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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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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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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 4d

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Solidarity Against Sadism
Naomi Klein
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Astra Taylor

An Emergency Town Hall
Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00 pm ET
Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Hammer & Hope

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

Yep. Same: ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...

Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center

ash.harvard.edu

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3d

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 4d

It's a sinister place. The brutality there seems both new and very, very old. And in many ways it's still just a regular office building. But then you turn a corner and the worst shit is happening.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 4d

"The 10th floor is filled with notoriously squalid cells. If an immigrant is summoned to 26 Federal’s courtrooms, there is no guarantee they will leave with their freedom."

The Jacob K. Javits Building is where I started my federal career. It has become a hunting ground, a prison.

It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.

Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.

slate.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 5d

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

Portland Frog gets it

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 4d

NYC peeps, it takes too darn long to build new homes in this city. If you want to help turn this housing crisis around, tell your friends to vote YES on props 2,3,4, and 5.

Even better, come through for the @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social rally Oct. 15 at City Hall!

RSVP: bit.ly/YAHRally

A flyer with dark purple and green housing. It says "Rally for Affordable Housing! In Saying Yes on Props 2,3,4 &5 By Nov 4 to Build Affordable Housing in NYC!
Oct 15 12 PM City Hall Park
RSVP: https://bit.ly/YAHRally

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 4d

I really appreciate the brevity of this letter and its focus on MIT's values. Kornbluth doesn't fall into the trap of rehashing all the points in the so-called compact, but instead summarizes them as "principles with which we disagree."

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 4d

Spanish scientist to right-wing climate deniers: "You call yourselves patriots, but you align with Donald Trump, president of the world's biggest producer of oil and gas. Spain doesn't produce oil or gas. So why this hostility towards renewables, which are our only hope for energy sovereignty?"

Emilio Delgado @emiliodelgado.bsky.social · 5d

El científico del CSIC Emilio Santiago Muiño poniendo a Vox en su sitio ayer en el congreso.

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 6d

It's gonna be a day. Cat woke me up at 3:47 AM because his pâté was not properly plated the night before.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 6d

“Frog,” asked Toad, “was that a true story?”

“Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t,” said Frog.

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 6d

That’s not a slip—that’s a declaration of who he is.

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dtsjr @dtsjr.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously, watch this. Descriptions won’t do it justice. There’s no technical difficulty.

The amazing pause here from Miller is him realizing he said the quiet part out loud (probably a few months early) and then freezing like a possum in the face of a coyote or something as a defensive measure.

CandyCoatedChaos @candycoatedchaos.bsky.social · 8d

Not Stephen Miller accidentally outting the regime in an interview. Let that "plenary authority" claim slip right out and then had to act like the audio cut out.

Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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PeoriaBummer @peoriabummer.bsky.social · 7d

The cities are exclusively for weak effeminate homosexuals but also too dangerous for strong manly heterosexuals.

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 8d

You can imagine the stress this family was already under in the current environment, especially if they needed to have any contact with immigration court.

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 8d

This was a devastating quote from the father, yesterday in the Daily News: "If I’d had more time amid the challenges of immigration, maybe this wouldn’t have happened, though nothing’s guaranteed."

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Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 8d

So…the administration’s Big Plan is to use tariff money (paid by American consumers) to bail out the farmers whose market crashed due to those same tariffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"

Disgruntled griffin @lindenchariot.bsky.social · 8d

In awe of the musicality of these picketers. Singing in harmony = solidarity

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