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@echowrites.bsky.social

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A sometimes fiction writer based in the Great White North. Currently in BC with eyes Eastward. 🩷💜💙 🏳️‍🌈 Billionaires are inherently immoral. Even the ones you like. Empathy *is* humanity. Never 51 *PROPORTIONAL RANKED CHOICE VOTING* www.fairvote.ca

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · Jan 19

I have just recently embraced the fact that I have always been (still am?) a swamp witch, and not a prairie witch as I so often declared from the swamp in which I used to live. I aspire to be a mountain witch, so that's where I am now, but I suspect I'll end up a bog witch.

I don't hate it.

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe he thinks anything he reads on his phone is considered a “phone call“?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 5h

Aposematism works 😌

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Facebook “marked safe” alert altered to read: “marked safe from being attractive to Kid Rock today”

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 6h

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I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum. After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records. Leadership at HHS appreciates your service.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 9h

My composition teacher in college was from Ireland. Absolutely delightful to listen to.

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 10h

She’s his handler.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 14h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 15h

Ummmmmmm

This is an AI device that “hunts for biomarkers related to drug responses” and “pathologies such as autism”

Omfg.

NeuroVigil’s iBrain™ in TIME’s “Best Inventions of 2025”

NeuroVigil's iBrain in TIME's

www.globenewswire.com

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 21h

Please stop creating the torment nexus, thank you

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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 18h

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19h

Peter Thiel is Palantir co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is president of Thiel Capital, and a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.

Everyone who remains in his circles is complicit.

www.commondreams.org/news/peter-t...

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams

Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

www.commondreams.org

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 19h

At least half had to have been people who were required to do so for work.

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t understand people who don’t require all of that in their coffee to choke it down. It smells like literal feces to me. 🤢

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 19h

We’ve been looking at houses recently and the number of stoves right up against the fridge or wall is completely unreasonable. Especially in kitchens that have the space!

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 19h

Also stop putting stoves right up against the wall. Where the hell am I supposed to put my pan handles?

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 21h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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