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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

www.wsj.com

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 2h

Same in MSP, at Beard nominees. Got two (ok, thickish) slices of bread with a tablespoon of fancy butter for $9 on Friday.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3h

Family separation 2025

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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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3h

"F* them kids."
- Administration basically

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22d

If you're too cowardly to speak up individually, organize in one of your many groups (Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, NFIB, NAM...) to speak together.

Barry Ritholtz @ritholtz.bsky.social · 22d

Among other results from Yale’s CEO poll, 80% said the White House pressure on the Federal Reserve wasn’t in the best long-term interests of the U.S., and 71% said Trump has weakened the Fed’s independence.

-Fortune

fortune.com/2025/09/19/c...

Behind closed doors, a majority of CEOs admit they won't boost U.S. investment as tariffs hurt their businesses | Fortune

During a gathering of top CEOs organized by the Yale School of Management, 62% said they don't plan to invest more in U.S. manufacturing and infrastructure.

fortune.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4h

this is "I should do an interview with Chotiner" level quote post hubris from Stoller. lol, lmao even.

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 4h

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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

newrepublic.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9h

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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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 7h

For them, probably, in terms of what they (don't) pay next April, compared to what they paid this April. Remember who the One Big Beautiful Bill Act benefits.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo: “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...”

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.

apnews.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 7h

From the Apple App store listing for FB, and just part of FB's 'Privacy Policy:'

FB privacy policy, showing that they track you across apps about seven ways from Sunday.

WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 7h

With whom and when has USA done this before? (before I blow a fuse without good cause)

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 14h

"career criminal" My government says so.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

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...

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 14h

That may be dissappointing for those who were hoping for an argument in favor of democratic military coups. Not here. I think CMR scholars got that right. To quote myself: "Democracy will not survive a military that turns against it, but it also cannot depend on the military to uphold it".
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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 14h

How about ordering the National Guard to train on suppressing civilians by Maximum Force, to act like the ICE goon squads, but with more warrior?
And the new JAGs saying "Go for it?
Against, say, the Mo Kings terrorists?

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 15h

Democratic backsliding in the mode that @kimlanelaw.bsky.social calls "autrocratic legalism" uses constitutional and legal rhetoric, process, and reasoning to dismantle competitive liberal-democratic institutions. 8/

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent paper!

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 15h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 14h

Biden mishandled COVID too, you know. Those lockdowns were unbearable!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15h

The lack of critical thinking among the audience for this never stops breaking my heart.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone saw Jan. 6 was Trump supporters trying to overthrow the Constitution, everyone saw him lie a lot, without which Jan. 6 never would’ve happened.

Ironically, Biden was the least powerful president-elect in modern US history, because all previous presidents did the transition rather than lie.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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