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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3h

This is what they've done.

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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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Whose politics and whose America

Because America “descending into shitposting” corresponds with American media abandoning a couple of big precepts around listening and avoiding prescriptive statements that focuses on those who do it

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 8h

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Because a better question for ME is why a young Mexican( because their are vids of the frog saying as much ) has to figure out that they have to put on a Frog suit for folks to FINALLY pay attention to

Because when it was Haitian immigrants being lampooned digitally ?

NOBODY EVEN QUOTED THEM

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 10h

Media bias against women doesn’t just hurt female scientists’ careers; it also biases the information that gets the the public.

For example, my field, lactation science, is likely a thing you just now learned exists.

www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪 🛟 🩺 #BlueSci #MedSky #WomenInSci #SciMoms

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

www.science.org

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8h

This race has implications for all of us!

Third, this race is not only a preview of how the fight over electricity prices will play out, it is also a bellwether of broader political trends. Politico wrote of the race: “Republicans are hoping to use the election as a way to tamp down any Democratic optimism ahead of 2026.” As a state GOP strategist told the outlet: “For Republican voters, it is important to turn out because a win by Democrats will tell Democrats nationally that there’s blood in the water.”

Let me just repeat that. That is a GOP strategist saying “A win by Democrats will tell Democrats nationally that there’s blood in the water.”

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12d

i love this from Georgia Power bc it implies my absurdly high power bill is because of something i'm doing and not because the republican controlled committee approved six unnecessary price hikes in the last two years 🫠

A screenshot from my electric company that reads:

"Usage Alerts will help you to proactively manage your bill.

Alerts can be personalized to your needs and be sent via email. "

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 8h

Kristi Noem is a criminal as well. I guess it's a prerequisite too.

#USDemocracy

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tbird @tina-bird.bsky.social · 8h

Pure evil.

#antifa #antifaproud #hoosiersky

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 8h

Some great reading here.

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, hello

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MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 9h

Shit.

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MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 9h

Cant beat that, and, "AI-enabled, no off switch" is probably cheating. So.
"Enshittification is self-propelling."

the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 12h

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 20h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 10h

I saw an anti-trans flyer with the same goddamn CLIPART used in an election-day poison-well flyer when we were fighting the (virulently anti-gay) Oregon "citizen's" alliance back in the day.
These are not creative bigots.

Kit (job hunting | 職探し ) @flowerstorm.tech · 11h

Literally I am seeing the arguments copy/pasted from the gay hate in the 80s-90s (and the autism/neurodivergent rhetoric too, tbh). But I also still see people trotting out the "you're gay/autistic because of trauma" line from back then too. Same arguments, just replaced one category with another.

Prism & Pen @prismnpen.bsky.social · 12h

The people who called you a predator for being gay? They’re calling trans women predators now. The ones who said you were grooming kids? Same word, just a different target. Drag queens. Trans teachers.
buff.ly/msOhXpS

#LGBTQ #TransRights #Bigotry #Solidarity

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 10h

I hear you about lawyer costs.

MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 10h

Are they going to fix it so you can get paid? Can they?

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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Raoul Duck @raoulduck.bsky.social · 10h

I grew up in an Evangelical church. It’s absolute bullshit. Thief Thiel is really pushing hard to demonize people who oppose his attempts to steal trillions of dollars in intellectual property from creators.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 12h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social · 10h

(I get why you wouldn't want to burn bridges but damn, that's actual serious financial harm).

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Saigonbond @ogsaigonbond.bsky.social · 11h

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Amy @amymerz.bsky.social · 10h

25th.

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lindaisee.bsky.social @lindaisee.bsky.social · 10h

Now I see why he has been so hateful to Zelenskii and Ukraine. He blames THEM for the investigation into HIS bribery scheme. Ukraine didn't investigate him. The U.S. investigated his campaign and found their attempted bribery. trump can't keep people, places, countries or dates straight any more

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