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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 37m

This Portland protest hilarity is working for us right now because they hate being made to look ridiculous. It’s why calling them weird worked too. Sometimes instead of fighting fire with fire you just gotta win your own way.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 3h

But yeah! I was thinking on the east coast/Baltimore it’s often more of a patchy pattern than a line. Here we get nice lines a lot because of CONVERGENCE ZONE which would be my PNW band name.

Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 3h

Oh whoops this was in response to a different post than I thought hahA

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 3h

Very Baltimore! When I was a kid the Colts had left town, the Bullets had gone to DC and become the Wizards, and the Ravens didn’t yet exist. So the Orioles were all we had!

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 4h

Like there are “cultural Catholics” I am a “cultural baseball fan” in that I grew up in it and much like holy days, can’t resist paying attention when the Orioles or the Mariners make it out of the regular season.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 5h

I lowkey love weather. Isn’t this line of storms really cool?

Matthew Pfab 🇺🇦 @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 5h

Quite a line of heavy cells with embedded thunderstorms this afternoon, currently stretching from near Allyn on the Kitsap Peninsula to Arlington in Snohomish County! Lightning reported near Vashon Island & near Redmond! #wawx

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 5h

This shouldn't happen to any child regardless of status.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

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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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 6h

Middle school boy appreciation post: my 6th grader wants to be Bob the Builder for Halloween, for the giggles. He has recently discovered nostalgia as a thing, and it’s delightful.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 13h

I post this article too much,,,
But we have mass shooting too much

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion

The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism

www.newsweek.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 8h

Pumpkin Spice Cardigan update. The fall-ness of this color is kind of over the top. Hoping to have it done in time for Thanksgiving/ my birthday.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 11h

Wow. “Don’t try to use housing as a vehicle for social justice”?!?!?! When has it ever NOT been a necessary struggle in American history?

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 12h

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social:
"Jackboots"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 11h

a woman wearing a red vest is making a funny face

ALT: a woman wearing a red vest is making a funny face

media.tenor.com

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linforseattle.bsky.social @linforseattle.bsky.social · 11h

A necessary read. This is a cruel, broken, and inhumane system we have created. It’s also enormously wasteful.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Look inside Tacoma’s ICE detention center, where you could be kept for days or years

Conditions inside Tacoma's Northwest ICE Processing Center have been a mystery for many. In new interviews, people formerly held there reveal what life is like.

www.seattletimes.com

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 23h

Made it back without a hitch! Boston TSA workers were taking bets on when they would get paid. No delays though. Thanks airport workers for the safe journey!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think people are being alarmist when they say the current regime is setting up the legal rhetoric to kill you if they want to. The fact that Antifa isn't really an organization means that they can label anyone as Antifa. Declaring Antifa as terrorists means they can call anyone a terrorist.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is a toughie for republicans like Suarez and reactionary centrists like Harrell, but the difference between individual citizens wearing masks and agents of the state wearing masks is that citizens are not required to identify themselves but agents of the state are.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Huge applause at Suarez' question about whether Harrell will require protesters to take off their masks like he wants to make ICE take off their masks

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RAWMILKnado, Area Campylobacter Dad @tarnado.bsky.social · 1d

They fired the entire office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services last night. Godddddddaaaaaaaaammmmm

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The SpEd system in this country is set up in a way that families know they're entitled to certain things but also know they have to fight tooth and nail to get what they deserve.

They're tenacious experienced fighters who'll do anything for their kids. These assholes just sucker punched them all.