Joel T. Patterson
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Calculus vigilante, union man, proud father. Public education is a pillar of democracy. "We are hope despite the times." -R.E.M.
Way to traumatize the 11-year-old boy! Our government is so messed up.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
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![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Way to traumatize the 11-year-old boy! Our government is so messed up.
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Trump prioritizing the “worst of the worst” again. Yeah right. Not a very Happy Thanksgiving for this family. How does this make sense? whdh.com/news/babson-...
Babson student detained at Logan Airport, deported while trying to travel for Thanksgiving - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
BOSTON (WHDH) - A 19-year-old student at Babson College was detained at Logan Airport then deported to Honduras while she was trying to travel to<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/new...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Trump prioritizing the “worst of the worst” again. Yeah right. Not a very Happy Thanksgiving for this family. How does this make sense? whdh.com/news/babson-...
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The young woman, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, came to the United States from Honduras with her family when she was a young child, was at Logan Thursday to catch a flight to Texas, where her parents live, according to her attorney, Todd Pomerleau.
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Immigration authorities detain and deport Babson College student to Honduras - The Boston Globe
College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The young woman, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, came to the United States from Honduras with her family when she was a young child, was at Logan Thursday to catch a flight to Texas, where her parents live, according to her attorney, Todd Pomerleau.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Trump's tariffs are driving up inflation and creating an affordability crisis for Americans
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Trump's tariffs are driving up inflation and creating an affordability crisis for Americans
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France is staring into a very dark place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
France is staring into a very dark place.
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This is really the software engineers and product managers' fault. They just love changing stuff for no reason.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is really the software engineers and product managers' fault. They just love changing stuff for no reason.
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something which doesn't get enough attention: as anyone who deals with elderly people knows, *any* upgrade - software or forced hardware - is like a nuclear bomb on their existence and is enraging
yah even 'better camera' which was the selling point for higher price/newer models has plateaued. at some point my decision will be 'replace battery or replace phone' but i won't actually need a hardware improvement
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
something which doesn't get enough attention: as anyone who deals with elderly people knows, *any* upgrade - software or forced hardware - is like a nuclear bomb on their existence and is enraging
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There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
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This is a great piece. It’s the most basic of questions.
Why Did So Many People in Epstein’s Circle Look the Other Way?
First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is a great piece. It’s the most basic of questions.
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I feel like we are so close to getting the Mad About Universe into the Perdverse bsky.app/profile/noct...
The Detective John Munch-iverse connects Homicide, Law & Order, The Wire, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Sesame Street, The X-Files, the list goes on…BUT Richard Belzer also played “a detective” on an episode of Mad About You that wasn’t specifically Munch, but essentially the same character SOOOO
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I feel like we are so close to getting the Mad About Universe into the Perdverse bsky.app/profile/noct...
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"Many garment workers make Nike products for below $1 per hour ... If Nike had returned the $18 billion it is spending on buybacks to workers instead, it could offer a $125 per month raise to every garment worker who makes Nike products for 10 years — doubling the wages of many."
Nike supply chain workers across Asia are joining with US labor to shift the balance of power.
Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Help Workers. Labor Solidarity Across Borders Does.
Nike supply chain workers across Asia are joining with US labor to shift the balance of power.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"Many garment workers make Nike products for below $1 per hour ... If Nike had returned the $18 billion it is spending on buybacks to workers instead, it could offer a $125 per month raise to every garment worker who makes Nike products for 10 years — doubling the wages of many."
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Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Sounds Safe. History Says Otherwise. - nationalsecurityjournal.org/armed-neutra...
Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Sounds Safe. History Says Otherwise.
Trump’s draft Ukraine peace deal leans on “armed neutrality.” Robert Farley warns it’s unstable, costly, and almost guaranteed to set up the next war.
nationalsecurityjournal.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Sounds Safe. History Says Otherwise. - nationalsecurityjournal.org/armed-neutra...
Great discussion!
LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points with @cherylrofer.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social
LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points - Lawyers, Guns & Money
On the latest LGM Podcast Cheryl, Dan, and myself talk through the “peace” deal that the Trump administration attempted to foist upon Europe, Ukraine, and possibly Russia last week. We work through wh...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Great discussion!
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LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points - Lawyers, Guns & Money
On the latest LGM Podcast Cheryl, Dan, and myself talk through the “peace” deal that the Trump administration attempted to foist upon Europe, Ukraine, and possibly Russia last week. We work through wh...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points with @cherylrofer.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social
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Little Marco’s Army are on their way
Little Marco's Army are on their way - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Above: he said “Middle East”! Wasn’t that specific enough for you? Michelle Goldberg on the very real possibility of a war in Venezuela that nobody outside the administration is asking for: On Monday, the United States formally designated President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and his allies in government as members of a foreign terrorist organization […]
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November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Little Marco’s Army are on their way
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RFK Jr. names anti-vaxx fanatic #2 at CDC
RFK Jr. names anti-vaxx fanatic #2 at CDC - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Looks like it’s time for another sanewashing/horny profile of the country’s most homicidal failson: Dr. Ralph Abraham, who as a state surgeon general ordered health officials to stop promoting mass vaccination, will serve as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s principal deputy director. In February, as Louisiana surgeon general, Abraham instructed health department staff to […]
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November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
RFK Jr. names anti-vaxx fanatic #2 at CDC
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Every time I think this administration has plumbed the depths of incompetence, it goes down another level. Will this make Putin think he should end the war? Or will it make him think that if he keeps pushing, the US will offer him even more?
"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Every time I think this administration has plumbed the depths of incompetence, it goes down another level. Will this make Putin think he should end the war? Or will it make him think that if he keeps pushing, the US will offer him even more?
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“It’s the third known leak from the pipeline this year, according to the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust.
“The $3.8 million fine for the 2023 spill, announced Monday, is the second penalty issued to the pipeline in five years.”
“The $3.8 million fine for the 2023 spill, announced Monday, is the second penalty issued to the pipeline in five years.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“It’s the third known leak from the pipeline this year, according to the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust.
“The $3.8 million fine for the 2023 spill, announced Monday, is the second penalty issued to the pipeline in five years.”
“The $3.8 million fine for the 2023 spill, announced Monday, is the second penalty issued to the pipeline in five years.”
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“The pipeline system, which carries fossil fuels from refineries along the Salish Sea to Portland, remains shut down after [another] leak was discovered at a blueberry farm near Everett on Nov. 11.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“The pipeline system, which carries fossil fuels from refineries along the Salish Sea to Portland, remains shut down after [another] leak was discovered at a blueberry farm near Everett on Nov. 11.”
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“The state Department of Ecology issued a nearly $4 million fine for a 2023 spill of more than 20,000 gallons of gasoline from BP’s Olympic Pipeline. Some 4,000 gallons flowed into Hill Ditch, a channelized portion of a salmon-bearing stream and part of the Skagit River watershed.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“The state Department of Ecology issued a nearly $4 million fine for a 2023 spill of more than 20,000 gallons of gasoline from BP’s Olympic Pipeline. Some 4,000 gallons flowed into Hill Ditch, a channelized portion of a salmon-bearing stream and part of the Skagit River watershed.”
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Olympic Pipeline operators fined $3.8M for 2023 fuel spill
State imposes $3.8M fine for 2023 Olympic Pipeline spill
Some 4,000 gallons of gasoline spilled into Hill Ditch, a salmon-bearing stream and part of the Skagit River watershed.
www.seattletimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Olympic Pipeline operators fined $3.8M for 2023 fuel spill
Obviously the whole economy disadvantages people under 40–expensive housing and health insurance… so why do something as vulnerable as have children when you are young?
In Kansas and nationwide, the number of women having babies in their 40s is increasing. It comes as the overall birth rate declines and younger women are having fewer babies.
More Kansas women are having babies after age 40. This Roeland Park mom is one of them
In Kansas and nationwide, the number of women having babies in their 40s is increasing. It comes as the overall birth rate declines and younger women are having fewer babies.
www.kcur.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Obviously the whole economy disadvantages people under 40–expensive housing and health insurance… so why do something as vulnerable as have children when you are young?
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Fan-fucking-tastic
Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fan-fucking-tastic
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