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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · Jun 25

All day yesterday, as I braced for disappointment, I repeated this quote to myself.

To all of you hopeful fighters, good morning. You won a round.

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“People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spiders’ webs. It’s not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles and the grit of cobblestone in her hair. And she just spat out a tooth as she got back up and went for another go.” Rt Rev Kym Lucas

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 33m

Hey @sonyala.bsky.social this seems like it might be up your alley!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 20h

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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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 23h

Added a wee bit of coal to my treasures. There were also many rocks. It’s raining in earnest now, but the downspout’s been extended an extra 5’ from foundation into a shallow trench.

A rusty pair of broken pliers, a crushed coke bottlecap, a small white shard of china and a small piece of coal on a wet countertop.

Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 1d

So far, I found a bottle cap, a pottery shard and a broken pair of pliers in the hole. Treating every gardening task as a mini archaeological expedition means I will carry bucket loads of soil and do much heavier labors. Contextual exercise is the only way to get me to workout.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 1d

For today’s self-care, I’m digging a trench for a French drain ahead of this big storm. Fascinating to see where the lawn begins and the mulched part of the garden and the soil is so different. We do mulch our clippings onto the lawn, but it’s not the same.

Light brown sandysoil with a lot of grass. This is the lawn portion.

Lomie dark soil with visible insect life. This is the mulched portion.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

Her most important contribution may be this paragraph here, setting out, by my lights, an objective standard for federalizing the National Guard.

To wit: It’s a last resort. If the civil power hasn’t failed and the courts remain open, the president may not call forth the guard.

Screenshot from ruling, which reads in part:

“Here, there has been no showing that the civil power has failed. The agitators who have violated the law by attacking federal authorities have been arrested. The courts are open, and the marshals are ready to see that any sentences of imprisonment are carried out. Resort to the military to execute the laws is not called for.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this week, Lofty Pigeon Books hosted a book launch for SANCTUARY SCHOOL by @chandlermiranda.bsky.social! This title highlights the many ways that K–12 schools can provide safe educational spaces and relevant, responsive resources for immigrant students. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4cK6ey7

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 3d

won’t someone please think of the poor white guy who was only worth…<quickly checks> a paltry $60 million dollars when he died.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5d

Just for the avoidance of doubt, this is inexcusably racist and a sin against God.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 5d

F Newsom.
That trans people deserve human rights IS a kitchen table issue.

Human rights are a basic, centrist platform piece.

Eroding the rights of vulnerable people to court bigots so they can say a different reason why they’re voting for fascism is how you keep losing elections, @democrats.org

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 6d

their physical plants to climate change. But it absolutely uses expert, vetted code on back end.

(Full disclosure, I’m married to one of the founders so I’ve see it evolve, but it is very useful.)

www.fastcompany.com/91387732/vib...

Meet vibe coding's nerdy but sane sibling

Forget vibe coding. Aboard uses AI to turbocharge the planning and discovery phases of enterprise software development.

www.fastcompany.com

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 6d

Aboard is doing this: and one of main goals is to make custom software for good works accessible. SalesF**e etc have gotten so big that nonprofits can’t adapt their products to your needs like you used to. I’m using aboard to make custom facilities walkthroughs to help warehouses, nonprofits adapt

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 6d

“Bucking tradition”?!?!
-violating state sovereignty
-violating multiple court orders
-turning the military on the citizenry
-encouraging soldiers to violate the Geneva Convention

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 7d

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented.

How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?

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hallowellie maybe 🕷️ @ellie.thecancellations.com · 8d

A reminder for folks who agree: good reporting has expenses. I just chipped in, can you? unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

Support Unraveled

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The Homesick Montanan @homesickmontanan.bsky.social · 8d

The complementary tactic to requiring someone to be “grateful” is “see what you made me do?” They often are used together.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 9d

size of contracts is *mind boggling.

The caffeine is not hitting today and the people keep talking to me and then my brain just goes ffffftttt.

Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 9d

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the size of the NYC contracts for this garbage is drivel. And some principals insist the teachers use it. Some wave it off, but with the charterization of some districts, it's bad.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 9d

That's our usual strategy. One kid told me I'm no longer allowed to correct the worksheets in red pen and send them back to the teachers. Apparently, that was utterly embarrassing.

Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 9d

and decoding it is EXHAUSTING. The instructions aren't clear language and they're barely given books to read.

Not to toot my own horn, but I'm kinda smart, but when these kids need help on homework, I can't figure out what the questions are asking. And the drivel is so boring to read.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder how much of it is that most of what these kids are given to work with is not written by teachers or even educators. It's slop lessons for curriculae generated by Pearson or other massive contractors & they don't use literature or other primary sources, they use non-copyrighted drivel

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