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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 58m

THIRTEEN YEARS OLD, here legally, & they take him & don’t tell his parents where he is! This is indefensible!!

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

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.

Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 9h

EVIL

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

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

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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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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 3d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1d

"In a time of darkness, New York must be the light." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social makes a 2-minute ad about transgender rights, while sitting at the Christopher Street Pier in NYC. And yes, I'm crying, too.
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Miss Ann Thrope 🇬🇧🇹🇹 @ltellenripley.bsky.social · 2d

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing but cruelty

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

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.usatoday.com

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 1d

People dying. Soon and down the road. This will be the result.

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 1d

@greenhousemd.bsky.social

time.com/7325192/cdc-...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 1d

What did people think “potato chips” are made from?? 😳

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 2d

This is unquestionably true

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely think that many people don't fully understand the situation in the USA.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Not only is this rude, inappropriate, partisan, costly, and illegal, it reveals the fundamentally anti-American idiocy of this administration’s policy of handing over to China the most important economic sector of the 21st century.

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 11d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 2d

Good

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: The @nytimes tells Hegseth to pound sand on his new policy to restrict how reporters cover the Pentagon

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 2d

If they had good, substantive arguments, they wouldn’t need to lie like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Quite a pointed message:

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."