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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Sep 1

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.

I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory

Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

www.gofundme.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 9h

So much of what this country is... is contained in this story.

Read it, be angry, and donate.

(via @releasemn8.bsky.social over on IG)

Donate to Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!, organized by MN8 Team

Calling for support towards a Hmong community leader and his famil… MN8 Team needs your support for Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!

www.gofundme.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 10h

I will sit on pier in Piraeus and dream of the old country (Manhattan)

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 10h

If I have to leave I’m buying a bouzouki and learning to play rembetika

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 14h

You’re a clown and a fascist bootlicker like everyone else at the Atlantic. You’re a hideous group of sad, desperate mediocrities

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 15h

I suspect the travel power of a US passport will continue to sink rapidly

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15h

Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and tourist visas, in response to a similar requirement the Trump administration has imposed on its citizens.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move

The West African state says it has introduced an "identical visa programme" for US travellers.

www.bbc.com

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The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 16h

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

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 16h

When it comes to music production, my way of fighting AI is to put something very weird, random, and annoying in every track

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 16h

Also a lot of actions ACT UP undertook, like trespassing on government property, were misdemeanors in 1985 and are now felonies that can come with terrorism charges.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 17h

ACT UP and its history are at the core of my political consciousness but I also think very often about the fact that many ACT UP actions were rooted in the premise “Cops won’t beat white men on camera” and I don’t think political action can assume that anymore.

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 17h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 17h

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 17h

Grown men who neg people they like because they can’t give a compliment are boring and frankly pitiful.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 17h

🙏

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning! Thank you so so much to everyone who shared my GFM last night. It was a really nice surprise to wake up to.

I appreciate you all so much.
I was with friends who were consoling me IRL and then I woke up to find friends online also consoling me.

I’m sad but very lucky!

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🙏🙏

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 1d

Why are Illinois state cops attacking protesters and running interference for ICE?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” films and “Father of the Bride,” whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation, has died. She was 79.

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather,’ reportedly dies at 79

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” films and “Father of the Bride,” has died. She was 79.

www.chicagotribune.com

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it's me @coolguytim.bsky.social · 1d

our governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov could stop this from happening but chooses not to. he is directly aiding the same people he falsely claimed would have to “go through” him

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to explain the mythic and symbolic power the piers have for NYC queer people.

The places on the west side of Manhattan that were once liminal queer boundaries have almost all been gentrified and repurposed for tourists now.

This good messaging.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 1d

The tech industry is propping up the whole US economy on a couple of popsicle sticks that are about to snap

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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