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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 2h

And we’re just sitting here,letting it happen? This is deliberate psychological assault on the people who keep our government alive. These are our neighbors, our friends, our public servants and they’re being weaponized for politics. How is this legal? When did cruelty become a governing strategy?

A reminder that Russell Vought previously said he wanted government workers "to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains...We want to put them in trauma."
This isn't a government shutdown; it's government sabotage.

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Victor 🌊 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vicjager.bsky.social · 7h

He was also involved in a murder-for-hire.

Pardons with corrupt intent technically impeachable.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4h

Imploding 🤡💩show

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 1h

There is a bit more to this story

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4h

No one wanted them
and Palestinians took them in.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 2h

Reinforcements have been dispatched to Portland… 🤣🐸🤣

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 2h

#Dragons

These butter-sized hatchlings will someday be the biggest lizards on Earth — Popular Science

These butter-sized hatchlings will someday be the biggest lizards on Earth The endangered baby Komodo dragons were recently born at ZooTampa. Two baby Komodo dragons began hatching out of their eggs i...

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 3h

Out of control

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 9d

Fascism relies upon the privileged illusion of normalcy to thrive and take root.

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 3h

Ask Black folks how they dreamed after the KKK burned crossed in their driveway and lynched your neighbors

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h

When the Nazis came to power, a writer began collecting people’s dreams and uncovered the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 13d

Going to start a petition to rename mass shootings as “whitemanning”

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 3h

See @2rawtooreal for an answer to ms holier than thou

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6h

Timeline Cleanse ⚜️🎶⚜️💙⚜️🎶⚜️

Forever amazing Tina Turner ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 5h

The FIRST is being ignored daily

@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 5h

Great White Hope

Empty suit

@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 6h

He’s White?

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 6h

Why would MikeJohnson be “so angry,” about a right bestowed upon Americans in THE FIRST AMENDMENT? Not 3rd, 5th or 25th the FIRST and this angers the SOTH?

@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 6h

Legislators, if we ever emerge from this national nightmare, make this illegal when you start shoring up democracy

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7h

Arizona’s representative is officially a tourist in DC. Three other members of Congress have been sworn in, in less than 24 hours. She’s been waiting weeks now.

The speaker is a sniveling weasel P3DO protector.

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@ciaogirl9 @ciaogirl9.bsky.social · 6h

If democrats elect MTG they need to, and will get what they deserve.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 7h

“I really think she will try to rebrand as a Democrat,” Laura Loomer predicted Sunday.

MAGA’s ‘Trump Whisperer’ Predicts MTG Will Run as a Democrat in 2028

“I really think she will try to rebrand as a Democrat,” Laura Loomer predicted Sunday.

trib.al

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