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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

Unsure how many times I have to repeat it, but health care shouldn’t be for-profit.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 15h

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3h

Wait, lmao, Riley Gaines Aka it's trans women's fault if i finish in 5th place behind cis women

Is married to an immigrant who can't get his paperwork right??

These maga people are WILD

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 3h

It amazes me that TVs have gotten so cheap but a place to put them is so expensive

Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 3h

(NEW) Amazon Fire TV 4-Series 4K UHD Smart TV stream live TV without cable $199.99 via Woot (Amazon Prime Eligible). https://ow.ly/pNYP50XakrB

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Brian Morales @brianmorales.bsky.social · 8h

This is actually something Malcom X explicitly states was a terrible mindset he himself used to have. If someone jumps out and says they want to help, let them.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 7h

I bet he cries pretty

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 9h

It would be so easy to catch Wedding Georg who gets married and divorced 1000x/year.

Maybe if they left regular people alone instead of making them jump through all the hoops they could handle that instead.

Every hour they spend on one thing is something they aren't spending on another.

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 9h

The woman I saw wearing that gown obviously has way more money than I do to take the $500+ chance on an Instagram person.

But I def have enough money to splurge on a $500 dressing gown that I'm certain I will love and will never let go.

I'm not sure how to make those sides of the market work.

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 9h

bsky.app/profile/ishf... there are people out there who absolutely *want to pay more for nicer stuff* but it's hard without trust.

I'm currently looking at a $500 dressing robe but I've seen the quality and cut in person and I know it's worth it www.catherinedlish.net/product/teal...

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 10h

I would spend $100 for a t shirt that I know fits and will last but I have no trust in the American garment industry anymore and generally assume it's just going to be a $10 shirt with a markup or logo

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 10h

T-shirt surgery type groups are great for smaller folks. Not so much for bigger ones.

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 10h

I would love to pay more for clothes but it's all the same shitty shit for twice the price with nicer packaging.

Let me spend $200 on the nice version of the dress I can get for <$40 on Amazon.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 10h

Marrying someone so you can give them safety and papers is a lot more love than many marriages start with.

But somehow one is wrong and one is fine.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12h

the brain rot that people on this website have about follower count is unreal. "your responsibility" to what???

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hunter @hrpixelart.com · 12h

"big follower accounts have an obligation to" hey man thats soooo cool. did you know theres birds outside. and they will sing each other songs about you. no yeah your thing about the numbers is cool too

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 11h

Unnecessary risks are still unnecessary but everyone has their own tolerance for danger and what they think is dangerous.

Being clocked as a middle aged white woman is both safer and more dangerous depending on the situation and surroundings

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 11h

Citizenship upon marriage should be automatic or at most a small beaurocratic endeavor of filing paperwork saying yes we're married.

If someone is getting married and divorced a bunch, that's prob fraud and can be dealt with then.

Don't make everyone else suffer because someone *might* do that.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 12h

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...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 11h

On the other hand, we really should be masking up for a variety of safety reasons. Inflatables are really a great choice for several reasons.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

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 · 13h

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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