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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18m

We rise, we fall, we rise again.

POISON IVY Annual 2025, an oversized issue with story by me, art by MARK EFFING BUCKINGHAM, colors by Lee Loughridge, and letters by Tom Napolitano. Final order cutoff is Oct 20, so tell your local comics shop to order a copy just for you!

A woman's hand reaching out of a body of water, holding a sword, with bursts of pink light in the background.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2h

I call it lapcat weather and I love it

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

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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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Georgie! He is even cuter!

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

What EVEN

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Posting this and then going to undo a repost of the initial reporting.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

A marvellous photo by Erich Auerbach: Lionel Tertis plays "Flos Campi" for Ralph & Ursula Vaughan Williams, at their house in Regent's Park.

"Afterwards we had tea with Herbert Menges, who was conducting the performance."
- EA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Ys...

The violist plays in the foreground. In the background, Ursula & Ralph listen on a couch. RVW follows on the score.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

I think mine is his Tallis Fantasia.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! I was literally just thinking about making them! It's this one, from Smitten Kitchen. Enjoy! smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/blon...

blondies, infinitely adaptable

My favorite blondies are quick, one-bowl, and infinitely adaptable with whatever add-ins you can dream up.

smittenkitchen.com

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 1d

Cat making biscuits to disco music
🎶🐈🕺😅😂
#Caturday

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

You in particular I think will love this book!!!

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, The English Understand Wool is *so* great. You are in for a treat!

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

A chance encounter

illustration inspired by the Scandinavian fairytale, "Bride of the Lindworm". A prince in the form of a lindworm perches on a moss-covered rock and peers curiously at a shepherdess from across a dark pond. The woman reaches toward him. The scene is set in a dark forest.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

I was raised Catholic & grew up singing "whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers, that you do unto me." The people I saw in vans with their hands ziptied, people inside ICE Broadview... they are our siblings. Our neighbors. And they are being denied everything, including visits from clergy

skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 1d

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve got another couple of spots on this available if anyone wants them.

Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, here we go. Further examples to follow.

Welcome to TomCon 25!

I’ll be taking a total of 6 “con style” commissions at “con rates” starting on Friday morning (October 10th) at 10am est.

All TomCon Coms will be 11x17 bw. TomCon Comms con rate for each will be $350 + shipping (plus whatever tariffs apply to US customers or HST to Canadians). An extra $100 will be applied to any an each requested extra element per TomCon Comm.

Requested subjects should be limited to “Big two” or adjacent, please.

Please contact me at tomfowlerart@gmail, subject line: “TomCon Comm” with your subject, name, address, and phone number to secure your spot. Payment via PayPal due upon confirmation.

Cheers!

11x17 drawing of DC’s Frankenstein and co slaughtering nazis.

11x17 drawing of Two-Face in an abandoned amusement park. Batman’s crouched behind him somewhere.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 1d

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
etching, from "A Book of Cats," 1929/30
Sold at Bonhams, 2018
#Caturday 🎨

Black and white etching of a sleeping cat by Foujita, 1929.

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Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social · 2d

A note from war-ravaged Portland:

cariluna.com/war-ravaged-...

War-Ravaged Portland

I was thinking that I might take some photos on my walk tomorrow to show you Portland in all of its overcast autumn glory, but you don’t need to see images of our tree-lined streets and our communi…

cariluna.com

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this makes a lot of sense, especially in terms of an ongoing narrative (more problems = more episodes)

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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 2d

Three destinations
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19472

"Three Destinations" by Remedios Varo showcases figures encapsulated within gothic architectural structures, each engaged in introspective activities, which reflect the artist’s fascination with mysticism and the inner journey. The surreal setting, with its dreamlike quality and intricate details, invites contemplation on the solitude and interconnectedness of human existence.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

Semi-regular reminder that I am a developmental editor, not an acquiring editor. This means that I can work with you to make your book better, but even if it is the best book ever, I cannot buy it and publish it. Also, if you are trying to sell your book, you should find an agent (also not me).

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

That is a *very* long run.

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 3d

These historic gold rings are based on ancient astronomical instruments called armillary spheres, which emerged from the theory that everything in the cosmos revolved around Earth.

What Do Astronomy and Jewelry Have in Common? In the Late Renaissance, Look to the Stars

Armillary rings emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries during the birth of the scientific revolution and rise of astronomy studies.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 3d

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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