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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 5h

"Malevolent screwups" rather sums up this regime at times. www.huffpost.com/entry/700-cd...

700 CDC Employees Reinstated After False Layoff Notices

The layoffs still impact 600 now-former CDC staff members.

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 5h

And "Love and Death"!

Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 5h

Dr. Demento! Another fabulous piece of So Cal subversive subculture!

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15h

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 5h

Hiding any "killer tomatoes" in there?

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 7h

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 7h

Airing this trash-talking political hit video could arguably compromise any airport that chooses to show it ... not to mention how thousands of travelers might view it.

Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 7h

Kristi Noem recently recorded a video blaming Democrats for the shut down.

Spokane Airport says it will not play the most recently delivered message from the secretary.

www.khq.com/news/spokane...

Spokane’s airport will not play shut down message from Secretary Noem in airport

SPOKANE, WASH- In recent months Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Nome has rolled out several of videos that have played in airports across the country.

www.khq.com

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 7h

This looks like gang crap, not law enforcement. Have we heard past / present big-city #police chiefs weigh in on these tactics?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 7h

When white middle-class people joined civil rights protests ... THAT made a difference.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 7h

The obsessive relentlessness of their devotion to cruelty has to be some diagnosable pathology.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 8h

“New Zealand is bearing the brunt of these warming seas because of its position…Meanwhile, the Subtropical Front — the boundary between cold subantarctic water and warmer subtropical water…has moved 120km west…the first time a shift in large-scale ocean circulation around NZ had been observed”🧪

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8h

Ahead of tomorrow’s storm:
California has pre-positioned resources — including dozers, hand crews, rescue swimmers, and helicopters — in Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties to respond to potential debris flows and mudslides.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

Proposals to build data centers are facing growing opposition across the country.

Local leaders are weighing concerns about data centers’ water and electricity use with the hefty community investments that developers often offer to sweeten their deals.

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 8h

Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.

It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.

Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.

Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 7h

Are there stronger words for this than immoral, soulless, and disgusting?

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 16h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 8h

Please do your best to stick it out. We the People need You the Patriots.

AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 8h

Y’all, I don’t know what to do anymore. Without going into specifics, I’ve had one of the roughest years of my life & our elected officials are intentionally making it worse just to score political points with their “teacher’s pets,” for want of a better term. I don’t know how much more I can take.

Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 8h

The radio interview I did with Matthew Shepard's mother was one of the hardest I had ever done. Her very composure made it tough for me to maintain mine. Matthew was 21 years old.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13h

Hopes of securing a UN treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement. Nature spoke to Samuel Winton, a researcher who is studying the treaty’s progress, about what went wrong, and what can be done to salvage the treaty. 🧪

The world’s first plastics treaty is in crisis: can it be salvaged?

Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 13h

With a current value of $0.001 per ton, it does not look like coal will be making a comeback in the United States. That's the outcome from a recent coal lease bid for *subsidized* coal. They lowered the royalty rate (& cut environmental regulations) to encourage the sale. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 A short 🧵

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 8h

My grandmother's advice: the rising onion fumes hit the first moist thing they encounter, which is usually your sclera. So stick out your tongue and the fumes will hit that first. Sounds and looks nutty but worked for her, and works for me.

Dylan Irvine @dylanjirvine.bsky.social · 13h

I'm a scientist... Just keep your #onions in the fridge. Presumably (i.e., my hypothesis) this changes the viscosity of the onion juice. #NoMoreTears. Done.

I've been doing this for years.

Please credit me in the resulting paper 😀🧪

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Crying while cutting onions? Scientists finally reveal how to stop tears with a simple trick | - The Times of India

Scientists have finally unraveled the mystery behind onion tears, revealing a two-stage mist release. Cornell University researchers found that blunt

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 1d

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