWR report describing an unusual cluster of pneumonia in gay men in San Francisco.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17h

Dumbest gaslighting ever. Who was president on January 6?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h

Biden wasn’t president yet. These folks aren’t too bright

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3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 14h

Sending love from someone who knows this hole in the world. 💔

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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3dogrunner.bsky.social @3dogrunner.bsky.social · 15h

Unconventional = illegal

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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