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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 6h

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h

What that mouth do

ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · 11h

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 11h

Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12h

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12h

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12h

Are Harvard professors not in control of their own classes? The poor dears

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12h

I'm blinking at this while simultaneously thinking about my attendance & participation policies that make it that ppl who dont attend cant get "high grades"

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16h

This confused "kids these days" lament that offers very little empirical support for a set of remarkable bold assertions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 12h

"Academia is broken"-pseudo-reporting is some people's unrealistic morning lament.

(As oposed to...: "Das Zeitungslesen des Morgens früh ist eine Art von realistischem Morgensegen").

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16h

This confused "kids these days" lament that offers very little empirical support for a set of remarkable bold assertions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 14h

Feds just making up laws on the spot to try to scare people from reporting on their activity.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13h

Alex Thompson is one of the biggest scumbags in political news media and its wild to me that as many ppl on this site fall for his nakedly anti-Democratic ratucking shit as they do

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13h

Alex Thompson and Nate Cohn are big mad that the public has generally sided with Democrats during the shutdown rather than Republicans

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 14h

Hilarious how mad the press is the shutdown isn’t hurting Dems so they are pivoting to shit on them anyway possible

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h

Gov. JB Pritzker on ABC: "He certainly has the power of the presidency. He does not have the power to overcome the Constitution. And so am I afraid? I am not afraid. Do I think that he could do it? He might. But as I've said before, come and get me I mean. You're dead wrong, Mr. President."

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13h

Having billions of dollars really does seem to cause irreparable brain damage and I think the best thing a future Democratic administration can do for these ppl is to take as much of their money from them as possible

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 13h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 14h

Oh they totally think "insurrection act" is a cheat code to win. The question is do the "no it isnt" ppl stave off the "yes it is" ppl

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah the problem is whether they think they can get away with it which they continue to indicate they dont think they actually can

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

JD Vance indicates to NBC that Trump isn't opposed to invoking the Insurrection Act.

A key line from Vance: "The problem here is not the Insurrection Act or whether we actually invoke it or not."

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 15h

Arent we all tired of this guy endlessly relitigating all of the grievances over years old events that consume him?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

I’m not sure there ever been an investigation more robustly proven valid than the first Trump impeachment. Did he use presidential power for his personal gain? Uh, yeah! I think he probably did!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 16h

Needless to say the reaction to Kirk's death being mass thuggery and purging of dissent really says it all about who and what he was.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 16h

Hard to believe the people who told me “have fun being poor” would make such bad risk management decisions.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 16h

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 16h

The subtext in this piece is how Facebook made boomers insane. The villain here has at earlier times in his life been thoughtful and competent, even as I don't agree with any of his views, and he's thoroughly incentivized to act like a maniac.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 16h

Trump knows he was president on Jan. 6. He’s simply lying to rewrite the history of his attempted coup.

Just like Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and lied to fraudulently subvert the results.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

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 · 17h

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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