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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h

Actual practical question (practical informed answers only, please): CNN and a number of other news sites no longer offer opt-out choices; have the rules changed and we can no longer opt-out or is there a secret path?

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Patricia Campbell @patriciacampbell.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine that eh?

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Got played by billionaires.

Congrats👇

Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”

From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US

One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”…

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 11h

What can you do if your Qantas data has hit the dark web?: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/qantas-cyber-hack-has-my-data-been-leaked-what-should-i-do/105884604

What can you do if your Qantas data has hit the dark web?

Hackers have released Qantas customer data onto the dark web. Here's what experts say to look out for if you think your personal data may be caught up in the leak and what actions you can take.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

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

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 13

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

New NYT Column — Republicans Don't Want to Live in Lincoln's America

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 18h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 15h

Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms

Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 11h

To remind myself:

Guitarcoyote108 @coyote108.bsky.social · 13h

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Jesus of Nazareth—Immigrant and refugee

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 13h

Jim Travers, a writer at the Toronto Star decades ago, had similar suspicions about police forces in Canada.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Travers: Why politicians are afraid to take on the RCMP

Some anniversaries should never be forgotten. It was four years ago this Christmas holiday that the RCMP meddled in a federal election, tilting its outcome, as even Conservatives confirm, and arching ...

www.thestar.com

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly wonder at this point how many media/political figures would endorse an Imperial Japan-style arrangement where the police in major cities have an explicit veto over governmental policy.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 13h

Once again: the cruelty is the point.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 13h

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

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 13h

ICE knew and made a point of targeting this guy in particular.

They had to know.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 13h

Wondering if #OttawaPublicLibrary can get something like this in one of their branches?

MorbidAnjel @morbidanjel.bsky.social · 13h

The ‘banned books’ staircase at the Newport Public Library.

Basically, all the books that were required reading while we were growing up

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 13h

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 17h

Major cities folding this fast is not a good look

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 18h

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

Broadway between Union Square and the Flatiron.

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tim d (he/him) @timdevin.bsky.social · 18h

spotted at the local pinball place in Somerville

Gilligans Island pinball game, with the banner that says protect trans youth

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Association of Space Explorers @aseastronauts.bsky.social · 17h

#HappyBirthday to ASE Life Member Jake Garn, who flew to space in 1985 aboard STS-51-D!

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 17h

"Which one?" asked the Gotham geography nerd. 🙃

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

This is just unreal. The level of panic in speech pathology groups is off the charts

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Grist @grist.org · 18h

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

grist.org/internationa...

#Solar #Wind #Climate #Renewables #Energy