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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h

One last time, seeing as I deleted my first, accurate post because I was given inaccurate info mistakenly saying that first post was mistaken.

It *does* appear cs tear gas was used here along with smoke, and the cs gas, at least, is definitely covered by judge Ellis' restraining order.

Text of a temporary restraining order, enjoining federal agents from a number of activities, including deploying "CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants" on press, protestors or religious practitioners "who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others."

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The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 6h

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 1h

This is a great new tactic: “SHOW ME YOUR FACE.” Don’t follow any orders until/unless these goons identify themselves. They shrunk like violets when this man demanded to see their faces.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1h

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

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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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 5h

Following the cops because they won’t tell us where they’re taking her.

The Los Angeles Sheriff Department is a domestic terror organization.

Google: “LASD gangs”

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 5h

One way to avoid all this bullshit would be to pass a law requiring that any deportation be signed off by a federal judge. Immigration “courts” are kangaroo courts, with “judges” who are really just Trump’s employees. It’s a joke.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 5h

I truly do not care what immigration law says—all that shit is discretionary anyway. This is ICE taking revenge on a brown man for exercising his rights to fight a wrongful conviction. Period.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 5h

“Oh, well actually he pleaded guilty to dealing drugs as a teenager, 45 years ago. So the govt has the right to exile him to a country he’s never known.” This sounds insane!

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 7h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 7h

He was 9 months old when he moved to the US. Not even a toddler. A baby. Why are we even talking about technical interpretations of removability? This is a miscarriage of justice—dont take “mea culpas”. Fight on substance.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 7h

Under current interpretations of the Ex post Facto clause, yes. But a newly packed SCOTUS could change that interpretation overnight.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 8h

This cant be real

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

I respect @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social as a writer, but I reported this story 3 days ago, the story uses some of my same sources, and it's now at the top of the Post website, with no acknowledgement that @prospect.org already published it.
Read the Prospect, get the news first.

Post story on the Labor Department warning of immigration enforcement threatening the food supply, 10/11/25

Prospect story on the Labor Department warning of immigration enforcement threatening the food supply, 10/8/25

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 9h

This guy is gonna raid the entire treasury claiming he's just withdrawing "tariff revenue"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Vance claims "tariff revenue" will be used to pay the troops

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 17h

What kind of factory?? n.pr/4ofQ2cb

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, sheriff says

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said.

n.pr

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

we need to abolish this shit

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 18h

This is torture of a young girl.

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

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 18h

Yes. We cannot have secret police. The American public has a right to know who the police are. Subject them to the same level of public scrutiny that Elon did to random civil servants.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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