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Nicholas Slayton

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Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12 nslayton.substack.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14d

If you saw footage of Nepal's protests this month, it's a fair chance you saw it from WeHateTheCold, a British travel vlogger who stumbled into the revolution and started filming. I spoke to him about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...

How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World

Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.

www.wired.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

Yessss he's back.

Scott Seiss @scottseiss.bsky.social · 3d

“The economy is actually doing great”

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Scott Seiss @scottseiss.bsky.social · 3d

“The economy is actually doing great”

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10h

We need UN observers dog

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

"My dearest Elizabeth, the battle against the masked legions terrorizing our northwest continues. I have witnessed my comrades marry, in their inflatable costumes. I miss you and our inflatable costumes. But now the hour of battle draws near."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5h

They shall grow unadorned, as we that are left wear cosplay:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6h

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 5h

I fundamentally think that if you want to purchase anything you should have to talk to at least one person

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

“The city’s ‘Safe Stores are Staffed Stores’ ordinance is the first of its kind in the country. It requires large stores to increase the number of employees relative to self-checkout stands and also puts a limit on the number of items and types of goods that can be rung up at self-checkout.”

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 6h

APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Red Cross says it's started 'a multi-phase operation' to oversee hostage and prisoner releases as part of Gaza ceasefire.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

www.latimes.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 7h

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 9h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 6h

APNewsAlert: DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas publishes list of 20 living hostages it will release as part of Israel-Hamas war ceasefire.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

Meanwhile saw the trailer for Josh Safdie's MARTY SUPREME which...I don't know. Has that Safdie Bros energy but not sold on Chalamet. And why the hell is O'Leary, the guy who defended Wall Street fraud and whatnot in it?

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

THE SMASHING MACHINE: 4/5. A surprisingly low-key character study film you wish had a bit more meat on its bones. Johnson and Blunt are very good, in an understated one. One scene is very powerful and lands. Safdie ditches nonstop anxiety for documentary-style filming and moments of quiet.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

One of the best

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

What I'm saying is the Texas NG is still in Illinois. They didn't drop the overall number of troops deployed against Chicago.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

I have only done this at work at the bar I'm at, my home bar is not as tech heavy, but a big plastic bin, an immersion circulator, ziplocks and patience and I've made soooo much pandan vodka, syrup, raspberry syrup, etc. And a large cambro with ice to shock it

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. I see that and I raise you an 8qt cambro

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Rule I always learned: Shake for citrus, stir without.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13h

📌“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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