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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 5h

don't forget that there is an Everett 7th grader snatched from home

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Protesters question Everett officials after police arrest of 13-year-old leads to ICE detention

Mayor Carlo DeMaria denies any cooperation with ICE.

www.wgbh.org

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 13h

Playoff baseball is the best because so much rests on every pitch, AND the fan cutaways of America’s Richest Children™️ really class up your humble little viewing situation.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15h

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

They will paint these Young Republicans as children while legislating that actual children be treated like adults in the justice system.

Because, again, MAGA decides who gets to be a child.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d

He already said he's cool with it www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 19h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 23h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d

"There is a natural inclination, especially among Americans steeped in our culture of mass incarceration, to judge the propriety of a person’s punishment not based on what they’ve done, but on how deserving one believes they are of receiving justice."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same BS Marty Walsh spouted when the school-to-prison pipeline (the BRIC gang database in that instance) triggered the deportation of a Boston student during Trump 1.

School disciplinary policies have ripple effects. When you criminalize kids, you throw them into a merciless system.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Carlo DeMaria, Mayor of Everett, said police followed standard procedure and did not contact ICE but ICE has "the authority to access certain law enforcement databases and take action on its own accord. He said city has "no authority or control over what happens next" once ICE steps in.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 1d

"We cannot prevent all of the harm that ICE will do in our communities, but we can make their work harder, and we can make our values, our presence, and our solidarity known. We can make our neighborhoods and our relationships stronger, as we forge bonds in opposition to this violence."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same BS Marty Walsh spouted when the school-to-prison pipeline (the BRIC gang database in that instance) triggered the deportation of a Boston student during Trump 1.

School disciplinary policies have ripple effects. When you criminalize kids, you throw them into a merciless system.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Carlo DeMaria, Mayor of Everett, said police followed standard procedure and did not contact ICE but ICE has "the authority to access certain law enforcement databases and take action on its own accord. He said city has "no authority or control over what happens next" once ICE steps in.

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d

"I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by gulping down neurotoxins all day"

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d

We're on the precipice of throwing away a century of vaccine-preventable death because the most influential anti-vaccine voices have poisoned their brains with unregulated supplements and steroids.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d

"I can swamp the de-masted Waakzaamheid and its 600 souls in a freak wave the size of a soundstage using less water than it takes to generate a plasticine Elvis on Tupac's podcast" is your elevator pitch to the execs.

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d

What a way to tell his listeners that he can’t read.

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d

Uh oh Benioff is gonna fire someone now.

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Meghan O'Connor @meghan0c.bsky.social · 2d

Hi! In addition to the post from the Globe that gives his mom's name, his name is Arthur (I'm in Everett). LUCE MASS is doing a demonstration tomorrow 10/14 at Everett City Hall!
www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d

The Newton “Landscaping Compact”, one of the earliest recorded neighborhood associations, reads:
“For the glory of God and preservation and furtherance of proportee values, we enacte a body politik that shall hyre a goodly number of landscaping truks for the generall odour and noise.”

Gag lithograph of early English colonizers in Massachusetts. One had a backpack mounted leaf blower going.

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d

~90% of the different LUCE hubs I’m part of across greater Boston are white Boomer women.

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 2d

Right, so what are we doing to get the kid from Everett back?

Clearly, we call the Governor tomorrow. What else? #mapoli

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 3d

I found this because I have been struggling to write something about how horrific this is, and looked for a follow-up on an earlier story.

who-cester.blogspot.com/2025/10/orga...

I don't think I can.

organizing against a Blackhawk helicopter

From Friday's Chicago Sun-Times : Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a ...

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 3d

Hey @massgovernor.bsky.social , what are you doing about this?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing says a nation irredeemably gone to hell like its government kidnapping children and whisking them out of state.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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