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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28m

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

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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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1h

the president is constantly talking about dying because his heart is so powerful that he will never die, and the fact that others will fascinates him

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 2h

Is there an actual Monster Mash or just is it a Tenacious D, "Tribute" situation.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 2h

the things that Israel does that are bad are really obviously bad on their own merits and you undermine your position by bitching about who invented pitas or the ontological character of crumbl cookies

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

Great bit of Thiel lore was that as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding, he sent out a company wide email (Thiel Capital) musing that this may be the start of the Biblical apocalypse, and that everyone receiving the email should spend time with their families and read the Bible

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 3h

the whole bari weiss affair is just more evidence that 90% of media is a giant dinner party/circlejerk that you don’t belong to. these people want you to think they’re hard nosed first amendment warriors but really it’s just a social club for people who went to the right schools.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

What the fascists are doing is even worse for borger!

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Me: [some farrago of vapid twatwafflery]

Everyone: [rolls eyes, snorts, shakes head]

Me: IS THIS AN INTELLECTUAL DONUT SHOP BECAUSE I SMELL THE THOUGHT POLICE

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

Or give them status and the power to not be abused

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

Ooooooh. And it's that juniper account too

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

What is this even?

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 3h

In my township in the past six months, multiple non-chain restaurants have shuttered, as well as a grocery store and a specialty food store - businesses that had been here decades. Construction projects are going well past delivery date too. And it’s generally a prosperous area.

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

The end game here is just "no restaurants." There aren't, like, restaurant fairies who will keep the whole thing afloat. Just people doing jobs that we are worse off without.

Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 4h

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3h

The end game here is just "no restaurants." There aren't, like, restaurant fairies who will keep the whole thing afloat. Just people doing jobs that we are worse off without.

Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 4h

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 4h

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 5h

Truly a strange moment in the history of liberal democracy when you have to fall back on "well, at least we have the Pope".

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 6h

I have no idea!

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 8h

This is getting directly to the trust issue, and is a demonstration that they understand a bill with their ask isn’t enough for them to believe their ask will be respected.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 29d

SAAAAALLLYYY JEEENNNKKKIIINS!

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 6h

Ok, so I wasn't even concerned about this until now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

JD Vance: "The idea that we're gonna have troops on the ground in Gaza and Israel -- that is not our intention, that is not our plan."

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 10h

Every now and then I remember the press reaction to Elon Musk claiming we live in a simulation was broadly “Real Life Tony Stark Elon Musk Posits Mind-Blowing Thought Experiment 🤯” instead of “This Billionaire Nutjob Doesn’t Think Other People Are Real”

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 7h

People are laughing about this but this was the conclusion of the Supreme Court in the Bob McDonald case.

You can just give politicians money according to the Supreme Court.

That is totally fine and legal.

You cannot demand " official acts".

But if you don't do that... No. Bribery

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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 · 10h

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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