NowBaxter (she/her)
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Love dogs, civil rights, good food, one particular drummer, and Boston sports. Hate fascism and cancer. Opinions are mine and decidedly not those of my employer. Lawyah in MA
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ICE grabbed a young man in Brunswick, Maine today and 18 more immigrants in Skowhegan. Project Relief ME has already started helping some of their families. If you can donate to pay legal fees and/or other needs go to projectreliefme.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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For anyone interested, Brody King, the big burly dude from that AEW “Fuck ICE” clip last week, is doing another run of his charity shirt. All proceeds go to supporting Minnesota efforts. Get in there if you’re interested, these will probably be gone tomorrow. edgemenstore.com/products/bro...
BRODY KING | Abolish Ice Chain Tee (PRE-ORDER)
Printed on COMFORT COLORSALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE MINNESOTA IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION COMMITTEE THIS IS A PRE-ORDER, PLEASE ALLOW 3-4 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY. ANY OTHER ITEMS ORDERED WITH IT WILL SHIP AT THE...
edgemenstore.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
For anyone interested, Brody King, the big burly dude from that AEW “Fuck ICE” clip last week, is doing another run of his charity shirt. All proceeds go to supporting Minnesota efforts. Get in there if you’re interested, these will probably be gone tomorrow. edgemenstore.com/products/bro...
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If you have any information about this whatsoever, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal
The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."
The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 AM
If you have any information about this whatsoever, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal
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There are not a lot of legislative seats in Western Mass that are half-way competitive in general elections. However, two of those seats will have serious challengers from the party opposite the one that holds the seat. #mapoli wmasspi.com/2026/02/spea...
Speaking in General (Election) Terms for 2026 in the 413… — Western Mass Politics & Insight
Rep Brian Ashe, a Democrat, and Rep Nicholas Boldyga, a Republican, have drawn challengers from the opposite party in 2026.
wmasspi.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
There are not a lot of legislative seats in Western Mass that are half-way competitive in general elections. However, two of those seats will have serious challengers from the party opposite the one that holds the seat. #mapoli wmasspi.com/2026/02/spea...
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Late last night, the FAA announced a ban on all air travel over El Paso, Texas for the next ten days. No flights in or out until Feb. 20th. They offered no explanation.
This seems really bad. It hasn't happened since 9/11.
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
This seems really bad. It hasn't happened since 9/11.
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites natio...
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a national defense designation, offering no explanation for the rare move.An une...
elpasomatters.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Late last night, the FAA announced a ban on all air travel over El Paso, Texas for the next ten days. No flights in or out until Feb. 20th. They offered no explanation.
This seems really bad. It hasn't happened since 9/11.
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
This seems really bad. It hasn't happened since 9/11.
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
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TRUMP: We can grow at 15 percent. I think more than that!
KUDLOW: Well, 15 is a big number sir
TRUMP: But Larry, you can do it. We used to grow at 15 percent because we had spirit. Today we have a lot of communism
KUDLOW: Well, 15 is a big number sir
TRUMP: But Larry, you can do it. We used to grow at 15 percent because we had spirit. Today we have a lot of communism
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare
They tried to prosecute members of Congress under the Smith Act. Absolute scenes
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare
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Consistent with Project 2025, the Trump administration has managed to capture, commandeer, or corrupt every important social institution -- every important social institution except juries, that is. Project 2025 didn't have a plan for juries.
BREAKING: @carolleonnig.bsky.social reports a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Consistent with Project 2025, the Trump administration has managed to capture, commandeer, or corrupt every important social institution -- every important social institution except juries, that is. Project 2025 didn't have a plan for juries.
Talking about the Trump admin, I presume
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Talking about the Trump admin, I presume
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Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
![The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreibeoudvh2b4ifuiqq7pmnzwg6y6n3caschubukvo6kzqcfn2kdf5i@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
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The athletes who claim that it’s about assigned sex at birth are transphobes. We know this because cis athletes consistently outperform trans athletes. Their fears are unfounded.
Katie Ledecky is faster than Lia Thomas. Li Wenwen is stronger than Laurel Hubbard.
Katie Ledecky is faster than Lia Thomas. Li Wenwen is stronger than Laurel Hubbard.
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM
The athletes who claim that it’s about assigned sex at birth are transphobes. We know this because cis athletes consistently outperform trans athletes. Their fears are unfounded.
Katie Ledecky is faster than Lia Thomas. Li Wenwen is stronger than Laurel Hubbard.
Katie Ledecky is faster than Lia Thomas. Li Wenwen is stronger than Laurel Hubbard.
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Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.
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Soccer federations from countries outside the US should refuse to play in any of this year’s World Cup games unless they are hosted in Mexico or Canada.
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Soccer federations from countries outside the US should refuse to play in any of this year’s World Cup games unless they are hosted in Mexico or Canada.
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Seriously the ICE chief is touting how nice the ICE agents were to the PRESCHOOLER they nabbed as his dad ran from them:
"He was obviously upset, we comforted him, they had officers actually place him in one of our vehicles, played his favorite song, fave music, then they took him to McDonalds." 🤯
"He was obviously upset, we comforted him, they had officers actually place him in one of our vehicles, played his favorite song, fave music, then they took him to McDonalds." 🤯
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Seriously the ICE chief is touting how nice the ICE agents were to the PRESCHOOLER they nabbed as his dad ran from them:
"He was obviously upset, we comforted him, they had officers actually place him in one of our vehicles, played his favorite song, fave music, then they took him to McDonalds." 🤯
"He was obviously upset, we comforted him, they had officers actually place him in one of our vehicles, played his favorite song, fave music, then they took him to McDonalds." 🤯
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A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Thread, y’all (cc: @theferocity.bsky.social)
I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"
February 11, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Thread, y’all (cc: @theferocity.bsky.social)
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Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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Pitchers and catchers have reported. It was 72 and sunny in Charlotte today. Nature is healing.
February 11, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Pitchers and catchers have reported. It was 72 and sunny in Charlotte today. Nature is healing.
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And Wexner is STILL on the Board of Trustees @ my alma mater when he was complicit like Jim Jordan, in covering up sexual abuse by Dr Strauss.
The Ohio State University Medical Center & Arts bldgs are named for the man who funded an intnl child sex trafficker.
The Ohio State University Medical Center & Arts bldgs are named for the man who funded an intnl child sex trafficker.
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
And Wexner is STILL on the Board of Trustees @ my alma mater when he was complicit like Jim Jordan, in covering up sexual abuse by Dr Strauss.
The Ohio State University Medical Center & Arts bldgs are named for the man who funded an intnl child sex trafficker.
The Ohio State University Medical Center & Arts bldgs are named for the man who funded an intnl child sex trafficker.
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it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.
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Salvatore Nuara is a former detective with the New York Police Department, whose name has appeared in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's "little black book."
Nuara was previously investigated regarding an escort service,
Nuara was previously investigated regarding an escort service,
February 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Salvatore Nuara is a former detective with the New York Police Department, whose name has appeared in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's "little black book."
Nuara was previously investigated regarding an escort service,
Nuara was previously investigated regarding an escort service,
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do not congratulate
February 10, 2026 at 9:13 PM