Lyra Bérénice
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Add this to your activism toolkit!!
5 Calls curates a list of the most important current issues with details about those issues and suggested scripts when contacting your representatives.
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350.org
350.org @350.org · 13h
Yesterday, indigenous activists protested in front of the venue where the pre-COP is being held in Brasília, demanding more ambitious climate action targets.⁠

The action is part of the campaign "The Answer Is Us", calling for frontline leadership to have a say on decision-making at COP30.⁠
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
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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alissaazar.bsky.social
Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland
lyrabee.bsky.social
Humor and joyful music can help save us from this nightmare.

Thank you, Portland, for showing us how to defang authoritarians.
alissaazar.bsky.social
Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland
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volts.wtf
Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.
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axios.com
Axios @axios.com · 17h
Racist language allegedly used by leaders of Young Republican groups in leaked chats drew widespread condemnation from both sides of the political aisle and prompted the national youth organization to demand the resignations of those involved.
Young Republicans demand leaders involved in "vile" racist chat resign
"Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican," the Young Republicans said.
www.axios.com
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maxwellfrost.bsky.social
Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?
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santiagomayer.com
JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.
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chrisjustice01.bsky.social
Trump's History of Violence (2016-2020)
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acyn.bsky.social
Frost: Trump knows that when they passed the big, ugly bill that rips away healthcare from 17 million people, you usually don’t win elections when you do something like that…

So instead of undoing that, he’s pressuring states to give him more seats.

What California is doing is responding to that
lyrabee.bsky.social
Exactly the whimsy I needed right now.
Thank you ❤️🙏🏼😂
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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filmmakerjulie.bsky.social
As @hcrichardson.bsky.social correctly points out:
If you’re so worried about exercising your right to free speech that you’re not speaking up: YOU HAVE ALREADY LOST THAT RIGHT.
Stand up.
Speak out.
Fight Back WITH WORDS. And our 1st Amendment right to free assembly.
#NoFuckingKings
Heather Cox Richardson on a Zoom screen with closed caption echoing the message in this post.
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thebulwark.com
Regarding past rallies Indivisible has organized, such as the “Hands Off” rallies that took place in all fifty states in April, co-executive director Ezra Levin said: “It was far larger than January 6th, and there was no violence. None.” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...
‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray
Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.
www.thebulwark.com
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filmmakerjulie.bsky.social
Adelita Grijalva won her special election to Congress Sept 23. Sniveling coward Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in because she’s be a deciding vote on releasing the Epstein Files.
Yup - thwarting democracy to protect pedophiles.
#SwearHerIn
adelitaforcongress.bsky.social
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.

This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.
What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?
Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
www.theatlantic.com
lyrabee.bsky.social
I keep wanting to finish reading the Silmarillion, but there's so much going on in our country and world right now, and reading the Silmarillion is a deep dive that requires a bit of an investment. One that's been totally worth it so far (I'm half way done) ✨
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parkroseperma.bsky.social
Stephen Miller and Russell Vought about to realize Senile Sauron wasn't a star to hitch their wagon to, afterall.
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reuters.com
United States self-defense laws and gun crime come under the spotlight in new Netflix documentary "The Perfect Neighbor," produced from hours of police body camera footage of events leading up to a fatal neighborhood shooting in Ocala, Florida, in June 2023.
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filmmakerjulie.bsky.social
Kathy Hochul on racist, rapey, Hitler fanboy young Republicans:
“This bullshit has to stop.”
Amen, Governor.
atrupar.com
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
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