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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

Can’t prove a counterfactual but I do sometimes wonder where we’d be if they had just stuck with “these fuckers are weird as hell” for like a few more weeks

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 3h

I'm old enough to remember Republicans losing their absolute fucking minds over the DOJ returning Elián González to Cuba.

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Elián González - Wikipedia

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe hint that the NYT ought to, you know, actually make this front-page news for a change.

(No offense to you personally—I'm endlessly glad you're there, period.)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 3h

Actually, I think Kimmel *should* consider going into politics!

(Everything other than his underestimation of Miller has been pretty damn good since his return. If, as I suspect, he again gets pushed off the air before too long, he'll have exactly the Streisand Effect he needs.)

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

guilty of what they claim, *but* that the admin can punish them with impunity regardless.
They want to spread the idea that they can and will harm innocents and there's nothing we can do about it—ergo, Ngo might be wrong, but it doesn't matter.
That, I think, is what Kimmel should be pointing out.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

tell a transparently fake story connecting them to terrorism, and it won't matter whether 75% of the people know it's bunk: SCOTUS (perhaps under duress) has their backs, and that's all they need. In fact, the admin would probably rather most people be *fully aware* that their targets *aren't* >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

I agree that they're failing to make the case that antifa is what they say it is.

But—I think the likes of Ngo want a reality in which it doesn't matter whether they can make the case or not; they want to be able to grab and disappear, say, Tom Hanks or Ms. Rachel (Rachel Griffin Accurso), >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

men's bloodlust actually is—and make the case that it's inherently un-American, if that's what we think (and I hope that's true!).

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

spent the segment laughing at the fact that Miller froze when confronted about it. One could be forgiven for coming away from the Kimmel segment with the idea that Miller is a dimwit who poses no real threat.
We have to do more to show how serious and actively dangerous these young rightwing >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

Several days ago, for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel ran the clip of Stephen Miller describing Trump's "plenary authority," absolute-monarch powers that Trump and Miller should not legally possess.
Instead of explaining what plenary authority actually is and why it's dangerous, Kimmel basically >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 4h

The problem is—by mocking Ngo as silly, we're implying he's incompetent. Instead, this N*zi-linked incel is an honorary cabinet member, using our presidency and DHS as his predatory tools. Our strategy needs to involve forcing the media to confront that, not let them assume Ngo is a harmless ditz.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

Abolish ICE.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US.

All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Muslims calling for the destruction of Israel — after the peace deal.

It was never about Gaza.

Why did the UK allow these demons in?

We must ban Sharia in the United States and deport them ALL before this becomes us.

Religion of peace."

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 8h

Unfortunately (disastrously), one could apply what you've written here either to Trump *or* to Schumer's control of the Dems. He's ruling like he knows he's right and the rest of the Dems are wrong, yet while most Dems don't agree, they're afraid to clash with him.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 8h

Why couldn't I have been raised by wolves? At least then I could huff and puff pigs' houses down.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, you don't like my ideas BlueSky? Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. Go ahead and repost this piece. I dare you.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 8h

And this is why centrist Schumer types who think Republicans are motivated by greed can't fight them right. For while Trump and Kushner are motivated by greed, the rest of the New Right are motivated primarily by being assholes with impunity, and will forfeit money on principle to get there.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 8h

From part of a thread about this—I couldn't help but think of it. There is an absolute desire to use force to push cringe on people who don't want it, both as lowkey torture and a cheap laugh.

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · Jan 19

Another masterful study of men like this, though again missing the connection to shock-humor cartoons and Family Guy in particular.
The ability to force cringe on others—especially women and minorities—has become, in many ways, the value felt most passionately by a stunning number of people.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

"Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential."

Yes. And,

Generative AI is a crucial component of shoring up that industrial-grade deception.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10h

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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