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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1h

I think we had the pitch letter for that one on our fridge for a number of years. Lupoff came to visit and said, "oh, I know that guy!"

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2h

on this day in 1892 1892,The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is first published.

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data...

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 4h

This is beyond obscene. This is symptomatic of a civilizational death spiral. I would be more reassured about the State of Play if military leaders were consulting with the Devil himself.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 17h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18h

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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 4h

The worst of all possible relationships.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

What’s the word for an adulterous relationship involving a man, a woman and a federal department? nymag.com/press/articl...

On the Cover: Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and Trump’s Police State

Washington correspondent Ben Terris writes the definitive account of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Noem.

nymag.com

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 21h

"the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies"

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23h

Memorable medical tech researcher

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_M...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 22h

Good morning

a building with a sign that's only partially lit so that is reads "Rage"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 17h

Happy birthday to a wonderful son!

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 17h

Catching the chicken named Honey in the front hall this afternoon. (As in "Oh, Honey! You can't come in here.")

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 21h

Forgot to schedule this one at the usual time, but please enjoy some highlights of @jwomack.bsky.social's amazing collection of UFO literature along with a few of his indelible descriptions

Glacial Errata, No. 38

Five Things for the Week of September 15, 2025.

glacialerrata.beehiiv.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

A 2012 stroke has largely kept Tim Curry from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.

Tim Curry’s Memoir “Vagabond” Recalls an Exciting Career Interrupted by Illness

A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23h

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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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

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

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine being CBS and paying 150M for a blog and then giving the boss of that blog the reins to CBS News and she starts reposting shit from her blog

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Well, think we’re gonna be 3D printing a bunch more Aztec death whistles

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 1d

The evidence of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine is plain to see.
Unpunished crimes encourage new atrocities.

Today, we are providing the first €10 million for the Special Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.

Extract of my press conference ↓

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1d

Good evening

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1d

Because, you know, the Rules of Robotics require you to put your hands on any woman within arm's reach.

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