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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 2h

MAGGAT trouble maker caught trying to incite violence at a peaceful protest in Portland! #portland #firstamendment

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 22h

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 22h

Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.

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

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"Send them back where they came from" not good enough when they have embarrassed the administration. They must be deported to a place where he might be tortured.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

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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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

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...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 21h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 11h

Urban Institute predicts that 267,000 fellow veterans will lose health coverage if the ACA healthcare tax credits expire.

Those are the stakes in this fight.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nichole Hiltz @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you, Stephen! 💪

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 8h

-Strength has nothing to do with bulging muscles, and everything to do with proud, beating hearts.
-Strength is not measured in tough talk, but in raging compassion.
-Strength is not measured by how many people you step on, but by how many you lift up.

THEY are weak. WE are woke.

NEVER forget it.

TRUE STRENGTH

A tribute to the woke ...

dearlstephens.substack.com

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 13h

Bill Pulte, a Trump boot licker, is behind the
Letitia James indictment. These people are not that smart.

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 7h

This...is how you do it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 7h

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime - The Atlantic apple.news/AJqXZ5jM8SbC...

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime — The Atlantic

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

apple.news

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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 8h

Listen to @timothysnyder.bsky.social about propaganda and how Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is using a coordinated campaign of lies about the upcoming #NoKingsProtest on October 18 #StopTrumpTyranny #DV1 #ProudBlue
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

open.substack.com

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 9h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Kamala Harris: "The Supreme Court made the decision that the president would be immune from any of his conduct while in office. So we went into the election with this individual, Donald Trump, knowing that he would essentially be immune from any consequence for misbehavior while in office."

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 21h

The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home.

So much for “America First.”

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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 1d

Your child did not choose to be gay, but did choose to be honest with you about it. 🏳️‍🌈

Showing unconditional love and acceptance will have a huge positive impact on their life.

Your child’s journey to coming out is a personal decision that should only occur when they are ready.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 23h

JFC that poor family and that poor child

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify family.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

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