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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 24m

My dad is having some health problems (nothing emergent, but prayers are appreciated) but I read his chart online and discovered that he apparently smoked "1 to 2 packs per day" from the age of 17 to 25 - he has always been very insistent to me and my sibs that we never smoke.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 58m

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the cannibal murderer Jeffrey dahmer. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 1d

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1h

I solved the Sunday 10/12/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 17:00!

www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

Play The New York Times Crossword

Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.

www.nytimes.com

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly, every NYC mayor dreams of being able to replace hundreds of cops who don't like him with hundreds of cops who do like him

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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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1h

He said Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters voted for Vought

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 2h

Matt Stoller, the brother of the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall?

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 5h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

@prashanthkarri.bsky.social is this true??

Mithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 4h

Well if I'm going to lie on the internet for fun it's gonna be ACTUALLY fun and not this shit. Did you know that Pringles are sentient?

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

He has the face for it!

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

Man just take the L with grace

Andrew “Hellhole” Panariello @andrewyakgator.bsky.social · 5h

You seem fun.

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Uno @mattptaylor.bsky.social · 7h

Everytime I hear Flanagan’s name, it’s usually some other beltway pundit trying to convince everyone she’s not a huge moron.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 4h

If you don’t think this is evil, there is nothing anyone can do to save your soul.

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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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 5h

A pending asylum case. They've done what they're supposed to do. And we still kidnap and jail their child

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...

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

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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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

No, I don't hold any investments outside of index funds

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

Well, she can transition to other media delivery formats, but there's no evidence she can do that either

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

She might succeed in transforming CBS News' ideological pose because that's the *easy* part of her job. The rest of it? Not so much

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

(I am betting against Bari Weiss)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11h

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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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

Oh my god

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

Listening and learning

Anna @annadistracted.bsky.social · 7h

ACAB includes reply guys!

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

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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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 8h

(she also didn't even post this on Twitter, she very much is trying to just stir the pot)

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