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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Sloth Bear Day!

a black bear sitting in the grass eating a piece of fruit

Alt: a black bear sitting in the grass eating a piece of fruit

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

Let’s be honest: there have already been several bizarre moments from Trump this morning alone that would justify invoking the 25th Amendment.

He is a seriously unwell individual.

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 4h

You all should be aware of this book

Also, the idea that a version of Jewish gumbo cannot exist and be authentic because some versions of gumbo contain shellfish and pork is um, its a limiting world view on food

Matzoh Ball Gumbo

From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with del...

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 11h

My paternal grandma’s family is from New Orleans, & part of the family is still there. Jews live everywhere. We take part in the cultures of the places we live, & transform them as well. We are part of the cultures where we live, not strangers or outsiders.

🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

What’s weird about this meme is 1) seeing some of the comments conflate Judaism with Israel but also 2) the ignorance of very long standing Jewish communities in the South who have been making gumbo for a long time.

Here’s one family’s recipe for kosher gumbo: jewishsa.org/kosher-chick...

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Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · 2d

The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

There is that...but look at my hometown DC....my Lord. What a situation when nowhere is safe

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

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

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what the fuck is a trillionaire @deusericus.bsky.social · 1d

Another must-have book! Setting a reminder for 10/15!

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Please help me share this to 100!

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Please help me share this 100 times! 34 x shared already.

Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 5d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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LizNWillTradeCandyCornForAlmondJoys @liznisherenow.bsky.social · 1d

I pre-ordered Chef’s book awhile back and am tracking delivery with an obsession:

Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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Summer Whitesell @linimentcake.bsky.social · 1d

It turns out there were two ways to achieve equality in this nation...white America chose the version that wrecks everybody's lives...We could have had help buying our first home, or helped each other through tough times, but we chose this, instead...

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2d

FYI, all law enforcement already treats Black Americans this way. Welcome!

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 24d

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

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Sarah @sawcat.bsky.social · 24d

I wish I could climb through the pictures to eat some.

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Damien @aussiedamo.bsky.social · 24d

Oh I would eat SO MUCH of all that.

PS L’shanah Tovah Umetukha.

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Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 24d

I am obsessed with this little face.
This is my little rescue kitten, Mochi.
She's about 6 weeks old now, but she was found abandoned about 2 weeks ago or so.

A white kitten with dark ears, rings around her eyes, and a dark nose.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 24d

The Verge received a Covering Climate Now award for this story about a quirky and determined community of scientists and locals bringing forests back to life in Costa Rica, despite new perils brought on by climate change.

Congrats to @justcalma.bsky.social on the well-deserved win!

They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit

“This is what gives me hope.”

www.theverge.com

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