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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 9h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 12h

This dude is trying to prove wrong Sam Vimes Boot Theory, isn't he?

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

Like, remembering reading histories about masked government agents disappearing people for minor violations and recoiling in horror?

Yeah, a lot of people apparently read those same stories and thought "fuck yeah!"

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

One of the things that I've had to accept is large numbers of people believe the villains of history were actually the heroes.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

I personally am not surprised that doing something intended to blind the pilots of airborne vehicles would result in a severe punishment.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 14h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

I'm just confused why Qatar would want a military base in Idaho.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 15h

“I never dreamed of anything like this."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, I'd prefer if he wasn't in charge of the nukes when he says things like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 14h

It's really great that we have a mad-king who thinks he's going to hell no matter what he does and is in charge of a humanity-ending nuclear arsenal.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know why you would accumulate millions of dollars in crypto... and not cash out, buy some property and live on passive income for the rest of your life.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15h

Wait, people are betting their entire life savings on a single asset?

And that asset is crypto?!?!

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20h

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15h

You heard it from the Vice President himself: it is legal to help cartels launder money for a fee. After all, you're only taking payment for a service.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

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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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

Allowing the Trump administration to pocket-rescind appropriations without congressional approval is a "final resolution" because the obligation to spend that money ends when the fiscal year ends. It literally doesn't matter what SCOTUS says years from now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe Weiss will surprise us all and be a decent head of CBS News. But, looking at her CV, people are 100% justified in questioning the decision, loudly.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

There are few people who occupy the same space as Beri Weiss; she is, to be frank, rather unique.

The closest male analogue may be Matt Taibbi? And, yes, if he was named editor in chief of a major network's news division, there would be a huge "to-do" about it.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

You think for ONE SEC that a man in her position who was named head of CBS News would be the subject of so much to-do? Come on.

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 19h

The whole "you should be proud of Bari Weiss because she's a WOMAN entrepreneur" argument reminds me of this comic:

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

Was crime way up in Portland earlier this decade? Absolutely... and that was reflected in the homicide rate which, again, is way down this year.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

Portland cops, from personal experience, don't give a shit about any other crimes besides homicides (and trumped up charges against poor people and protestors).

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

Look, there is one stat which is considered ironclad in US municipalities: homicides. Because a homicide triggers a large and immediate police response, investigation(s), and possible prosecution.

Fact of the matter is the homicide rate in Portland is WAY DOWN this year.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

I might put it in my profile

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Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons @guthriegf.bsky.social · 23h

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection.

My new @msnbc.com column >> www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ICE's violent tactics are an assault on faith-based dissent

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection.

www.msnbc.com

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 17h

I went to the website so you wouldn't have to. Watch prices start at $499.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 18h

How dare Democrats allege exactly what Trump is saying he's doing!

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 18h

Allegations? Trump has *literally* said he wants to hurt Democrats.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18h

President Trump’s move to cancel projects in Democratic states during the government shutdown has prompted allegations of partisanship.

Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly.

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states

Democrats see a clear pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 21h

I would tell my tween son that monkey D Luffy is Christ-like but I'm afraid he'll die in a fit of laughter.

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