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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 50m

i can say from having done the homework that Yarvin particularly has some real sicko racist + sexual hangups

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 3h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1h

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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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 54m

Overhead view of the same incident.

juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 5h

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 56m

Average NYPD salary with OT is well over 100K, you live like a king on that in Long Island ain't none of them going nowhere. Anyone who believes that is a stone cold idiot. How many other jobs are they qualified for where they could earn that? Zero. The answer is zero.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1h

I Swear This Didn’t Happen To Me But the problem with boujee corner stores is that you might try to get human food and accidentally get really fancy dogfood

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 59m

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 7h

The thing that's really distinctive about the status quo is that feds are being used specifically to punish partisan enemies. Criminalization is always already political, but it has not been partisan...

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 1h

IDF could justify it, np 🙃

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 6h

apropos everything, the state of play rn & since approximately forever is: if the Right resorts to violence to further its aims it wins, and if the Left does the same in any way it loses

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 1h

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 6h

apropos everything, the state of play rn & since approximately forever is: if the Right resorts to violence to further its aims it wins, and if the Left does the same in any way it loses

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 1h

not to criticize or refute Faine's point at all -- reinforcing it, rather!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 1h

Jimmy Savile used to talk like this, occasionally

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 3h

Guess what the Atlantic just did?

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9d

now that people are being mean to bari weiss online again I expect the Atlantic to restart their "solidarity with bari weiss" vertical, so all their authors can weigh in on how bari weiss should be our uncriticizable queen of free speech.

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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 2h

@suicidepets

Wtf am i gonna go to therapy for??? So I can pay money just for some bitch to tell me I'm gay? To find out im gay and in the closet? To help me discover that deep down im a gay ass homosexual man? Lmao pass. Miss me with that shit. Im straight. I am straight

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

Gary Numan truly was The Visionary Innovator

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

hate to need it but love to see it

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2h

PETER THIEL: hey have you ever seen ghost in the shell
ME: (starting a timer in my head so i can add this to my How Long Did Peter Go Before Making This About The Antichrist spreadsheet)

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

try if he might, Trent Reznor could never make a noise as ugly as some douchebag's unmuffled speedmotor pooty-pooting thru an expressway viaduct & into my open car window

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

easily into 7 figures, by now. ludicrous AND immoral

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2h

How much money do you think DHS has expended so far on punishing this one man

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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