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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 3h

“Get off my lawn!” — another crotchety old guy trying to stay relevant

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 3h

Say it three times: Good journalism centers the people.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 4h

And our @youthmediaproject.bsky.social, which produced this work.

Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 6h

Read. And support mfp.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 6h

Like the worst possible one

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 10h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 6h

Y’all know why he wore black, right?

Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 7h

. @albertburneko.bsky.social has written the funniest fucking takedown I've read since Ed Burmila used to regularly fisk right-wing media.

Milk was spraying out of my nose when I read this, and I wasn't even drinking milk at the time:

defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications, these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundre...

defector.com

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 7h

Standing by longtime refusal to allow @mississippifreepress.org to use TikTok.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful writing and storytelling by YMP teenage journalists. Must-must read to the end, including their ICE and Geo Group interview:

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7h

This story was reported by Taylor Brandon and Charlton CJ Davis with the Youth Media Project, with the help and guidance of mentors @trjackson.bsky.social and @nickjudin.bsky.social.

Follow @youthmediaproject.bsky.social and @mississippifreepress.org.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 7h

An important @illanireland11.bsky.social piece out on this big news Friday afternoon at @mississippifreepress.org.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9h

Since 2016, when Drax opened its manufacturing plant in Gloster, the facility has repeatedly violated its operating permits and paid multiple fines over excess emissions.

That includes a $2.5 million fine in 2021 that represents one of the largest Clean Air Act penalties in Mississippi history.

Gloster Biomass Plant Continues Push to Increase Emissions

Mississippi regulators are revisiting an earlier decision to deny new permits for Drax’s Gloster, Mississippi, facility at an Oct. 14 public meeting.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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SaraSmirks @sarasmirks.bsky.social · 8h

insights that can make a difference. great work!

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 9h

It’s up:

www.mississippifreepress.org/a-long-way-f...

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9h

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June.

With Hector now out on bond, the family faces mounting legal fees and the fear of deportation.

"He's my role model," his son says. "My biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot."
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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 9h

Few stores in Portland? Lol.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 9h

It’s up:

www.mississippifreepress.org/a-long-way-f...

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 9h

It’s up: READ. See what this family has gone through and continues to go through. #immigration #ICE

*** Teenage-written ***

@youthmediaproject.bsky.social

www.mississippifreepress.org/a-long-way-f...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 12h

The Mississippi State Department of Health says it is unable to accept online WIC applications during the government shutdown.

Pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and high-risk infants can call 1-800-338-6747 to schedule an in-person appointment.

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 10h

Y’all gather up. @youthmediaproject.bsky.social
and @mississippifreepress.org are about to drop a co-published and powerful Mississippi immigration story reported and written by two amazing Jackson-area high-school students.

Seriously. Read it.

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ALT: a close up of a red light that is lit up in the dark

media.tenor.com

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 14h

How could they not, let’s be honest.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 14h

They think people are too stupid to understand this basic math bait-and-switch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 14h

In. Sane.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 14h

1919: a summer of race massacres across U.S. amid a pandemic. Don’t turn your head away from real history.

Know your state’s and the nation’s brutal heritage of using white terrorism to block Black progress.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 15h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

eji.org

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 17h

And 🙄

Ian Johnson 🔆 @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

And the Loser is...so tediously predictable

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guardian online headline on 10th october 2025 saying
White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’
President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 17h

Fantastic

virtualnews360.bsky.social @virtualnews360.bsky.social · 17h

Nobel Peace Prize by María Corina Machado delegitimizes the Maduro regime

González is in exile in Spainand María Corina, who is accused by the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office of supporting US sanctions against Venezuela, began to live in hiding. Last year, the opposition leader was awarded…

Nobel Peace Prize by María Corina Machado delegitimizes the Maduro regime

González is in exile in Spainand María Corina, who is accused by the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office of supporting US sanctions against Venezuela, began to live in hiding. Last year, the opposition leader was awarded two important human rights awards: the Sakharov — the European Union's highest distinction — and the Václav Havel, from the Council of Europe. Source link

virtualnewss360.com

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