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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 8h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 8h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 4h

The only Christianity that can hang.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

It's utterly devastating to see decades of progress for the disability community being wiped out in just a few months.

There was of course much work to be done, but now that effort will have to be devoted to clawing back the gains now being ripped away.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 30

It's never a bad time to bring up that we

a b s o l u t e l y

have the resources and ability to provide housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and education to everyone at no direct cost to the individual; and we just choose not to do it.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 30

People should just get paid six thousand dollars a month to exist. You may have counterpoints and things to consider about this idea but let me just get ahead of them: shut up

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 1d

get a signed copy of HERETIC: A QUEER REVOLT AGAINST EVANGELICALISM, EMPIRE, AND THE LIES WE ARE SOLD from my local indie @astoriabookshop.bsky.social

www.astoriabookshop.com/item/1sM1NJw...

Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec | Astoria Bookshop

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortab...

www.astoriabookshop.com

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 23d

This got lost enough that I, at least, didn't see it. Tr*mp sues Penguin Random House for $15 billion for publishing a book that cast him in a negative light. Going after comedians is indeed terrifying. Going after publishers is at least equally terrifying.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Trump Sues Penguin Random House, ‘New York Times’ for $15 Billion

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing the New York Times and four of its reporters, as well as Penguin Random House, which published the book Lucky Loser, of trying to undermine his 2024...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3d

What's infuirating is that these idiots intentionally crashed the job market so that we would all either be forced to work for ICE or create AI slop.

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

tonight's paperback launch of HERETIC is sold out, but you can still order signed copies from @astoriabookshop.bsky.social!

www.astoriabookshop.com/events/33947...

HERETIC by Jeanna Kadlec, in conversation w/ Casey McQuiston | Astoria Bookshop

Books of all kinds for readers of all ages, located in central Astoria, Queens. Established 2013.

www.astoriabookshop.com

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

writers and publishing professionals on substack have done a lot to make industry machinations transparent. i think there's more ~behind the scenes~ insight available to people than ever before.

but *knowledge* is not the same thing as *access.*

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

and it's not that i mourn twitter, exactly, because even without el*n buying it, the cesspoolification was already starting.

but i do still mourn the loss of a space where newbie writers didn't *need* to live in nyc or have gone to the right schools or have the right connections to get in the door.

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

in the way that twitter was a digital water cooler slash homeroom for writers, agents, editors, and media folks alike, it was SUCH a valuable and reasonably democratic proving ground for ideas that had legs

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

the only reason i ended up doing astrology for writers (which is now a 6-years running NYT-featured newsletter AND forthcoming big 5 book) is bc i would tweet about different writers' birth charts and @esmewang.com and @jesszimmerman.com were like hey but what if you like did this though

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 3d

same. my agent followed me on twitter bc of my LOTR live tweet. i got ~so many bylines~ through casual tweets where editors would DM asking, would you write about this?

with the collapse of social media, the way i got my foot in the door in this industry is no longer available.

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 3d

I signed with my agent because I tweeted the idea for a novel. He saw it, was already aware of my work, and thought it was a good time to get in touch. I used to regularly get pitches accepted because of tweets, and editors would often DM to ask "hey if you're serious about _____ lets talk."

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 3d

If you don’t want to read Edgar Allan Poe together by candlelight whilst sharing dark chocolate cheesecake and a vintage bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in an abandoned cottage in the Scottish Highlands during a raging storm, then please don’t tell me you’re “open to trying new things.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 5d

The 11th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications. We're particularly interested in TPOC-led collectives engaged in ongoing community work.

Apply 💫 genderpodcast.com/grant 💫

If you'd like to help fund one of our no-strings-attached grants, visit genderpodcast.com/donate, tysm!

graphic that says: are you a trans person of color doing rad organizing, art, or community work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2025 grant program are open now thru October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 4d

Capitalism 🤝 Authoritarianism

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 4d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 4d

We'd be interested in talking about forming a consortium to fundraise for this, and to contribute our progress so far on ebook sales. I wrote about the dangers recently here:

www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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