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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 3h

I heard somewhere that he likes it. Like, *really* likes it.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 3h

Brett Kavanaugh is fine with this…

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 5h

This is a very important story to understand how the Trump administration is using right wing social media to disseminate, amplify and shape a false narrative about the protests in Portland

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

There's one huge difference between the 2025 Portland protests & the ones in 2020. Today, the ~100 anti-fascist protesters at the ICE facility are sandwiched between the feds who have MAGA-friendly media embedded w/ them, and ~15 MAGA-friendly content creators/counter-protesters out in the crowd.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

As President Trump tries to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, conservative influencers are working to support his claim that the city is burning with viral clips from one block. https://wapo.st/4q5HM0n

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

@markwarner.bsky.social
@kaine.senate.gov
@beyer.house.gov

ICE is reported to have detained and moved a 13-year-old from Massachusetts to a facility in Virginia without notice to the parents

Use your offices to secure the release of this child

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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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.

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Janice in Anchorage @janiceinanchorage.bsky.social · 11h

Women’s reproductive health choices are being tracked by law-enforcement agencies.

The Texas sheriff involved illegally sought a woman’s data. This is irresponsible
use of public safety resources.

#USDemocracy
#MyBodyMyChoice

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 10h

“Demons” getting a lot of play in right-wing circles recently

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 13h

Perhaps Justice Kavanaugh would have a different opinion about this issue if he were to experience one day in the life of an unjustly kidnapped ICE victim

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 13h

“News” is carrying a lot of weight in this lede.

Imagine trashing a distinguished career in defense of duplicitous Charlie Kirk and Bari Weiss…

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 13h

Since SCOTUS decided that they could hand the election to W in 2000, and that the decision could not be used as precedent for future cases, the conservative majority has continued to invent ways to circumvent the law and undermine the justice system

ACB is an unthinking cog in the injustice machine

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like I’ve said this 1000 times:

There are plenty of studies that prove the stress of living in poverty changes the way brains work, but nothing that I have ever seen in this world warps a mind more than Emperor-level wealth

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

GS: “Do you agree with Trump @govpritzker.illinois.gov has committed a crime?”

@JDVance: “He violated his oath of office.”

GS: “That’s not what I asked.”

Vance shamelessly sanewashes Trump’s call for Pritzker to be jailed. TN has a 👋🏽 higher murder rate… should @GovBillLee be jailed?😬

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 16h

When they say “you are not alone” it heavily implies that your school will not or can not help you with the situation you are facing

I know plenty of parents who have felt abandoned or ignored by their school administrators and boards

They are vulnerable and desperate for help

This is repulsive

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 17h

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 17h

There are plenty of studies proving that the stress of living in poverty changes the way your brain works, but nothing I have ever seen warps the mind like Pharaoh-level wealth

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 1d

I stopped attending Mass altogether at our parish because I couldn’t handle the hypocrisy of sitting in the company of the architects of the inhumane policies during his first term.

Too many brethren who traded God for Magog.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 1d

The bigger scandal is that anyone gives Ross Douthat a platform to continue to be wrong about nearly everything including the weather report

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 1d

No moral compass and a subservient attitude to breaking the law has served him well

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 1d

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos would be envious

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 1d

A little history lesson for anyone interested

David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 1d

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Pop Quiz!

Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?

The history, and the Constitution itself?

Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 2d

a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

Alt: Marcia Brady in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

media.tenor.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Aarian Marshall @aarianmarshall.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about the unsettling year that federal air safety employees are having. They say the skies are safe, but the shutdown, and how the gov might react, is creating more stress

“It feels as if they want us to be afraid, but I’m just angry,” one FAA worker told me

www.wired.com/story/shutdo...

The Shutdown Is Pushing Air Safety Workers to the Limit

Federal employees say that flying is still safe despite the strain on air traffic controllers. But expect even more airport delays ahead.

www.wired.com

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