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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 3h

Though I do occasionally like delivery, I'm quite glad that it's simply not available where we live. My wallet cringes at meal costs doubled by fees. Delivery is the stuff of vacations...maybe, only if I have no car and hideous blisters on my feet from walking all day.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 9h

Meet in the middle politics is trash.

It incentivizes increasingly ridiculous points of view so the equidistant point is closer to what you wanted all along.

Reward the more rational and thoughtful perspective.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 11h

Immigration is amazing, actually.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Quite literally, immigration is our superpower & why we are the superpower & if we were really concerned about the supposed massive threat of a rising 🇨🇳 in global politics & the global economy, we would be doing the exact opposite of this in re: immigrants & immigration.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 16h

The goal is to make America so unpleasant for documented immigrants that they leave too (or never come). And unfortunately I think they are doing a good job on that front.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 11h

I can smell the pepper on it

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 11h

Entire decades of work appear to have been written with the aid of absinthe, cocaine, and/or other now currently banned/controlled substances, which is evident in that they are probably best read under similar influence.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 16h

Last fruit of the season from the yard.

Bowl with small fruit - 2 pears, 5 honeycrisp apples, 2 frostbite apples

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 16h

There have been so many shootings in the past week that haven't gotten even 1/10 of a news cycle. I'll see a single headline and then it's replaced by the next one.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 19h

This Hogan's Heroes reboot sucks.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 19h

There was glass between us.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 20h

Girl, same

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 21h

Never trust a person who consistently refuses to pay small businesses that do work for them.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 22h

Same meme: fixing the court's e-filing system should be a legislative emergency, and yet...

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

You all have unrealistic expectations of the ethics of a pirate king; they chase the gold.

Decider @deciderdotcom.bsky.social · 2d

Keira Knightley was "not aware" of 'Harry Potter' boycott when she joined audiobook cast for JK Rowling series: "I'm very sorry"

Keira Knightley will voice Professor Umbridge in the new Potter audibooks.

decider.com

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

Nice summary of the times - two groups, one with nearly everyone broadly as an enemy, the other with a series of incredibly precise descriptions of possible enemies for which there is no unanimous consensus.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

Like the promise ring of invitations

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

I don't think folks realize how many kids are on IEPs and 504s, and that schools are functionally no longer set up to help these children if these funds dissappear.

It will crush children and further pressure parents into home school, many who don't have the skills and/or resources for it.

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

Right? I've been keeping an eye out for them too. I love a friendly trash panda.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

I've actually never seen a raccoon in the yard before so I was pretty excited to have such a friendly one chilling on my porch.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

You know you've been at your desk too long when you look up and see a raccoon staring at you through the window.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

Our boys are 12 and 14.

I would absolutely lose my shit if one of them was kidnapped and moved to another state.

Where the hell is Congress?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

Husband called me from the yard to tell me that someone was outside waiting for me.

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

Oh.

I like it when I'm double taxed to pay for the service I already paid for that isn't getting paid because the people I hired to administer it can't be bothered to do their jobs and would rather cosplay comic book villains.

Such a fun situation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Vance claims "tariff revenue" will be used to pay the troops

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

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Tiffany BoOoOo 👻 @tiffanybond.com · 1d

It's #SundayCheckIn for 10/12.

How was your week?

How are you holding up?

What do you need?

What are you struggling with?

What has helped?

What kindness would help you?

Remember to wash your sheets.

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