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Susieus Maximus

@susieusmaximus.bsky.social

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They say you are what you eat, but I don't recall eating a disgruntled elderly woman. I may follow back, but not just because you followed me. Feel free not to follow me, really. And if you've already followed 10s of 1000s of accounts, I'm blocking you.

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Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · Jun 8

Also the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
www.chirla.org/get-involved...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 41m

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 7h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 54m

i am hoping the blue jays come back and win this in the bottom of the 9th, for the record and in case these posts ever come up in potential asylum or citizenship related hearings

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

idea unlocked: furry army.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 3h

I think I want to go to Portland. I can show up to a cafe and order a lavender vanilla matcha latte while dressed in a brown bear costume.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 5h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 11h

So it’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada and this is your reminder it is not “Canadian Thanksgiving.”

WE STARTED THANKSGIVING. Like most good things, Americans stole the idea off us.

It began in 1578 as a harvest celebration. It was an official holiday in 1879.

It remains a harvest celebration.

Thanksgiving in Canada

The first official, annual Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated on 6 November 1879. However, Indigenous peoples in Canada have a history of celebrating the fa...

thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h

Some disabled journalists to follow amid the gutting of OSERS:
@slooterman.bsky.social @juliametraux.bsky.social and @bethhawkins.bsky.social (among others)

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 8h

Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be hitting the preorder minimum for these hats unless we get some more orders!

So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿

Available below ⬇️

A photo of an olive green dad cap with two embroidered brown leafcutter ants holding leaves. It is photographed on top of a rock.

A photo of an olive green dad cap with two embroidered brown leafcutter ants holding leaves, but photographed from a different angle. It is photographed on top of a rock.

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Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 1h

Plus you get to remember the wonder that was Glenne Headly.

Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 1h

Mandy Patinkin alone is worth the price of admission.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3h

So what if you then didn’t allow irreversible harm to take place for a year before you make a decision you falafel spoon

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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.”

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 22h

It cannot be overstated how insane this is.

Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 1d

A Qatar military base in Idaho. I can’t even believe I’m typing that. America First!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 1d

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

trib.al

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Citizen K @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 22h

Once more tapping the sign:

Citizen K @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 12d

People remain infinitely more mad at hypothetical Democratic sins than the actual GOP sins that said hypotheticals would be responding to.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1d

Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking? This happened a year ago.

Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 1d

A trial date was set in August of 2024. Has it been changed?

Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 1d

I was with you right up until the last six words. This government is unquestionably spying on us. That's not a conspiracy theory, that's just flat old fact. For starters, see below, and then look at the thread the skeet comes from.

bsky.app/profile/clay...

Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 1d

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...

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Hey Esker! @eskercat.bsky.social · 1d

We will never use this tech to serve ads directly to your brain.

This current thought brought to you by ...

.. think "skip" to continue. Ha! Kidding. Only 3 more to go. No you can't mute. Yes I heard that. Oh hold on ... terms of service updated! We're copying all your thoughts now!

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