Chris Seggerman
@chrisseggerman.bsky.social
He/Him. Kept man in Vermont, late of Arizona. Sometime writer; calligrapher; fountain pen enthusiast.
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Bio fact: I worked about 16 years for the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, as newspaper clerk, library associate at the Genealogy Collection, and in the State Archives building post July 2015. 1/
Bio fact: I worked about 16 years for the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, as newspaper clerk, library associate at the Genealogy Collection, and in the State Archives building post July 2015. 1/
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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
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February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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New podcast interview up on the Singularity Podcast! Nikola is one of my very favorite interviewers, incredibly rich, in-depth and long conversation to get at big, meaty questions and really zoom both in and out! www.singularityweblog.com/ada-palmer-i...
Inventing the Renaissance: Ada Palmer on Golden & Dark Ages
In Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer reveals how Golden and Dark Ages are constructed — and why those myths still shape civilization.
www.singularityweblog.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
New podcast interview up on the Singularity Podcast! Nikola is one of my very favorite interviewers, incredibly rich, in-depth and long conversation to get at big, meaty questions and really zoom both in and out! www.singularityweblog.com/ada-palmer-i...
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Even this is a massive understatement of the actual costs, since all of those things require advance planning, paperwork, and (in some cases) scheduling document retrievals (often only possible during work hours). The cost doesn't have to be high in dollars to be a prohibitive tax on voters.
It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Even this is a massive understatement of the actual costs, since all of those things require advance planning, paperwork, and (in some cases) scheduling document retrievals (often only possible during work hours). The cost doesn't have to be high in dollars to be a prohibitive tax on voters.
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There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
Somehow that thread broke because I corrected "protectioning" so here’s where it continues.
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Part if protectioning against predators is making a world unsafe for them, instead of the reverse. And part of that is raising minors who can defend themselves against them. It sucks that we have to. But part of that raising is just making life better for minors. 10/
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Somehow that thread broke because I corrected "protectioning" so here’s where it continues.
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Creeps have so thoroughly poisoned the well by appealing to consent and autonomy to justify their creepery-- which they *know* is wrong, they're operating in bad faith-- that bringing up minors are capable of making choices makes it sound like you're agreeing with them. 1/
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
February 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Creeps have so thoroughly poisoned the well by appealing to consent and autonomy to justify their creepery-- which they *know* is wrong, they're operating in bad faith-- that bringing up minors are capable of making choices makes it sound like you're agreeing with them. 1/
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“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Over FCC Scrutiny; Posts Interview to YouTube Instead
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
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February 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.
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Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?
A female ICE thug posing as a distressed motorist in neighborhoods of Brooklyn Park (63% non-white), MN, to entrap good samaritans. This is the same MO Ted Bundy used to lure his victims to their demise.
February 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?
ADHD "fun"-- been researching a long-term interest in a writer who wrote smut under a pseudonym. I thought he was an academic first, then a writer, but his biography reads a lot more like Gerald Kersh (he is not Kersh.) 1/
February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
ADHD "fun"-- been researching a long-term interest in a writer who wrote smut under a pseudonym. I thought he was an academic first, then a writer, but his biography reads a lot more like Gerald Kersh (he is not Kersh.) 1/
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
The smell of the Putney Road can redemption center takes me back to my youth collecting cans at Turf Paradise racetrack collecting cans for extra money. I was probably 9-10 years old.
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The smell of the Putney Road can redemption center takes me back to my youth collecting cans at Turf Paradise racetrack collecting cans for extra money. I was probably 9-10 years old.
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When I say I stand on business this what I mean.
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
When I say I stand on business this what I mean.
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I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.
Parenting trope I loathe: "I had to change your diapers/you embarrassed me when you were a child, so now I get to *take my revenge* now that you're a teen/young adult."
(Usual example is showing embarrassing childhood pictures to dates).
Would be a vicious cycle if it weren't so petty.
(Usual example is showing embarrassing childhood pictures to dates).
Would be a vicious cycle if it weren't so petty.
February 12, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Parenting trope I loathe: "I had to change your diapers/you embarrassed me when you were a child, so now I get to *take my revenge* now that you're a teen/young adult."
(Usual example is showing embarrassing childhood pictures to dates).
Would be a vicious cycle if it weren't so petty.
(Usual example is showing embarrassing childhood pictures to dates).
Would be a vicious cycle if it weren't so petty.
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A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
Drag them for filth!
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Drag them for filth!
I have an axe to grind: I can't find my sharpening stone.
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I have an axe to grind: I can't find my sharpening stone.
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*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
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This. So much this. This is why we always warn you about the sexualization of queer existence when they label queer media as inherently sexual.
"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"
I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.
It's not actually about the kids.
I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.
It's not actually about the kids.
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
This. So much this. This is why we always warn you about the sexualization of queer existence when they label queer media as inherently sexual.
Magical thinking is going to get us all killed. There's a whole swath of people rejecting empirical, physical reality as unprovable due to epistemic limitations because they don't like the downstream metaphysics and this "according to your worldview" dodge has wrought much misery.
During oral args for Gill v Whitford, the SCOTUS case on Wisconsin’s gerrymandered maps, Roberts referred to the empirical evidence as “sociological gobbledygook” he couldn’t be bothered to understand.
Awful.
Worse?
Three minutes later, Breyer does an I-agree “gobbledygook” callback.
Awful.
Worse?
Three minutes later, Breyer does an I-agree “gobbledygook” callback.
this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Magical thinking is going to get us all killed. There's a whole swath of people rejecting empirical, physical reality as unprovable due to epistemic limitations because they don't like the downstream metaphysics and this "according to your worldview" dodge has wrought much misery.
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This is rather special. Marc Bloch was a titan of modern historiography, and a big influence on me as a young history student. He was a brilliant French medievalist murdered by the Gestapo for both his Jewishness and his contribution to French resistance, but they couldn’t kill his work
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
This is rather special. Marc Bloch was a titan of modern historiography, and a big influence on me as a young history student. He was a brilliant French medievalist murdered by the Gestapo for both his Jewishness and his contribution to French resistance, but they couldn’t kill his work