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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry sorry you’re right I must practice my financially conservative attitude

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 4h

Men spend 1/10th the energy you spend policing women doing something actually productive challenge

difficulty level: advanced, borderline impossible

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 2d

Action Alert: @joycewhitevance.bsky.social explains one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote. "[F]lood the zone with common sense about voting." https://protdem.org/473cz56

Don't forget our guide to what makes an effective public comment. https://protdem.org/44iTPiu

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

joycevance.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 3d

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

www.aclu.org

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 3d

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

www.wired.com

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re protesting next weekend (🎉) this weekend you should:

1. Find a friend who isn’t planning to attend and make sure they know your protest plan

2. Drop a good Know Your Rights resource in the group chat

3. Spend a minute with your phone settings so you’re prepped for good digital safety

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 4d

i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

David Noll @david.noll.org · 4d

interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 4d

Ok but how am I supposed to chose between antifa girlfriend and legionnaire of the antichrist for Halloween??

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 4d

Indicting Letitia James over an allegation valued at about $18k v. giving zero fucks about Homan literally taking $50k in cash from an FBI agent is such a perfect example of how autocrats function.

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 4d

Indicting Letitia James over an allegation valued at about $18k v. giving zero fucks about Homan literally taking $50k in cash from an FBI agent is such a perfect example of how autocrats function.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

Jump in where you can to improve and expand public libraries. www.librariesforthepeople.org

For The People

www.librariesforthepeople.org

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 5d

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 5d

VICTORY: Today, together with our partners, we won an emergency order stopping federal agents from using violent force against protestors in Illinois. Federal ICE/DHS agents are now blocked from using tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawful assembly. protdem.org/474KWsA

Court Halts Unlawful Suppression of Speech by ICE

DHS ordered to stop violating First Amendment rights of press, clergy, and protesters in Illinois

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 5d

Use your rights, make your voice heard. We will have your back.

Immensely proud of the activists who keep showing up in the face of lawless violence to defend their communities and my colleagues defending their rights in court every day.

Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 5d

VICTORY: Today, together with our partners, we won an emergency order stopping federal agents from using violent force against protestors in Illinois. Federal ICE/DHS agents are now blocked from using tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawful assembly. protdem.org/474KWsA

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

New piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 6d

Why is it so bad??

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Anna Dorman @annalovesvoting.bsky.social · 6d

ADHD management via romantic entanglement? Sign me up

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