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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 11h

Holy hell. With people in them, in some cases. Pray for them...a far-too-warm Arctic Ocean is still an Arctic Ocean.

Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 13h

From accounts with relatives from Kipnuk, the village is a total loss. One of my Elder relatives says it's wiped out. Those rectangular dots in the distance? Houses floating away

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 11h

Because our brains have a negativity bias I am making a point to reflect on Good Thing That Happened This Week.

If something good happened to you, please share!

I’ll go first
• my kids had a day off so we made chocolate chip cookies
• went on a 5 mile run in the perfect Oregon autumn sunshine

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 13h

authoritarians having to live and watch the people they hate experience joy and thrive is SO MUCH BETTER than the death penalty. very happy to inflict psychic damage by forcing them to watch society improve while they are constrained from standing in the way of progress

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 13h

this is my plan for the people currently kidnapping immigrants, children, citizens, and those actively trying to dismantle democracy.

i love to joke about guillotines and burning it all down but ultimately i am personally too Gandalf-aligned to want anyone executed.

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 13h

hi it’s me. they can work at 7/11 or as a Walmart greeter or at boost mobile holding the sign. no social media, no interviews, no promotions, no assets, and I would argue based on reconstruction: no voting for a set period of time

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 13h

It's interesting that he's now publicly contemplating his own mortality a couple of times

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 13h

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR—getting ready to go.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16h

Leftists might hate right wingers, but they still want them to have basic freedom and rights and healthcare and jobs.

Right wingers hate the left and want them to suffer and die. Even if they also will suffer and die, so long as the leftists suffer and die first.

Important distinction.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 13h

hi it’s me. they can work at 7/11 or as a Walmart greeter or at boost mobile holding the sign. no social media, no interviews, no promotions, no assets, and I would argue based on reconstruction: no voting for a set period of time

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Fluff Orpington @flufforpington.bsky.social · 16h

@toriglass.bsky.social has the best plans for what we do with terrible people in a just society — mostly involves basic income but zero power

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1d

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 1d

SpongeBob, Patrick, Pikachu, Cookie Monster and more all on scene at the Portland ICE facility.

Probably around 100 give or take total right now.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

wow i worded this poorly.

formerly enslaved Black people reported both experiencing and witnessing an astounding amount of what we now call CTE.

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

listening to a convo on Dear Old Dads on CTE which jogged my memory

I read a lot about slavery in the US and it occurred to me how the proportion of Black people reporting experiencing or witnessing CTE is astoundingly high. I wonder if anyone has ever counted these?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 1d

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1d

Think it’s great that after getting a well-deserved reputation for aggressive black-block style protest in 2020, when Trump came after us thinking we’d give him the violent rematch he wanted, Portland is meeting his hostility with a non-stop inflatable animal rave instead.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

Racists insist other people are less intelligent and more violent, when there are perfectly logical explanations for disparities in outcomes/behaviors that don’t involve a set of calipers and a king james bible

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

Any population experiencing constant physical assault for their entire lives would have staggering rates of CTE compared to a population that had, i dunno, legal rights and protections, and ownership of their own bodies?

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

listening to a convo on Dear Old Dads on CTE which jogged my memory

I read a lot about slavery in the US and it occurred to me how the proportion of Black people reporting experiencing or witnessing CTE is astoundingly high. I wonder if anyone has ever counted these?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

i LOVE this for you 🫶🏽 enjoy

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

ok but how you gonna be a Nobel Peace prize winner AND a pick me? that takes effort

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

screaming

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

bahahahaha it is!! chapter 17!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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