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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 34m

Only in America do you start calling carwashes and mobilizing people because helicopters are circling but then you find out it was a school stabbing and almost relax

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly. I’m so sorry you experienced that, you deserve all the love and care

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 6h

Lol I almost forgot The Atlantic existed these losers must be dying for a job at Big Bigot

Screenshot of an Atlantic headline “Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss” by Caitlin Flanagan

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 14h

I touched a shark, got free popcorn, and rode a trolley on Saturday, cannot shut up about the A+ day

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 14h

That cat is a KNOWN insurrectionist!

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 15h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 14h

in which case you are shit out of luck

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe you're waiting for one of the ones who've been working outside my window for ten months

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 15h

People are getting kidnapped on the fucking street for fuck’s sake

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 15h

If you don’t build respect for people’s time in as a core value, it just becomes theater as you cycle through audiences/rounds of volunteers. “Why do we spend so much time on boarding?” Because you can’t make a decision so people burn out and quit

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 16h

One thing about being this tired is my exit strategy for dysfunctional orgs is swift and merciless

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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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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 17h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 16h

One thing about being this tired is my exit strategy for dysfunctional orgs is swift and merciless

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 17h

The crafts section of San Pedro Dollar Tree is in solidarity

Package of TransOurDream Tru-Heat Transfer Paper

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 1d

EVERY BONE IN MY BODY IS BEING TRIED MY GODDDDDDDDDDDD

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 1d

No.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 1d

Stay on her good side

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2d

IDK what that url is, sorry

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2d

I gave all the money I had on me and a “Know Your Rights” card and a whistle to a kid selling flowers on the corner which—fucking useless. There is so much Latine-led organizing and defense, we’re doing what we can but like it’s fucking fucked up and big media is ignoring it ofc

useless.like

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2d

You see a landscaping truck on the side of the road—might be from someone who was taken. They are escalating with tactics and targets. Schools, hospitals, restaurants, swap meets you name it

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2d

Idk what to say when people talk about how great things are in Portland—I deeply support their resistance and I get the messaging but I don’t think anyone would say that about LA. Things here are deeply scary and dangerous.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2d

The Ka Mer group in Turkey, they protected women from honor killings and honor suicides, they were very intentional "We are not going to become cops." Itwould take 1,000 posts to get into their incredible work, but it's a really good thing to remind yourself esp if you have class/race/etc/privilege

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 2d

They and the people most affected should be centered, not becoming a de facto second police force if that makes sense. I mean, talk about intelligence on the ground! The jornaleros know where ICE is staging, which street they arrive on, when they change tactics....

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