Michelle Vitello
@michvitello.bsky.social
CASA/GAL - Advocate with Juvenile Court for abused and neglected children. Landlady, book reader, movie watcher, FSTV, Liberal Democrat in Ohio, hated the Mango Mussolini long before the escalator ride. 🌊🏳️🌈🌻
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They want you to leave your phones at home so you can’t take video of them. If you leave your phone at home, take a go-pro with you. Cameras out, America!
“ICE is quietly building up its ability to spy on Americans' phones
The agency activated a $2 million contract with Paragon, a service that offers the ability to remotely hack into someone's phone.
[Also] ICE entered into an $11 million contract for Cellebrite devices…to break into a locked phone”
The agency activated a $2 million contract with Paragon, a service that offers the ability to remotely hack into someone's phone.
[Also] ICE entered into an $11 million contract for Cellebrite devices…to break into a locked phone”
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
They want you to leave your phones at home so you can’t take video of them. If you leave your phone at home, take a go-pro with you. Cameras out, America!
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People aren’t “waiting out a shutdown.”
They’re waiting on biopsy results, insulin refills, cancer screenings, VA appointments, and surgeries.
This isn’t politics. It’s life and death.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
They’re waiting on biopsy results, insulin refills, cancer screenings, VA appointments, and surgeries.
This isn’t politics. It’s life and death.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
People aren’t “waiting out a shutdown.”
They’re waiting on biopsy results, insulin refills, cancer screenings, VA appointments, and surgeries.
This isn’t politics. It’s life and death.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
They’re waiting on biopsy results, insulin refills, cancer screenings, VA appointments, and surgeries.
This isn’t politics. It’s life and death.
#GOPHealthCareShutdown
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Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino admitted using tear gas in Little Village and ordering arrests of protesters making "hyperbolic comments," according to court filings seeking restrictions on federal force.
Plaintiffs lawyers: Bovino views protesters as 'violent rioters,' tells officers to ‘go hard’ against them
The allegation came in a late-night court filing Monday as attorneys representing media organizations seek a preliminary injunction restricting the feds' use of force during "Operation Midway Blitz."
trib.al
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino admitted using tear gas in Little Village and ordering arrests of protesters making "hyperbolic comments," according to court filings seeking restrictions on federal force.
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The Justice Department locked two federal prosecutors out of their devices and placed them on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU
https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU
DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack
Read more here.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Justice Department locked two federal prosecutors out of their devices and placed them on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU
https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU
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The number of children who suffer from life-threatening food allergies has declined sharply since the government changed its guidelines around early exposure.
The new findings complicate RFK Jr.'s theory that food allergies are caused by small amounts of aluminum present in childhood vaccines.
The new findings complicate RFK Jr.'s theory that food allergies are caused by small amounts of aluminum present in childhood vaccines.
Food allergy rates are falling. That’s a problem for RFK Jr.’s aluminum vaccine theory.
Remember when doctors said keep babies away from peanuts?
www.motherjones.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The number of children who suffer from life-threatening food allergies has declined sharply since the government changed its guidelines around early exposure.
The new findings complicate RFK Jr.'s theory that food allergies are caused by small amounts of aluminum present in childhood vaccines.
The new findings complicate RFK Jr.'s theory that food allergies are caused by small amounts of aluminum present in childhood vaccines.
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The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR
White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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NEW: Con Edison, the energy company serving New York City, refuses to say how ICE gets its customers' data. We reviewed a bunch of cases where both HSI/ICE and FBI get or 'search' through Con Edison data. Con Edison won't even say if they require a warrant www.404media.co/con-edison-r...
Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data
Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to acce...
www.404media.co
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW: Con Edison, the energy company serving New York City, refuses to say how ICE gets its customers' data. We reviewed a bunch of cases where both HSI/ICE and FBI get or 'search' through Con Edison data. Con Edison won't even say if they require a warrant www.404media.co/con-edison-r...
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SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
n.pr
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
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Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc
Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off
Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.
n.pr
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc
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Burchett is Burchetting again.
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Burchett is Burchetting again.
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Absolutely outrageous!! 😡
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Absolutely outrageous!! 😡
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He's strengthening Argentina.
Afterall, it's where the Nazis escape to once the jig is up.
They aren't "helping" Argentina. They're BRIBING Argentinian leaders.
Afterall, it's where the Nazis escape to once the jig is up.
They aren't "helping" Argentina. They're BRIBING Argentinian leaders.
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
He's strengthening Argentina.
Afterall, it's where the Nazis escape to once the jig is up.
They aren't "helping" Argentina. They're BRIBING Argentinian leaders.
Afterall, it's where the Nazis escape to once the jig is up.
They aren't "helping" Argentina. They're BRIBING Argentinian leaders.
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A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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Thank you to the Association of Corporate Counsel for inviting me to your conference in Philadelphia to discuss ways to recognize and address the problem of disinformation. I hope you will all find value in reading “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”
October 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Thank you to the Association of Corporate Counsel for inviting me to your conference in Philadelphia to discuss ways to recognize and address the problem of disinformation. I hope you will all find value in reading “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”
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Ben Meiselas on Thursday: Trump is meeting with Zelenskyy tomorrow. It's not great timing because it's right after the Putin talk, he's still going to be feasting off the Putin talking points. If I was betting, knowing Trump's psychology and pathology, he's going to try to intimidate Zelensky.
October 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ben Meiselas on Thursday: Trump is meeting with Zelenskyy tomorrow. It's not great timing because it's right after the Putin talk, he's still going to be feasting off the Putin talking points. If I was betting, knowing Trump's psychology and pathology, he's going to try to intimidate Zelensky.
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Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
n.pr
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
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NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
How Trump is Building a Repressive, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
Federal workers sue the Education Department over partisan shutdown emails
Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
n.pr
October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
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United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages to target people for deportation.
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages to target people for deportation.
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Jack Posobiec, of “Pizzagate” fame, has been voting in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade while living in Maryland. trib.al/myCdQpd
It Sure Looks Like This MAGA Influencer Is Committing Voter Fraud
Jack Posobiec keeps voting in a swing state he doesn’t live in.
trib.al
October 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Jack Posobiec, of “Pizzagate” fame, has been voting in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade while living in Maryland. trib.al/myCdQpd
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Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now.
In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.
In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."
www.motherjones.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now.
In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.
In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.
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NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.