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maraleia

@maraleia.bsky.social

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Political junkie, history, pop culture & science fiction geek. Left handed, cisgender, lesbian feminist, social justice activist & educator from Chicago.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · Dec 24

I am DONE being NICE to people who refer to trans folks with slurs EVEN if they didn't mean it. The GLAAD media resource guide exists. USE IT. glaad.org/reference/tr...

Glossary of Terms: Transgender | GLAAD

For additional tips on creating stories about transgender people, please see In Focus: Transgender People If you are seeking information about how to create transgender and nonbinary characters for fi...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 12m

Garland still should have locked Donald up (house arrest) pending trial in his NYC Tower and barred him from using social media/doing interviews on the first day he was the AG.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 14m

Jack Smith wasn't even in the US until he got appointed Special Counsel. He was in Europe.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3h

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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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 19m

This means she's still getting money from AIPAC. Also, Doug still hasn't resigned from that traitorous law firm.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 20m

From Europe. Never forget that he wasn't even in the US when those stolen docs were found at Mar a Lago.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 21m

FUCK THIS LYING PIECE OF SHIT.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23m

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 23m

I got COVID on Sept. 11 and I still have a lingering cough. I tested negative on Sept. 20. This is how fucked up this variant of COVID is.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 25m

Amy Coney Barrett is an Aunt Lydia piece of shit traitor and criminal.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 29m

Sending you lots of love.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 31m

He's so fucking stupid.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 32m

Israel has taken over 1000 Palestinians hostage too.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 42m

Don't forget to tell these anti-voting rights assholes your thoughts via this website. www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 43m

It's horrible and terrifying. Also, Dem electeds need to get their heads out of their asses and actually protect us.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 49m

This is the reason why the Conclave chose Pope Leo. They knew he had to be the Catholic leader during this hellscape time in America.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 52m

You moved the goalposts. I won't answer those kinds of questions.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 53m

No worries. I continue to be filled with rage over her fucked up campaign strategy decisions.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 54m

The entire GOP is filled with MAGAt QAnon fucking liars and criminals.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2h

This is the post-January 6th world. The lies are their reality. It’s a broken reality in which no number of facts - or obvious observations - will make them give up a lie. In the end, there was no real accountability for January 6th, which was caused by lies. And so they continued on.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 58m

And I voted for her.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 58m

I voted for her. Leave me alone.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 59m

I voted for Harris/Walz and every other Dem on my ballot AND I volunteered at the DNC, did canvassing and phone banking. I get to criticize her because I'm A LESBIAN and she didn't give a fuck about my equality all last year.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 1h

Who? The protestors?

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 1h

Yep and white Christian supremacy.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 1h

I have a whole list of these fucking right-wing traitors. I had to make it for something I can't talk about on the socials.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 1h

Biden should have stopped all the anti-immigration bullshit that every previous president had done over the past 30 years and done amnesty but instead he became another Deporter-in-Chief.