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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 1h

"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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"federal agents stealing children and sending them south
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 3h

"never want to hear MAGA claim to believe in freedom ever again.

Masked agents of the state
random people off the streets into unmarked cars
while saying “liberals ruined the country.”
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"pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils"

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 2h

"In 1992 New York tried to create a review board for NYPD officers accused of misconduct.

Thousands of off duty cops responded by breaking through barricades outside of city hall, chanting racial slurs, smashing car windows, attacking pedestrians and blocking traffic across the Brooklyn Bridge."

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 2h

“police kidnap de blasio’s daughter and issue veiled threat demanding mayor authorize specific tactics” was blip in the press

And NYPD "Adams's protective detail kidnapped an Italian crypto investor and brought him to gangsters who sexually tortured him for his password" "forced him to smoke crack"

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 2h

"Christians":

“No one had the courage to speak to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility
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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 2d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 3h

"police control of local news dependent for access, footage evidence deleting or released"

"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"

10,000 family dogs every year (DOJ: "epidemic")

"White nationalists pervade law enforcement"

"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 3h

"never want to hear MAGA claim to believe in freedom ever again.

Masked agents of the state
random people off the streets into unmarked cars
while saying “liberals ruined the country.”
bsky.app/profile/maxb...

"pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils"

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 3h

"never want to hear MAGA claim to believe in freedom ever again.

Masked agents of the state
random people off the streets into unmarked cars
while saying “liberals ruined the country.”
bsky.app/profile/maxb...

"pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils"

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

The people willing to go out over their skis on this despite the fact that Weiss has zero experience running a broadcast newsroom and the reporting she has done herself has been littered with holes are just telling you they agree with her ideologically

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21h

guy who is most notable for slorking down raw eggs directly out of the shell like an australopithecine complaining that someone else is eating primitive slop

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 20h

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

DOGE was a catastrophic failure by any measure except further hollowing out govt to be fleeced by tech guys. So yeah, DOGE seems like a success if rent-seeking is your goal, but no serious policymaker is under any obligation to take these people seriously, and those that do are doing it for the $

He praised Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative to slash federal spending, texting a recent photo of himself hanging out with Mr. Musk and a Tesla robot. He likewise praised David Sacks, another San Francisco tech billionaire and the chairman of Mr. Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Dezer and his son Gil Dezer built six Trump-branded properties in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, which is now known as “Little Moscow” due to all the luxury condo buyers — people who found themselves suddenly mysteriously filthy rich.

“Russians love the Trump brand,” Gil Dezer said in 2017.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

The jet was operated by Journey Aviation, who also participated in the South Sudan, first Eswatini and second Rwanda third-country removals.

Rich people lease their private jets part-time to companies like Journey in order to get a huge tax break from Trump’s first term.

A screenshot of the Dezers’ jet, N352BH, on the Journey Aviation website.

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