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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent work @vimiller.bsky.social of @chicago.suntimes.com getting photographic proof of the use of tear gas in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago. Potentially significant in regard to federal restraining order now in place.

close-up canister on a residential sidewalk

stenciled lettering on its side: "TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL"

Part of a tear gas canister deployed by federal agents in the 3200 block of Wilson Avenue Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.Violet Miller/Sun-Times

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 3h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 2d

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social !

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 9h

Congrats to all the winners and finalists!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 11h

This video also shows the effectiveness of whistles.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 14h

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 16h

"November? No, due tomorrow."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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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...

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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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

whoopsie

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve lost a diamond.

Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton. Always to see her in anything she has ever done. A Ray of sunshine.
youtu.be/kADG1WA-4vE?...

Kevin Bacon Always Wanted To Kiss Diane Keaton - The Graham Norton Show

YouTube video by BBC America

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, sci-fi and fantasy folks, if you happen to know folks who are involved with various estates in the field, do tip them a hat about the Anthropic settlement. Agencies do not get $ out of the deal and may not remember to talk to estate clients. My agent was worrying about estates not being alerted

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 1d

An actual opposition party sure would be useful at a time like this

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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

Would you like a little good news? The immigrant childrens detention center I've protested at myriad times (Also at its landlords house) has closed and will now be a project to house the unhoused.

As much as I'd love to take credit, it's apparently because SW Key no longer gets $$ from Trump. 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Houston Announces New $16 Million Low-Barrier Homeless 'Super Hub'

The City of Houston is spending $16 million to turn a former migrant shelter into a homeless “super hub”—a facility officials say will streamline access to services, but critics warn will damage the c...

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1d

"We've outsourced friendship, but you still have to scrub toilets!"

This is a such a bullshit dystopia.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

This is incredibly powerful and resonant language, to the point of creating genuine emotional religious response in me (a Jewish person).

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, according to four sources with knowledge of the layoffs. https://cnn.it/3WlxL1z

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 1d

In college I interned for a semester at GLAAD & for another semester with a local singer songwriter, who taught me how to plan a tour and how to write a press release. Did she need me? No. Was I half asleep the whole time? Yes. Did I learn two skills that have held me in good stead ever since? Yes!

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 1d

I feel the same way, I should add, when people say "I only use AI for the kind of stuff a stoned teenage intern might do for me." Give the stoned teenage intern a chance! Those are their starter jobs!

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