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Matt @mikalatos.com · 2d

"They broke the law coming here and they are costing taxpayers billions" is a really great description of ICE

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 4d

Praying!

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 7d

I watched the "film" they made to show her off and it was awful

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 8d

Fun cover!

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

JUST IN: In declarations to the court, top officials in the Portland Police Bureau and the Oregon State Police say they really don't need federal/military assistance to contain the relatively minor protests they're seeing outside ICE facilities.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 9d

The headline is catchy, but the important part is the second sentence of the story: "Trump did not specify when or how the tariff could be enacted."

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

Trump announces 100% tariff on movies made outside of the US https://cnn.it/4gManmU

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 13d

My daughter had a trans teammate playing on her soccer team for several years. The other day one of her classmates went on a rant about trans women in sports, and my kid said, "I had a trans teammate and I really liked playing with her."

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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BKinDetroit @bkindetroit.bsky.social · 15d

Tylenol ain't taking this shit

From tylenol.com

A statement from the Tylenol website stating that Tylenol does not cause autism

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 15d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 16d

"I was angry that we were being manipulated." Immigration judges speak up about how different their jobs have become in the past few months. link.podtrac.com/jg02r5r2

The Hand That Rocks The Gavel

A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for ...

link.podtrac.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19d

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 15d

I saw antifa this weekend at the Thorns game here in Portland. When the Thorns scored a goal some antifa folks waved a giant antifa flag. Super terrifying 🙄

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

Pretty much. It's a directive to the Executive Branch about what to focus investigatory and prosecutive resources on.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15d

The point of the Antifa order is to assert that something exists which does not exist and to make people think it (1) exists and (2) is bad. you can read it, there’s nothing there beyond that www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Matt @mikalatos.com · 16d

But is it washed in the blood of the lamb

Matt @mikalatos.com · 18d

Letty Nevares went to her final green card meeting excited to have permanent legal status. She was already in the States legally, is a volunteer at the local food drive, and does end-of-life care for elderly people.

Instead she ended up in handcuffs.

open.substack.com/pub/thesesto...

Her community pooled their money to pay for her green card application

ICE put her in handcuffs and sent her to a private prison

open.substack.com

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 19d

I'm interested in the (extremely narrow) calls for an end to political violence that are actually calls for "don't harm people I agree with."

open.substack.com/pub/mattmika...

Let's talk about Political violence

Most people don't want it to stop

open.substack.com

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therreport.bsky.social @therreport.bsky.social · 19d

Jury finds LA protester not guilty of assaulting border patrol agent www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jury finds LA protester not guilty of assaulting border patrol agent

Brayan Ramos-Brito acquitted after US immigration officials were accused in court of lying about the incident

www.theguardian.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20d

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 20d

it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20d

ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. nyti.ms/46vgZl3

Jimmy Kimmel is pictured in a black suit and blue striped tie. Headline reads: "ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments." Photo credit: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images.

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 20d

I feel like people aren't looking at Jimmy Kimmel's comments in context

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 21d

I got my second dose this weekend and had achiness and a fever for almost exactly 24 hours and then was good.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 21d

I just found out my debut novel from 2014, The Clockwork Dagger, is on sale for $1.99! Apparently the deal ends on the 20th.

The Clockwork Dagger
by Beth Cato
Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened.

$1.99

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Matt @mikalatos.com · 21d

Trying to remember what the Bible says about necromancy

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 22d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

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