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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 32m

That’s a lame lie even for an expert liar like Vance.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 2h

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 51m

@markey.senate.gov

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@warren.senate.gov

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 58m

you hear me screaming from Phoenix, right? 😱

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 1h

How the 🤬 is this possible? Madness!

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1h

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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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 6h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING:
President Trump Admits He'll Spend Eternity In Hell

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 1h

Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 1d

No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding

Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.

a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

media.tenor.com

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 1h

Pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Dasha Burns to Trump after he dissed her and didn't know who she was: "Sir, talk to Karoline. She'll vouch for me."

Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 3h

When I went to journalism school many moons ago, @kristenwelker.bsky.social we learned that the most important “W” question to ask was not who, what, where, or whether. It was WHY. Make them tell you WHY on record. Pretty basic stuff.

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 22h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 20h

We’re a big, diverse country. Let a thousand culturally appropriate protests bloom.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 21h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 20h

A friend of mine who worked at ED.gov was fired and rehired three times by early summer when she finally resigned and took another job elsewhere.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

While NYT reports on the triumphant Witkoff/Kushner rally in Israel, WSJ engages in actual journalism by ferreting out how they have used Middle East peacemaking as cover for securing immense sums in private investments from government-connected donors.

Jared Kushner Is Back, and His Imprint Is All Over the Gaza Deal

The man who had sworn off any formal role in President Trump’s second term has been at the center of every decision leading up to the breakthrough agreement between Israel and Hamas.

www.wsj.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 23h

Our public health heroes don't deserve this rollercoaster of cruelty and incompetence

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23h

Update from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error. Gift link: nyti.ms/48JjSSf

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

The government complains that Comey submitted a 19-page request for vindictive prosecution evidence.

Right.

$\the defendant has provided a 19-page letter that includes substantial and abnormal requests regarding the vindictive/selective prosecution allegation. These requests are for internal deliberative processes, attorney work product, and potentially privileged information. The government has asked for this material and will need to review it. We respectfully request the Court set the discovery deadline for this material for October 14, 2025.3$

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Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 21h

it’s so brilliant

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 22h

Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

"UT is being dismantled piece by piece. Those who see higher education as a threat are intervening directly breaking norms...even constitutional protections — in an effort to suppress and punish controversial opinions among our students and faculty" www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... #AcademicBluesky

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h

Portland 🔥

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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