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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 5h

For now. We should be alright for a while. Thank you for asking!!!!

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

I believe that Trump, Mike Johnson and Greg Abbott should not have started this and continued with it in multiple states to rig the midterms. No Democrats want this, but we can’t unilaterally disarm in the face of multiple threats to fair representation nationwide.

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Candidly Tiff @tify330.bsky.social · 9h

The protestors at Kamala’s book tour should have spent $30 on her book vs $300 to disrupt her. They would have learned something instead of being anti black chaos agents hellbent on annoying her and her audience.

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Now what? @nowwhat2024.bsky.social · 7h

I’m a teacher. I have an alias on social because I can’t exercise my first amendment rights without fear of losing my job. I can’t strike in my state without my union facing huge fines. I’d lose my job if I didn’t show up when contracted to do so and my healthcare is nothing like Congress gets.

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 8h

We get fired for striking though. Make it make sense

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.

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Now what? @nowwhat2024.bsky.social · 7h

And, I’m required by law (as I should be) to report all suspected cases of abuse under 51A. Nothing about it makes sense. Not a damn thing. And it needs to change. We need to make it change. Every one of us.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Hamas announces that it will not disarm.

What exactly is Trump celebrating tomorrow?

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 8h

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 9h

On it. I consider this my top reporting speciality. But our job is getting the info, evidence and options out. The people have to pick it up from there and demand better of their leaders—than, say, bullshit calls for youth curfews and moving cops around line checker pieces. That’s empty marketing.

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 8h

We get fired for striking though. Make it make sense

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.

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OPB @opb.org · 10h

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

www.opb.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 9h

I agree!

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 10h

Many people, and kids, could’ve been saved by now if people on all “sides” thinking it’s about a cop on their corner had come together for evidence-based crime prevention. The roadmaps are there.

Even Lumumba pandered to cops instead of leading on real prevention beyond lip service. That hit hard.

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 9h

I appreciate you all attention to this matter. Its of extreme importance to address it. We can't keep the status quo

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 10h

I was thinking hard about this before this weekend and prepped to try again by bringing our long-time, crime-prevention reporting back to the top of my pile. Have a social campaign prepped for it. So, good timing, damn it to hell.

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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 9h

@sailormichael.bsky.social 👍

Tidey Widey’s 🧠💨 @tideywidey.bsky.social · 9h

@2rawtooreal.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/cPs1q...

Kamala Harris has had enough and so have I

YouTube video by 2RawTooReal Entertainment

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Pissyrabbit @pissyrabbit.bsky.social · 10h

You have your own set of problems. Trying to tell us what’s wrong with our politicians is idiotic.
Mind your business.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 10h

Here is much of that banging, in fact:

www.mississippifreepress.org/archives/pre...

Preventing Violence - Mississippi Free Press

Preventing Violence: An Ongoing Series by the Jackson Free Press

www.mississippifreepress.org

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LANana-Nuestra Señora de la Muerte del Pan 😪 @lanana421.bsky.social · 12h

New meme! 💥

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 12h

"Are you the same person who was telling people not to vote?"

💥☠️

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19h

There is nothing in your child's IEP that any private school must respect. This all but ensures your kid will not get the services they are entitled to by special education law.

Everything that it is possible to do to intentionally sabotage public education from the inside is being done.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Travandboo @travandboo.bsky.social · 11h

Shit. @brat2381.bsky.social
We gotta rethink our travel plans. I hear purgatory is nice.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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