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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand. In full: buff.ly/UDWB6Cy

EU parliament urges China to release Swedish bookseller, 10 years on

The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 4h

Tbh I'm not convinced this is about secret age limits. It's just as likely the ones stepping down don't relish the idea of another five years in a thankless (and arguably pointless) job, and are thinking they've advanced as far as they can, they've got a secure pension, so why not cash out now.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 5h

Hong Kong leader John Lee has dodged questions about an age limit for running in the "patriots-only" legislative elections, after several septuagenarian lawmakers announced they would not seek another term. In full: buff.ly/lHsjeBK

HK leader dodges questions on age limit for running in 'patriots-only' LegCo race

Hong Kong leader John Lee has dodged questions about an age limit for running in the "patriots-only" legislative elections, after several septuagenarian lawmakers announced they would not seek another...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

In the case of Mr. Cruz, we have a very literal "show me your papers" arrest.

He was chilling with a friend when ICE officers demanded to see his papers. He didn't have them on him, so they detained him and interrogated him. He was eventually released — but with the ticket.

Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.
The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
“They asked us if we have papers. I said I do but I don’t have them on me,” Cruz, a 60-year old man with heart problems originally from El Salvador, recalled in Spanish.
The agents stood Cruz up, put him in their truck, drove around in circles, and asked questions, he said.
Where was he born? What is his name? Who is his mother? Who is his father?
“I told them, they are dead,” Cruz said. The agents said they needed the information anyway so they could look him up in their databases. Eventually, the agents verified that he is, in fact, legally in the country. And they let him go.
But not before writing him a $130 ticket for not having his papers. Cruz’s friend, who is homeless, did not have legal status and was taken away by the feds.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

It's every bit of culture. Movies, TV, plays, music, theater, painting, dance. Everything ages and context is lost and new audiences don't attach to the work the way then-contemporary audiences did. It doesn't make the work bad or suggests it can't endure. But times change.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

I don't even think it's just books. Almost nobody understands the Looney tunes references anymore and my children were completely gobsmacked trying to watch the original Aladdin.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 21h

This is a key difference between Hong Kong and mainland China ... for now. The question is for how much longer, because I do think this is the future of religion in Hong Kong, eventually. GovHK likes to say freedom of religion is guaranteed in HK. Yeah, well, it's "guaranteed" in the mainland too.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 23h

The founder of a prominent Chinese underground church has been detained along with more than 20 of its members in a sweeping national crackdown, according to his daughter and one of its pastors. In full: buff.ly/ttRJ1iR

China detains prominent 'underground' pastor in crackdown

The founder of a prominent Chinese underground church has been detained along with more than 20 of its members in a sweeping national crackdown, according to his daughter and one of its pastors.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Framed - One Frame Challenge #315
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Haven't seen this either.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Framed #1312
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Haven't seen it.

Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Looks to me like they really want this poor kid – who is at most guilty of joining a lost cause without having really thought it through (he was 15, for goodness' sake) – to pay for it for the rest of his life (outside of jail time) to serve as an example to other kids. Brutal, man.

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 1d

A judge in Hong Kong has insisted on sentencing a 15 year old kid after his 16th birthday. Which means the kids name can be published & he can be sentenced to an adult prison.

Case highlights the criminalization of youth dissent and the weaponization of law under the NSL.

15歲男生被指「香港民主建國聯盟」成員擬認串謀分裂國家罪 - 棱角媒體

15 歲男童周三（8日）在區域法院提訊時，辯方表明擬認罪，望判處教導所，並在本月滿 16 歲前分拆案件判刑，但法官郭偉健指索取報告需時至少 14 天，「似乎無可能」，又指判刑時年滿 16 歲可以公開其姓名，並會由屯門兒童及青少年院，「一到16歲就轉交去懲教署看管」。

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Instant karma, etc.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

"Do as I say, not as I do".

Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1d

Xi Jinping just lectured world leaders about the need to include more women in government. If only there was someone who could influence such a change in the Chinese government eh?
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda get what they think they're trying to say here, and I do want to see Hongkongers welcomed abroad, but this is also basically arguing that only immigrants with college degrees and money deserve have enough value as human beings to be allowed in to start a new life. I'm not down with that.

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”

Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need

Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

A few years ago The Lancet picked up an estimate from Bloomberg that ~90% of the HK population tasted tear gas during the 2019 pro-democracy protests. The article was filed under oncology because no one knows what happens when a city gets persistently tear gassed over a long stretch of time.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways

The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial

Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other

www.theguardian.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I hope for their sake no trick or treaters show up at Andy Ngo's house.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Jim Rockford was ace.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Well this is sad.

I've noticed most news story decks mention either her Woody Allen/Godfather era or her later-era films - whatever they think most of their readers arevmore familiar with.

Personally I think The Little Drummer Girl is her most underrated film, and one of her best performances.

Movie poster for The Little Drummer Girl (1984)

John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Share a TV show you love from the 1970s

Box cover for the DVD box set of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker".

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Dreamed I was back in the military and Pete Hegseth showed up to yell at us but we disrupted his speech by hiring Frank Zappa to play a show outside that quickly devolved into shenanigans. We also convinced a soccer team to distract the MPs. Hegseth kept talking with grim determination. #Dreamsky

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Being on Twitter (or any social media site) is not a civil obligation. It's not like joining the armed forces. If you're not getting anything out of it or the experience is bad enough for you, you are free to leave at any time.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Framed - One Frame Challenge #314
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Haven't seen it, but I've seen this meme.

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