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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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

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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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 10h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12h

The Indictment of Letitia James and the Collapse of Impartial Justice. The question raised by the prosecution of James is: would any other federal prosecutor have brought this case against any other defendant? The answer seems to be no. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Indictment of Letitia James and the Collapse of Impartial Justice

The question raised by the prosecution of James is: would any other federal prosecutor have brought this case against any other defendant? The answer seems to be no.

www.newyorker.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

Exactly they get a libidinal thrill out of the idea of the people they hate *suffering* and being forced to suffer. This is a partly why their vision of free speech and healthy discourse centers around forcing the targets of bigotry to silently accept bigoted speech.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12h

You are a living joke if you are more concerned about “the thought-police” than the secret police

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 17h

I want a functioning government and a strong public sector but a lot of government work is violence work and that part needs to change.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 17h

Not all workers should be unionized cuz some jobs do violence work.

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KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 18h

Take the phones!

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

Turn the computers off

NPR @npr.org · 18h

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

Turn the computers off

NPR @npr.org · 18h

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

If you can you should…

if you can’t don’t block the generosity of others

Giving is how we get through

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

If you're comfortable, & you have everything you need taken care of with a little extra, you don't have to give to mutual aid, but why wouldn't you? The hoarding mindset is capitalist. You can easily be part of the community that supports real life vulnerable folks. We're all we got. You gon learn.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

Giving … without condition… without pretense… without expectation

Helps your heart

And we need our hearts helped

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TheDivaMsitt @thedivamsitt.bsky.social · 18h

If I got, you got. I eat, we eat.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

If you can you should…

if you can’t don’t block the generosity of others

Giving is how we get through

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

If you're comfortable, & you have everything you need taken care of with a little extra, you don't have to give to mutual aid, but why wouldn't you? The hoarding mindset is capitalist. You can easily be part of the community that supports real life vulnerable folks. We're all we got. You gon learn.

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Jeremy C-Howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 19h

We somehow decided shaming is bullying, which only makes sense if “being a bad person” is a protected class.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20h

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 21h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17h

In my experience people like this guy create persecution narratives for themselves where white Christian people are being endangered by liberals (and this woman isn’t even liberal) and are dying for the opportunity to harm those people

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.

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Last Name Penman @percivalpenman.bsky.social · 17h

Y’all have thrown this “we” around a lot since last year…

kiwijohn.bsky.social @kiwijohn.bsky.social · 17h

We were suckered by Fetterman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Maria Bartiromo tries to reassure Fetterman: "You know, senator, what you just said, it's really shamefully on your colleagues. You feeling isolated -- that is absolutely outrageous. You are a breath of fresh air. I know our viewers are grateful."

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 17h

SIX YEARS after Harris County deputies took a man's life savings - $41k - saying it ~could~ potentially be used to buy drugs at some point in the future, a Texas appeals court has ordered them to return it.

Will be interested to see if the current DA tries to appeal this... ij.org/press-releas...

Texas Appeals Court Reverses Forfeiture of Innocent Americans’ Life Savings and Orders Harris County to Return the $41,680 It Seized - Institute for Justice

Today, the Texas First Court of Appeals reversed a Harris County civil-forfeiture judgment entered after a six-day jury trial and rendered judgment for Institute for Justice (IJ) […]

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 19h

Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 16h

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...
A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

The shooting occurred early Sunday at Willie's Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island.

4 killed and 20 more injured in shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.

www.npr.org

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 16h

If we had internet gatekeepers, guys who wrote for Nazi sites wouldn't be writing about the need for internet gatekeepers.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 16h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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