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Jocelyn Rish

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Writer & filmmaker who puts birthday hats on my dogs. 📚 BATTLE OF THE BUTTS (Running Press Kids) 📽️ GRAVE INTENTIONS (Terror Films) 📚 BATTLE OF THE BRAINS (Running Press Kids)

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Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · Jun 27

So thrilled to be guest posting for #KidlitZombieWeek again!

This year we're getting experimental with a different flavor of zombie. And the post is interactive! Go see what you can dig up at: www.transmediamutts.com/blog/is-fran...

Thanks for having me, @kidlitzombieweek.bsky.social!

#kidlit

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 13h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 20h

REMINDER: For anyone confused, your political views are more than opinions. They're a reflection of your values, your empathy, and the way you see humanity.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 11h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16h

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved?

How times change!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 14h

The president is clearly insane, is on a white supremacist government purging spree, has masked men in the streets abducting people based on their race, is trying to start a war with Venezuela, and is tanking the economy, and none of that would be apparent just going by most corporate news outlets
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Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 13h

Sending healing vibes and positive energy.❤️

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

As ever, so proud to be a South Carolinian. /s

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

Makes me proud to be an American!

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

John Oliver is the best!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

If you find this person, will you pretty please send them my way next?

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 2d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

I want Zoomie!!! Why are y'all so far away?!?😭😭😭

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

Eeeee! I love hearing that! Thank you for passing it along.❤️

Funny timing, because I just pre-launched a new booty-themed project today. There will be more info to come, but here's my first post about it: bsky.app/profile/joce...

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

I can't sit on this news any longer!

My brother and I have been working behind the scenes on a new project.

It's going to be a gas!

Check out the details below and sign up for the VIP (Very Interesting Posterior) Waitlist to learn more! butts-in-a-box.kit.com/26e0fc1200

Butts in a Box - Fair Acres Publishing @fairacrespub.bsky.social · 1d

What do you get when you combine talented tushies with snail mail?

BUTTS IN A BOX!

Based on the award-winning nonfiction book “Battle of the Butts,” BUTTS IN A BOX brings animal science (and silliness) right to your doorstep. Learn more: butts-in-a-box.kit.com/26e0fc1200

#kidlit #STEM

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Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

Now I want to do it!

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Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

I already adored Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies when I watched The Fall, and I watched slack jawed the entire movie at the beauty of the film (and the man!).

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

Are MAGAts going to melt down over this change?

Maybe because the plus sign was a brighter white than the rest of the logo, so dropping it is clearly a DEI move? /s

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 1d

So pretty!

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 2d

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