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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 3m

It’s fitting because he is full of shit. Hahaha!!!

Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 6m

These ICE thugs (not agents) are being recruited and drawn in through the incentives of money and the delusion of having power over others. DHS and ICE target men with recruitment adds that have certain psychological profiles for fitted for this type of barbarism.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number. n.pr/4obbfnK

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12h

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 7h

Trump Says No Investigation Into ‘Corrupt’ Adam Schiff Is A ‘Far Bigger Illegal Hoax Than Watergate’
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Trump Takes Aim At ‘Corrupt’ Adam Schiff As Next Target In His Political Retribution Tour

Trump demanded authorities “look into” the senator after former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were indicted.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

WTF 🤬
Goons brutally pushed a peaceful protester to the ground and dragged them across the floor.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10h

Work harder and die

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 10h

The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday.

🔗 www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

No one should be surprised.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 7h

Really?! What a surprise.

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. Citizen Detained And Held At ICE Building In Portland For Hours Before Release, Lawyer Says
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U.S. Citizen Detained And Held At ICE Building In Portland For Hours Before Release, Lawyer Says

“Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans," Democratic U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum said.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 1d

Let us hope this is just the start of many more people being indicted for doing what this fascist regime tells them to do. Including many ICE agents.

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a woman in America, you should know this is what they’re talking about…
youtu.be/3ujc2JfiMRs

LET's get LOUD!

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, this is really fucked up! They want a white, male dominated theocracy. Women and men that love women need to stand up against this load of crap.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

OUR tax dollars are being used to bail out Argentina, OUR troops are being put on the ground in Israel & OUR soil is being used by Qatar for a military base of their own.
While OUR government is shutdown.
Anyone who believes OUR so-called “president” when he says he is “America first”, is an idiot.

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Raff @raffez.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has never believed in America first. He has always believed in Trump first. Whatever benefits him and his ultra rich friends he puts first. Everything and everyone else he doesn't give a shit about.

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