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The Bread Zone @wordloaf.org · Nov 6

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 32m

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 14h

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 14h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 14h

Hey if you have a culinary or restaurant or cooking or grocery or whatever question that I can answer — etiquette, advice, culture explainer, vibe prompts, etc — for my (ostensibly) food-related sporadic advice column, please send it to [email protected] with “Helen Help Me” in the subject line!

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 16h

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 1d

I've written about pumpkins, Halloween, Día de Muertos, and this year's mad themed food.

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It's so commercial now!

My personal take on Halloween and Día de Muertos, a prequel to a post about Halloween-themed cookbooks and food writing. I'd love you to subscribe to my newsletter; there's a link on the homepage. Ha...

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The Bread Zone @wordloaf.org · 19h

it probably should be, yeah. I've had some that were stored for many years that revived.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 20h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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The Bread Zone @wordloaf.org · 19h

Honestly, if I were you, I'd just work with the one you already have. My starter is great, but there's nothing special about it, especially since the one I sent you was dried. My belief is that the strength of a starter has little to do with its origins and more how it has been cared for lately.

The Bread Zone @wordloaf.org · 21h

this is the most recent starter maintenance intel:

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Twenty grams of flour and a little jar

Sourdough micro-starter maintenance for everyone, the easy way

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 1d

I wish our governor gave a shit.
I wish our legislature gave a shit.
I'm going to march next weekend against the Trump regime with many thousands of my fellow citizens of the Commonwealth, but our state leadership is absolutely failing, and MA voters aren't paying enough attention to this fact

j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 1d

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

"The 13-year-old’s mother said her son has called her crying from the Virginia facility, where he’s sleeping on concrete with an aluminum sheet as a blanket."

The family is here on a pending asylum claim.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1d

they are scum and anyone cooperating with them is complicit

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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The Bread Zone @wordloaf.org · 1d

Plus it’s organic and less than half the price

The Bread Zone @wordloaf.org · 1d

Not King Arthur, Central Milling, but it’s a similarly excellent flour to theirs

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 1d

Ratio me. It’s a badge of honor. Oooooo yes I like it when you ratio me. Ooh now ratio me harder yessss. Now ratio me while the neighbors watch. Ok now wearing that costume. Yessss.

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 1d

www.oglaf.com/capitalvices/

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to be sitting with this for a while because I've never thought about it exactly like this and it's such an insightful way to look at these guys.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 2d

Answer: No, this has not happened before.

(I checked the list of all World Series match-ups)

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 2d

Has there been a Job Title v Job Title World Series before? Guessing Mariners v Brewers would be the first??

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 2d

It'll soon be time to start making your sticky parkin (an essential treat on Guy Fawkes Night), which improves with keeping. I've got a recipe for sticky fig and pear parkin.

www.suffolknews.co.uk/sudbury/news...

Culture: Parkin the memories by Nicola Miller

It may have its origins in Yorkshire but for our food writer Nicola Miller, parkin brings back memories of festival time in Mexico

www.suffolknews.co.uk

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

I think the average person does not realize how ableist our entire country is, and relatedy how bad most media outlets are at covering disability issues.

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2d

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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