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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 6h

PSA: if your only understanding of "being a person of color" is a genealogy test you are literally using a dangerous white supremacist eugenicist model of racialization.

STOP IT.
Community and experiences matter.
Fucking do better. There are so many better things to do with your time and privilege!

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 9h

In 15 minutes!

Chaotic Wholesome @chaoticwholeso.me · 1d

Tomorrow, on the Table Talk Show, we're sitting down with @intersectionscch.bsky.social to talk about the PAX Together Intersection Games Library Program for #PAX Unplugged.

...what do you mean that PAX U is just about a month away..? 😰

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Tools, tips, and hot takes from across the TTRPG space. Honest and entertaining discussions, from indies to intersectionality.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 12h

Watching all this people and businesses that went MAGA hitting the Find Out stage is a nice treat for a very fucked up day.

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 17h

Because there is no line for them. They will lie and the line (if it ever existed) has long been erased at this point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 17h

a happy birthday card with a dragon sitting at a table with a cake on it

Alt: a happy birthday card with a dragon sitting at a table with a cake on it

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

They took entire families from their beds in the middle of the night.

None of us deserve peace.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 19h

Tuesday Tea & Co-Working is live
twitch.tv/mentallamia
My life is so weird I have no words at the moment. Come work with me.

a woman says what 's going on here on a poster

Alt: a woman says what 's going on here on a poster

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

www.oregonlive.com

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a wild 2 days & has left me reflecting deeply on how tragically different the world I envision/ try to bring to life by my actions is from the world we live in.

It hurts my soul that my actions are an anomaly.

We must stop fearing each other if we hope to help, heal & liberate together.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 1d

I might not find some political activism that compelling but I try to keep in mind Kwame Ture's point:

"You don't criticize somebody who's doing something when you doing nothing."

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Chaotic Wholesome @chaoticwholeso.me · 1d

Tomorrow, on the Table Talk Show, we're sitting down with @intersectionscch.bsky.social to talk about the PAX Together Intersection Games Library Program for #PAX Unplugged.

...what do you mean that PAX U is just about a month away..? 😰

www.twitch.tv/chaoticwhole...
www.youtube.com/@ChaoticWhol...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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BaddieBards ✨️ @baddiebards.bsky.social · 3d

Did you miss this amazing BaddiePride's panel?

Watch the VOD for Black Queer Experience in the TTRPG Community Outside the Lens of Whiteness on YouTube now!

WE ARE HERE!

Black Queer Experience in the TTRPG Community Outside the Lens of Whiteness - BaddiePride25 Panel

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 3d

With that The Between: London 1868 ends.
Thank you @wizardstyles.bsky.social @jienbirb.bsky.social @cursebreakerelliot.bsky.social @renegadedumpling.bsky.social @rosatyrs.bsky.social
I had an absolute blast!

Here's the mood board & playlist for Leander
Playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A Character concept and mood board for my character Doctor Leander from The Between: London 1868 on Starcrawl rpg
It is a collage of pictures, words and quotes that provide a vibe of a Black London doctor who is also a murder and heartbroken over a love who has spurned him.

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 3d

There is so much helicopter activity in my area, but I can't tell exactly where and what is happening.

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