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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate this so much!

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Cowboy Carter Vegas Night 2 🤭 @neau.blacksky.app · 7d

I have a google sheets document with 590 songs that was compiled by a teacher for learning Spanish

Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 9d

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 12d

Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!

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Richie Narvaez is the author of two novels, Hipster Death Rattle and Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco, which received an Agatha Award and an Anthony Award, and two short story collections, Roachkiller & Other Stories and Noiryorican. Richie was recently named Letrad Boricuas Fellow through the Flamboyan Foundation's Arts Fund.

Find more: https://richienarvaez.com/

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 12d

Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 12d

Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 13d

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.

The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!

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A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13d

This looks great!! Pay authors and artists! Read stories! Solve/Do Crimes!

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 13d

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.

The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Please share widely

The Speculative Detective Agency

A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases

www.kickstarter.com

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 13d

This looks fantastic!

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 13d

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.

The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Please share widely

The Speculative Detective Agency

A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases

www.kickstarter.com

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 13d

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.

The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Please share widely

The Speculative Detective Agency

A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases

www.kickstarter.com

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · Sep 5

Trump wants the Department of Defense to go back to its old name the “Department of War.” Did you know that beginning in 1789, the Secretary of War managed all tribal relations and in 1822 established the Bureau of Indian Affairs within the War Department.

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Patrick @patrickjharris.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just give Alexandra Petrie a Pulitzer already. "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow."

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Aug 22

I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please.

The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · Aug 20

Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale with ICE planning to double its detention capacity by the end of this year to detain nearly 110,000 people. Texas alone will have the capacity to detain at least 37,000 people.

A Closer Look at Trump’s Shocking Immigration Detention Expansion Plans

Washington, DC — Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale. Last week, a Washington Post report revealed what advocates have been callin...

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 22

I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary.

Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.

globalnews.ca/video/113458...

Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

globalnews.ca

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Medieval studies need instead to move politically to a place of radicality, one that would, unlike liberalism, align itself coherently with the work of dismantling the violent and unjust structures in which we think, work, and live."

Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!

IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana

Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...

www.arthuriana.com

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Aug 5

Liberal Zionists can't read the room, can they? Of course there are medievalists involved... As their colleagues (us!) call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, they're more than happy to be platformed by them. You can't "both-sides" your way out of a genocide.

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Aug 22

Please help a Black trans comrade who has been targeted and fined for Pro-Palestine speech

chuffed.org/project/1455...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 6

"This page breaks down how these prices have changed under the Trump administration and Republican control of Congress and what federal policies contribute to rising costs."
dontinflateourplates.com

Don't Inflate Our Plates

This page breaks down how these prices have changed under the Trump administration and Republican control of Congress and what federal policies contribute to rising costs.

dontinflateourplates.com

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It’s John @itsjohn.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yup:
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...

Perspective | Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We’re now paying the price for their failure.

The high cost of failing to fight white supremacy during World War II.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · Aug 6

The other day I asked three different AI to do a straightforward multiplication problem, and they all got it wrong.

I assure you, @historians.org, AI cannot accurately summarize a history text, no matter how simple. And, as you know, most histories aren’t simple!!

RECONSIDER THIS.

ChatGPT attempting to multiply 6,724 by 10,783. It gets 72,486,592, which is incorrect.

Google Assistant attempting to multiply 6,724 by 10,783. It gets 72,476,492, which is incorrect.

Grok attempting to multiply 6,724 by 10,783. It gets 72,466,592, which is incorrect.

An iPhone calculator multiplying 6,724 by 10,783. It gets 72,504,892, which is correct. Yes I double checked this with a pen and paper.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 29

Very glad to see this coverage of Chris Smalls being brutalized by Israel in @newrepublic.com.

newrepublic.com/post/198550/...

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Pentagon Won’t Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will.

Pentagon press releases say 20,000 federal troops have deployed to support ICE across the country. The real number may be markedly higher.

theintercept.com/2025/07/22/m...

The Pentagon Won’t Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will.

Pentagon press releases say 20,000 federal troops have deployed to support ICE across the country. The real number may be markedly higher.

theintercept.com

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jul 21

Though national media has mostly been focused on Los Angeles, it is crucial for eyes to be on the Central Valley to properly address the plight of undocumented immigrants.

Read how organizers in California's Central Valley are putting their bodies on the line to fight ICE raids and deportations. ⤵️

How Organizers in California's Central Valley Are Fighting ICE Raids and Deportations

Organizers in California's Central Valley are calling attention to the plight of the region's 300,000-plus undocumented migrants.

www.teenvogue.com

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Same crisis in Sudan.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

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