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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1h

One thousand percent. He is so at risk right now.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1h

Well, I guess it’s official that I am officially official

Verified Account Tracker @verified.pds.mmatt.net · 1h

✅ @ruthz.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2h

Our government is engaged in child trafficking. They transported a kid across state lines, something even a parent is not allowed to do without the express permission of the other parent. Someone in the GOP needs to explain how this makes this country safe. 2/2
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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2h

In town near me, a 13 yo was abducted by ICE and sent to a facility in Virginia. He is sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum sheet for a blanket, and is being held with adults. He calls his mother crying. I can’t imagine how traumatized this child is. 1/
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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2h

This is horrific and in my backyard. Child trafficking care of the U.S. government. Can you imagine how traumatized this child is?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

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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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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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 7h

This is what I worry about. Amongst a bazillion other things. bsky.app/profile/ruth...

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of folks are talking about accountability for the people who chose to work for ICE. Another reason that’s so important? The state empowering ICE agents to act with such violence and hate means a whole lot of genies are out of the bottle now. 1/2

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 8h

It fits with his ever shifting narrative of himself and his own history. It doesn’t seem that he has a fixed notion of self, or any core values except power and self promotion.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 8h

Rainy Sunday afternoon, Arlo style

My grey and white kitty curled up on a fuzzy plaid blanked with his front paws stretched out in front and his eyes closed

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 12h

What a horrific weekend it’s been. And if we had a federal govt that actually cared about stopping gun violence they wouldn’t be invading “blue” cities. They would be investing in solutions that address violence in ALL communities. Because then the goal would actually be prevention, not punishment.

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 13h

Yesterday it was a high school homecoming in Mississippi. Today it’s a bar in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Another mass shooting leaves at least 4 people dead and 20 injured. This is America.

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 14h

They use violence to provoke violence to then in turn justify their violence.

Thats what abusers do.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 14h

The only thing more insane than this would be Trump calling it the Soros FBI and I don’t completely rule that out.

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 14h

How did President Elect Joe Biden place 274 agents in the crowd on January 6, 2021?

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

There is so damn much trauma in the world. Endless amounts of it. Acknowledging someone else’s trauma doesn’t take away or delegitimize your own. There’s plenty to go around.

That’s what bothers me the most about whataboutism and enforced equivalencies.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

I am a trauma clinician, and I think so much about the unfathomable amount of trauma the people of Gaza have experienced. And how peace cannot truly take hold until Gazans have what they need to heal and thrive. They need health care and schools and economic opportunity. 1/

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Thousands of people continued to travel by foot toward Gaza City on Saturday as a cease-fire held overnight. But joy at the pause in fighting has been tempered by the scale of destruction that many people in Gaza face as they return to the north.

Thousands Return to Northern Gaza, Hopeful, but Faced With Devastation

With the cease-fire holding overnight, many Palestinians continued to travel toward Gaza City on Saturday to learn what remained of their lives and homes.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

There is so damn much trauma in the world. Endless amounts of it. Acknowledging someone else’s trauma doesn’t take away or delegitimize your own. There’s plenty to go around.

That’s what bothers me the most about whataboutism and enforced equivalencies.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Even if this ended tomorrow, those who were paid to terrorize their neighbors are not magically going to turn into people capable of peaceful coexistence.

I shudder to think of what that means for our society — and of course particularly for those who were targeted — in the long term. 2/2

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of folks are talking about accountability for the people who chose to work for ICE. Another reason that’s so important? The state empowering ICE agents to act with such violence and hate means a whole lot of genies are out of the bottle now. 1/2

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

I worry that the state empowering ICE agents to act with such violence and hate means a whole lot of genies are out of the bottle now. Even if this ended tomorrow, those who were paid to terrorize their neighbors are not magically going to turn into people capable of peaceful coexistence.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Newtown Action Alliance @newtownaction.org · 1d

Barely making the news!

The mass shooting took place in downtown Leland, Mississippi after the local high school's homecoming football game.

According to the Gun Violence Archive there have been more than 330 mass shootings this year.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday. n.pr/46LOd0X

4 dead and 12 injured in a shooting after Mississippi homecoming game

The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Every person has a right to the resources they need to care for themselves and their families. Without those resources, there is no safety. Without safety, there is no peace. 3/3

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

They need roads and stores and places to gather. They need homes.

Gazans need to know their children and communities can be safe. Without the resources to ensure that, I don’t see a path to lasting peace. And so much of that infrastructure has been destroyed. 2/

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

I am a trauma clinician, and I think so much about the unfathomable amount of trauma the people of Gaza have experienced. And how peace cannot truly take hold until Gazans have what they need to heal and thrive. They need health care and schools and economic opportunity. 1/

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Thousands of people continued to travel by foot toward Gaza City on Saturday as a cease-fire held overnight. But joy at the pause in fighting has been tempered by the scale of destruction that many people in Gaza face as they return to the north.

Thousands Return to Northern Gaza, Hopeful, but Faced With Devastation

With the cease-fire holding overnight, many Palestinians continued to travel toward Gaza City on Saturday to learn what remained of their lives and homes.

nyti.ms

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Our children have to endure lockdowns to protect them from guns and agents of the state that carry guns.

A policy and moral failure.

Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple Chicago schools went on lockdown today because of ICE, including my son’s and the one I’m on the council of. Spent the last two hours standing outside, trying to make sure nothing happens to these kids. This is horrible.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Damn

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

This post is about Boston, and we plan to keep it that way. DM me for more info on an event we are having to protect our strong gun laws in Massachusetts. The NRA put a question on the 2026 to repeal our recent gun safety legislation, and I am chairing the committee that is saying absolutely not.

Don Solomon @dsolomonesq.bsky.social · 4d

The cost of housing aside, I think it's one of the few places left in the US where you can feel the illusion of safety for days at a time. Yes, strangers don't wave hello on the street, but they also don't open-carry long guns on the street.

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