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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 2d

Yes. Graham Platner is running.

Graham Platner for U.S. Senate | Launch Video

YouTube video by Graham Platner for Senate

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 2d

She’s 77 years old. I’ve seen this movie a couple of times now. I didn’t like how it ended.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 4d

“Please list 420 strategies for how I can merchandise the phrase ‘Hack the Gibson.’”

Keith @keithjpowell.com · 4d

Me deciding to watch the world burn: “ChatGPT, please give me 100,069 possible titles for thrillers in which pugs play a key role.”

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

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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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4d

11 days into a government shutdown.

This is where we are:

Eleven Days Into a Shutdown. This Is Where We Are | Sen. Bernie Sanders

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Josh Crutchmer @jcrutchmer.bsky.social · 5d

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

NPR @npr.org · 5d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 6d

every dollar you spend for a subscription to a major publication like the times or wapo is better spent on propublica and local and independent media

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8d

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 9d

Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!

The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died | Your Impossible Voice

By Ashleigh Adams — "That June, I stole a red-and-black checkered flannel from my stepdad and frayed the hem with kitchen shears."

yourimpossiblevoice.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 11d

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the urtext of LifeTime movies.

Keith @keithjpowell.com · 11d

Miller looks like a cancerous testicle cosplaying as Lex Luthor.

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 12d

HOLY COW. What an issue:

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 15d

We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.

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October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 12d

It’s crazy that the theatrical cut of Iron Eagle (1986) ends with Louis Gossett Jr.’s character and the kid kissing like in Sixteen Candles.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 13d

Super excited to be back in Ghost Parachute. I love this story and am glad it find the right home!

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 13d

Read "Be More Raccoon" written by @keithjpowell.com and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon."

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Be More Raccoon — Ghost Parachute

Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon. Donning a domino mask scavenged from brighter times and an old cosplay costume, ...

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 13d

Read "Be More Raccoon" written by @keithjpowell.com and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon."

tinyurl.com/w4me8cay

Be More Raccoon — Ghost Parachute

Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon. Donning a domino mask scavenged from brighter times and an old cosplay costume, ...

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 14d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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NPR @npr.org · 15d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 15d

Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort

I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol

More on her limbo status here:
www.notus.org/congress/ade...

Voters Elected Her to Congress. Mike Johnson Is Making Her Wait.

“At this point, I can’t hire staff. We don’t have an office. I can’t get around without being escorted,” Arizona’s incoming House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, said Tuesday.

www.notus.org

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 17d

I’m losing hours to Hades 2.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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