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TheRiverWanders

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NSFW, JFK's 3rd horcrux. Awake. Unpleasant. Still #BLM #ERA #ArmUkraine and anti-maggot. Never apologetic. Serial reposter & blocker of bots. #WrexhamAFC #AskWxm

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TheRiverWanders @theriverwanders.bsky.social · Jun 15

More indy news: : publicnotice.co ( @atrupar.com ) popular.info ( @juddlegum.bsky.social ) @meidastouch.com mediamatters.org ( @goangelo.bsky.social ). Get involved with @checkmyads.org and take a bite of out the disinformation profit scheme. #NoKings #Resist

TheRiverWanders @theriverwanders.bsky.social · Jun 15

This will continue & get worse unless & until corp media is completely starved of revenue. Drop subscriptions, donate to indy media ( @democracydocket.com @propublica.org and locals, AND DO NOT PATRONIZE CORP MEDIA ADVERTISERS. ADS ARE CRITICAL TO THEIR CASH FLOW. #NoKings #Resist

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 15

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 4h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 4h

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 4h

Another example of what we'd see more of with universal basic income.

NPR @npr.org · 5h

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 4h

MITTENS!

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 5h

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 6h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 8h

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Adopt a Pet @adoptapet.bsky.social · 4h

Add a little joy to your life with Merida -- Bonded Buddy With Martin, located in Des Moines, IA.

Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/merida-bonded-buddy-with-martin-78582739/ia/des-moines/animal-rescue-league-of-iowa-inc-ia14/

Merida -- Bonded Buddy With Martin is a Domestic Short Hair mix cat, available for adoption in Des Moines, IA.

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TheRiverWanders @theriverwanders.bsky.social · 3h

Gentleman at the bar there should get himself a calendar; could make life less disappointing.

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 4h

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump

CNBC star Andrew Ross Sorkin told 60 Minutes that he is "anxious" Wall Street is racing towards a stock market crash like the one that rocked investors in 1929 The post CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump first appeared on Mediaite.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 5h

When the Nazis came to power, a writer began collecting people’s dreams and uncovered the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h

Just about everyone vulnerable has been told to stay inside. There are literally hundreds of trained emergency response people on the streets of the 1.8 sq mile neighborhood. ICE is driving through alleys looking for anyone who’s brown

This is Fugitive Slave Act stuff + foreign occupation

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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TheRiverWanders @theriverwanders.bsky.social · 5h

Unless it's Mike Johnson or Stephen Miller. They get no passes.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Unfortunately the warnings were ”being cops” and “having tear gas”

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 16h

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 6h

Portland's Spirit Animal is a....

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 6h

www.instagram.com/reel/DPKRI0v...

womenspf on Instagram

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 6h

#AZ07 doesn't have a Congresswoman to represent them because trumps little Johnson doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

Swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

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TheRiverWanders @theriverwanders.bsky.social · 5h

How much is he charging to put them there? #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #NoKings #tRUMPvotersDidThis

@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 7h

While in Chicago, we decided to offer a salute to Trump & his ICE animals (who are staying at that hotel on Wacker). This is no secret because they make it very obvious when they all come out at once.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 7h

I was in Chicago.
There is no violence except by ICE & Border patrol.
People are just going about their business of living.
Trumps’ bullshit about Chicago is pure fiction.
Stay strong Chicago. You have a lovely city & we plan on returning!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

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 Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

I’m sure. He’s will be with his pal Rush Limbaugh in a different place. Also, for someone who is supposedly in great shape he sure is talking a lot about death lately. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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