Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@stephwillerton.bsky.social
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Strategic comms for nonprofits/international orgs. Progressive politics. KC native. Former: PBSNews.bsky.social, ED.gov, U.S. Senate, two top PR firms and three tech companies. @mujschool.bsky.social and @fletcherschool.bsky.social mafias. Dog lover.
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Theoretically he could be impeached for this. Theoretically.
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
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keithfitzgerald.bsky.social
Always remember:

Fascists depend on us believing they are much more powerful than they really are.

They feed off our Fear. Without it, they are just foolish insecure bullies puffing their chests out.

Mockery is one of the most effective weapons against them.

Fear and Courage are both contagious
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heidikitrosser.bsky.social
Had you told me that one day I’d be approvingly citing Bill Kristol’s quoting of the Pope … But when they’re right, they’re right (both Kristol and Pope Leo of Chicago).
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
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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adamkeiper.com
This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
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Signs of Fascism!
YouTube video by COOLHAND
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maddow.msnbc.com
“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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stephwillerton.bsky.social
That’s a lame lie even for an expert liar like Vance.
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stephwillerton.bsky.social
How the 🤬 is this possible? Madness!
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
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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justinelliott.bsky.social
Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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kurtandersen.bsky.social
BREAKING:
President Trump Admits He'll Spend Eternity In Hell
acyn.bsky.social
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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drdebhoury.bsky.social
Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...
firedbutfighting.bsky.social
No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding

Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.
a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus
Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus
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stephwillerton.bsky.social
Pathetic.
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Dasha Burns to Trump after he dissed her and didn't know who she was: "Sir, talk to Karoline. She'll vouch for me."
stephwillerton.bsky.social
When I went to journalism school many moons ago, @kristenwelker.bsky.social we learned that the most important “W” question to ask was not who, what, where, or whether. It was WHY. Make them tell you WHY on record. Pretty basic stuff.
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monicacarmean.com
Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.
stephwillerton.bsky.social
We’re a big, diverse country. Let a thousand culturally appropriate protests bloom.
elisewang.bsky.social
For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
richraho.bsky.social
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
stephwillerton.bsky.social
A friend of mine who worked at ED.gov was fired and rehired three times by early summer when she finally resigned and took another job elsewhere.
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
While NYT reports on the triumphant Witkoff/Kushner rally in Israel, WSJ engages in actual journalism by ferreting out how they have used Middle East peacemaking as cover for securing immense sums in private investments from government-connected donors.
Jared Kushner Is Back, and His Imprint Is All Over the Gaza Deal
The man who had sworn off any formal role in President Trump’s second term has been at the center of every decision leading up to the breakthrough agreement between Israel and Hamas.
www.wsj.com
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
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Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The government complains that Comey submitted a 19-page request for vindictive prosecution evidence.

Right.
\the defendant has provided a 19-page letter
that includes substantial and abnormal requests regarding the vindictive/selective prosecution
allegation. These requests are for internal deliberative processes, attorney work product, and
potentially privileged information. The government has asked for this material and will need to
review it. We respectfully request the Court set the discovery deadline for this material for October
14, 2025.3