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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

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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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 8h

Couldn’t agree more!

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 13h

This is good. The next step is to impeach him or defund his office.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 12h

This completely prioritizes cars and single family homeowners so people these planners think of as “they” can live on the busy roads. It’s all very “let them eat cake.”

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Nov 20

i'm sorry but this is not a future that prioritizes affordable housing and climate - it's a future that prioritizes cars

look at all those paved surfaces. want to cross the street to get to a restaurant? hold on we've got an 8-lane stroad for you to cross.

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'grand boulevard' from the cascadia innovation report - showing midrise buildings adjacent a massive road w/ 6 car lanes, plus 2-lanes of transit in the middle of the road.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 22h

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

You may remember that group from such other terrible ideas as, "we should build four new cities in Washington on former greenfield sites."
www.kuow.org/stories/paci...

Pacific Northwest needs 4 new cities on undeveloped land, report says

Imagine new high rises – above the Pacific Northwest’s small communities like Burlington and Centralia. That may sound far-fetched, but it might be necessary if we’re going to accommodate all the peop...

www.kuow.org

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't paying attention to this plan because our transportation plans (especially statewide plans) always just go onto a shelf, but this idea just got lifted from Christine Gregoire's Cascadia Innovation Corridor group.
connectcascadia.com/a-grand-boul...

Report: A Grand Boulevard Housing Solution for Cascadia

“While there is no easy solution or quick fix, Grand Boulevards can be a key strategy along with policies to provide additional financing support, tax…“

connectcascadia.com

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really interested to know exactly how "corridor urbanism", which is another name for focusing housing growth on our widest, loudest, and dirtiest arterial streets so other areas don't have to change, got literally baked into Washington's statewide transportation plan.

Reimagining Growth: Corridor Urbanism
Washington state is growing fast. By 2050, our urban cores and rural communities will experience
demographic and economic shifts that demand a new model of development. This plan integrates
housing and land use planning with transportation strategies to encourage growth along key
transportation corridors with mixed-use, mixed-income housing within walking distance of highcapacity transit. It suggests reformed zoning to encourage flexible, mid-scale development that
matches community context and transportation capacity. It offers strategies to streamline development
and lower development costs, which promote affordability.
By linking where people live, work, and shop with how they move, we can reduce commute times, lower
emissions, and support vibrant, walkable neighborhoods. This approach offers substantial potential
benefits: increased housing density, reduced reliance on single-occupancy vehicles, and enhanced
transit accessibility. Environmental advantages include decreased energy and water consumption
and lower carbon emissions. Studies estimate that, compared with traditional suburban development,
dwellings in mixed-income and mixed-use developments consume 39% less energy and 62% less
water. Driving is reduced by 55%, and household costs by 53%. These developments can significantly
boost the local tax base through increased property values.11 By strategically redeveloping existing
corridors, we can create more sustainable, equitable, and economically vibrant communities, alleviating
transportation pressures and fostering responsible urban growth.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

"I haven't done anything that I would consider punching down," Harrell said. He's claiming that Katie Wilson has only ever hired her campaign manager. (Everyone laughs). Now he's mocking her nonprofit, the Transit Riders Union. "I don't see that as punching down." "Good. Good," the MC says.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell is talking about streamlining permits in the city into something called "Permit and Customer Trust." Context: He's been mayor for four years.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell’s MAGA fan thinks anonymous protest is as dangerous as anonymously beating up kids, elders, and religious leaders while kidnapping people who have never committed a crime.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Huge applause at Suarez' question about whether Harrell will require protesters to take off their masks like he wants to make ICE take off their masks

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell called his opponent, Katie Wilson, "one of the chief architects of the Defund Movement"—a lie he's stopped telling in mixed audiences.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell has repeatedly chased bad public policy at the behest of rich backers, who he’s scared of upsetting. See the South Lake Union Sound Transit fiasco.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

"No one bullies me. Remember, I was a linebacker," Harrell says, talking about Trump, to warm laughter in the crowd.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

I d been repeatedly told by deep insiders that he is absent, and not into the details.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Here's what he said about his work ethic during his 12 years on city council and 4 as mayor: "Anyone that works around me knows that I outwork everybody. I'll work seven days a week, 12, 14, hours a day. My people that work with me, they are amazed with the energy I have."

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Seattle’s most recent disgraced MAGA candidate appears to be part of a fawning evening for Bruce Harrell.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first debate that I've seen that Harrell has consistently smiled at. First question, from Suarez, is a real hardball: "What does it mean when we might host a World Series, and what, as mayor, do you do to prepare for the experience?"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 1d

This cartoon is from Oct 2022. These two clowns are now begging the president to invade the city they've based their careers on slandering (neither of them actually live here). What a world.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

> @macfarlanenews.bsky.social

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

Wild - the constant mistakes made by the Harrell administration.

They've grossly mismanaged city hall--and it has showed up in everything from police to parks, housing, transportation and homelessness services.

Unbelievable incompetence.

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 3d

Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct

Police Chief Shon Barnes blamed PubliCola's story, "internal leaks," and "a lack of comprehensive input" from others for the controversy.

Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Two days after PubliCola exclusively reported that Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes had promoted controversial police…

publicola.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

Wild - the constant mistakes made by the Harrell administration.

They've grossly mismanaged city hall--and it has showed up in everything from police to parks, housing, transportation and homelessness services.

Unbelievable incompetence.

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 3d

Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct

Police Chief Shon Barnes blamed PubliCola's story, "internal leaks," and "a lack of comprehensive input" from others for the controversy.

Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Two days after PubliCola exclusively reported that Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes had promoted controversial police…

publicola.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

❤️

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin is a criminal enterprise and everyone involved in violating people’s basic rights needs to go to jail.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Newsom signed SB79! So, so huge. Enormous props to all the people who worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen, above all @scottwiener.bsky.social. It's going to change California, and the country.

Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Landmark Law To Build More Homes Near Public Transit

Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

sd11.senate.ca.gov

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