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🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 Democratic Socialist. Voted for her.

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 2d

This is super important. Also, Roberts can go fuck himself

Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 4d

The Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais on Oct 15—a case that could reshape voting rights nationwide. At stake is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the core protection that stops racial discrimination in redistricting. If it falls, one party could control Congress for a generation. 🧵

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6h

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 1h

Contact the mayor and governor

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

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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Joe Haydu @joehaydu.bsky.social · 6h

The address and number of the detention center are at this link, it’s a city run facility if anyone wants to call and give them an earful for helping traffic kidnapped youth: www.winchesterva.gov/Government/D...

Juvenile Detention Center

The Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center to provide a safe and secure setting that offers opportunities for success and personal growth. The NRJDC provides the temporary secure care and cus...

www.winchesterva.gov

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 1h

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 21h

✨BE AWARE✨ 🚩

1. ✨MTG✨
2. ✨Joe Rogan✨
3. ✨Theo Vonn✨
4. ✨Candace Owens✨
5. ✨Tucker Carlson✨

Are not changing. They are distracting and looking out for their pockets.

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 1h

What kind of a bullshit ass question was that (to the Mayor)? I hope his answer gave that stupid ass reporter some much needed clarity.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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StanDude-JustStan @standude-juststan.bsky.social · 10h

More reports show the regime in Washington actively planning to invoke the Insurrection Act, & go to full militarization of their strategy to crush dissent & impose authoritarian control.

But understand this will strain their already shaky hold on power. And it opens
new options to fight back :

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 7h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 18h

his biggest claim to infamy was participating with a group of young conservatives from the Stanford Review in a campaign of harassment against a gay Resident Fellow in one of the Freshman dorms, all before he came out, decades later, of course

he is an unprincipled and cruel human, from his youth

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 7h

That tracks

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 7h

Propaganda Should Never Be Allowed To Be Used Like This….

BREAKING: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, are REFUSING to play Kristi Noem's "Blame Democrats for Flight Delays" video at their airports, because it is "politically partisan". 👏 EVERY airport should follow their lead.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15h

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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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 12h

Clarification on Qatar

youtube.com/shorts/2B99B...

Facts, history, and truth about the Qatar facility in Idaho and how we got here

YouTube video by Under The Desk News

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ForTheMastersTools @forthemasterstools.bsky.social · 13h

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Epstein: A Horror Unmatched in History #substack #shorts

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Just Me @yellowgreenblue.bsky.social · 16h

I posted this today for folks. It’s an older video but it’s Nancy McLean talking about her book, Democracy in Chains. I posted it bcuz sometimes people don’t “get” it, see it, or know the long history like that which you’ve posted. The dots just aren’t connected for them.

Link: youtu.be/B_CnzsSeJyU

Nancy MacLean -Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

YouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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