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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 9h

Great news: Democrat Helena Moreno won the Mayor race in New Orleans. She’s a Mexican-born American making her the first Hispanic woman elected mayor of the city.

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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 8h

WASHINGTON STATE: “High-profile wildfires in recent years warn of future blazes west of the Cascade crest, where most of Washington’s people live, fire ecologists say.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... - The Seattle Times

#NorthCascadesNationalPark #WashingtonState #Wildfires

A future of wildfires in wet Western WA

Jim Henterly spends most of the summer atop a North Cascades peak, where the view of our wildfire future is uneasy.

www.seattletimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

"Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

- There is zero credible evidence of FBI involvement. Multiple bipartisan investigations, including findings from the Justice Department’s own inspector general, concluded that the assault was carried out by Trump’s supporters, not federal agents.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Let’s be clear:
- Biden wasn’t president. The attack took place on January 6, 2021, two weeks before Biden took office, while Trump himself was still commander in chief.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Trump has rolled out yet another baseless conspiracy theory in his relentless campaign to lie and spread misinformation to the public. His latest claim, that the FBI orchestrated the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and that Biden ordered it, collapses under even the most basic scrutiny.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 7h

And being supported by mainstream fascist media.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 6h

Alaska officials said that the U.S. Coast Guard was headed to Alaskan villages to respond to reports that up to 20 people might be unaccounted for.

New Jersey declares emergency as nor’easter approaches, while Alaska flooding carries away homes

www.stripes.com

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 6h

The staff of the CDC - all public servants with impeccable credentials - often do unheralded work.

It’s that very work which makes us clinicians much smarter - they let us know of new threats, give us key disease trends, and help shape our diagnostic acumen.

A functioning CDC is good medicine.

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Tornado (bot) @nwstornado-bot.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h

#nws #tornado Tornado Warning for Coconino, AZ #azwx https://alerts-v2.weather.gov/search?id=urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.56a220ebd5e129e49d4481edb4a6a15564619ddf.001.1

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Tornado (bot) @nwstornado-bot.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h

#nws #tornado Tornado Warning for Coconino, AZ #azwx https://alerts-v2.weather.gov/search?id=urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.20c80ff45fa0949500d106f9f7629c079650611e.001.1

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RQ Skye @rqskye.bsky.social · 9h

#CAwx #SLO #SanLuisObispoCounty #SantaBarbara #SantaBarbaraCounty #VC #Ventura #VenturaCounty #LosAngeles #LACounty

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 11h

The photo shows the railway station in Kostiantynivka before and after a Russian attack.

Reports say Russia has struck Ukraine’s rail network nearly 300 times just since August.

Since the full-scale invasion began, Russia has killed 37 railway workers and injured 221.

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RQ Skye @rqskye.bsky.social · 11h

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 20h

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 15h

Speaker Johnson cares more about protecting Trump from the Epstein files than he does about protecting health care for the American people.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 15h

Any yet, they'll believe that this is somehow Biden's fault - even though the lowest price for soybeans have come during BOTH of Trump's terms and Biden's policies created a historical high.

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Mississippi farmers drowning in tariff debt as China buys soybeans from Brazil. 'A blood bath'

While soybeans are the second largest row crop in America, in Mississippi, it is the largest and soybeans compose about 60% of all row crops.

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Rt. Hon. Rakesh @densaer.bsky.social · 14h

This is awesome.

Gunna gunna be golden…

eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 16h

this generation of children are going to be protected by the honmoon

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Dawn 🐸 @dawnhulot.bsky.social · 14h

So far so good but the Nor'easter isn't supposed to really crank up around here til overnight. Lots of water, batteries, and all my devices are fully charged. 👍

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