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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 52m

ICE allegedly impedes ambulance. Ambulance set to leave between 9:30-9:33 p.m.; ICE blocks ambulance as driver pleads with ICE to move away. Dispatch + EMT documented. Dispatch 9:39 p.m: “50-60 fed agents completely blocking the road, but AMR still not driving out yet.”
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1h

Many families in the US are having to operate like Anne Frank and her family did. And, like the community around the Franks, many US citizens allow the reason for the hiding to persist.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 13h

Yeah that's happening already 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 t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1h

My writer's critique group members are more experienced in fic pub than I am, and they've always told me how a big part of being pub'd is knowing where work belongs, "finding the home" for it.

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, for making the case that knowledge and application skills are deepest in us when we're humble, open to the process, and not just fixated on ends and accolades.

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1h

I hope Tish James sues the ever loving hell out of these individuals. She better get a defamation award and p + s.
And not paid for by Blue state taxpayers, but by the perpetrators enabled by Red voters.

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1h

I'm better because of my rejections. I learned along the way that the most detailed rejections & critiques were by those who saw my potential and took the time + care to help me grow.
When someone in my growth corridor says: I'm being harsh
I say: please give it to me good

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 3h

Yet, we don’t train young scholars to fail well.
 We praise resilience, but rarely explain how to build it.
 Rejection is part of the scientific method.
 It’s the friction that refines our thought.

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 2h

We can't enable the fascist, because that would make US the fascists.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 3d

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 11h

Federal government shutdown could be the longest ever, House Speaker Johnson warns

At its core, the shutdown is a debate over health care policy — particularly the Affordable Care Act subsidies that are expiring for millions of Americans

coloradosun.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 16h

The National Museum of American Diplomacy has several diplomacy simulations with great primary sources and instructions. I tried the Suez Canal crisis simulation today in US Foreign Relations and it went really well! It seems workable for a range of levels, too. diplomacy.state.gov/teacher-reso... 🗃️

Suez Canal Crisis: National Sovereignty versus International Access to Waterways - The National Museum of American Diplomacy

On July 26, 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nassar nationalized the Suez Canal, intending to take control of the canal’s operation and its revenue.

diplomacy.state.gov

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 15h

I feel similar about Chaucer. The tales that involve flatulence on hands and in faces, and the reasons for such things, are some of the funniest things to me. The juxta of high stuff with low brow just rubs it right.

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

fwiw @jsweetli.bsky.social and i did this story about a park police officer working alongside ICE. www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...

i believe we don’t hear more of these stories because ICE agents are the truest believers in this administration. we’re not seeing cracks bc there aren’t many.

Officer repeatedly seen on camera in DC crackdown shows Trump agents' impunity

US Park Police officer Patrick O’Hanlon isn’t unique in his behavior. He just got caught.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 18h

He and my other international connections don't need me to tell them. They know more about America than most Americans know about themselves and their own country.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Lexington Alarm! @lexingtonalarm.bsky.social · 3d

We're excited to announce that
@billmckibben.bsky.social will be joining us at Oct. 18 in #Lexington, MA. Hope you do, too!
#nokings #notyranny #resistance #democracy

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 18h

The friend has pointed that out, and indicates it adds to what he perceives as the arrogance of Trump and those like him.
He also has expressed concern, sadness, sorrow over the complexities of his home region, which he knows, of course, Trump cannot comprehend.

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 18h

At first I said "that's a weird halloween pumpkin contest entry."

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 20h

Get 'em, Marimar Martinez
🕯️Wide Awake

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 21h

From a motion just filed by Chris Parente, attorney for Marimar Martinez. She's the woman shot by U.S. Border Patrol in Chicago before being charged with assault.

"The credibility of DHS agents … will be the focal point of the defense at trial."

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 21h

www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/shad...
"A lot of attention has (appropriately) focused on the Supreme Court’s virtual reversal of Humphrey’s Executor on the shadow docket. ... It is doing the same to Clinton v. City of New York, the 1998 case that struck down the Line Item Veto Act ..." 1/

Shadow overruling: it’s not just for Humphrey’s Executor

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and on [...

www.scotusblog.com

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 21h

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 21h

I saw the Whoopee! on Broadway and heard the song "Makin' Whoopee!" and knew what it meant, but only who we younguns called "oldsters" ever said it. This was near the end of the phrase as mainstream.

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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 21h

Appreciate this fairly fugitive landscape brought to the fore. It led to quotas & Sacco + Vanzetti & were fueled by anti-Catholic + anti-Socialist (anti-immigrant) sentiment. Wan Lee & other Chinese also suffered mob assaults. First daylight Klan march is Milo (Catholic, industry) MAINE, 1920s.

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