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And alliterative!

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe 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.

They say he had “an interaction “ with the police, which could cover almost anything, including an officer asking him for the time. He has been transferred to Virginia, where he is sleeping on a concrete floor “with an aluminum sheet as a blanket.” His mother has not seen him.

He is THIRTEEN.

“The Republicans who cut Medicaid & are refusing to lower health care costs for working families are the same politicians who gave $40 million of taxpayer dollars to President Trump to build a ‘garden of heroes.’”

Seriously.

Thank you @neguse.house.gov

The cloud Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR or LPR) company Flock is building a dangerous nationwide mass-surveillance infrastructure, as the ACLU have been pointing out for several years now.

The company’s surveillance data is being used by ICE.

#FreeKellyYu

He’s ready for meal team six!

'Pope Francis Aspired to the Teachings of Jesus. Of Course, MAGAs are Celebrating His Death.'

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#PopeFrancis
#Pope

UPDATE…

Each things helps, even if it causes a person to think for just a second. Maybe next time they will think for a minute, then maybe an hour, then a day, then they start to change!

Although if he were alive, Trump would be his BFF.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

In: "Mein Kampf"
Out: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Yes. Really.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Happy Record Store Day, everybody. Make sure to shop local.

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd . ALT: hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

These are the states that will suffer most from Trump’s executive order to gut the Department of Education?

Not the deep-blue states that Republicans love to attack.

"The fact that these cuts were handled this way—wantonly and recklessly—tells us everything we need to know about the administration’s true goal: To broadcast a clear message to the world that we are now shrugging off any sense of obligation to the global poor."

🧵1. #BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
WHAT IS THE $ AMOUNT?… Is there a figure you could a mass? A number in your bank account, that would allow you to say, “OK I’m good“? An amount that would free you to start looking outward instead of always focusing on yourself?
…

This hits hard.

New Immigration and Customs Enforcement data shows administration isn’t just arresting criminals The number of immigrants in ICE detention went from 39,238 in early February to 41,169 in mid-February.

During FY2024, under President Biden, 28% of immigration arrests were of people who had no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.

In Februrary, under President Trump, it's 41%.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Beto O'Rourke on Substack Every member of Congress — Republican and Democrat, House and Senate — should hold a live, in-person town hall in their district this week. Given what is happening in the country and around the worl...

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Compliments of 🟠.

Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

(1,2) This is Jaime. She was funny and fun & made everyone laugh. Unfortunately, the laughter stopped 7 years ago today in the Parkland shooting. Because of what happened to Jaime, my family started Orange Ribbons for Jaime doing great work
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Part of why I rooted for them.

In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra.

I have a Mabel.

Cannabis has helped me a lot. I still don’t sleep great but it’s much improved.