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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

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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Sara Dee @trisaratops.bsky.social · 16h

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 22h

Ok … really interesting and well explained philosophy of the current dynamic. Especially for an “old” who wasn’t sure how it all fit together. I highly recommend! 🐸🐸🐸

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA won't care because they either don't believe in Autism, or think that those with disabilities should be eradicated.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1d

kidnapping

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in El Paso, home to Ft. Bliss and Biggs Field, and need food assistance, the Mustard Seed Cafe (where I volunteered) provides hot fresh food Wed-Friday. No questions asked. It’s main purpose was providing meals in a restaurant and dignified setting for unhoused, but is now for all… free.

SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 1d

It’s heartbreaking that the richest country in the world needs food banks to feed its people but it’s unbelievable that our billionaire politicians have forced our military to feed themselves and their families from food banks.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Military
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Food Pantry Visits From Military Families Climb Over 30% Since Government Shutdown Began

Military families are being encouraged to seek out food, other resources as the government shutdown has surpassed one week with no end in sight.

www.military.com

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

🚨🚨🚨Fake ICE reporting site reports to ICE. Be warned:

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Take The House Neutralize Trump the Rogue SCOTUS 7 & GOP. @fighttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Black people have always lived in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks black profiling was fine. Bipartisan America include including Latinos We’re happy to look the other way because at least they weren’t the most hated group & like many did idly stand by, I call Fuckery.

💙@AL- I’m here @phoenix-al.bsky.social · 2d

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a chilling warning in her dissent:

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

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

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 1d

And all the lineups at every whole in the wall music venue Thursday-Sunday.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 1d

And you got a couple years older and there was a Thursday-Sunday listing printed in the paper for every band playing at every music venue in the greater metro area. You could plan out your whole weekend with that section.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

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 · 2d

"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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Jon Merz (aka nonimouse) @jon-merz.bsky.social · 2d

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 2d

They had to resort to food trucks because all the regular restaurants are boarded up. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 2d

Amazingly flat there.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 3d

youtu.be/9GNfRBn4-5c

Classic Sesame Street Lefty Sells Ernie Air

YouTube video by Rohail Hashmi

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 3d

Nah … they just need to stop scripting gadget plays for the 3rd string quarter back. He’s not Taysom Hill.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 3d

But I don’t think that counts if you give a hanky soaked in kosher wine to suck for pain.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 3d

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 4d

It seems like the risk you run when you go anywhere near Mt Everest in October. This is the least surprising outcome.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 4d

Which are the 6 short staffed for someone who doesn’t want to “agree” to the CNN terms?

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 4d

His whole brand was being a dick who wouldn’t do what people wanted or expected him to do. He was Bernie’s guy who would shake up the “establishment” Democrats. Kind of like Sinema who came from the Green Party. This “don’t go along with the crowd!” thing is all fun and games until it’s not.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 4d

Just setting up that minivan-mom vibe.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

people say to me all the time mr president mr president please, will you eat this lindbergh baby, and i say no you're not al- well i'm allowed i could eat the baby maybe later i'll eat the baby but- baby, what an interesting word, baby, you never hear about babies anymore, unless you're eating them

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