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Steph 📚🪐🔮🇨🇺
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Steph 📚🪐🔮🇨🇺 @stephbz.bsky.social · Jan 22
My intro, as if I'm being described to my innie ( #Severance) -

Your outie loves to lose herself in fictional worlds.
Your outie is writing a cozy fantasy novel.
Your outie has 3 unfinished craft projects rn.
Your outie is on Bluesky / #Booksky to replace Tiktok (bc it's not the same there 😮‍💨).
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jeffrueter.bsky.social
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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mrdanzak.com
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.
Defendants’ Unlawful Detention of Ali Dahir 49. Ali Dahir is a U.S. citizen of Somali descent who has lived in the United States since 2001. He currently resides near Karmel Mall, in a neighborhood with a large Somali American population in Minneapolis. On December 2, 2025, Mr. Dahir was leaving his apartment when he observed uniformed officers wearing vests and masks knocking on doors in his building. Mr. Dahir was detained after sharing an elevator in his building—a building primarily housing residents of Somali and Latino descent—with the ICE agents. Mr. Dahir did not speak to or otherwise engage with the agents while in the elevator. When Mr. Dahir exited the elevator and walked outside, the agents followed him, called him over, and stopped him, saying that they needed to speak with him. 50. The agents took a picture of Mr. Dahir’s face with their phone and asked him for his identification. Mr. Dahir provided them with his Minnesota driver’s license. They asked Mr. Dahir if he was a U.S. citizen, and when he responded that he was, they demanded proof. Mr. Dahir provided his passport card, but the agents still did not let him leave. Instead, they took his driver’s license and passport card to their car. Mr. Dahir asked if he was free to go, but an officer said no because they were waiting for more information from their headquarters. The agents kept Mr. Dahir outside for at least 25 minutes in weather at or below 19 degrees Fahrenheit. When Mr. Dahir asked if he could leave to go to work, the agents told him he was not free to leave and threatened him with detention. 51. The agents also held a friend of Mr. Dahir’s. The ICE agents prevented Mr. Dahir and his friend from leaving until media and other people from the neighborhood started to gather, at which point one of the ICE agents stated, “It’s getting hot over here, let’s go, let’s go.”
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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propublica.org
A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters struggling to breathe.

Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using "less lethal" weapons in ways that some experts say might be criminal.

➡️ Read more (w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social): https://propub.li/4qjXYdX
January 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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apnews.com
The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.
Minneapolis schools offer remote learning as tensions rise over federal immigration enforcement
The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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erininthemorning.com
This is an occupying force.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 25d
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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knightofnothing.bsky.social
Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"
shantalg.bsky.social Shantal @shantalg.bsky.social · 26d
He never dropped his phone.

Even while “fearing for his life” and shooting her with the other hand.
January 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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taraskurtu.bsky.social
If you read one thing today, let it be this:
“An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness”

❤️💔

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
www.harpersbazaar.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
stephbz.bsky.social
Launching my substack newsletter, Word for World! 💫 Come nerd out about fantasy and sci-fi! 🪐📚
Welcome to Word for World
Welcome - I’m so glad you’re here.
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for *water.*

This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.

apnews.com/article/migr...
“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”
June 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”

ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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npr.org
Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.
One daughter's search for a father detained by ICE
Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.
n.pr
June 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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utopia-defer.red
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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jamellebouie.net
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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neginowl.bsky.social
Right before I saw the message from Trump I got a very different one from a friend in Tehran, so deeply surrounded by bombing that he was asking me to help communicate his last wishes. This is what my own taxes fund, so much pain upon my loved ones. We are complicit in so, so, so much violence.
June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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dbkrause.bsky.social
#nokings #savannah
And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask
June 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
L.A. TACO has confirmed with Brian Gavidia who filmed this troubling footage, that federal agents abducted his U.S.-born Mexican American friend, Javier Ramirez yesterday at 4 PM in Montebello. ~ @theglutster.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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smashfizzle.bsky.social
I just keep looking at my phone and saying “oh my God” like Bob from Bob’s Burgers.
June 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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smashfizzle.bsky.social
Nobody has ever dodged a bullet like J Cole.
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
stephbz.bsky.social
Immediately relevant line as I start Tales of Earthsea: "Wanting praise, not history, the warlords burnt the books in which the poor and powerless might learn what power is." 💙📚
February 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
stephbz.bsky.social
The duality of my feed this week represented by father and son 😂 @dropouttv.bsky.social
A screenshot showing a post from Sam Reich making funny faces and right below a political post from his father Robert Reich about Musk destroying the government.
February 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM