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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. I wear out the Foxtrot. Loneliness feeds fascism. - Hannah Arendt (So, be kind & connect with people. Include them.) Ultimately, Ubuntu...(the Bantu system of values, not the Linux OS)

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 10d

Is this your country?
It's being done in your name.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 7h

First of all, they've already give the Constitution a big middle finger.
Second, he'll be so dead...

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 7h

Leila Hegazy is an Egyptian-Italian-American singer-songwriter, social media creator, teacher, and political organizer in New York City.
And now a former prisoner of Israel

mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 7h

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 7h

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 7h

We'd better start figuring out what we're gonna do with President Maybelline...the sooner, the better.

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#BigBeautifulCON ❌👑 @g7071.bsky.social · 8h

Putting this here because I don’t think most have seen this article:

The Big Takeover: The secret plans to give Trump command of America’s police
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/secret-...

The Big Takeover: The secret plans to give Trump command of America's police

For months, a Project 2025 subgroup drafted plans to place domestic law enforcement under Trump's thumb. We have their files.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 7h

Then people need to report the kidnappings by local PDs to the state police bureaus.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12h

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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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 7h

Nice composition.

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Democratic_Beast 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @northsquatch.bsky.social · 1d

This man is the model for how all police incitement should be handled.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 7h

And sunny days?

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 8h

Whoa. That looks like fun!
Impressive!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

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

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 8h

As a new week begins, I just want to remind you to not forget to pause for the beauty and the wonder in every day...and take it all in, y'all.
If ya can't manage wonder, at least feel the beauty. 🙂

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 21h

Operative word: MAY
It doesn't have to involve a ransom.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“[T]he broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapping can be accompanied by bodily injury, which in some jurisdictions elevates the crime to aggravated kidnapping. 3/3

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapping is distinguished from false imprisonment by the intentional movement of the victim to a different location.

Kidnapping may be done to demand a ransom in exchange for releasing the victim, or for other illegal purposes. 2/3

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

From Wikipedia: Kidnapping or abduction is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will, and is a crime in many jurisdictions. Kidnapping may be accomplished by use of force or fear, or a victim may be enticed into confinement by fraud or deception. 1/3

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

That time will come.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

I can see that he grew older but no wiser, and certainly no more mature.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Right?!
As a Hispanic, I'd gladly kick his brown ass back to wherever he came from.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Latinos, hijos de puta need to burn. Evil fucking traicioneros.
Cabrones malditos.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Veteran wrongly detained by ICE, placed on suicide watch in a cell with no clothes. Only a hospital gown and a thin mattress on a concrete floor from Friday to Sunday. Lights on 24 hours/day. WTF, America? 1/2

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 2d

Just got Plump's MRI results

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