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Yet Another Emily @anomily.bsky.social · 7h

My favorite

Person 1: Hit My name is Jason

Person 2: Ah! Nice to meet you, Jason

Words in the person 1’s brain: Jason, FRIENDS, FAMILY, BRASSICA OLERACEA

Person 1: Say Jarvis, did you know that over a dozen common vegetables are actually the same plant species?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 9h

My "don't post about potential federal crimes online even if you don't actually intend to do it" shirt is raising a large number of questions already answered by the shirt.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 18h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 10h

I am increasingly seeing rice not included, too, which functions as a price increase.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 19h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve just ordered an inflatable frog costume like this as my outfit for the #NoKings protest on 18th October!!! (Will serve double duty for Halloween two weeks later 🤭)

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 12h

My stupid brain went

Hey now
There’s a woke pope
Get your cross on
Go pray

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 12h

I pay for a gazillion streaming services and had to check four of them to find which one had My Neighbor Totoro. I’m pretty sure it took longer than it would have taken me to walk to the video store in 1997 (and also my old video store would deliver VHS tapes to my apartment).

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 13h

I believe it

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 13h

Oh here we go

www.traderjoes.com

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 13h

This is the multicolor one, but there were others in solid purple, orange, and maybe other colors (I wasn’t looking closely)

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 13h

I bought two. The shoppers at my local TJ’s are weirdly indifferent to the merch, so we can usually find stuff

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair, the stupid limited edition bag is *adorable*

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

/2 I am informed by my wife that TJs is selling some sort of stupid limited edition bag this weekend and that's why there's no parking in three blocks of the Montrose one. NOPE

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 15h

This is the stuff of nightmares

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 16h

Appellate practice is filled with horrors

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder if ruling for an authoritarian president of your own party 18 straight times (or whatever it is now), often without any reasoning at all, gives any impressions that a Supreme Court justice should wish not to give.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 16h

“Should I have objected?”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 1d

I laugh at Hank Azaria’s pratfalls and “Fuck the shrimp” every single time, including in this video

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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