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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 3h

It’s clear as day.

Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 16h

CORRECTION: They were yellow jackets. Archie’s eye and ear swelling has dissipated. My dozen+ stings, however, ache like hell.

Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 22h

Seems like they’re triggered and have anger issues. Also, they lack constitutional knowledge about free speech rights.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 22h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

Put up a plaque. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 1d

“Journalists turn in press passes as Pentagon clamps down on access in ‘unprecedented’ move”

(From @brianstelter.bsky.social)

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/m...

Journalists turn in press passes as Pentagon clamps down on access in ‘unprecedented’ move | CNN Business

A flyer with the words “journalism is not a crime” appeared Tuesday on the wall outside the “Correspondents’ Corridor” where journalists operate at the Pentagon.

www.cnn.com

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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 22h

I didn’t have “puppy steps on bees’ nest we get swarmed and stung,” as well as taking Archie to his first pet ER visit on my Bingo card for today. #puppy #bees #autumn #dogs #beesting

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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radiOS @radios2.bsky.social · 3d

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @massgovernor.bsky.social why are the MA police helping ICE kidnap a 7th grader. I can’t even begin to imagine how terrifying this much be for the child and the parents. You may not have a lot of control over ICE but you sure as shit do over your own damn police

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

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

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

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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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/9Nstfnp

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

Trump can’t even make up conspiracy theories correctly

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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 5d

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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 5d

Sale on Kindle version of Louie on the Rocks.
Adult daughter Lulu tries to help her "father figure" dad who drinks too much of that "brown liquor" (okay, so Louie prefers vodka, but I'm trying to work with this Taylor Swift-Life of a Showgirl vibe). (Link to sale in next comment)

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7d

ICE 0 - Frog 1

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 10d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 7d

Donald Trump has declared this to be a warzone. Maybe our memories are hazy, but any veterans out there remember inflatable animal costumes dancing during combat operations during OIF or OEF?

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 8d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 8d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 8d

In spite of his TACO tendencies, his rhetoric often presages ominous outcomes.

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Meredith O'Brien @meredithobrien.bsky.social · 8d

Attacks on Swift’s latest ebullient release reminds me of this scene. For homework, I’m assiging everyone to rewatch it: youtu.be/CBqlDWHkdHk?...

America Ferrera's Iconic Barbie Speech | Barbie | Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8d

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

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