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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 9h

“Instead.”

Good job turning a search engine trusted by all into a slop processing machine. Swell work.

(I was Googling to try to confirm a hazy recollection that Greenwell almost signed with the Marlins after the ‘96 season.)

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18h

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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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 1d

Paul Dama's abduction left behind a painful void in the #MA7.

His release is a powerful reminder of what is possible when our community comes together, rallies behind a beloved neighbor, & stands firm in the face of Trump & ICE’s shameful reign of terror.

Welcome home, Paul.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley poses for a photo with Paul Dama.

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Benjamin Weber @ben4district6.bsky.social · 2d

Check out www.bostond6.com, our new District6 resource website, built in collaboration with the BU Spark lab. Lots of helpful info on all things JP, West Rox, and Team Weber!

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 2d

See you 10/18

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 2d

Nor'easter a-comin' - but it'll be rain, not snow
www.universalhub.com/2025/noreast...
#Boston #MorrisseyBoulevardDetourTime

Coastal storm that'll hit Boston was over the Carolinas around 9 a.m. Friday, as seen by GOES-East satellite

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 3d

via @mtlgazette.bsky.social : "Though other cities offer #bikesharing programs, “ #Montreal revolutionized the trend,” @time.com contributor Merrill Fabry wrote, calling @biximontreal.com ’s technology “the backbone” of bike-sharing services in cities including #London and #NewYork."

#biximtl

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 3d

this will be jeffrey's last season with the chicago bulls

Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 3d

thank you got a negative but its def respiratory

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 3d

Judge orders #ICE to return #Massachusetts man from the Mississippi hole they dumped him in
www.universalhub.com/2025/judge-o...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 3d

about to be an unlapsed catholic

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 3d

suddenly sick wtf

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4d

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 5d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 5d

$800 xbox

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 5d

Loved this slice of life (death?) story from reporter Heather Beasley Doyle, which includes so many fascinating historical and contemporary facts about Brookline's public cemetery.

Like: Cremation is growing in popularity nationally, but most customers here still prefer full-body lots.

brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 5d

Brookline's only public cemetery turns 150 this month.

The cemetery, a burying ground for residents and town employees and a much-loved piece of nature in Brookline, is facing modern challenges -- including slowly waning space that requires careful management.

brookline.news/after-150-ye...

After 150 years, the keepers of Brookline's only public cemetery are trying to figure out its future - Brookline.News

As the Walnut Hills Cemetery marks a big anniversary this month, town employees and site trustees are brainstorming about how to stretch the cemetery's slowly waning space.

brookline.news

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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