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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 15h

This is fucking madness. North Carolina is a 50/50 state. 😡 😡 😡

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 19h

John Hollinger remains a clown.

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 23h

Narrator: “Only, that wasn’t at all what No Kings meant, and Bassent had inadvertently validated the entire movement.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 1d

“Hey, check out this product! Yes, it’s terrible, but maybe you can have it all the time, too!” — NFL Commish

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 2d

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I need to watch Baby Boom tonight. RIP Diane Keaton 😞

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss touring CBS News HQ

a man in a purple shirt makes a funny face

ALT: a man in a purple shirt makes a funny face

media.tenor.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 4d

Dart? Dart! 🎯

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 4d

Knicks back home @ MSG.

a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie .

ALT: a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie .

media.tenor.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4d

In his own words: the President is responsible for the shutdown.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 5d

Calling it now: Yankees will win World Series next year.

Things they need to do in offseason:

1. Get Cole back
2. Retain Belly
3. Find leadoff man w/ high OBP who doesn’t strikeout
4. Fix bullpen
5. Decide what to do with Volpe (compete for job in spring) and Martian (trade or give him CF)

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 5d

He would have spun himself to China like a top.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 5d

Sit your ass down, Vlad.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Jamie O’Grady @jamieogrady.bsky.social · 5d

Nope.

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