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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 1d

Donated. I'm outraged that they have to raise private funds to get a 7th grader back to his parents. Let's get this kid home

Mass50501 @mass50501.bsky.social · 1d

The family’s attorney has begun working on the case, but need assistance to…
-Post bond for their 13 year old son

-Cover legal defense costs

-Cover the cost of travel to return their son home

www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

Donate to Our 13-Year-Old Son Was Taken by ICE — Help Bring Him Back, organized by Josiele Silva

English: Our 13-Year-Old Son Was Taken by ICE — Please He… Josiele Silva needs your support for Our 13-Year-Old Son Was Taken by ICE — Help Bring Him Back

www.gofundme.com

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 2d

a SEVENTH GRADER

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.

Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 2d

Did you press “record”?

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing much yet
Sky entirely gray

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 4d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 6d

Wilkes-Barre

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 8d

Had been expecting to see a dip this fall, but not that large. And it's not turning around any time soon

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

nyti.ms

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you. One of my books was on there. Claim filed. 😡

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 15d

Exactly. This has happened to me at labs twice so far and both times it felt like nobody had ever seen anything like it before- and yet I read it happens to one percent of the population? Makes no sense. Guess we are special, hooray

Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 15d

This happened to me today. Almost fainted (again) but got my head down in time. I know we are out there doing this but god the whole office was completely freaked out like it had never happened before. They were quite happy when I suggested we try again another day. Of course now I have to do so 😩

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15d

this is more or less what I expected

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 16d

are you kidding me

I am disgusted

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 18d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 19d

$130 for a sweatshirt

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 23d

Second shingles vaccine definitely knocked me flat for a day. A lot better than shingles though.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28d

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record.

archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 25d

Got my Covid and flu shots today in NYC, no problem. I had to justify why I wanted the Covid shot, because I'm under 65, but once I did, no problem.

Covid is everywhere right now and vaccines are avail right now and both things feel highly changeable so this is a PSA

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Amy Wilson @amywlsn.bsky.social · 25d

I’m imagining someone at a banquet somewhere showed him 30 sec of a “good” clip of Charlie Kirk talking about Jesus, on their phone, said “don’t you think it’s great our youth are following someone who makes it cool to love the Lord?”

And that’s what he knows about Kirk.
Not that that’s any excuse

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