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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 2h

This is hopeless. Everything is hopeless.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 2h

Look if you're on the side of the bad guys and want Josh Shapiro to endorse this just say so.

There are sides. Pick one. There's a reason I don't think Pennsylvania should be in any new country formed that includes my state.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 7h

Protests need to be focused on telling the Governors to use the Armies that they're each the Commander-in-Chief of to force the federal government back into its fucking box.

There's no purpose anymore in protesting ICE. They do not care.

Force the Governors to actually *USE* their Armies.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 7h

I just want to know why the Governors are being such wimps. All of them. They're just being fucking cowards. Each one of them has an Army and many of them an Air Force. (all? idk)

They literally have their own Armies and they're just letting this shit happen. It's horseshit. Protest GOVERNORS.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

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...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

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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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 7h

Here "state" was being used in its generic sense, hence the lower caps.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 7h

...which is the category "state". Don't try to out-pedant a pedant.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 7h

I frickin' *love* The Edge of Tomorrow, sort of vaguely in that genre.

I usually disdain Cruise but he and Emily Blunt are just fantastic in this movie. He plays a cocky self-important smug asshole and of course he *is* a cocky self-important smug asshole so it works.

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Stefan Müller @sjmueller.bsky.social · 7h

The number of people on this site that continue to post all about their crimes and encourage others to join in, is an odd bit.

Do not point lasers at aircraft.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 7h

What possible motive could Andy Ngo have to keep this going for all these years?

Is he just psychotic?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

Follow ups and not tolerating lies and bullshit.

Imagine if corporate media did this for 10 years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 8h

I’m convinced he’s dealing with a serious health issue and they’re hiding all of it.

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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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 8h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 8h

When I say Illinois has no reason to stay in the United States because this is the price of remaining in the United States, I mean it.

When my children are worried about ICE, when they're clearly talking about ICE amongst themselves at school... that is a price that's far too high to pay for the US

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 8h

The sheer stress of living in an environment where even here in the close-in burbs (even out in AURORA, which is 40 miles west of the city) we're taking care not to attract ICE and keeping our eyes out for them...

It has an effect on the entire community.

They're terrorizing the whole metro.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 8h

n.b.: scaling them up requires progressively stronger beams, and while glu-lam absoluteliy works, you need to know how to test the glu-lam's strength in the right direction if you're going to put it under tension, as in a siege engine.

In other words: don't try this at home if you're going to scale

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 8h

in case you need the superior siege engine:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBl...

Trebuchet- Easy to Build! | Evening Woodworker

YouTube video by The Evening Woodworker

www.youtube.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

dinner time!

the mass of state troopers pulled back into the parking lot across from the protest. they’re eating what looks like pizza from a salvation army van.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9h

It's interesting that he's now publicly contemplating his own mortality a couple of times

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 8h

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 8h

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Use the 60921 filters.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 13h

The “peace president.”

Ok, let’s do drones.

Obama increased the Bush/Cheney drone program by a factor of 10: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017...

Trump increased Obama’s drone program 432%: worldbeyondwar.org/u-s-drone-st...

U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 432% Since Trump Took Office - World BEYOND War

By Carey Wedler, Popular Resistance. When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush’s drone wars. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning hea...

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 10h

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity.

Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy.

A little profanity can show that you're being real and you do give a damn.

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