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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 11h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Elon

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 4d

St. Paul has had only 9 homicides in 2025. Insane.

gretchen brown, real snoopy enjoyer @gretchenbrown.bsky.social · 4d

huge st. paul w www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

St. Paul solved more crimes, had drastically fewer homicides in 2025

A remarkable shift is under way in St. Paul. The city is on track for a 70 percent drop in homicides by the end of 2025. And they’re solving more than 70 percent of crimes.

www.mprnews.org

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 5d

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6d

Oh this is not great

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 8d

This just in from the kids desk at the Vote YES news station: Saint Paul voters have less than a month to protect public quality education by voting YES for Saint Paul Public Schools on or before Nov 4th!

Yesforspps.com

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 10d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 11d

If you’re a Saint Paul voter, please consider what a failed school referendum would look like for our city. $37.2million would have to be cut from anything our district is not contractually obligated to provide, from Pre-K to music and sports.

Vote YES 🫶

Yesforspps.com

Graphic that lists what’s at risk of being cut if the Saint Paul school referendum fails:

Pre-k, art music and theater programs, athletics and extracurricular activities, language immersion, transportation, college and career readiness.

Protected programs include special education and English language learner programs.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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K Priest @kpriestmusic.bsky.social · 15d

in perpetual, horrified fascination by the us system of shell companies in real estate. when i saw this in the pioneer press today i had to do a little digging, even though i knew i'd get absolutely nowhere.
www.twincities.com/2025/09/29/r...

Residents urge St. Paul to demolish Midway’s vacant CVS

Among the complications: It’s unclear who exactly owns it.

www.twincities.com

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 13d

Does this at least mean ICE operations will stop?

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 13d

One night only! Come to @blackhartstp.com tonight at 7pm and learn how my most awkward formative years tracked with Eastern Europe’s awkward transition out of communism!

Hosted by the one and only @blindeke.bsky.social

T @tmoz.bsky.social · 20d

So excited to be in the October 1st lineup of “You’re not from here are you?” hosted by @blindeke.bsky.social at the @blackhartstp.com !

Come hear my silly stories about growing up in post-Cold War Eastern Europe in a foreign service family!

You’re not from here are you? Promo graphic with details: every first Wednesday at the Black Hart of Saint Paul

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14d

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 14d

I might be a childless goon in a track suit but I’m voting Yes for Saint Paul kids because they should be smarter than me.

A group of normal people and two morons.

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 15d

Twin Cities: come to Black Hart this Wednesday at 7pm! I’ll take you on an entertaining tour of how weird it was growing up in post-Soviet countries in the 1990s.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15d

Things are getting worse and worse for more and more Americans in more and more ways.

I believe the way to win elections is to make sure people know what's happening, make sure that they see the hard things in their lives as part of a bigger story, and then to (correctly) blame Republicans.

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 17d

What a dream meeting the one and only @emilynussbaum.bsky.social and getting to nerd out about TV! Can’t wait to read the new book, thanks for coming to Minneapolis. 🫶

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 19d

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 18d

Should have been moderated by Aron Woldeslassie cause he was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 19d

Essentia is a Catholic system that follows Catholic health care directives not to teach or provide abortion care or contraception.

The University of Minnesota operates the largest—and only—public training program for physicians.

Essentia Health exits talks on proposed $1B partnership with U, leaving academic medicine in limbo

Sources say the Attorney General’s office agreed in August to release Duluth-based health system from ongoing talks.

www.startribune.com

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 18d

God damn I had so much fun at the @blackhartstp.com last night.

Come back next Wednesday at 7pm for “You’re Not From Here Are You?” where I’ll be sharing all the fun ways living in Moscow in the 90s traumatized me as a 5th grader.

Plus hearing from @blindeke.bsky.social is always a good time!

T @tmoz.bsky.social · 20d

So excited to be in the October 1st lineup of “You’re not from here are you?” hosted by @blindeke.bsky.social at the @blackhartstp.com !

Come hear my silly stories about growing up in post-Cold War Eastern Europe in a foreign service family!

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 19d

Omg @blindeke.bsky.social is the king of these people

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T @tmoz.bsky.social · 19d

I love our cities 🫶 @sustainstpaul.bsky.social @moreneighbors.org @blackhartstp.com @hoopermn.bsky.social

Full house at Black Hart for Sibling Rivalry

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