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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 1m

Mamdani from the top rope. lol

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 7h

Twitch is long overdue for legal scrutiny regarding the content it permits creators to stream—particularly when those creators deliberately omit content classification labels on a platform accessible to users as young as 13.

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NPR @npr.org · 23h

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a case that could strike down the last major part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that remains standing. n.pr/4n3yejC

Supreme Court hears case that questions major plank of voting rights

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a case that could strike down the last major part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that remains standing.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 1d

I ordered my frog costume. 🐸

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 2d

Good grief. That's bad. 🤯

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

Inflatable costumes get double candy on Halloween. Spread the word.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene are trying to appeal to a wider audience. You can't convince me otherwise.

Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 4d

These people live in an alternate reality.

Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 4d

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d

I love this image.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 5d

For the love of everting, please stop saying it's a Qatari base in the US. It will be a Qatari training facility on Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

Holy shit. Reading comprehension and media literacy is lacking.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6d

The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud.

They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate.

Story: bit.ly/47grj1P

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 6d

This entire administration lives in a god damn bubble.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 6d

Renaming our wireless network "Aunt Tifa's HQ".