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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 2h

for the love of god please primary schumer

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 2h

ah yes, 35 year old children. "college chat" these 'kids' have long been out of college, buddy.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

“Kids”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 18h

and they get paid the whole time. essential government workers have worked more days without pay than they've been in session in the last 84 days.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 18h

why was i holding out hope for Roberts and Barrett on this VRA case? My pure delusion. you know they are gonna rush that decision so they can redistrict before the 2026 midterms, yet they dragged their feet on presidential immunity

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 18h

ah, let me introduce you to the 'male loneliness epidemic'

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 23h

At a time when women in the U.S. are losing the rights to their autonomy, from abortion access to job protections, with even more rights being threatened every day.

And yet, the regressive Tradwife “lifestyle” is growing in popularity.

“Tradwives” Is Just Influencer Speak for Patriarchal Subordination - Dame Magazine

A blonde woman in a low-cut flowery dress and immaculately shaped eyelashes speaks softly to the camera while gentle music plays in the background. “I’m here to make a clarification video because of t...

www.damemagazine.com

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 23h

is hitting women not serious? weird take from the "protect women" party?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 1d

swear her in right now?? what are you doing?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 2d

trump is just crazy enough to finally put an end to this clock changing business, and honestly, i support the effort. i thought congress already passed a law about this and yet the clocks keep changing.

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 2d

gonna bet that "knife" was actually a nail file or something else dumb and his "rap sheet" is like 2 dismissed charges for disorderly conduct from years ago because he was outside being a kid. they just keep lying, you can't believe their claims.

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 2d

do you want to live in a country where some bros who aren't good enough to be cops can abduct you off the street pull you into a van, zip tie you and call you a liar because of your skin color and hold you without identifying themselves?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 3d

i believe the dhs regulations on detention for minors are supposed to be the "least restrictive" i am genuinely confused how police had a 13yo in custody and allowed transfer to ICE at all since it's literally against the law in Massachusetts?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 5d

A USC (it's wrong to do even if he wasn't an USC but what is their jurisdiction to do this!?)

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 5d

i think the problem is that the person who is qualified to do this was in fact, already fired....

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 5d

lmaooooooo

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 5d

once these cases go to court, suddenly all the evidence contradicts everything DHS says, weird! almost like they are lying without a care.

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 7d

“we generally don’t determine alienage while in the building,” adding, “no rights have been violated today.” if you don't know if they are US citizens or not then you don't have jurisdiction to detain them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 7d

gonna bet the attorneys on this quit before it gets to trial

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

As I told @josephcox.bsky.social for this piece, if DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 7d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 7d

all immigration lawyers know the executive has plenary authority over immigration and we've argued against it for years

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 7d

and when he says 'south america' he's almost definitely talking about central america which is you know on an entirely different continent

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elsbeth tascioni @steadyhabits.bsky.social · 7d

i'll take: bible thumpers who never read the bible for 500

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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