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Wes Miller

@getwired.com

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EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · Nov 6

Just deactivated my Twitter account, where I was also user @getwired. When it goes, it goes.

I’m done contributing to Elon’s harm he has done and will continue to do to this country.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 2m

Thunderclap.

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I’m pretty sure Jesus won’t accept him.

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The only people who should go without a salary during a shutdown are the members of the house and senate - who should absolutely not be paid during shutdowns if employees aren’t.

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In the future, when democrats have the ability to pass it, we need a law that says even in a shutdown, federal employees get paid, on time, until the shutdown ends.

Want a limit? Fine, say 90 days or 120 days.

Remove the nuclear option from the hands of the GOP, the ones who keep causing these…

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 21m

I for one am shocked.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 37m

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 40m

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 22m

We're going to start accepting payments in cryptocurrency, which the owner's nephew assures us is "definitely not a scam."

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 27m

If the choice is either anti-fascist or pro-fascist, you’re damn right I’m anti-fascist.

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Kellaweena 🎃 @kellalena.bsky.social · 2h

Not all who wander into the woods to scream are lost.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 28m

At this point lots of police seem to just be proud errand boys for ICE.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 37m

If I find out that Bothell police cooperated with ICE to take children into custody, I will never stop trying to defund them. If we can't trust them, we can't have them in the community.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 37m

i was right

Immigrants fear possible collaboration between ICE and police in Mass. communities

Immigrants in some Massachusetts communities, including Everett, are concerned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is staging next to the police station.

www.nbcboston.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 40m

i could swear this isn’t the first one of these stories i have heard about this specific police force cooperating with and enabling ICE

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 1h

“Where do people find the time to protest?”

-guy who watches FOX News for six hours a day

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 1h

a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

ALT: a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 1h

Was this live? Why would they put this out? Also, given what’s suggested by his aggressive coverup of the Epstein files, yeah, there’s good reason for him to admit he’s never coming close to heaven.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 1h

It's a press release... about nothing.

two men are sitting at a table and one is wearing a striped shirt

ALT: two men are sitting at a table and one is wearing a striped shirt

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 8h

Read this thread about Russell Vought, whose power is comparable to Stephen Miller's. He believes he's "fighting a noble war to defend his 'real America' of white Christian patriarchal rule" by "bending the entire government machine to Trump's will" - while mainstream media whitewashes his evil.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1h

Folks, I need everyone to understand that the only governments that do shit like this are openly corrupt corporatist oligarchies. This is the synergy of capitalism and fascism. It leads here.

It’s nepo babies all the way up. The entire way. Don’t like it? Shut up yes you do, watch our slop.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 2h