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Mo Ryan

@moryan.bsky.social

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writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋 moryan.com 💚 linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀 I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · Oct 10

Timeline cleanse: one of our two new rescue cats, Chappell Ryan. This faaaace! 😻

A six month old calico cat with a white chest, and partly white face, and paws are also white. The rest of the cat is tortoise-pattern gray and green. The cat is sitting on a wooden floor.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 16h

This is awesome.

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 21h

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, if your library has Hoopla, check to see if their plan includes TV shows and movies. If so, you'll have access to Acorn TV, MHz Choice, AMC and BritBox shows and more.

Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · Feb 6

On a budget? A reminder to check to see if you have access to Kanopy and Hoopla through your library. Hoopla has ebooks, music, movies and TV shows. A lot of AMC and Acorn TV shows on that platform. And Kanopy has a kids section with unlimited "borrows". #library

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6h

It's possible I'm out over my skis here in terms of understanding what NIPAS can & can't do, but they were absolutely mixing w other law enforcement today & NIPAS cops took a briefing (that I documented) from (I think) ISP bigwig & appeared to be helping ICE transport run smoothly, from what I saw.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks, Alex. FWIW, I was at Broadview today, and it was mostly CCSP & ISP, with some local. Then, around noon, NIPAS replaced cops lining driveway that ICE uses. It looked to me like they were there specifically to ensure 2 ICE buses came in without incident. So much for not assisting ICE?

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6h

thanks much! Yeah someone sent me a link to a page with that info. Appreciate the help.

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Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social · 7h

As a fan of the original film, I was skeptical of Bill Condon’s adaptation of the musical, but he does such a great job, I cannot help but recommend the new KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. 🕷️

Read my full review below. 🕸️

RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 17h

“KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN arrives at a time when we could perhaps use a little more distraction, an excuse to stop doomscrolling and fall into the old school charms of sweeping musicals and a story about love in the face of oppression,” writes @mcastimovies.bsky.social.

Kiss of the Spider Woman movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert

It’s kitsch but a delightfully surprising throwback, and a welcome reminder that in times of need, we still have art for escape.

www.rogerebert.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

Here's the full memo.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 18h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 8h

"Federal agents put the woman inside the minivan...but realized another van was in their way....
After federal agents got out of the minivan to yell at the driver to move, the agents got back into the van and drove off, hitting the other car" per witnesses & video. terrifying & dangerous clownshow

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 12h

A WGN staffer was detained by Border Patrol agents in Lincoln Square, neighbors say. blockclubchi.co/3KHHYCJ

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 8h

Among other updates, ICE/DHS were told -- again, this time by a judge -- to remove the fence around ICE Broadview. It was still up when I left at noon. And as this story reports, today IL Sens Duckworth & Durbin were denied entry, as other local officials have been for weeks.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 10h

Protesters gathered Friday outside the Broadview ICE facility, as they have for weeks in resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. blockclubchi.co/48oEVt5

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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly as I said this morning. They aren’t charging people they are intimidating them and making sure they cannot identify anyone.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 11h

I had never heard of Harold Washington.

Excellent listen on @thisamericanlife.org : "This week, we bring you the story of Harold Washington, the greatest politician you've probably never heard of, and the backlash that ensued when he became Chicago's first Black mayor."

Harold - This American Life

The story of Harold Washington and the white backlash that ensued when he became Chicago's first Black mayor.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

This was one of the hugest stories in Chicago when I was growing up. Thank you for the link! I could use the refresher, even though local media at that time covered it obsessively.

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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social · 11h

I confirmed that around 9:45 a.m. Friday a group of Ravenswood neighbors yelled for federal immigration agents near Ravenswood Elementary School, 4332 N. Paulina St., to leave. They did. This and more from @blockclubchi.bsky.social's team here:
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/w...

WGN Staffer Detained By Border Patrol Agents In Lincoln Square, Neighbors Say

The woman was recording agents as they detained a man when they took her into custody, handcuffing her and putting her a van, according to witnesses and video. The agents drove into another car while ...

blockclubchicago.org

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

The NIPAS cops I saw today were definitely a mixture of masked and not masked, but I would say majority masked.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

Very tired, apologies for not posting alt text last post. First one says: wait why is the Illinois state police doing security for ICE? 2nd: 2 signs, fuck you ice, and all your base are belong to us: 3rd: show your faces if your mama is proud of these boys: 4th stop deportations, defend immigrants

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

I have not done any reporting on that, but I did see someone who looked senior in ISP talking to them before they deployed on the street.

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