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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13m

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

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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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 34m

There is also an appalling reply by Vermeule to a recent interview by Barrett in which she expressed her dislike for CGC. The best part? He accuses her of not being good at doing legal theory

Here's Vermeule's legal theory, in a nutshell:

'every 150 words in English, insert four in Latin'

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 41m

At last, Vermeule & co. have fully dropped the act

Lawful Proscription: Designation of Antifa as a Domestic Terror Organization
What Trump’s Executive Order means and how the law must change for it to mean anything more.
MANAGING EDITORS- NEW DIGEST
OCT 07, 2025
The New Digest is delighted to publish this guest essay by J.T. Alexander. Mr. Alexander is an attorney in Alaska with a prior career in counterterrorism and counterintelligence.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 4h

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 10h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

“America First.”

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Paul N @paulnuk.bsky.social · 7h

Our household had it a couple of weeks ago.

Why on earth can't people get free or widely available, cheap vaccinations?

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine governments entrusting state data and procedures to this guy. Imagine

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 8h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHPx...

Arthur Rinderknech Runner-Up Speech | 2025 Shanghai

YouTube video by Tennis Channel

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 9h

I spoke w/ Politico about how Dobbs further disrupted and destabilized clinical research with people who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant. The lack of data makes it easier to spread misinformation and instill unwarranted fears....

Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 10h

A decades-old problem (underrepresentation of all women, but especially pregnant women, in medical research) is getting worse.

Post-Dobbs, “fear of liability is a regularly cited obstacle” to enrolling pregnant women in medical studies, according to a 2024 @nationalacademies.org report.

RFK Jr.’s got advice for pregnant women. There’s limited data to support it.

Women of reproductive age have long been missing from clinical trials. It’s getting worse where abortion is banned.

www.politico.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 9h

screenshot of Valentin vacherot new ATP live ranking, n 40 in the world, up 164 position with one tournament

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 16h

Et tu, Gordon (and @theguardian.com)! Enough with this euphemistic neologism. Call a spade a spade! Far right, not 'hard right'. 🤬

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 9h

This. Future generations won't look kindly on those governments who have put the very foundations of the international legal order in peril

Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 1d

As today is Hans Kelsen's birthday, a reminder:

"The elimination of war is our paramount problem. It is a problem of international policy, and the most important means of international policy is international law."

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 1d

As today is Hans Kelsen's birthday, a reminder:

"The elimination of war is our paramount problem. It is a problem of international policy, and the most important means of international policy is international law."

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 1d

A happy 144th birthday to the GOAT

Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 1d

As today is Hans Kelsen's birthday, a reminder:

"The elimination of war is our paramount problem. It is a problem of international policy, and the most important means of international policy is international law."

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 12h

Analysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey.

With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:

Why Scots are losing their British identity

With only a quarter of respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes survey identifying with Britishness, Scotland faces a generational political split

www.thetimes.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 10h

10/10, no notes

Ps expect acrimonious push back by Vermeule and his acolytes

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 17h

Common good constitutionalism.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social · 13h

Some law nerding at Durham Cathedral's exhibition of the only surviving 1216 Magna Carta, and the 1225 reissue that someone spilled a bottle of ink over in the 1700s, getting themselves permanently banned from the library.

The 1216 Magna Carta on display next to a Charter of the Forests from 1217.

Version of Magna Carta with a large wax seal attached to the bottom, with a dark brown spill covering the right side of the document.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 14h

Very interesting suggestion

Andrew Duff @andrewduffeu.bsky.social · 15h

That’s why I’ve suggested a Royal Commission. Establish some facts. Prepare the ground. verfassungsblog.de/the-case-for...

The Case for a Royal Commission on Britain and Europe

verfassungsblog.de

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