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Harry Turtledove

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Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Jan 19

I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.
I didn't mean to be topical.

I say that a lot.

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 19h

The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 19h

Meet the fascist chode who sucks

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19h

Greg Bovino has vaulted from chief of one of the Border Patrol’s quietest sectors to tactical commander of the immigration operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Meet the Border Patrol Chief Leading Trump’s Chicago Crackdown

Greg Bovino has vaulted from chief of one of the Border Patrol’s quietest sectors to tactical commander of the immigration operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, sure. It's baked into fascism.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 20h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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onefinekitty.bsky.social @onefinekitty.bsky.social · 19h

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Opinion | If a humanitarian like Trump doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, who does? | Opinion — USA TODAY

I'll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19h

How is it that the people who have no bottom to their vileness are such ginormous assholes?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 20h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING | Magic beans sales industry loses best customer.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19h

Vroman's is great. Been going there since the 1960s.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 20h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 22h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 20h

What's "unusual" is that it was honest.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19h

Still fucking pathetic, though.

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Phoenix🔥 @fivetimessix.bsky.social · 20h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · Feb 26

😆 The international symbol of Shut The F Up…🔇🔇🔇🔇🔇🔇🔇🔇🔇

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19h

Fucking pathetic.

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 20h

Sad.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 22h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 20h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I made a horrible decision last night and told chat that I’d do a 24-hr livestream if we raise $100k with these streams by the 19th.

So if that’s an incentive to tune in… there you go.

Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social · 2d

. @katmabu.bsky.social
promises to do a 24 hr livestream if her campaign reaches $100k in donations. If you want an unapologetically pro-democracy Congress, please consider donating. If you want to see her stream for 24 hours, please donate to the stream specific url.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

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UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 22h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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