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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 18m

Just finished a full draft of my first novel.

Writing the last line was one of the craziest feelings of my life.

Now: to the edits!

Title page of my draft novel. Text reads:
THE SHALLOWS
A novel
By Nate Gillespie

⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 10h

Go fash lose cash

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 1d

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

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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David Templeman 🇵🇸 @davidtempleman.bsky.social · 1d

#nufc

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 1d

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 1d

Garibaldi was right there, guys. Right there.

⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 1d

Like, “Italian” didn’t even exist as an identity in 1492. Fuck Columbus; give me Garibaldi. Give me Da Vinci. Give me Monica Vitti. Give me Joe Fuckin DiMaggio. Anyone but Cristobal “I got lost and did a genocide” Colon.

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 1d

He only makes sense as a national hero if your “nation” is white supremacy.

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 1d

Judged by the standards of his own time, Christopher Columbus was such a bloodthirsty maniac as governor of Hispaniola that the Spanish crown stripped him of land and titles and hauled him back to Europe in chains.

He also had sweet fuck all to do with any lands of the future USA.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 3d

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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

⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 3d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 4d

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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 th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 4d

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 4d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 6d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 6d

Antifa are the good guys, actually. Since 1932.

kboo.fm/program/it-d...

It Did Happen Here

In the 1980s, before gentrification, before Portlandia, Portland, Oregon was a sleepy city that existed outside of the national spotlight. Skinheads had always been part of the local punk scene. In t...

kboo.fm

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 7d

Trash people using trash technology to make trash content, trashing the planet and the culture. Trash.

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 7d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 7d

THIS.

Stephany Daniel @sadanielwrites.bsky.social · 7d

All of this admin’s attempts to erase queer, trans, neurodivergent, and disabled kids (+ other marginalized identities) make me so sad. I keep thinking that if someone can’t handle the possibility of who their child may become without trying to change them, then they aren’t ready to be a parent.

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⚫️⚪️ Nate Gillespie 🔴⚫️ @nategillespie.bsky.social · 8d

Somehow we need to re-establish the social norm that just shamelessly lying about everything is disgraceful and people who do so should be shunned and ignored.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 8d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 8d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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