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Tia @tiamariaslife.bsky.social · 15h

If the president is impeached for bribery or treason, he, AND HIS CABINET can be removed.

If getting a Qatari jet isn’t bribery for an Idahoan airbase, I don’t know what is.

People bribe him for favors through his cyber coin constantly.

Somebody with legal powers, get this fucker out.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 15h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 19h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 18h

So what does it mean when the supreme court is illegitimate?

Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 19h

It’s Indigenous People’s Day, btw.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

This is great, I’ve been needing to explain how horrible Weiss is to some family members but I keep putting it off because then I have to think about her, now I can just send this to them. Thanks!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

ICE just kidnapped a child from your district. What are you going to do about it?????

Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

Wtf @govdanmckee.bsky.social ? This is going on next door? What are we doing in RI to protect our people? Don’t be like Healy, fight these Nazi child traffickers!

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

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

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...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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

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

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...

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 1d

sounds bad

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 1d

Governor Pritzker, please call off your state troopers!

You said you would stand between ICE and the people of Illinois. This is not how you do that. These officers should be defending peaceful protestors, not ICE.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds pretty accurate imho

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

[gift article] this is terrible. What does Hochul have to say about this?
www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Migrants languish in ICE, Border Patrol hold rooms across New York

In Buffalo, Albany, New York City, and along the Canadian border, detained migrants are waiting longer and longer in temporary holding facilities.

www.timesunion.com

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 2d

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Connor Burbridge for Rhode Island @burbridge-for-ri.bsky.social · 2d

RI’s senators failed a crucial test in standing up to Trump to remove troops from American cities and protect trans and minority service members. I would have never capitulated like this.

Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 2d

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

steveahlquist.substack.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

“[T]he broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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