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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

I’m shocked

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Why?

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway we're bailing out Argentina

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Oh god

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

🤷🏼

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

It’s unnerving but I’m starting to like it

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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David Mitchell @davidalanmitch5.bsky.social · 14h

Are we not tired of the twisted mentality that takes a Republican created problem and tries to blame it on the Democrats? Also, what is the message here? Exercise free right to protest and we’re going to withhold a functioning government?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, the lies vs. the reality.

youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 1d

A cartoon by Barry Blitt.

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Fiona Wallace @fiionawallace.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage.
Dodges any accountability for Brexit.
Plays fast and loose with the Clacton House saga.
Talks of nothing but immigration.
Downplays the Nathan Gill story.
Did f*ck all as an MEP; even worse as an MP
Nigel Farage is a con man.
#NigelFarage

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David Mitchell @davidalanmitch5.bsky.social · 1d

New meaning to “readdit”.

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Michael Little @tomcatjock.bsky.social · 1d

What's next?

These radical leftist inflatable frogs handing out banned books?

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Drew @drewdavies68.bsky.social · 1d

Well said Sophie

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Soon it will be show us your papers. This must stop.

A tweet by James Surowiecki replying to David J. Bier. Surowiecki asks, “Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested?” The quoted tweet by Bier reads, “ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog,” accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a face mask and standing near vehicles at night.

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David Mitchell @davidalanmitch5.bsky.social · 1d

Went to see Tron Ares in IMAX today. I don’t usually do IMAX, but I thought it might make a pleasant change. Volume was way too loud, it felt like I was in a night club. I could literally FEEL the pounding soundtrack and came away with a bit of a headache from a rather average movie.

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Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · 1d

With the pet industry in the hundreds of billions of dollars I've yet to see any politician go seriously after the animal lovers vote. America cant even spay and nueter their pets and accept dumped dogs and overflowing animal shelters as just a way of life.This country is even sicker than we thought

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Daryl Turnbull @daryltu.bsky.social · 2d

"Listen Jeffrey old boy, we're in this together"- the paedo Prince AFTER he claimed he broke off their dear friendship.......

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Nihilist Arby’s @nihilist-arbys.bsky.social · 1d

The best thing about Sundays is watching young millionaires give each other pointless brain damage so idiots at a bar with $12 in the bank can hate each other because of it.

Go arbys, beat wendys. Or whatever.

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David Mitchell @davidalanmitch5.bsky.social · 1d

Why? You’ll be dead and surely past caring. My family are in for a shock when they see the state of my bedroom.

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 1d

I’m not afraid of death but I’m terrified of the final 30 minutes of my life spent desperately trying to delete my entire browser history only to fail.

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Jordan Hansen @boldlygojordan.bsky.social · 1d

Superman 4K UHD has arrived! My favourite film of 2025.

Support Physical Media, you actually own it for your entire life and it can’t suddenly be taken away by a streaming service.

#superman #physicalmedia #physicalmediaforever

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Palle! @palleh.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get the determination to make Columbus relevant to US history. He never set foot on US soil. He "discovered" a place where millions of people lived and vikings and Irish fishermen knew about. He thought he visited India until his deathbed. His contemporaries considered him a violent weirdo.

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