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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

continuing to develop cautious optimism around kettlebell guy

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 22h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 23h

“and as the presumed protectors of the rule of international law and human rights, it is their duty. As long as they do not act, they will have been complicit in this horror, as well as in its denial.”

Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 23h

“For that to happen, the US and European powers will have to snap out of their own apparent denial of what they surely know is happening on the ground. As signatories of the UN Genocide Convention, it is their obligation”

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 23h

“But, as has happened in other countries, at other times, Israel will be able to confront its crimes only if it is forced to pay a high price for them, not thanks to a process of introspection. Only at that point will the walls of denial begin to crack.”

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 23h

Important essay on denial from Omer Bartov.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 1d

Just rewatched Ghostbusters for the first time in maybe 30 years.

Completely forgot / never realized that

A) it starts at the NYPL
B) the Ghostbusters get fired from Columbia
C) the EPA is the real enemy

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 2d

“It would be absurd to seek hope in Trump and Trumpism, but perhaps stupidity on such a world-historical level can at least offer an opportunity for “true” understanding. Nothing — markets, bots, or machines — can rescue us, except our imagination.”

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Stupidology | William Davies

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 2d

"A [...] poll from mid-August found that 43 % of Americans believe Israel is committing genocide. According to a WaPo poll, 61 % of American Jews consider that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza and nearly 40 per cent think that its conduct amounts to a genocide."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts

Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 4d

Hey hey, German Studies in the news again!

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 4d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 6d

"There’s some good in it, maybe some bad in it. But for me, I think it cuts toward going. That’s my decision, and I know where it’s coming from, because I can see right inside myself."

"I wanna see it, I wanna be part of it. I think that’s a positive thing.”

Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 6d

"So, there’s stuff going on that’s unexpected in this thing"

"That just feels like a good opportunity. And I just feel like comedy is a great way to get in and start talking."

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 6d

Jokes aside, this drivel usefully distills all the predictable talking points against academic or cultural boycotts in general down to their purest expression as malign phatic nonsense, which is what they always were anyway.

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 6d

This is *spectacularly* incoherent gibberish from Louis CK. There's hardly even a recognizable phoneme in any of the quotations from him in this article.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Louis CK defends decision to perform at Riyadh comedy festival as ‘a good opportunity’

Comedian admits to mixed feelings but says event is a ‘positive thing’ despite human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia

www.theguardian.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social · 7d

Really shouldn’t be 80° in upstate NY in October! Beneath and above all the acute nightmares of these days, this world-ending catastrophe keeps ticking.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera

(and then prosecute them)

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 8d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8d

Portland

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 8d

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

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