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Victor LaValle

@victorlavalle.bsky.social

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Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid. Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine & more. TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner) Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 18h

Shit. Damn. Motherfucker.

A real loss. Sad about this one.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t go wrong with “Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge.” The twist is a lot of fun. “The Damned Thing,” is good too. And “Chickamauga” is body horror/war horror that is pretty impossible to forget. Let me know what they think!

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

I love this. Walton is a genius AND a failure.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for reading! I love those new covers, too.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 2d

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 7d

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 7d

“LET’S DO THE FUCKING NEWS!”

Frank Booth, a villainous character from David Lynch’s movie, Blue Velvet. Frank is a middle-aged white dude in a leather jacket, holding an oxygen mask to his face.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 7d

BTW here’s a photo from 1992, when George HW Bush announced using the Insurrection Act. But CNN wouldn’t run this because it would be boring…and not inflammatory.

George HW Bush in the Oval Office, wearing a blue coat and tie, sitting at a desk, holding a few papers as he addresses the nation.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 7d

Facts!

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 7d

Dear CNN,

When you next report on the “chaos” in Chicago in 2025, please be sure to use this painting of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 for the article.

A painting of the destruction of Chicago by fire from 1871.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 8d

He would be crying in five seconds.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 8d

These people are so relentlessly corny.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 10d

Every day, billionaires prove why there should be no billionaires.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 11d

I am so so close to earning out on this one. Like finish line in sight and not many books to sell. It could really help me at this juncture in my career.
Grab a copy 🙌🏽🙌🏽 it’s still Latinx Heritage Month and perfect for Halloween.

bit.ly/4dQ103C

Thx @gabino.bsky.social

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sorry to hear it. I was hoping it would be a nice turn for Johnson.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like fall of 2026! Very proud of it, excited for it to air.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

For sure! I was too quick to type out my outrage.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

Clinging to one bit of good news: JOHN CARPENTER’S films are featured on the Criterion Channel.

He deserves a home in the art house, the grindhouse, and the movie theater around the corner. Long live Carpenter!

Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 12d

DIRECTED BY JOHN CARPENTER ⚡ Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

A master at turning B-movie premises into dazzlingly artful nightmares, Carpenter mixes pulse-pounding thrills and subversive social commentary into some of the smartest, most stylish, and electrifying genre films of all time.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

www.thehorrordome.com/cdn/shop/pro...

A tombstone. The letters RIP etched in the stone.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

Messed up my alt text. This is, of course, Walter Cronkite.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

You’re right of course!

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 12d

Edward R Murrow when he heard the news of John F Kennedy’s assassination.
An older white man in a white shirt and black tie, removing his glasses at the sad news. The image is in black and white.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15d

Friendly reminder to all media this week: The GOP controls both houses of Congress. They can keep the government open with their own votes.

It’s their own fecklessness and chaos that REQUIRES Dems to vote for this budget.

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