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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 2h

I’m old enough to remember when “Hawaii has always been a pivotal role in the Pacific” was a big scandal.

Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 10h

It's Posting, but it's also denying the regime the footage they desperately need to manufacture their images of war-ravaged PDX, and in that regard it is utterly perfect and must continue.

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 10h

I did my mental health training in Everett, working with a diverse population that included adolescents. This makes me sick to my stomach.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

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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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 11h

my skeleton is basically a dilapidated rickshaw for my brain

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 13h

Pile of overdue notes.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 13h

"He is an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like, 'Let's start the day, I am going to defeat the left, and we are going to win," she said on "Jesse Watters Primetime" in September 2025.

I... what.

There Are So Many Weird Things About Stephen Miller's Marriage - Nicki Swift

From waking wife Katie up with Trump speeches to forcing her to plan a fancy wedding, Stephen and Katie Miller sure do have a strange marriage.

www.nickiswift.com

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 14h

Good news is, the fact that the VP of USA just said on live tv that Leticia James "definitely committed mortgage fraud" will almost certainly get her case dismissed.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Oh so it's illegal for the president to have opinions now? The woke left is making opinions illegal?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 14h

VP of USA pretends not to know that a cabinet official was caught on tape by the FBI accepting $50k CASH in a paper bag. Huh? What tape are you even talking about?

BIG props to George S. for the way he concluded the interview, totally deflecting Vance's disingenuous bullshit and ad hominem attacks.

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 14h

Totally normal to be compensated for legitimate services in $50,000 cash in a paper bag from a restaurant.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 17h

DO YOUR JOB AMY

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h

"Gilded Rage" isn’t simply a rehash of existing reportage. What separates Silverman’s book from other writeups, and where his book truly shines, is in his attempt to get at the root of Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic lurch. ICYMI @cjcmichel.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 17h

Welcome to the resistance, thomas massie?

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 17h

the word "breaking" really loses all meaning in this context doesn't it

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 17h

alt text: "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands," the message read. "The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."

Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 17h

Can we also talk about how our tax dollars are funding political attacks across government websites?

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 21h

quite a take from someone who called COVID restrictions "fascism" and "a violation of constitutional rights," and argued that SEC penalties for announcing a fake leveraged buyout of Tesla trampled on his first amendment free speech protections

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 21h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 1d

Case in point: PDX is doing a PERFECT job of not giving Trump any images that are appropriate for supporting the false narrative he's pushing. 20 out of 10, no notes.

Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Anti-Fascist Frog” said they demonstrate daily because of the Trump regime’s “inhumane” treatment of people. “It’s unacceptable-I’m out here protesting in a frog costume … to show how ridiculous the notion that we are ‘violent terrorists’ is.”

More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/mit-reject...

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 1d

The dumb shit Trump says is NOT dementia. It's intentional attempts to manipulate reality with lies. He's only ever been concerned with creating the *appearance* of a thing. Calling for investigations, shitposting, AI slop trolling, ghoulish ICE snuff reels: it's not a presidency, it's a production.

Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to live in a country that is not actively, — even proudly — leaning into stupidity, encouraged by leaders who rely on that stupidity to manipulate and lie to its citizens.

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 1d

Well I spent a month in the UK, half in majestic England and half in bonnie Scotland. Despite my acquiring an exotic foreign respiratory illness, the visit did not disappoint. Here’s a selection of photos of places I decided I could easily live in. Now to find that wealthy British 2nd husband.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Administration officials pile lie upon lie upon lie. When a president and his aides are doing that, it’s no longer America.

When masked government thugs take potshots at a priest, it’s no longer America.

State-sponsored mayhem starts at the top. trib.al/kEhMBeh

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 1d

You have already lost. The key is not to care.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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