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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴

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Intermittent Scribbler. Fruitless Cosmopolitan. Transbian-About-Town. A distraction from the issues Americans care about. U.Mich. '23 (Classical Lang. & Lit.). UDM Law '26 🏳️‍⚧️⚢ Engaged to @opheliabelladonna.bsky.social

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · Jun 27

1. Regain control of Congress.
2. Impeach Trump and Vance.
3. Impeach Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett.
4. Nullify Trump's official acts and appointments by statute/EO wherever possible.
5. Reparations for victims and families.
6. Nuremberg II.
7. Call a Constitutional Convention.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 18h

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

Latest polls, Stock Photo Western European Country:

Change for Our Country (Nazi): 29%
Christian Democratic People's Party (Conservative): 21%
YEAH! (Neoliberal): 8%
Greens: 9%
Social Democrats: 14%
Left (Educated Urban Women): 10%
'Left', but make it No Homo: 4%
Assorted regional nationalists: 5%

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 4m

The spousal privilege against compelled testimony saves marriages (by allowing venting)...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

The top end estimate for how many members of the SS faced eventual legal consequences is ~5%. Once atrocity is committed a sufficient scale justice becomes a political and logistical question as much as a moral one. There will be no grand denouement. But they can live in shame.

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shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 2d

fill up your boost meter to have jesus take the wheel

usagi and minako sitting at an arcade racing machine for a game called "GOD DRIVING" (bishoujo senshi sailor moon s)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

“your plan to put your body on the line by protesting peacefully against a fascist regime willing to use force to suppress dissent pales in comparison to my plan, which is to goad you into attacking a cop so I can watch you and your friends get shot to death on instagram”

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

imagine this being your response to people showing up in miserable conditions outside an ICE facility when wearing one of these costumes has gotten the wearer shot with less lethal ammunition

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 17h

My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 4h

Know your rights. Don't surrender your neighbors to the Gestapo.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 10h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 10h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 11h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 11h

That chazer will never cop to kapoing, so we'll never know...

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@loweringthebar.bsky.social
You're telling me that lawyers are denied a privilege extended even to horses?

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 17h

2024 was about inflation in exactly the same way 2016 was about email security

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

“Inflation caused 2024” is a comfortable and appealing explanation for a lot of people - it reinforces their patronizing sense that most voters are selfish little piggies with no inner life, it promises that things will be back to normal next time - but there’s really not any evidence of it

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

It was presumably also foolish to bet against Leni Riefenstahl for a while, but aligning yourself with the propaganda machine of the regime doesn’t take any great genius or insight, just a complete lack of scruples

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 13h

Ghost of Christmas Past: "Look I'm going to be honest you guys, there's not a lot of material here to work with"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US.

All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Muslims calling for the destruction of Israel — after the peace deal.

It was never about Gaza.

Why did the UK allow these demons in?

We must ban Sharia in the United States and deport them ALL before this becomes us.

Religion of peace."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

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.

www.cbsnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

The omniforce is accountable only to Trump: they ignore state and local guidance, or court decisions. Forget about knowing the identity of the official. Now you may not know which agency he works for, or even if he is an agent of the state.

two men wearing American flag facemasks and tactical gear.
Look at the picture above. One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in an violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Caitlin Flanagan publicly attacked a friend of mine for being sexually assaulted and speaking up about it.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 17h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 12h

This is the same situation I'm seeing in Detroit. It feels like backsliding after so much of this city came back...

Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 15h

In my township in the past six months, multiple non-chain restaurants have shuttered, as well as a grocery store and a specialty food store - businesses that had been here decades. Construction projects are going well past delivery date too. And it’s generally a prosperous area.

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 15h

The end game here is just "no restaurants." There aren't, like, restaurant fairies who will keep the whole thing afloat. Just people doing jobs that we are worse off without.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 16h

the reason many jews, including non- and anti-zionists, are upset by this meme is because it relies on an older antisemitic trope about jews being a parasitic race with no culture of our own. but a consequence of diaspora is that our culture has always been enmeshed with the societies we live in.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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