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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me, as an Italian-American, that a lot of people escaped Mussolini, but a lot supported him, even here. Some of the origins of our modern national obsession with Columbus are directly from Mussolini propagandists.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 4h

I read your post before the context and was so concerned

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6h

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of the things that we fight about in online discourse are not things that a lot of people see as having to change their daily actions. Clothes, though...

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 5h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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NPR @npr.org · 8h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 5h

All I know is I'm seeing some offensive boards, which is my favorite thing.

Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 5h

Literally had the police union head run for city council here last couple cycle. They're currently politically prosecuting one of our city councilors for standing up to ICE. And our centrist electeds are terrified of them.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 5h

Right, it's one thing to be thoughtful about not plucking something out of nowhere just to dunk, partly because why give it that much attention. A reply though, feels very fair game.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 9h

In fact the pastrami spiced poutine at Lehrhaus in Somerville MA is quite good.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 9h

I got that! Definitely could make some trippy merch though

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, I think there was a mix of original and syndicated programming. Definitely not denying the premise. Mostly just lamenting that I will have this in my head the rest of the day.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

I've been thinking a lot about this since me and @blackjew.bsky.social's daughter was diagnosed with T1 diabetes recently. Because of research advancements, the gap in life expectancy has been shrinking. My Congressman knows research can't bring his daughter back, but knows it could help others.

Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 10h

For generations, the federal government funded research that leads to medical breakthroughs & even cures.

But Trump’s massive cuts at NIH and beyond will make our country sicker, poorer, and worse off.

Like many of you, this is personal for me.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

Same. And now have the theme song in my head.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

Also it always has. Soros accusations have been tossed about as long as I've been politically aware.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

Also thing I learned too late to fully use us that if you leave a job before end of year, you're still entitled to full FSA funds. FYI for anyone that might be useful info to

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

When I started working on the book we just finally got out about apocalyptic pedagogies, an older colleague said she should hurry because it might not still be relevant. Lolsob.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 13h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 10h

Man it really sucks that people heard “Jews and Israelis aren’t synonymous” and interpreted that to mean “you can be as antisemitic as you want if you just say Israeli instead of Jewish”

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 10h

If you think you made a funny clever joke that points out something true and insightful and all of the comments are antisemitic essentialist hate then maybe you actually just made an antisemitic joke.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 12h

Same! We have a calendar on the wall that I painted on and there is a place for me to list the week's meals and the baked gnocchi and Mac and cheese have not been erased. So I'm hoping with the long weekend I can get a couple trays in the fridge today.

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