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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 39m

(It's funny though that drunkenness would not, one assumes, be among the disqualifications.)

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 40m

That's not the only reason you'd never find him in Pete Hegseth's army.

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1h

tapping the sign bsky.app/profile/jlwa...

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

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.

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1h

*please note: mindlessly reciting the creed of any particular religion or sect does not in itself play any part of this.

again, imo

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1h

So in that sense, it indeed seems likely to me that "nothing will get Donald Trump into Heaven" is a true statement-- about the future course of history, not the theoretical principles involved!

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1h

The thing is, in my own beliefs, there are very much things that would get someone who has done all the things Trump has done into heaven. It's absolutely always possible.

But these (genuine remorse and repentance*) seem quite unlikely for a soul with Trump's apparent characteristics.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 2h

And if the facts objectively supported the turbo-cynical perspective that'd be one thing, but these people need to misrepresent things at every turn to "support" their desired thesis

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 2h

being able to summon an AI summary of a text with something very close to a 'jerking off' hand gesture is almost too on-the-nose

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 2h

yeah, in all fairness that is a legitimate facet to the issue.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 4h

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately if it's true that he admires Hawley that pretty much dynamites all his credibility as far as being willing to hold the evil fuckers accountable

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 7h

"Smoking outside after the town hall, Platner rattled off some current U.S. senators who he admires: Independent Bernie Sanders, and Democrats Chris Van Hollen, Brian Schatz, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ed Markey. On the other side of the aisle, Josh Hawley of Missouri."

In Collins’ hometown, Platner brings his grassroots pitch to The County • Maine Morning Star

Graham Platner, the progressive, union-backed oysterman challenging longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, has been making national headlines and turning out large crowds at town halls in southe...

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 3h

Relevant

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Aug 31

a great thing about using open-source software is when you want to use it in a way that seems obvious but is not documented and when you look into it not only is it impossible but the developer hates your specific use-case and built the entire application around not supporting it

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 3h

I so badly want there to be An Usable OS That's Not Windows Or Mac, but as far as I can tell anyone who might superficially claim to be interested in developing it is actually more interested in showing what a very clever boy they are

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 4h

dril tweet: "jokes on you; i actually love being body slammed by one dozen perfect wrestlers. and my mouth isn't filled with bloodm, it's victory wine"

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 4h

Hear me out: what if we had a technological society, but the technology and the society were good, instead of shitty

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 6h

This isn't wrong but it goes well beyond the traditional sorts of media and into social media. "Charlie Brown had hoes" wasn't coined in reference to CNN, after all!

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 7h

Ah yes, very interesting. And tell me, Nate, are the people the Democrats need to be messaging to the ones who are already the party's strongest soldiers, or is it, perhaps, some other group?

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 11h

The headline is sorta sending me because I'm imagining an ominous voice suddenly intoning "YOUR PACKAGE IS MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION"

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 11h

The people who need to read this won't, and wouldn't take it onboard if they did, but: an older establishment candidate running in a primary against the young(er) populist candidate is not a sign that the "establishment" has too much power. It is literally the opposite of that.

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 11h

I agree with this sentiment in the general case, but it's a bit of a non sequitur, wouldn't you say?

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 12h

"Kinda" she says

JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 13h

Starting to think that this was in the "Hitler" category of Time Person Of The Year

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 13h

And, imo, "correctly routing each soul to its proper destination" is a reasonable definition of justice here.

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 13h

I've reached a similar conclusion. It's interesting to me that you say: not for reasons of justice. A concept I use here myself is "correctness", as in: an ultimate endpoint in hell seems to correspond best to what their actions imply their soul to be like; it'd seem correct for them to end there.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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