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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 20h

Totally fine and normal to kidnap children in the USA because a xenophobe decided they don't have the right piece of paper. This is what is coming to the UK if we don't fix up immediately.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone in leith is looking for a Monday night 7 a side my usually rammed one has been more sparse recently and needs reinforcements 👀

Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 5d

You said something, you said something stupid like, here's a ticket for someone else, happy birthday, are you lonely yet

Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 5d

Spare Idlewild ticket for tonight folks, just Idlewild and me and some mates in Edinburgh, what's not to love. Pay what you want for it.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 9d

Seeing a lot of responses to this saying "great, they can arrest the people outside asylum hotels!" which feels like a canny gotcha but is ultimately just an endorsement of the basic premise of the policy.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: The Home Office is giving police new powers to restrict repeat protests like pro-Palestine marches.

Police can consider the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests on an area and could ban the protest / force it to move elsewhere.

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 12d

Phone stolen for selfie (happy birthday @everebecca.bsky.social ) ((hello @hannahjtw.bsky.social ))

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22d

Then, I’ve heard it said ‘but they have all this information anyway, why not put it in one place’? Why not? Because you don’t want to make it easier to oppress and control than you should. Grit in the wheels is a protection. 9/10

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 22d

Would suggest you reconsider how you see your partner mate this really isn't the kind of thing you should be publicly posting

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 23d

I see Torres every frame of that goal. Obviously it's being said quite a bit already but that goal is pure Torres.

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 24d

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 24d

There is a legitimate argument that things are getting less safe for cyclists in some ways with as much road rage as there is. Absolutely nothing in that article will help the cyclist in that scenario. So what's the fucking point.

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Sep 14

Wow SPOOKY

Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Sep 11

Met a man whose favourite Green Day album is Warning a couple weeks ago and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Good for you man.

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Sep 5

Bike path to university this morning chalked with Stop The Boats, if anyone up here was waiting for signs

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Sep 4

Agree. No choice but to boycott until alternative poster.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · Aug 30

When it comes to asylum seekers, "luxury" doesn't mean expensive, it means "goods and services that fall outside the scope of essential living needs". Everything, from the impossibly meagre allowance to the arbitrary restrictions, is about ensuring denial and misery.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Aug 30

Considering people seeking asylum living in hotels get less than a tenner per week, and those in other accommodation get less than 50 quid, this really is performative nonsense from the Home Office. People aren't buying fur coats and snowmobiles FFS. 1/

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Home Office bans asylum seekers from buying luxury goods and services

Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week

www.theguardian.com

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 28

Watched it in Diggers. There were actual cheers and groans. Big night.

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · Aug 27

Government plans to halve the ‘move on period’ for Refugees, reducing it to 28 days.

28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Charities warn of rise in rough sleeping among refugees this winter in UK

Ministers urged to rethink plan to halve period asylum seekers given to find housing after decision on their case

www.theguardian.com

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Oo this is a banger make no mistake.

Any wash will do

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 24

To the tune of Zombie by the Cranberries

🎵 "Til you're dead, til you're dead, laundry laundry laundryyy yyy yy" 🎵

Other suggestions welcome, laundry is one of the better chores anyway so this is if anything a bit melodramatic

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ultimately what I am trying to say: we need a controlled ending to asylum hotels, this is uncontrolled which makes everything more volatile. To get ahead Labour needs to invest in a national plan for social housing which includes asylum housing and stop their own idiot narrative.

Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Epping judgment is complicated. It represents failures from Govt. and local authority in managing both the far-right and protecting the rights of asylum-seekers/local community. Thread below.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epping council wins bid to stop Bell Hotel housing asylum seekers

The High Court ruling means asylum seekers will no longer be housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 15

As a new sighthill-based student I am probably going to this, if other Edinburgh people are interested/were on the fence (there's a corbyn intro)

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 15

As a new sighthill-based student I am probably going to this, if other Edinburgh people are interested/were on the fence (there's a corbyn intro)

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wardrobes are instead clothboards

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · Aug 11

I think the latter, most cups will have multiple boards in its lifetime hopefully, but it might be time to rebrand to cuphouse

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