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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 2h

So much for the party of family values, I guess, huh?

Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder that during the shutdown, WIC, the program that ensures new mothers have formula, milk, and other things they need to keep their babies healthy, is under threats. Some states have contingencies in place, but in many, funding will run out, leaving new parents high and dry.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2h

There's still good news in the world.

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 2h

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

apnews.com

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 3h

My advice starts with: for the love of god, stop putting jargon and acroyms into your response options. People don't know what it means and it messes everything up.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 3h

I really need subject matter experts who don't design surveys for a living to consult with people who design surveys before they send a survey out. I can't really help you when your questions are shit.

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 4h

California is really leading the way on this, and a big part of it is net metering, which allows people with rooftop solar to sell their surplus back to the grid. Coupled with pricing that incentivizes using electricity at off-peak hours, we could actually get to net-zero.

Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 4h

Party of family values says,

“hey parents of young kids, go fuck yourselves”
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

'This is a crisis': Hundreds of Indiana child care providers hit hard over voucher cuts

Thousands of Indiana child care seats may vanish as voucher cuts leave providers underfunded and 29,000 low-income children stuck on waitlists through 2025.

www.indystar.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

"Support the troops, y'all!"

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 17h

I've ridden a lot of bike lanes that felt like this but I'd never seen one that actually looks like this before.

trick van treat @derek.bike · 1d

good morning to the bike lane big finish designers

photo of a bike lane going down a ramp and leading to a concrete wall with a dumpster in front of it

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta rise and grind

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 1d

Is it possible that my policy that involves attacking Americans with helicopters and ripping children away from their parents is wrong?

No. It’s the protesters who are out of touch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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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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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 1d

In Germany, power availability to homes and businesses has increased over the years – even as the share of renewables has climbed.

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 2d

When they tell you it’s the left show them this

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 1d

Nazis are so afraid of being laughed at.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2d

"Trump and MAGA are the reason your child lost their special education services" is the message, that's easy. Distribution is going to be hard.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 2d

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s what you get when you make your enemy abstract and inhuman. Hopefully people are realizing the the “libs” are in fact real people with lives and kids and shit.

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck did you think mass deportations meant you stupid fucking marks

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Kevin Verhoff @kevinverhoff.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad Joe Rogan is finally acknowledging that the administration is going too far on how it’s treating people but I grant him zero trust until he acknowledges his part in endorsing the guy who said he was going to do it.

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