Steve Ullom
@jotter111.bsky.social
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Author in the Pacific Northwest, living with a dog and a spouse. Haiku, short stories, novels. More at SteveUllom.com
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jotter111.bsky.social
the full moon
red like measles in heaven;
nothing safe now
#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
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marisakabas.bsky.social
maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.
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jessemermell.bsky.social
He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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.
www.bostonglobe.com
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gregproops.bsky.social
Another W
#VoteBlue
dannied.bsky.social
Helena Moreno wins the New Orleans mayoral race in a landslide — becoming the city’s first Hispanic and second female mayor. ✊🏾
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gregpak.net
Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.
heylookitsruth.bsky.social
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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raeoflion.bsky.social
Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.
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fwcollaborative.bsky.social
'Welcome to reality': Ex-GOP strategist warns of harsh wake-up call for Trump’s MAGA
Political commentator and former GOP strategist Tim Miller said Monday more right-wing Americans, from Joe Rogan to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), are being jolted into "reality" by President Donald Trump's policies. “I’m just living in reality from here on out," Greene recently told a podcaster while talking about the administration's harsh immigration actions. "So, welcome to reality," Miller quipped during a segment on MSNBC, while reacting to Greene's statement. "The waters warm here." "That's a good place to start," he continued. "But there is this kernel of truth there about about where the push back can come from, particularly on this issue when it comes to immigration, is that new people have to live in reality that haven't been before." Miller added: "I think this is true to the Rogan point, this is true to folks that are watching other networks this time. Like what has to happen is that what Trump is doing has to be bad enough that people's unreality is pierced." Speaking about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown, Miller said the authorities were brutalizing people. "This guy that was the security guard outside the weed farm in California who was a U.S. citizen, a veteran," Miller explained. "And he gets targeted, he gets tear gassed, racially targeted, jailed for three days, two days in isolation, where he said he was naked and the lights were on." Miller said the media must do its job of showing what is happening on the ground. "But if all of us can do our job of showing people the videos of this, of what is happening and having people see firsthand the way regular people are being menaced," he said. "The way old ladies going to get meat for a stew ... the way that U.S. citizens are being menaced." He added: "Like those stories, the examples of U.S. citizens, of veterans getting menaced, of people trying to live their lives, having it be disrupted by these masked agents. There is a new batch of people that can be got on that, that are not for that, as long as they are made aware that it happened."
dlvr.it
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gtconway.bsky.social
Thugs. And we're paying for them.
nickkristof.bsky.social
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
jotter111.bsky.social
creating still,
the sun moves over the surface
of the water
#haiku
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joshtpm.bsky.social
For various reasons I think this one will be longer standing but this is also 100% true.
katz.theracket.news
There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?
coffeeindiana.bsky.social
Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.
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forevernever.bsky.social
Ever since I first learned about Giovanni da Verrazzano, it's befuddled me why he wasn't chosen as the Italian explorer the USA celebrates. He has a cooler name, actually explored what would become New York, and, by all accounts, didn't commit genocide.
jotter111.bsky.social
backlit clouds
around Mt Rainier's base
like a bearded lady
#haiku
jotter111.bsky.social
autumn winds
pushing the inlet water
to the end, and then?
#haiku #micropoetry
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wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
the stream pauses
on a stone
to think
#haiku #poetry
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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kshepherdwrites.bsky.social
orb weaver
spinning between stems
catching frost

#dailyhaikuprompt stem
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com