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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 21h

I do think it’s quite funny that during his entire time as a “conservative intellectual” in which he was lauded as a genius and made millions of dollars, Jordan Peterson was essentially having one long mental breakdown

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Jordan Peterson, explained

ca.news.yahoo.com/jordan-peter...

She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 2d

UNICEF reports that 320,000 children under five in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, and over 56,000 have lost one or both of their parents.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to posture himself for high $$$ speaking gigs and probably a spot in the next Dem administration. Truly a monstrous human being who, in a just world, would be making these arguments while defending himself at The Hague.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 1d

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

a few good men but make it a few small beers

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

There’s not much to celebrate these days but I am very happy that we, as a society, have decided to move on from TedTalks

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

If the Democratic Party wanted to succeed in combatting Trumpism, they would make Zohran the de facto head of the party and follow his lead

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

Most MSM Trump coverage reads as "this guy is doing some potentially dangerous and illegal stuff, but he has a mandate to do so." Then you look at his approval numbers and he's the least popular president at this stage in the history of polling.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Project 2025 will achieve its final goals with Trump at the helm, although obviously they will cause an immense amount of damage. But what they have shown is that this country's "liberal" institutions are willing to bow down to them, even with a president as unpopular as Trump.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

"Both-sidesism" does not describe this story. This is one-sideism. They back what Trump is doing and are willing to present lies to support it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think people really comprehend how corrupt this administration is because our financial system is a financialized abstraction. They have already siphoned tens of billions of dollars out of the American economy and straight into their pockets.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

Market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

the fall of the roman empire coming

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe actually sign those bills on your desk specifically focusing on trans protections too while you're there.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

The Trump Administration’s removal of LGBTQ suicide prevention programs this summer was a disgrace.

I just signed legislation requiring student ID cards in public middle schools, high schools, and colleges to include the Trevor Project’s crisis and suicide prevention hotline.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know that you're telling me now for the first time

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2d

Wow the completely billionaire-astroturfed hack has no idea how to actually create engagement?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2d

There are lots of ways in which Americans are easily tricked, but seeing Noem's face scream at them that this is the radical Democrats fault feels like it's only going to make people blame Republicans even more for the shutdown

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe Americans are dumber than I give them credit for, but this seems like an awfully stupid move

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 2d

Petty garbage www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · Jan 20

Do not obey in advance. Instead, scroll your phone 60 hours a week and tweet “fascism is here y’all” 3 times a day.

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