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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 19h

IMO, since free will can neither be proven nor disproven, there can hardly be a bigger waste of time than to argue about it.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d

I love this image.

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 3d

I don't understand to what this clip relates.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Ken Cook @ewgprez.bsky.social · 6d

This week's podcast: journalist Brian Deer, author of The Doctor Who Fooled the World. We discuss his investigation, why misinformation remains prevalent today & the incredible scope of disarray and dysfunction playing in public health under RFK Jr. @briandeer.com

The lasting damage of vaccine misinformation and the disgraced doctor fueling it

YouTube video by Environmental Working Group (EWG)

www.youtube.com

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 6d

A very high-ranked journal, I think.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 7d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 7d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOZ...

The lasting damage of vaccine misinformation and the disgraced doctor fueling it

YouTube video by Environmental Working Group (EWG)

www.youtube.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

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BobbyGvegas™ … Homegrown Heretic @bobbygvegas.bsky.social · 8d

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 8d

In other words, licensing the right to protest.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10d

🚨Kristi Noem brings peace to war-torn Portland, Oregon. 1/2

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 9d

Ask AI: "Did Brexit make it easier or harder to remove undocumented immigrants from the UK?"

Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 10d

Q: What's the sound of 800 generals and admirals laughing? A: Silence.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 10d

A recent victim of political assassination in the United States who is continually overlooked, deliberately ignored even, by some.

Let's not forget her name anywhere in the world:

Melissa Hortman

This story always reminds me of our own Jo Cox over here in the UK.

Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 11d

Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14.

Say her name.

www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...

Melissa Hortman: Who was the Minnesota state representative assassinated in her home? | CNN

A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout Leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. A mother and wife whose husband was killed alongside...

www.cnn.com

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 13d

Sounds like a flagrant case of working whilst Latino.

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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 13d

And there's no such thing as an "autism rate".