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a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
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This is the first time she goes off the rails.
![NONE OF WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT TRUST, WHICH IS WHERE I WANT TO BEGIN.
THERE'S NO BETTER EXAMPLE OF THAT THAN THIS:
[TONY VIDEO]
IMPLICIT IN THIS MESSAGE IS THAT OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE SMART AND DISCERNING. THAT IT IS OUR JOB TO PRESENT PEOPLE WITH THE FULLEST PICTURE
— AND THE STRONGEST VOICES ON ALL SIDES OF AN ISSUE - AND THEN TRUST THEM TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS.
WITH TRUST IN MAINSTREAM NEWS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE LEGACY PRESS AT HISTORIC LOWS — AND IT'S NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY - MANY PEOPLE HAVE RETREATED TO NEWS SOURCES THAT PROTECT THEM FROM CONFLICTING NARRATIVES.
I DON'T NEED TO NAME THEM. YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
THOSE WHO HAVE MADE THAT MOVE PROBABLY AREN'T GOING TO LIKE WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE.
BUT THOSE AMERICANS WHO ARE INDEPENDENTS-AND THAT NUMBER IS LARGE AND GROWING-THOSE WANT TO EQUIP THEMSELVES WITH ALL THE FACTS, WHO ARE CURIOUS TO HEAR WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON, EVEN IF IT OFFENDS THEIR SENSIBILITIES, WILL HAVE A HOME WITH CBS NEWS.
AND GUESS WHAT: THAT'S ALREADY OUR CORE AUDIENCE... CBS NEWS IS FOR THE MIXED MULTITUDES.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreidev2kbcas77nljbj7tc6mjuu7i2n57af5lzsatwsbbeo7hmghzai@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This is the first time she goes off the rails.
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Sick. Creeps.
ICE & U.S. Customs & Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual & violent criminal histories in recent years.
At least 20 agents committed offenses with underage victims. The bulk of abuse happened within the last two years.
This article includes names of the agents.
At least 20 agents committed offenses with underage victims. The bulk of abuse happened within the last two years.
This article includes names of the agents.
Here’s How Many ICE and CBP Agents Allegedly Preyed on Children
Apparently the institutions are riddled with accused sex criminals.
www.yahoo.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Sick. Creeps.
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This is an *extremely* important story. Food pantries and mutual aid are beautiful, critical things, but the need will be greater than they can meet. People across the country are going to be forced to choose between paying for food or paying rent.
New SNAP work rules leave unemployed Englewood man + others at risk. New work rules for the federal food assistance program start Feb. 1 in Illinois, with state estimating that as many as 400K residents could be pushed out @elviamalagon.bsky.social reports chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/01...
New SNAP work rules leave unemployed Englewood man and thousands of others at risk
The new work rules for the federal food assistance program start Feb. 1 in Illinois, with state officials estimating that as many as 400,000 residents could be pushed out of the program.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
This is an *extremely* important story. Food pantries and mutual aid are beautiful, critical things, but the need will be greater than they can meet. People across the country are going to be forced to choose between paying for food or paying rent.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
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If you have PTSD, even if it isn't directly related to war, deportation or law enforcement, be extra kind to yourself right now.
Our ability to operate in a crisis often leaves us vulnerable to pushing too far and doing further psychic injury to ourselves.
Our ability to operate in a crisis often leaves us vulnerable to pushing too far and doing further psychic injury to ourselves.
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
If you have PTSD, even if it isn't directly related to war, deportation or law enforcement, be extra kind to yourself right now.
Our ability to operate in a crisis often leaves us vulnerable to pushing too far and doing further psychic injury to ourselves.
Our ability to operate in a crisis often leaves us vulnerable to pushing too far and doing further psychic injury to ourselves.
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Notice how quickly they've gone from "Guns aren't a problem. They don't kill people" to "Even having a gun in your pocket that you never use is so life-threatening, we will have to kill you."
“You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns. You just can’t”. Donald J. Trump on the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms: www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar...
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
www.threads.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Notice how quickly they've gone from "Guns aren't a problem. They don't kill people" to "Even having a gun in your pocket that you never use is so life-threatening, we will have to kill you."
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A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 PM
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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Very happy to be part of Strange Horizons’ Criticism Special this year!
"As readers & critics, we naturally bring ourselves to the experience of a text. I study folk horror & keep a reproductive medicine garden. I also live in America & I’m pregnant with a daughter at a time where those are increasingly dangerous prospects, due to forces that exist outside of my body."
That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas
2025, y’all.
strangehorizons.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Very happy to be part of Strange Horizons’ Criticism Special this year!
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A leading German soccer official, Oke Göttlich, said that the time has come to consider the unthinkable: a boycott of the World Cup to protest Donald Trump. @edgeofsports.bsky.social writes about a growing movement to skip the World Cup partially hosted by the US. https://bit.ly/4aga5TQ
A Call Is Rising for Nations to Boycott the Trump World Cup
As marauding state agents fill US streets, a leading German soccer official says countries should consider what was once unthinkable: skipping the 2026 World Cup.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 6:13 PM
A leading German soccer official, Oke Göttlich, said that the time has come to consider the unthinkable: a boycott of the World Cup to protest Donald Trump. @edgeofsports.bsky.social writes about a growing movement to skip the World Cup partially hosted by the US. https://bit.ly/4aga5TQ
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” — James Baldwin
There are always repercussions of dehumanizing others.
There are always repercussions of dehumanizing others.
January 27, 2026 at 5:37 PM
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” — James Baldwin
There are always repercussions of dehumanizing others.
There are always repercussions of dehumanizing others.
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‘The world is hurting right now’: politics and protest hit the Sundance film festival
‘The world is hurting right now’: politics and protest hit the Sundance film festival
A conflicted mood has lingered over Utah’s long-running film festival with premieres and parties continuing but stars speaking out against government cruelty
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 AM
‘The world is hurting right now’: politics and protest hit the Sundance film festival
You do yourself a moral injury when you allow yourself to act on your own worst impulses. This is BEYOND all the very realm harm you can do to actual other real people. I don’t know how else to put it.
January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
You do yourself a moral injury when you allow yourself to act on your own worst impulses. This is BEYOND all the very realm harm you can do to actual other real people. I don’t know how else to put it.
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I feel so many powerful hateful impulses to cruelty, revenge, violence, and general mayhem because of these people
I feel them, I don’t deny them, maybe I even wallow in them for a bit, and then when it comes to making decisions I put them aside like a fucking adult
I feel them, I don’t deny them, maybe I even wallow in them for a bit, and then when it comes to making decisions I put them aside like a fucking adult
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I feel so many powerful hateful impulses to cruelty, revenge, violence, and general mayhem because of these people
I feel them, I don’t deny them, maybe I even wallow in them for a bit, and then when it comes to making decisions I put them aside like a fucking adult
I feel them, I don’t deny them, maybe I even wallow in them for a bit, and then when it comes to making decisions I put them aside like a fucking adult
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I feel this so deeply, and also one thing that’s really come home to me in the last decade: one of the biggest difference between them and us is that we understand that a workable society can’t be organized in response to every reactionary emotional twitch and impulse
Definitely something to Trump Derangement Syndrome as I've spent my entire adult life loudly and passionately favor of gun control and now I want to make a big clunky old lady necklace of AR-15s
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I feel this so deeply, and also one thing that’s really come home to me in the last decade: one of the biggest difference between them and us is that we understand that a workable society can’t be organized in response to every reactionary emotional twitch and impulse
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AFGE, the largest federal employee union, is calling for the immediate termination of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller for smearing their slain union member Alex Pretti as a “domestic terrorist.”
January 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
AFGE, the largest federal employee union, is calling for the immediate termination of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller for smearing their slain union member Alex Pretti as a “domestic terrorist.”
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This five year old is still in jail
January 27, 2026 at 1:38 PM
This five year old is still in jail
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The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
January 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
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If a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.
ICE detained hundreds of thousands of people last year, shuttling them between jails and detention centers around the country, limiting access to legal support.
How immigration detainees move around Minnesota and the nation
ICE detained hundreds of thousands of people last year, shuttling them between jails and detention centers around the country, limiting access to legal support.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 PM
If a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.
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This is true for trade and for many other issues. One of the few consistent things about Trump is that he doesn’t see himself as bound by the deals he makes.
He is fundamentally untrustworthy, everyone knows it, and he is our most important representative to the world.
He is fundamentally untrustworthy, everyone knows it, and he is our most important representative to the world.
Back in July, I stated that Trump's tariff threats undermined the value of signing a trade "deal" with the United States. Events keep confirming this observation.
January 27, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This is true for trade and for many other issues. One of the few consistent things about Trump is that he doesn’t see himself as bound by the deals he makes.
He is fundamentally untrustworthy, everyone knows it, and he is our most important representative to the world.
He is fundamentally untrustworthy, everyone knows it, and he is our most important representative to the world.
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CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:19 PM
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
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Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years
How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
A notorious event in 1984 divided New Yorkers in ways that feel extremely familiar four decades later.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years
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The Free Press put out a piece calling out Noem's lies about Alex Pretti's murder, and the comment section is absolutely furious.
January 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The Free Press put out a piece calling out Noem's lies about Alex Pretti's murder, and the comment section is absolutely furious.