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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans love to make up conspiracy theories of child trafficking to hide the fact that they are the biggest supporters of child trafficking in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8h

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

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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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 4h

Put that on my tombstone

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 9h

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who jus...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 9h

high on her own supply

meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 9h

#FuckIce

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Fascinating, the right wing leader of the World Jewish Congress attempted to convince Israel to release Marwan Barghouti and Israel refused

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12h

⛓️‍💥 New: World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder – heir to the Estée Lauder empire – offered to travel to Egypt last week to lobby for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as part of the upcoming hostage deal, Times of Israel reports. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office...

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 9h

How’d that work out?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10h

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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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 12h

In the 1950s, my father was teaching communism to what was then the NSA - precursor to the CIA. When moving offices some of Karl Marx‘s books fell out of his boxes and a guard turned in him in to the McCarthy cronies — he was accused of being a Communist. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 10h

Takes one to effuse over one.

meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 10h

“highly disposable matter” means compost right? She’s a shoveler of compost into the body politic.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10h

How I Expect the Supreme Court to Kill Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Callais (If It Does So): Not By Direct Overruling but By Pretending They Are Simply Reinterpreting the Meaning of Section 2 electionlawblog.org?p=152471

How I Expect the Supreme Court to Kill Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Callais (If It Does So): Not By Direct Overruling but By Pretending They Are Simply Reinterpreting the Meaning of Section 2...

I’ve written of good reason to believe the Supreme Court is going to sap Section 2 of its power in the Louisiana v. Callais case, being argued on Wednesday. I won’t rehash those arguments here. Instea...

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 13h

This is very bad.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 13h

video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, an infernal CBP helicopter woke me up early this morning. They’ve been buzzing my neighborhood like harpies all weekend. It reminds me of occupied Ireland back in the day. The racket casts a pall of doom, provokes a mix of sorrow and anger.

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 16h

Not the AI sloppies!

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 16h

More relevant than ever.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · Apr 5

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad

American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Christie Martin @surflaw.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for saying that but the state bars are so weak - they don’t do anything!

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meh333.bsky.social @meh333.bsky.social · 16h

The lawyers and esp judges in South Carolina who should’ve been at least reprimanded have been ignored for years.

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 1d

One thing we’ve discovered is that the legal profession is not good at self-regulation.

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