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Margarita

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 20d

I will be the rat czar. I will give each rat a hat and an umbrella. I will give the rats the vote

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 44m

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 3h

Today I gotta hand it to the Port Authority

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

The Affordable Care Act has proven a big success with the public, according to a new CNN poll. It’s gained 40 points in net favourability since 2014 and now stands at +30 points net favourable.

More Republicans than Democrats now use the ACA marketplace.

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 3h

Woke Airports?

Airports refuse to show DHS Sec. Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for government shutdown

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates three major airports, said, its "policies prevent airing of politically partisan messages."

www.cnbc.com

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 4h

I gasped

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4h

The landmark Voting Rights Act is again in the sights of the conservative-majority Supreme Court.

Here's what's at stake in Wednesday's oral argument:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Stakes are high for voting rights as Supreme Court again tackles Louisiana redistricting dispute

The conservative majority could use the case to further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to protect minority voters.

www.nbcnews.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Government workers 👇🏾

Lunch is on the house:

Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us!
Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel.
We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

The cover of a Spanish textbook. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown. Two people are talking to each other on the cover. The book is titled "En español!"

Zendaya in a Marc Jacobs double-breasted suit. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown.

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to buy fragrance for someone, get them a cute set of samples! It's almost always worth the price and it would be difficult for them to cause reactions in small amounts, with the normal exceptions (some people don't know what they are allergic to, package doesn't list it, etc)

Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 1d

The darker consumer addiction aspect comes out when it's recommended to layer $200-$300 fragrances that are, in fact, perfect on their own and not formulated or tested to mix with other fragrance chemicals

Why not smoke two different cigarettes at once? It's legal, I guess

Perfume Layering 101: Mix, Match, and Mesmerize

The goal? Being the best-smelling person in the room.

www.elle.com

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 1d

Layering sounds empowering, it sounds educational, it sounds fun. But the safety and price tag of it is never discussed. I'd rather folks enjoy sample sizes of better quality stuff honestly

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 1d

I won't name the company making "dupes" for $50. The total packaging and materials cost $4 since it's made with same materials found in drugstore shampoos.

On top of that, none of the safety tests for fragrances include testing out unexpected interactions with other materials. So safety is unknown

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 1d

So main issue with scent layering is that I don't want to spend money on a fragrance that isn't already coming to the event with a full conversation. If the layering is being done with $15 dupes, I guess, sure. But the quality of those materials is not worth their packaging

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 2d

Women so rarely get access to the same stuff

Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 2d

Mom and dad

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 2d

In younger years I exclusively wore thrifted men's jackets and accessories because they were of superior material—tweed, striped linen, soft leather. You could buy a couture jacket for $12 at Goodwill! I was relentlessly mocked by women wearing Lilly Pulitzer, but Diane Keaton was my north star

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 2d

I think this scene was my first experience of watching a woman's perspective captured on screen.

Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 2d

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 2d

“What do you mean, overstay? I don’t know what that is.”

US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S.

apnews.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3d

““‘We’ve been together for two years, and my partner is very passionate about the protesting,’ the groom told a reporter. ‘... People can be fun loving people and still protest. We wanted to show that this is about love and caring. We’re caring for other human beings.’”