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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 7h

Great job Everett Police, city of Everett, state of Massachusetts, @massgovernor.bsky.social, literally everyone in power

No one is protecting us from Trump & I hope every Democrat in Massachusetts gets primaried by someone with an ounce of fight in them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 7h

Great job Everett Police, city of Everett, state of Massachusetts, @massgovernor.bsky.social, literally everyone in power

No one is protecting us from Trump & I hope every Democrat in Massachusetts gets primaried by someone with an ounce of fight in them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 7h

My Samsung TV has been trying to force an AI update on us all year that we’re not allowed to reject. For my kids, clicking “not now” on the update is just as much of turning on the TV as pushing the power button.

Making the next generation think anything new sucks, great job Big Tech!!

Richard @sirlariato.bsky.social · 7h

Literally cannot remember the last time a software update added anything actually useful, same goes for Windows; here's some AI bullshit you didn't ask for and, as a lil' extra treat, we've reset all your file associations again!! Isn't that great? Isn't the future great?!

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 9h

Cool that Sally Jenkins came to Bluesky to let us know the late Graham era Post sucked as much shit as the current overtly fascist Bezos Post, they just were better at whispering the quiet parts in her day

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 10h

Abolish bitcoin ATMs

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 15h

Oh now that we already have white supremacy squads kidnapping US citizens & the military deployed to the streets of our own cities, our media has finally decided not to tolerate blatant fascist lying?

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 16h

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

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Sam P-F @smhwpf.bsky.social · 19h

Illinois state police? So either Gov. Pritzker is saying one thing and doing another, or he has no control over the police nominally under his authority.

Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois police attack & arrest ICE protesters outside Broadview Detention Center near Chicago. This occurred after a protest curfew imposed by city of Broadview passed. LIVE LINK ⬇️

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

For most national protest events, I usually have to choose between Boston or Providence

#NoKings October 18 isn’t just more protests than usual - it’s **10 times** more

www.nokings.org#map

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Democratic mayors & governors talk tough & then sit back doing jack shit while their cops brutalize pro-democracy protesters

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois State Police issue a final warning to disperse from in front of the Broadview ICE facility, a full 20 minutes before the protest curfew time.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Had to look up Hartenstein’s age here - 35 - and look at that **7 year** gap between stints in the show!

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1966
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1966
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1969
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Is it sunny or raining right now where I’m standing? Depends on the narrator.

This is journalism you want to pay $20 a week for, right?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Is it sunny or raining right now where I’m standing? Depends on the narrator.

This is journalism you want to pay $20 a week for, right?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

How many years has Portland been burning down now (entirely in Republicans’ bizarro revenge fantasies)?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

How many years has Portland been burning down now (entirely in Republicans’ bizarro revenge fantasies)?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

Just because Trumpers are all wannabe rapists doesn’t mean they’re not also huge fucking losers

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

Abolish Border Patrol

Abolish ICE

“How quickly will you promise to put Trump & his masked thugs in prison?” must be the first question in any Democratic presidential debate

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

Abell46s Marioneta GIF

Alt: Gepetto manipulates Pinocchio’s strings

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

the democrats had a majority multiple times and they didnt do any of that shit, unfortunately

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 2d

lmao

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

Just pulled this up as I tried to explain to my son (8) that when guys say “what’s up” it doesn’t need a direct answer & my god they’re on landlines I’m so incredibly old