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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 13h

This is not isolated. I'm going to start a thread of other desecrations of Black and non white history and civil rights here:

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 13h

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 14h

AI scraped my books.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

1. The effects of strokes can be FULLY REVERSED within 2 hours if you get them immediate medical treatment

2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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👻🎃Bone Old Pain Ghosten 🍉🎃👻 @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social · 2d

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/R52hQ3vYoUvh...

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

share.google

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 2d

AO3 is back! And now I vanish again ✌🏽

Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 2d

I really need to follow this account more closely. I didn't download fics and was in the middle of reading one when the maintenance status came up 😭

AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org · 2d

[update] In Progress: Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't done a #currentlyplaying look at the video games in the queue in a good while - so here's one!

🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop

(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy cover image

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 2d

LOLOLOLOL

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 2d

Smart!

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 2d

I really need to follow this account more closely. I didn't download fics and was in the middle of reading one when the maintenance status came up 😭

AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org · 2d

[update] In Progress: Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

AO3 Maintenance

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

stspg.io

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for so generously sharing a copy with me, friend!

Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 5d

Boosting this - it's so good! Naseem rocks!

Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE OUT NOW! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 23d

DID YOU KNOW I WROTE A SPOOKY MIDDLE GRADE AND WE ARE NOW IN SPOOKY SEASON

Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · Sep 10

🎃 55 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Middle Grade Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit 🎃
popgoesthereader.com/55-scary-and...
#BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 20d

300k Black women got fired, Jimmy Kimmel was gon be OK. Give them their jobs back

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 24d

Ahhhhhh! Thank you to Anneliese!

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Katie McEnaney @katiemcenaney.bsky.social · 28d

5th grader Anneliese rec'd GAUNTLET by @karunariazi.bsky.social ! #kidlit #5thgradebooks

"If you like books that have a little bit of mysterious and fantasy in them then you will love this book." 📚👍

www.thelogonauts.com/2025/09/blog...

The Gauntlet book reivew

A resource for diverse and global books for middle to upper elementary.

www.thelogonauts.com

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · Aug 30

you have three years to find a person who doesn't suck.

Get to it

@GBDinExile, but also spooky @gbdawkins.bsky.social · Aug 15

Prepare yourself for a Dem nominee (him or somebody else) with whom you don’t agree on everything (Gaza, trans issues, death penalty). You have three years to get the fuck over it because anyone the Dems offer up is better than this or something like this.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ok, you know why I don’t like Gavin Newsom? You know how in While You Were Sleeping, Peter Gallagher’s family all talks about how he rescued a nest of baby birds as a kid, and later he admits he knocked their nest out of the tree with a rock, then made sure everyone saw him rescue it?

That’s Gavin.

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you!!!

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks!

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · Aug 29

Could I start crying at everything happening. Sure. I used to.

But I gotta protect my neck. Especially because #yall continue to prove that yall aint doing shit about anything happening. So I gotta make sure me and mine cool.