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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 8h

The Supreme Court will either be the last stand against autocracy or the bridge to it!
If We Don't Fight Back They'll Keep Hitting Us!

When the law doesn't apply to the lawmakers you're not being governed: you're being ruled!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

Done for the day.
More tomorrow.
Goodnight.😴

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E Pluribus Unum curmudgeon56 @yukonjack.bsky.social · 6h

MAGA Gestapo USA.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

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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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6h

Drone footage from above Mount Everest, the highest peak of the world.

Awesome 💙😎💙

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 10h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11h

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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E Pluribus Unum curmudgeon56 @yukonjack.bsky.social · 6h

Shameless Lying Hypocrisy defines Christian-Nationalism.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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MAGA Focker @maga-focker.bsky.social · 6h

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MomsterKindness 🇨🇦 @momsterkindness.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!
I’m thankful to live in this beautiful country!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Keep on being kind and keep on fighting fascism Canada 🍁 🇨🇦

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 18h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · 6h

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Aleutian Stares @guasha.bsky.social · 1d

Down & out, desperate & subservient, that's the way to control the masses.
It's the fascist way.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/t...

22 states are in a recession or close to it, new analysis finds

Twenty-two states are either in a recession or on the precipice of a downturn, according to a new analysis from Moody's Analytics.

www.axios.com

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E Pluribus Unum curmudgeon56 @yukonjack.bsky.social · 6h

The terminal stupidity of MAGA Hitler is most palpable indeed...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

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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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 16h

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

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