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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 6h

Kristi has nightmares

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck everyone except white christian nationalists essentially

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h

"F* them kids."
- Administration basically

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 13h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 6h

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe his wife’s got them in her secret charity hq

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 6h

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 6h

6.2 Gw project being canceled to be replaced by a 3 kw coal plant to run Skynet!!

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 6h

Get Rekt

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

Sorta sounds like this fellow Nelson struggles with the basic idea of being a judge

Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 19h

Me, a very smart federal judge, “but should we really have any right to put a check on the fascism of Dear Leader?”

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

lotta farmers in georgia 14

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Crazy week.

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

I remember that time well it was during the err when err…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

If Osama had something nice about Trump, Donnie would have blamed 9/11 on Chuck Schumer

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 7h

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a trench coat and tie stands in front of a building that says cal

ALT: a man in a trench coat and tie stands in front of a building that says cal

media.tenor.com

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 14h

My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

She already did The Free Press. It’s her safe space

David Noll @david.noll.org · 8h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

so wait - Jack Smith broke into Mar A Lago and planted classified and top secret documents in the Mar A Lago toilet and also altered the the CCTV clips?

Jack Smith is awesome

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 7h

Like most republicans Barrett & co think they are smart and the audience is dumb and will accept their bullshit tactic about delaying their decision supporting Trump and high tailing it.

I predicted that the PR campaign would start

*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 8h

Good on George

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

This is a great example, but there's a funny running theme that Vance, who after all has only been a senator and then VP for less than three years, excepts to be treated with POTUS-level traditions and respect, as if anyone in American history has ever cared about "respecting the office" of VP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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@baconluvah @baconluvah.bsky.social · 18h

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 8h

Same goes for the "Genocide Joe" crowd.

Every leftist grifter and attention-seeker is a brave anti-fascist revolutionary until an actual fascist regime comes to power. Then they get awfully quiet.

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 9h

Sam Alito has already decided in the regimes favor and leaked the ruling to his buddies at Politico

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

That is different from what the admin said. They claimed it was coming out of DOD R&D funds. Tariff money cannot be touched by the Trump Regime without congressional approval.

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 10h

True.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨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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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11h

It is beyond pathetic that the ostensibly neutral media can’t state clearly that Donald Trump has ended zero wars in four years and 9 months. I’m guessing that most people think there’s at least some kernel of truth to MAGA’s ludicrous propaganda.

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