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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 1d

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 1d

good lord. but also proud of michael woolf!

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 1d

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 2d

does anyone have the gofundme fundraiser link for this family?

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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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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 6d

God damn, this one got me. "I cannot make peace with the world such as it is, and so I cannot anesthetize myself into acceptance—and I am okay with that."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

academeblog.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 9d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 10d

So ICE shot a woman in Chicago today during a traffic jam. Supposedly because they realized she had a weapon but also because she was allegedly known to have been encouraging beople to harass and attack ICE agents. Uh huh. Sounds totally reasonable.

It's starting.

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

The troops are coming to Chicago, fam. Remember, we have resources for this moment. Connect to ongoing efforts. Chicagoans love Chicago, and we will support each other.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 11d

It’s your friendly neighborhood lawyer again with a Friday (fr this time) fun fact:

Law enforcement *don’t* have to read Miranda rights when they arrest you (that’s a law & order TV myth) - only *before* they question you *after* detaining you. Then you *have* to say you are asserting them & STFU

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 12d

oh red sox.

announcer from Angels in the Outfield saying, "let me tell you, this is not baseball. this is not baseball."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 19d

The fact that this is getting white disabled people riled is exactly why any disability movement that doesn't take intersectionality into account is bullshit. If talking about racism in disabled spaces angers you, you're part of the problem.

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 21d

It's wild that me talking about the intersection between disability and race has so many white disabled people upset. I'm not minimizing your experience when I talk about the added struggles of being Black on top of being disabled. I face extra barriers. I'm allowed to talk about it.

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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 19d

Just read this EO, & wow!

The language is so vague that it can apply to any protest mvt from Code Pink to unions going on a strike. & you can bet your bottom dollars that it will

Never mind we don’t have a domestic terrorism law. This EO is a highway to oppress any, if not all, opposition mvts.

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization

Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

www.whitehouse.gov

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21d

Law enforcement and public health professionals agree that initiatives such as mental health crisis response teams and drug treatment programs reduce arrests and incarceration. But the Trump administration has slashed funding. bit.ly/4nKwpZx

Federal Cuts to Behavioral Health Will Harm Public Safety

Law enforcement and public health professionals agree that initiatives such as mental health crisis response teams and drug treatment reduce arrests and incarceration.

www.brennancenter.org

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 20d

BREAKING: Further confirmation that the shooter targeted immigrant detainees, not #ICE agents. All three #shooting victims were people ICE was holding and processing at the center. The shooter died of a self inflicted would and has been described as a white male

www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

Dallas ICE Shooting: 3 people shot in active shooter situation

www.fox4news.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 21d

…And in this example we have a major corporation pulling a show because it might too overtly criticize self-avowed white supremacist terror networks.

Vulture @vulture.com · 21d

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

www.vulture.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21d

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police.

This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this.

“Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 22d

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 22d

to listen to later...

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22d

Mass deportations are going to make us all sicker. commonwealthbeacon.org/the-codcast/...

Health care workers struggle to navigate closures and immigration fears - CommonWealth Beacon

This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith continues health care month coverage in a conversation with 1199SEIU executive vice president Cari Medina and Anestine Bentick, le...

commonwealthbeacon.org

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