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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

NEW: Trump meant to send a Truth Social DM to Pam Bondi about indicting his rivals. That sounds like official business, so I'm filing a FOIA for her DMs, plus those of five other cabinet members. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/my-latest-...

My Latest FOIA: Trump's Truth Social DMs

Recently, Trump posted a message to Pam Bondi that was meant to be a direct message. I want to know what other official messages he's sending to cabinet members.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4h

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.

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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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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit: the Department of Justice brought charges against the sitting New York State Attorney General without informing the United States Attorney General.

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Pam Bondi, DOJ officials caught off guard by Tish James indictment: Sources

Sources said that Tish James' indictment for alleged fraud came as a surprise.

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 2h

Expert warns ‘bond vigilantes’ will bring Congress to its knees, forcing Social Security cuts — how to prepare
#Bondvigilantes #Congress

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Expert warns ‘bond vigilantes’ will bring Congress to its knees, forcing Social Security cuts — how to prepare

American lawmakers have long known that Social Security is on an unsustainable path. An aging population has created a funding imbalance that now threatens the program’s solvency. Despite this, cutti...

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 2h

Newsom signs bill creating Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in major milestone for reparations
#Americanslavery #Reparations

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Newsom signs bill creating Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in major milestone for reparations

Sacramento, California - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill establishing a state government agency which will administer reparations for descendants of formerly enslaved people. ...

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 2h

Hedge Fund Billionaire Warns US Entering ‘Civil War’
#Hedgefund #Billionaire

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Hedge Fund Billionaire Warns US Entering ‘Civil War’

Hedge fund manager and billionaire Ray Dalio has warned that the U.S. may be entering a new kind of “civil war” amid rising inequality and debt, as well as a breakdown in the global geopolitical order...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Dasha Burns said she talked with Trump on the phone 4 days ago. But now he doesn’t know who she is 🤔

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h

Follow ups and not tolerating lies and bullshit.

Imagine if corporate media did this for 10 years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 5h

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Dannie D 🦋 @dannied.bsky.social · 3h

Helena Moreno wins the New Orleans mayoral race in a landslide — becoming the city’s first Hispanic and second female mayor. ✊🏾

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 6h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 5h

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Trump’s 100% tariff threat sparks defiance from Beijing

Beijing defends its new rare earth export curbs and warns its readying “corresponding measures” to counter any new U.S. tariffs.

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6mWwE4Vi/Y...

Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say (Associated Press)

WASHING...

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 8h

Here's the fallacy. People say that Tr*mp assaulted 26 women and children. That’s not true. He was caught 26 times doing that. The real figure is about seven times higher (180).

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 6h

None of the TV talking heads today ever went to college to study journalism as a subject. They are hacks!!!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Back in the 90s when neo-nazi skinheads were everywhere, people wore colored laces in their Doc Martens to signify which side they were on. Red meant nazi, one black one white meant anti-racist, blue meant neutral, and green meant you like frogs and were anti-fascist. Been thinking about that a lot.

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Trump Foe Bashes Vance After ABC Interview Blow-Up" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6nzqMzfO/U...

Trump Foe Bashes Vance After ABC Interview Blow-Up (The Daily Beast)

JB Pritzker came in all guns blazing against JD Vance after the vice president smeared him during a live interview. The Illinois governor immediately followe...

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 6h

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'Plenty to worry about': Billionaire hedgefunder warns America could be heading into a civil war

Billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has warned that the United States may be sliding toward a new kind of internal fracture amid deepening inequality, mounting debt and a fractur...

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chitraraj.bsky.social @chitraraj.bsky.social · 6h

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This is how the great sleeping giant of America awakens, roars and puts an end to it

Something dramatic has happened.Many people who consider themselves non-political or independent, or moderate Republican, or who even voted for Trump last November, can’t avoid seeing what’s now come ...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

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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