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T.J. Mitchell
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NYT bestselling coauthor of the Jessie Teska mysteries #FIRSTCUT & #AFTERSHOCK, & the medical examiner memoir #WORKINGSTIFF. Wife & creative partner Dr Judy Melinek does autopsies. I am careful with her. Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23h
Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 1d
Or we could nominate Bono to foot the bill, for old time’s sake
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d
WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d
Along with writer Ling Ma and Chicago Public Library star Stephen Sposato, I’m to be one of the three judges of the 2025 Story Prize, and I’m super thrilled about this (plus honored).
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 1d
I know these federal agents are trying to enrage us and provoke us into public outrage, so I try to keep my cool when I read these stories. This time I failed fully, though, because I was born in Everett.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
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 31 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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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d
Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 2d
I may have grumbled the phrase "off-brand import Blue Angels" yesterday
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3d
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
Nineteen eighty-eight, first date with the girl who would be @drjudymelinek.bsky.social and who would go on to make my life complete.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d
I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
Trying
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
"In Takapū/Northern ward, Labour’s Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social roared home with a huge margin on first-choice votes, enough to have been elected twice."

I like this.
#nzpol

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...
Local elections live results: Andrew Little takes Wellington mayoralty, Māori ward results mixed
Updates from across the motu as the local election results roll in.
thespinoff.co.nz
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
Ka pai!
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
There's an Australian pie seller at our local farmers market, but I haven't yet been desperate enough to give em a try. The clock is ticking, tho...
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 4d
AOC said we should laugh at them, and on tonight's program, @lincolnsbible.bsky.social & I are going to laugh at them like never before. You've been warned.

See you at 8pm ET. 🥃🍸🎱
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American Gestapo
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d
My essay collection focused on ancient literature and translation will be available for pre-order in the UK in October.
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d
Translator's note: this is a pizza pie, which is...a pizza. Not a pie. I still have not found a savory (sorry—savoury) pie worth a second look in all of this my native land, as compared to the glorious pies of Aotearoa #NewZealand.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 4d
Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 4d
The foot of Vallejo St beckons @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social from under the shadow of #sanFrancisco’s Telegraph Hill
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 4d
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (1?) is fascinated by Mum's shoelaces.(Ohhh.)
Whenever he undoes them, he sits back, looking at Mum expectantly.
Mum bends down, ties them and...
OOPS Tiny Human's undone them again!
A huge gummy grin on his face. (1)
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