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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11h

Dan Rather isn't a fan of Bari Weiss, either.

MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News

A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

substack.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 12h

RIGHT? I used to aspire to be her.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13h

Sending love and solidarity from Chicagoland!

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13h

Harrison Butker missed the XP.

Another women just got her doctorate degree.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yes, I’m sure @60minutes.bsky.social will great and unbiased analysis of capitalism the equity of the stock market from … (checks notes) … the CEO of BlackRock.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

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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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats on your fine motor skills! I would have failed as a fancy Tudor era woman, due to the embroidery requirement.

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 15h

"NEW: Neil Young announces that, due to Jeff Bezos bending the knee to Trump, he's started the process of pulling all of his music from Amazon. 👏 He added, "Go to a local store. Don't go back to the big corporations who sold out America." 💯"

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

Well, that may end shortly. Sounds like Judge Xinis is on the verge of releasing him.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine these NG members sitting at home, minding their own business.
They get pulled out of their paying jobs and ripped away from their families to be shipped to Chicago to help terrorize immigrant communities. Then, they get there, their bosses tell them they’re too fat and send them home.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

Reminder that this is also happening across many, if not all, of Chicago’s hundreds of suburbs, many of which, like mine, have significant Latino and immigrant populations.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 19h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

When you’re too fat to do fascism sexily.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 19h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

Of you’d ever seen me try to cut out shapes or color in the lines, you’d never suggest I make my own clothes.

But I’m in the middle of a similar purge.
My great-aunt paid top price for high quality clothes and had many items for 20+ years.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

Released without charges.

Oh, but ICE claimed she was throwing things at federal agents. 🙄

WGN Staffer Detained, Later Released By Border Patrol Agents In Lincoln Square

The woman was recording agents as they detained a man when they took her into custody, handcuffing her and putting her in a van, according to witnesses and video. The agents drove into another car whi...

blockclubchicago.org

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16h

If it’s happening in the vicinity of journalists, there’s a TRO prohibiting it.

I’ve been watching all weekend to see if we wind up back in court over this BS tomorrow morning.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16h

We’re all out here on the protest lines and sitting in anti-fascism trainings while the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is drinking pumpkin spice lattes and enjoying Fall.

a man with his mouth open and the words it 's infuriating on the bottom

Alt: a man with his mouth open and the words it 's infuriating on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16h

Canadian friend just sent a “Happy Canadian Thanksgiving” message while I’m down here in the lower 48 signing up for ICE whistle kits and volunteering to bring food to homes of those in our community too afraid to leave their homes because of ICE.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 17h

At some point, I will proofread my skeets before hitting send - but that day is not today.

* who has agreed to grant him residency *

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 18h

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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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 17h

* Except for Public Defenders, who bring it up every chance we get.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah but Costa Rica wants to treat him as a human being, so we can’t have that.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 17h

“In the Trump era, there is no longer any attempt to obscure what’s really going on. Nine years ago, as Trump was starting his authoritarian ascent and bashing journalists, CBS’s CEO didn’t sound an alarm – he instead seemed thrilled…”

This piece is very good.

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermin...

www.theguardian.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 18h

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...

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 20h

More drama surrounding discovery in the Comey case. Gov is still arguing about when discovery is due, despite a court order issued on Friday. It looks like Pat Fitzgerald is asking for information the government is unwilling to give without a protective order.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459...

In the afternoon of October 7, 2025, the parties engaged in their first communications
regarding this case. At that time, the government discussed with the defendant the proposed
standard EDVA discovery agreement and a discovery protective agreement.
At the initial
discussion the defendant would not agree until the government provided information on the U.S.
Attorney's appointment and the identities of PERSON 1 and PERSON 3 on the Indictment. That evening, the government provided the defendant the standard EDVA discovery agreement and a
proposed discovery protective agreement via email. The defendant acknowledged receipt of the
government's email at the arraignment on October 8, 2025.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h

“knowing how to sell news” = knowing billionaires who are willing to fund your bullshit for their own nefarious purposes

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