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T.J. Mitchell

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NYT bestselling coauthor of the Jessie Teska mysteries #FIRSTCUT & #AFTERSHOCK, & the medical examiner memoir #WORKINGSTIFF. Wife & creative partner Dr Judy Melinek does autopsies. I am careful with her. Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 6m

I know these federal agents are trying to enrage us and provoke us into public outrage, so I try to keep my cool when I read these stories. This time I failed fully, though, because I was born in Everett.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1h

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 11h

I may have grumbled the phrase "off-brand import Blue Angels" yesterday

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 1d

Nineteen eighty-eight, first date with the girl who would be @drjudymelinek.bsky.social and who would go on to make my life complete.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 1d

Trying

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@drjudymelinek.bsky.social

T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d

"In Takapū/Northern ward, Labour’s Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social roared home with a huge margin on first-choice votes, enough to have been elected twice."

I like this.
#nzpol

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Local elections live results: Andrew Little takes Wellington mayoralty, Māori ward results mixed

Updates from across the motu as the local election results roll in.

thespinoff.co.nz

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d

Ka pai!

T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d

There's an Australian pie seller at our local farmers market, but I haven't yet been desperate enough to give em a try. The clock is ticking, tho...

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 2d

AOC said we should laugh at them, and on tonight's program, @lincolnsbible.bsky.social & I are going to laugh at them like never before. You've been warned.

See you at 8pm ET. 🥃🍸🎱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtlX...

American Gestapo

YouTube video by The Five 8

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2d

My essay collection focused on ancient literature and translation will be available for pre-order in the UK in October.

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d

@drjudymelinek.bsky.social

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d

Translator's note: this is a pizza pie, which is...a pizza. Not a pie. I still have not found a savory (sorry—savoury) pie worth a second look in all of this my native land, as compared to the glorious pies of Aotearoa #NewZealand.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d

The foot of Vallejo St beckons @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social from under the shadow of #sanFrancisco’s Telegraph Hill

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 3d

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (1?) is fascinated by Mum's shoelaces.(Ohhh.)
Whenever he undoes them, he sits back, looking at Mum expectantly.
Mum bends down, ties them and...
OOPS Tiny Human's undone them again!
A huge gummy grin on his face. (1)

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kate Gace Walton @kategacewalton.bsky.social · 3d

No sun today so thank goodness he’s still fully charged from yesterday. #dogs

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Lori 🇺🇦💜💙 @coalsmom.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday they deliberately sprayed pepper spray into his air intake hole.
Such bastards.
youtube.com/shorts/g0kt6...

'Frog' protester recounts being pepper-sprayed at protest outside Portland ICE facility

YouTube video by KATU News

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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