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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 9h

Isn’t there something about kidnapping and crossing state lines with the victim, that is really, really, bad? I don’t care if they’re cops or ICE, that is a terrible crime!

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 9h

My God. Do these people have any training? Any rules? Any conscience?

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not too sure about that.

merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe ICE found about this plan after all

merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 13h

Color me skeptical

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 13h

It’s tough to defend the indefensible.

merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 14h

I think I need to buy his music.

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HGJohn @hgjohn.bsky.social · 14h

I’m not a Christian, but damn, I feel this guy’s anger.

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 2d

💪CrashOut of the week (Country artist Bryan Andrews)🇺🇸

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 14h

Instead of making things better for Trump, this smug little lying twerp is demonstrating the incompetence and arrogance, and hubris, at the heart of this administration. They care nothing about law and order. Only revenge.
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord, Mr. Catholic in name only VP.

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 15h

They are digging in deep Sh*t. The smell will stick with them for years to come…. 🤔🤔🤔

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 16h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 15h

They didn’t want to be there anyway.

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 15h

Boom!

merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 15h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/u...

Pastor shot by ICE with pepper balls speaks out in first TV interview | CNN

Pastor hit by ICE pepper balls granted restraining order against government.

www.cnn.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18h

Murder, Inc. is really stupid, reckless, and itching for a fight.

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 18h

The Great Stunt Queen is blowing up Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, but most of the world’s cocaine is produced in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia and smuggled through the Pacific, not the Caribbean. As for fentanyl, Venezuela does not supply it at all. It’s made almost entirely in Mexico.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 17h

He is such a disappointment

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18h

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Candyce 🌊🦋🌈💙🩵 @candycemv1.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible and sad for California

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 17h

These people hated Fetterman when he was making fun of Dr. Oz. They hated him and were shitty to him after he had a stroke. Fetterman. You don’t need to suck up to these people, unless you have sold out totally. Did ya? Sad.

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 18h

And Stephen Miller would own all of them.

merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 18h

As someone reasonably, consistently aware of politics during my almost 70 yrs, I don’t recall Justices going on preemptive PR tours with the press until fairly recently. Are they offering up propaganda talking points? Who they trying to convince they are being fair? Why do they feel it necessary?

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 18h

Doing everything they can except sit down with dems to find a compromise, or agree to leave the extension on subsidies intact indefinitely to help the American people, Shumer forced us to find a way to circumvent the constitutional duties of congress, fuck it up, as we usurp them for the executive.

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 18h

He wants worse than that. Kent State was a catalyst for increased support for the anti war movement. I’m concerned Trump wants to obliterate resistance across the country. Many cities, same day. That’s what he’s setting up for.

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merlevans.bsky.social @merlevans.bsky.social · 18h

Not JD Vance’s parish, I’m guessing