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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23h

Yglesias found out something in a meeting or call

He doesn’t do this if he doesn’t know something

Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

When even Yglesias knows you are full of it.

Matthew Yglesias quote tweeting Sally Jenkins tweet of the “Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss” article

Sally: This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob.

Matt: I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so weird to me that they go with father of the bride!!

Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

The idea of counting either praise or criticism as indicative of anything on its own (without looking at the content) is so blatantly facile. And yet here we are.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Truth

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 1d

Know Your Rights canvassing and education at work!!! Knowing the difference between a judicial warrant (that has to be filled out correctly!) and a nonsense DHS warrant (that is useless for entering private property) can save lives.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Very true!

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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

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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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

We do all need to stock up.

Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 2d

Flying off the shelves.....your ideal resist costume

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Some are but I believe that’s actually new. I think those were places unoccupied until relatively recently, which is a sign of a new gilded age. But I could be wrong. I do remember seeing a rolls royce pulling out of one of the big estates around ocean drive when I was younger.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think those parties exist anymore. It doesn’t get particularly fancy in the summers. Just more people.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

our neighborhood was Irish Catholic, occupied by the descendants of mansion staff. We belonged to the Irish Catholic beach (Hazards). But even when I was young, and more so now, people who live there work in tourism/tourist-dependent jobs or at the naval base.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, in the 1800s. Those mansions are tourist destinations now. The people with money, old our new, are tourists who don’t bring staff with them. I grew up visiting Newport with the remnants of the old life still present in some ways—

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1d

Girlboss fascism

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

I can only imagine.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense. If you go, I highly recommend Anthony’s seafood! It’s in Middletown basically in the middle of nowhere, but excellent.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I think I picture luxury as bigger but you’re right about old money. Castle Hill Inn looks dramatic for sure.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Newport is also less wealthy than the surrounding towns in terms of residents, due to the naval base, but that doesn’t actually preclude it from being luxury since that’s more about tourism.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of embarrassing in this context but my grandparents had a house there growing up so I spent a lot of time there. And now we rent a place for one week there every summer. It’s for sure very New England upper middle class but there aren’t really resorts there or things I associate with luxury.

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