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MB Barber

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Californian. Civil servant. Library & arts lover. MBA. Former journalist and political junkie who’s damn worried about our democracy. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · Feb 8

I really wanted to be the crazy family member at holiday dinners and not fucking Cassandra.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1h

Wait, they are in foster care in Idaho? The mom lives there but has not been allowed to see her kids? Those boys should have been placed in foster care in Chicago with temporary custody going to his family while the family courts determined long term placement or transfer to the mother.

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 3h

That could actually just be his ignorance talking. It wasn’t like he was super keen on non-US or non-European geography to begin with.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 3h

This is just begging for a “wrong answers only” thread….

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3h

One weekend in mid-August, hundreds of inmates at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, were locked down, except one: 63-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice in the sexual abuse of underage girls. She was expecting a secret visitor. www.wsj.com/us-news/ghis...

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 4h

I do like the pause before the this-is-why-it-is-satire explanation of the comments in the cooking section.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 4h

She grew up in Great Neck. There are likely some hometown neighbors on Long Island watching, laughing, and then going, “Hey waitaminute ….”

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 4h

Update: Three people on board. Two were able to get out, but the third was trapped under the wreckage. Over a dozen freeway drivers got out of their cars to free her. She was the onboard nurse who had just dropped off her patient.

She died yesterday. I’m so sad, really wanted a different outcome.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 4h

God I hate this timeline.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 5h

I would have loved to have seen your film made with Diane’s direction.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 6h

Where did all those compassionate conservatives disappear to?

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 6h

This is chilling. They turned over a seventh grader, an asylum seeker.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 8h

This video weirdly freezes when there’s 15 seconds left, which is when Vance is done lying-spraining and Stephanopoulos finishes the interview. Tech issues? Games from the tech overlords?

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

PS Chicago and Illinois law gives incarcerated individuals rights to confer with religious leaders.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest arrives at the ICE facility with all the priceless fancy stuff and looking like a procession straight out the Da Vinci Code. Requests to bless its inhabitants. Not let in.

Priest ain’t happy.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

Many already have, or are desperately trying.

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

These are not serious people. And other people will be serious harmed or die needlessly because of it.

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect because they are told “do not assist ICE” but by not observing they are actually committing dereliction of duty.

And that poor teenager. Waiting to hear from friend, family, school on here.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

Dereliction of duty on the part of that cop. I get that they are caught in a tough situation. But that officer will regret not staying and saying No when she was attacked. This video should haunt the officer and the officer’s supervisor.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

I really hate that the ebook app for school libraries has the same name as the premiere app for stealing people’s likeness and creating malicious fake video content.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

There’s some merit to this fear.

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 2d

I too am worried about everyone’s safety at the big No Kings events. But less because of potential Tiananmen-style crackdowns and more because I feel like EVERYONE is gonna try to hop on the Frog Suit bandwagon and those things probably have poor visibility and people could get hurt.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

So agree!

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

It was in the works and there’s already a group from Singapore that’s been there. But yeah, what would have launched quietly is now going to be a HUGE deal.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the fact that media outlets have to clarify the statements made by the Secretary of Defense that is mind boggling. It’s another example of why this guys should not be in charge, period.

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

He’s not in his assigned seat and he’s disregarding instructions from flight crew, correct? And this is THE seat where if you sit in it you are obligated to help the flight crew in an emergency? If it was biz class or taking two seats, ok. But he’s already shown he won’t help flight crew.

MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly what I was thinking. He’s a liability at that point.