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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1h

Congressional Republicans will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop. They are less a governing body and more a rubber stamp that Trump wields when the mood strikes him.

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop | Opinion

If President Donald Trump told congressional Republicans to make a deal with the Democrats to end the shutdown, they would do it in a heartbeat.

www.usatoday.com

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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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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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Marty Weinhous @weinhous.bsky.social · 1d

www.jefftiedrich.com/p/republican...

Republicans are losing, and they know it

they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner

www.jefftiedrich.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Difficult now for people under 65 to get the vaccine.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

If you think Trump is going to stop with just prosecuting Tish James and James Comey, you don't know history. From here Trump will prosecute leading Dem officials, people who raise big $ for Democrats and grassroots organizations that support Democrats. Trump and MAGA's goal is absolute power.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth

Do you enjoy New Mexico chiles? I know I do. And for that, we can thank Mexican American horticulturist Fabian García, who has been described as the “father of the New Mexican food industry” because of his pioneering work. /1

An array of chiles grown in New Mexico. Photo credit: NewMexico.org.

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Jeff G @jeffgphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

A special kind of evil…

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.yahoo.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

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something99.bsky.social @something99.bsky.social · 2d

Vote harder the next time you want to keep eating

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

-$33 BILLION in military aid over 2 years
-$45 MILLION every day
-$144/month per every 🇮🇱 citizen from 🇺🇸

As 🇮🇱 has free health care, free college, subsidized child care… and we do not.

Study: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/AidToI...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 3d

In “Peanuts,” Snoopy first appeared as the WWI flying ace 60 years ago, on October 10, 1965. (I’d wager that, thanks to Peanuts, the Sopwith Camel is the only WWI airplane most people can name.) Here’s the debut of the flying ace and his biplane, before the many battles with the Red Baron.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 3d

This is Randy Erwin, the President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union representing 150,000+ workers across the country. #arresttrump #wethepeople #democracy

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AAPTHQ @aapthq.bsky.social · 3d

AAPT Members: Are you taking advantage of your 25 free article downloads per year from any AIP Publishing articles? Simply sign in with your Scitation username and password, and start downloading today! pubs.aip.org/aip #aaptmemberbenefits #ITeachPhysics #PhysicsEducation

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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 3d

The American system of units. 🎢 #comics #physics #stem

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Measurement

www.smbc-comics.com

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