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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1h

how is THIS the fucking thing he’s honest about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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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 · 3h

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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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1h

spent three hours cleaning today

house still looks same

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1h

hell yes

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 7h

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1h

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 3h

he's a hollow man - there's nothing inside there but a desperate, sweaty desire for power

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more repellent, subservient person than Vance. He's seems not to have a self at all. There isn't a boot in America he wouldn't lick if it would bring him an additional iota of power.

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thee Michael Whiteshoes @michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social · 5d

since it's spooky season here's my favorite gravestone

a gray tombstone with an etching of a woman on an older portable phone. the tombstone reads:"Jesus Called And Kim Answered".

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

This is why the first rule of old bsky was don’t dunk, block.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 6h

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 8h

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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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

ooftah

demotivational speaker. 💕 @heysita.bsky.social · 5h

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ earned $840,000 in its opening weekend.

The film had a $34 million dollar budget.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 5h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

NILFs

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

Government is like you aren’t sexy enough to do authoritarianism we need some dang DILFS up in here

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

every day, it seems, I read a news story that stops the breath in my throat and I have to consciously tell myself, "don't scream"

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 23h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

I think if we took the CRT out, two kids could have fit inside our television

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

they were H U G E, weren't they??

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 5h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone who celebrates the release of a prisoner will be considered a target for "punishment and arrest" by Israel. Are you fucking kidding me?

Israel warns West Bank Palestinians against celebrating prisoners’ releases

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

I've become so used to flat-screens, I forgot people used to have like little shrines on top of their televisions, or some kind of decor

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 7h

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 4h

so glad I blocked that bag of sourdough

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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