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K. L. Hallam

@love8rockets.bsky.social

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Reader. Writer. Painter. Singer. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ she/her 🌸amateur botanist. Member #AuthorsGuild & #SCBWI NYC ❤️ Daughter of a single immigrant mother. 📚Read Banned Books! 🚫DMs unless I know you. https://linktr.ee/klhallam

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · Jan 6

“I was deeply immersed in NYC's jazz scene and the elegance, language, and culture of the 1930s, learning much about the era through small details and author's notes. On top of that, it’s a great plot-twister and would make an excellent…”

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 1h

See you there!

Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 1d

🪧 NO KINGS NYC
📍 Meet: 47th & 7th Ave
📍 March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St
📆 Oct 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals

We work collaboratively, creatively, respectfully,
and with all the joy we can muster!

Logos of all organizations collaborating to create NO KINGS NYC

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Zola @zola4b.bsky.social · 2h

"...They should just be human rights." -Beto O'Rourke during Dems Abroad town hall in Berlin, Germany (Part #1)

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 1h

Think that’s the plan for the agent of chaos in the People’s House.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 1h

We could have used this on 2015.

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SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social · 1h

What an amazing opportunity! 🌟 Supporting creators who challenge gender norms through speculative work is vital for our future. Can't wait to see the innovative projects that emerge! 💖 #OtherwiseAward #SFF #Inspiration

Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · 6h

otherwiseaward.org/2025/10/appl...

Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.

#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi

Apply for Otherwise Fellowships by December 15! « Otherwise Award

The Otherwise Motherboard is now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows! Each Fellow receives USD $500 in support of a new or ongoing project. Please apply by December 15.

otherwiseaward.org

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Veronica Danie @veronicadanie.bsky.social · 1h

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 2h

This is a reason why we should ditch the Electoral College & Senate & adopt proportional representation for the House so every voter counts equally no matter where they live.

Our system insulates the governing party from electoral blowback in uncompetitive states & districts if it screws them over

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

3/ The Senate keeps voting on 2 bills to reopen.

1. The GOP bill - it raises premiums on 22m Americans and lets Trump keep acting illegally.

2. The Dem bill - it stops the premium increases and checks Trump's illegality.

Each time, neither bill gets the necessary 60 votes.

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 1d

He’s probably in the Epstein files.

K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, no doubt. Human Trafficking is their brand.

K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 2d

Where is the human trafficking Felonious POTuS sending these girls?

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 2d

Wish people would stop insulting Barbie. She looks more like a blow up sex doll.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 3d

We need Nobel Prizes for Climate

- Nobel Prize for Climate Tech
- Nobel Prize for Climate Journalism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Activism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Infrastructure
- Nobel Prize for Climate Success

Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 7d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 4d

I ride my bike in the city every day. Hope we pass each other. 🚴🏻‍♀️

Cyclists should rule! - safely.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 4d

JFC
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

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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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 4d

Hope the troops remember this.

K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 4d

Stopped using anything Zuck a while ago.

K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 5d

My father or grandfather either, both AirForce. Man, the furry bubbling within me is as large as the planet.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 5d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 5d

Picked up a copy on my dash through Barnes and Noble today.

The
Hundred Years' War on
PALESTINE
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
by Rashid Khalidi

Book of The
Hundred Years'
War on
PALESTINE
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi

K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 5d

Are they still getting paid?