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Mary Lewis

@profmarylewis.bsky.social

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Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · Apr 15

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social has been among the best messenger of what’s wrong with this admin. He should replace Schumer.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Apr 15

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 9h

📌“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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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 7h

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Said respectfully, this man got a standing ovation saying this in one of the whitest rooms in America

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 8h

This is heinous.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

My corgi Clyde has selected his outfit for #NoKings Day.

nokings.org

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nice recap

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

So cool. And that was supposed to be Thank you! (not Thank you?).

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is awful except perhaps playoff baseball.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 2d

The NYT's news pages did a solid job of covering the role of billionaire Marc Rowan in concocting the incredibly dangerous "compact" by which the Trump administration proposes to take over American universities.

But the opinion pages invited Marc Rowan to offer a rather wolflike defense. A brief 🧵—

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 8d

The Times' coverage of Rowan's role has been remarkable. It is sad to me that after forcing his alma mater, Penn, to oust a really good president for incredibly poor reasons, Rowan's megalomanical next thought was "maybe the federal government should do this everywhere" and they're actually trying.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

One of the other world’s best cats says hello.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 2d

I’ve been reading EKGs since 2003

Never been able to tell the age of someone just by looking at it

#justsaying #thathesfullofshit

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing! Did I catch Ruby Bridges among the images? Anyway, thank you?

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus @nytimes.com, I believe in a marketplace of ideas but you really don’t have to publish this drivel.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

That took *unthinkably* long!

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,

Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST

est paru *enfin* en français!!!

Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹

www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire

Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...

www.amitiefm.ht

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Yup

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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