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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1h

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 6h

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Star.language.fr@ @catrinette.bsky.social · 2d

World leaders need to show some guts and face up the fact that Trump is full of "manure," a deal with him is never a guarantee. He is a complete lunatic, unstable and moody. We should observe how China has not felt in the import tariff trade.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 1h

The day will come when this small bully-man's mug is no longer dominating headlines and fouling our lives, and when he can no longer suck the oxygen and soul out of humanity's future.

He personifies that American "exceptionalism" is American corrosive narcissism.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Alpine Migrant @alpinemigrant.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking for quite a lot of people in Europe absolutely fed up with this bullying here.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 5h

"The mockery movement has extended far beyond responding to Trump’s use of the National Guard. @aoc.bsky.social went viral last week after she chided White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller for his height, inspiring Fox News to dedicate a segment to the subject."

Can Democrats Mock Trump Into Defeat?

As the president embraces strongman politics, Democrats are increasingly trying to make him seem little.

www.thebulwark.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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 Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 2h

The deepest level of Hell is too good for the thugs of America’s ICE.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5h

"Even if Coppola didn’t understand Keaton’s importance to the series, Keaton did. She requested $3m for The Godfather, Part III, the amount that Robert Duvall asked for and walked when he didn’t get it. She settled for $1.7m, 48 times her salary for Godfather I." www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5h

"In the end, Keaton became the rare female star whose name could reliably open a movie — not just when she was young, but well into her 60s. Women of her generation were arguably as loyal to her as men of Clint Eastwood’s." www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5h

"Diane Keaton hated it when her mother, a housewife and amateur photographer, told her she had a pretty smile. And she hated it when a teacher complimented her on a pretty dress. 'I was old enough to understand that pretty was a poor cousin to beautiful,” she writes. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15h

🇨🇦 Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! 🍁

Sorry I’m not there to celebrate with you! But earlier today I did stop by your sovereign’s house to say hi.

Me wearing sunglasses and smiling in front of Buckingham Palace. The flag is flying on top of it.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 5h

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 5h

"Your taxes are coming down"

"See, everyone's happy, honey."

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 8h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like this is also true for CBC.

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 2h

Russians took her leg three years ago, when she was six, and she’s doing *this*.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 2h

Aces.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 4h

What's happening is continued concern over the LDP's fundraising scandals and ties to the unification church, and concerns about a rightward turn as the LDP responds to Sanseito's success.

Which is to say, Japan is healthier on accountability and blocking rightwingers than most Western democracies

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5h

Japan opposition in talks to challenge Takaichi after coalition collapse on.ft.com/48xpr69

Japan opposition in talks to challenge Takaichi after coalition collapse

Disintegration of ruling bloc complicates arch-conservative’s route to premiership

on.ft.com

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