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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 14h

this lady messaged me today and i blocked her # and yet her campaign found three new ways to message me despite me blocking each new number. so that’s four texts in one day from the 79yo wannabe freshman senator.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

www.pbump.net

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Penny Shortage @cheatlines.co · Aug 20

my page is an anti-anti-hops safe space. rp if you're not scared of a fluffy green flower

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

We need UN observers dog

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 3d

the hold that a half-baked 00s AV Club essay has on the culture !!

Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 3d

destroyed digital media so he can force you to attend an in-person lecture and listen to his half-baked 2004-era AV Club essays

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 3d

i think that’s a woodpecker maybe

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 3d

man this sucks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

there is no point in time over the
last two months where i have not had “golden” in my head

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 3d

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

*touches earpiece* folks, i’m hearing that under no circumstances do you have to hand it to them

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

oh god it’s still going???

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

i’m so sorry which baseball is your baseball

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

i find it so soothing when everybody starts doing this. go baseball

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 4d

people are making vage incredulous posts all at once. my sports senses are tingling

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

there is no point in time over the
last two months where i have not had “golden” in my head

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 4d

the joy of state media

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 5d

goodnight and good luck

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the full memo.

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 5d

i put off seeing this movie for 20 years! … and i was right to do so

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 5d

this tweet is 20 yrs late but: in a rather mid movie, Gong Li slays the boots house down in Memoirs of a Geisha

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 5d

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 6d

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 6d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 6d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 6d

me

The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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