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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21m

The real story here is not about how scared individual cops are (they're almost certainly exaggerating), but about the fact police depts in the US openly intervene in partisan politics, and decline to obey reform-minded politicians. We effectively have no democratic oversight of police in the US.

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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Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 39m

I have a confession to make here, I've sometimes used tzatziki on a bagel w/lox, when out of cream cheese. It's a little messy, but delicious.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 57m

I think this could also work with chopped up bean curd sheet/tofu skins, and the black bean sauce that often accompanies other dishes.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

i bet you could make great kosher poutine with a schmaltz-based gravy and fried Shan tofu (basically, extremely smooth chickpea-flour polenta) with za'atar on top

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 3h

one of the really revealing parts of this unhinged discourse *about 100% fake screenshots* is from a few months ago the last time the “Israeli poutine” one circulated and someone reacted “Israel continues to prove they have no culture WHICH SMEARS WHITE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE”

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 2h

Maura Healy with her characteristic dead silence on this naturally

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

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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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 2h

I just go with Soviet or FSU Jews, because a) Ukrainians and Belarusians didn't think we were part of them at the time b) the empire is what resulted in my particular family history, and its collapse in our emigration.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 2h

That parenthetical is like anti-Stancilism, "nothing anyone does on social media matters"

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 5h

That's right, the social media manager for the Onion is posting Nazi memes on main!

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 5h

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, no, I completely agree, he's got some good points, and there is a new phenomenon here, he does just get over his skis sometimes.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 5h

yeah, there's just a bunch of overlapping claims

Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 7h

"vibes voters get vibes from traditional and social media" - sure, ok
"media made the Biden economy seem very bad" - sure, ok
"inflation isn't what people were mad about, just vibes" - now hold on there..

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 5h

“Israelis are merely culture vultures who don’t have any traditions or customs of their own” do you freaks fucking hear yourselves?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

Some people on here hear “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” and conclude, “All antisemitism is actually anti-Zionism.”

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 6h

Man it really sucks that people heard “Jews and Israelis aren’t synonymous” and interpreted that to mean “you can be as antisemitic as you want if you just say Israeli instead of Jewish”

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 5h

I don't understand how "people yelling at me in the comments" can be misconstrued for "thought police" except by way of a bizarre generalization such as "anyone who tells me my opinion is bad is the thought police"

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 5h

Or the fourth!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Screenshot of text:

It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 7h

This is the worst kind of pathetic clout-chasing. Take this shit back to Xitter, @sallyjenx.bsky.social. Everybody else, block this absolute doofus and live your lives free of nonsense shit-stirring from bad faith actors .

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.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 6h

I expected this from the Greens, but it's disappointing to see in the NDP.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 6h

Doesn't every dog do this?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

they aren’t allegations, he’s fucking said this

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

President Trump’s move to cancel projects in Democratic states during the government shutdown has prompted allegations of partisanship.

Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly.

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states

Democrats see a clear pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 7h

Right, but that's "vibes-mediated inflation" not no inflation. We need Stancilism-without-Stancil.

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Dan @pandred.bsky.social · 7h

"vibes voters get vibes from traditional and social media" - sure, ok
"media made the Biden economy seem very bad" - sure, ok
"inflation isn't what people were mad about, just vibes" - now hold on there..

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 7h

No inflation was actually high and once prices are up and interest rates are up people simply do not appreciate prices rising less steep.

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