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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is doing it right!

This regime is a rickety treehouse full of bullies who want to force respect rather than earn it. Clowning on them strips all that posturing down to the weakness at its core.

Creative and joyful resistance is their kryptonite.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Foxtrot Delta Taco. (Lauren/Melusine0811) @neuroarborescent.bsky.social · 1d

I love this frog. The dude inside was sprayed but is ok.
This is what we are- joy in the face of destruction. We are love in the face of hatred. They will NOT take our joie de vivre. They will not get our silence or our compliance. However they can be invited to our rave if they stop being dicks.

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

My editing & publishing class at Temple will be opening soon for submissions for a special online issue of Barrelhouse, with the theme "The Dirty Issue." Fiction & nonfiction up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 poems. Usual @barrelhouse.bsky.social contract & payment.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Chae! (ANTIFA Squad Leader) @smartchae.bsky.social · 3d

I can't not see it! 🤣😂

Jesse Watters IS Caesar Flickerman!!! Fox News works directly for the Capital. 😂

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 3d

Contrast Miller's description with the actual footage of--people in frog costumes

These people are so unserious. It's just too bad that the ramifications of their unseriousness are so very serious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 3d

Registration is open now!

Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 4d

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections, is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026.

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 4d

It's time

#halloween

Orange plastic Jack-o-lantern head lit from inside atop orange skeleton body standing at a balcony over an urban intersection, looking back over its shoulder

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4d

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right?

Right?

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Guilherme Nunes - Commissions Open!! @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 4d

penguin who doesn’t believe in aliens will be the next to be abducted

painting of a penguin posting on the internet about how he doesn't believe in aliens, but through the window there's a UFO releasing a beam to abduct him

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 4d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 6d

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers.

Clown ideology. 🤡

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 5d

A skull in the hand is worth...

Tiny neon yellow crocheted skull with pink facial features neatled in the palm of a hand

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 6d

History repeats.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 7d

No lie.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 7d

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 7d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

open.substack.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

They’re baaack. 🤣

Repairs and all…

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 7d

Join @taracampbell.bsky.social on 11/9 for a one-hour workshop focusing on Tradition and Transition, hosted by the Flash Fiction Institute! buff.ly/kSfMeaU

Get Tara's latest novel, CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES, right here: bit.ly/4afSfht
@susanschulman.bsky.social

Tradition and Transition with Tara Campbell | Sunday, Nov. 9 | 11am PST/2pm EST - Flash Fiction Institute

Tap into the power of ritual and tradition for an hour, and come away with two flash starts that create new alternatives.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 8d

It's now the 2nd, but that's not a reason to forget to submit to Translunar Travelers Lounge.

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 9d

Remember remember this 1st of October
Your speculative fiction plot
I see no reason
This submission season
Not to add to the ones that we’ve got!

(Submissions are open until the 15th of October) translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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