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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 8h

ICE pulled GUNS on 3 people in the Rogers Park area today.

In just a single Chicago neighborhood today, ICE went after
rapid responders, "pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

We don't know how many people they took. The last update I got from a source I trust was between three and six, and they weren't even entirely sure about that range. ICE was also far more aggressive with our rapid responders today, pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 8h

I was the apple of Putin's eye.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 8h

Finally able to play my old records on this rainy evening, thanks to the Warwick Library’s Library of Things!

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 8h

I just want to go live with the animals.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 17h

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 245 (10/12/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & en...

blackwhiteandread.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 9h

Some first hand accounts from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in the thread.

Additional reporting here: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Said respectfully, this man got a standing ovation saying this in one of the whitest rooms in America

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 9h

Remembering my friend Fungie.

Fungie the Dingle Dolphin celebrated with Festival

YouTube video by RTÉ News

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11h

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 12h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 12h

Welcome to the SCOTUS doing their own propaganda era

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social · 8d

Larry Ellison has given nearly half a billion dollars to Tony Blair's institute. Now, why do you think he'd do that..?

Terrific piece by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at @thenerve.news

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 12h

It will only get worse

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

Just saw an announcement from a kids soccer group that ICE agents have been spotted in the area, so it’s OK to skip today’s games if people are scared.
The MAGA assault on our community is intolerable and has nothing to do with making people’s lives better.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 14h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 12h

"imagine if we allowed people to engage w poetry the way we expect people to engage w music. Nobody plays you a song they love or sends you a playlist & then says, get back to me w meanings of all of these songs."

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

Maggie Smith: My Work is Play

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

open.substack.com

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 12h

They met in Boston last week so looks like he heard from the rank and file.

Allie-gata #Resists @alliegata.bsky.social · 1d

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin endorses Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race - NBC News

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like it should be a slightly larger story that amid all the administration’s screaming about “antifa” (whatever that is for them), Trump and his cronies are more aggressively and more frequently calling journalists they don’t like terrorists.

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ONeillJones @oneilljones.com · 13h

to prevent arguments over whose turn it is to wash the dishes, we instituted a "wash your own dishes" rule yesterday

today my youngest wrapped a bowl with plastic wrap to eat cereal

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 12h

A dynamic duo

Mongolian Throat Singing With My Daughter

YouTube video by Batzorig Vaanchig

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 13h

“Though the changes in complexity may be small, we have seen that similarly small changes in other neuroimaging measures have a massive effect on subjective experience,” argues David Nutt. | https://bit.ly/424mS7y

#philsky #philsci #consky 🧪

David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

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