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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

Hey if you’ve been experiencing trauma , and triggered

I see you

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 5h

I stuff love notes in the guts… even if they never know or find them 💕

Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 5h

half completed ass repair. polyester thread is the strongest in my experience, but also wears me out to have to rethread the needle over and over

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 6h

Mario showed up for Stuffie rehab, but what’s the big white thing coming out of his back?? i’m scared to push it in and causing the fluff to extract from his huge butt tear

mario plush face down with a huge rip in his pants and smalll rips in his hair

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 6h

there are numbers I wish I could forget

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t login to my laptop because microsoft is going to bug me about an update and paying them to use word. it is too much… maybe just for me, but I bet i’m not alone. ebay? ha! they want a blood sample i’m sure. when did it get so difficult? or am I just of that age? 😭

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 10h

Fam, stop accepting their framing. Regardless of what this child did, 13-year-olds Brown kids are not hardened criminals. Youth are impulsive & their brains are not fully developed. Punishing them like adults does not decrease crime-Black & Brown youth deserve to be treated like kids, not adultified

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 6h

it gives me anxiety. literal panic. I shouldn’t have mental anguish from bills and school updates!

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 6h

I have turned off my email notifications. I send all unknown numbers straight to vm as an option enabled on my phone. atp if you need me you need to send a letter. schools are the worst but that I can’t escape. do they think it’s my job to get in touch with them? technology ruined everything

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 6h

there are several bills i’m behind paying because they make it difficult to pay. looking at you synchrony. instead of call every day, send signature required letters im not home to receive, and letters telling me im late how about sending me a bill with a link? why are we doing this BS?!

Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

i’d send this to my therapist but she would just be like yeah… as i’ve been saying lol

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

mad at myself for not taking a side trip to the library, but the kids were beat after 18 holes of putt putt

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

and everyone goes to jail!

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

they get one… but it is written on toilet paper womp womp

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

oh, they do think that. but thoughts are not reality. that lesson will be a very nice comeuppance I wish I could be a fly on the wall to experience

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 8h

Nearly 40% of young men don't see sexual assault as domestic violence. This shocking statistic from a national survey highlights a dangerous gap in understanding abuse.

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

proximity infatuation

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

what’s wrong big boy? never had your cock sucked by a fucking piece of metal?

letters are done as ransom note

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

you’re doing great! keep going. you’ve got this

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 7h

genesis story of me using bookmarks

Nick from Portland @nickpdx.bsky.social · 10h

One time, my work laptop crashed and I couldn’t recover my (27) previously open tabs and it felt like the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 11h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 8h

it was fun! i’m glad I only did 18 holes because it was very goldilocks amount of too little too much just right

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 8h

the drink was good too. usually gimmicky things aren’t that great, but it surprised

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Fiona Cielo (she/her) @fionacielo.bsky.social · 10h

vampire food and putt putt

a blood bag filled with red liquid a large scrabble board is in the background as the pitting field

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