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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 49m

The Trump Economy
Our wine sales to Canada are down 96%!!!!!!!!!
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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 41m

I feel the need to note that the Trump administration's strategy for overthrowing our constitutional order relies on political violence by lefties to justify a broader crackdown on the general populace.

Do not take the bait. Principled nonviolence is the only strategy worth pursuing.

Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 4h

This is evil. This is un-American bullshit, and we cannot continue to allow this to happen.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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...

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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 3h

More truck-free cargo trailer action! This was a 30-mile bike ride to pick up a bedroom set from a Craigslist ad. Once you live a car-lite or car-free lifestyle, you can't unsee the waste and inefficiency of personal car ownership. #CargoBikes #CarsRuinCities #FossilFuel #CleanAir #CarsStink

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 2h

We stayed at that hotel when we visited last year. Pretty sweet place!

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 2h

I just made a hotel pan of beef stew. Good stuff, about $3.25 per serving. Maybe an hour of work.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 3h

If you vote for a Republican for any office, from president to dog catcher, you are endorsing the kidnapping of children.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 4h

This is evil. This is un-American bullshit, and we cannot continue to allow this to happen.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 4h

It sure is heartwarming to see Marin whitehairs incandescent with rage about a state law allowing a huge new apartment building that they are utterly powerless to oppose.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 4h

What could make a community of white, affluent boomers so livid? In a shocking twist, the reason is exactly what you think it is. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

‘Not going to suck it up’: What turned this former hippie town into the angriest place in California?

The local rancor is focused on plans for a six-story, 243-unit apartment building near the town center. The School Street project is universally loathed. Almost everyone believes it to be out of place in a town where one-story and two-story buildings are the norm, and they worry about the impact on parking, traffic and fire safety.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 12h

Someone needs to ask, "how does it save money to lay off people who aren't receiving paychecks?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15h

“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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Jonathan Casey @jonathantcasey.bsky.social · 14h

Trump forgot that he was President on Jan. 6th. 2021.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

We are ruled by incompetent morons

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

@mnolangray.bsky.social Would that work?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Cycling Capital @cyclingcapital.bsky.social · 1d

>street is too narrow for cars to pass through
>still people get to park right by the door

#Utrecht

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

It's fun to ask tankies what they know about Soviet history, specifically about the year 1939

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 1d

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 1d

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

If I were Frank McCourt I would send as many Los Angeles officials as possible to a Dodgers/Cubs game at Wrigley Field to convince them to rezone the parking lots at Dodger Stadium.

Wrigley is in the middle of a residential neighborhood and it's fantastic.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

Their frozen prepared food is pretty good, but I usually prefer to cook my own stuff these days.

I last shopped there about a year ago when my wife was going out of town for a few days and I wanted things to prepare quickly for the kids.

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