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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you it’s the left show them this

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 1d

Amy Poehler is Pam Bondi: SNL Cold Open)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 11h

OPINION: "For the memory of those we’ve lost—and for the children still here—let the world see, and let us act. Not one more child. Not one more teacher. Not one more school turned into a battlefield," Duvalier Malone writes.

Opinion | As Kids Die at School, We Need an Emmett Till Moment

Dr. Duvalier Malone writes about the normalization of school shootings and how immediate action must be taken to stop them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11h

Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade deficits.

Texas Water Crisis Threatens Booming Industrial Hotspot for Exxon, Koch

Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to President Donald Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade deficits.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h

The good news is, everyone in Chicago is filming them. So when they arrest someone for filming them, there's like two videos of it.

Julian Dope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 13h

ICE detained a cyclist for filming them.

From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago- dont dare record gestapo! Theyre dissapearing us citizens for doing so now

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

www.reddit.com

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 11h

I wish that the highest court in the land did not support the idea that federal officials could arrest people based on the appearance of maybe being an immigrant (which in itself is not illegal.)

I also wish they would stop the violence we see from federal troops in Chicago.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder if ruling for an authoritarian president of your own party 18 straight times (or whatever it is now), often without any reasoning at all, gives any impressions that a Supreme Court justice should wish not to give.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17h

Biden was leading the FBI during Trump's first term? But if true!

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 15h

When is the publication date? I am looking forward to this book!

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 15h

I confess I am shocked to see any SCOTUS justice on Fox News, given the fact that this is a news outlet that paid Dominion nearly $1 billion to avoid going to trial for defamation. Really not helping the whole "integrity of the court" thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 16h

And MAGA was not alone in being angry at Trump's indictments for stealing classified documents and inciting violence - SCOTUS was so outraged they issued an immunity ruling that would prevent such indictments in the future.

AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 16h

$9 a day daycare? Year of paid maternity leave? Free medical care? Wow.

My health insurance rates are about to go up a bunch. Paid a FORTUNE for childcare back in the day. No maternity leave.

Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 17h

Having a baby really makes you appreciate social programs.

Free medical care, a year of paid maternity leave, and $9 a day daycare — totally normal here in Quebec, but unthinkable to a lot of US politicians.

It’s crazy thinking how different the experience would be if we lived in America.

Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 17h

Convincing lawmakers that paid sick days or paid family leave was not going to obliterate the economy despite the fact that EVERY FUCKING COUNTRY ON EARTH has them, but being able to say that aloud, was something.

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