Benjamin Kissell
@praetor1983.bsky.social
Author of faerie drag queen novels, tales of adorable Young Gentlemen, and assorted weird and esoteric stories. My husband arts ( The Clockwork Ticker ) and our cats are jerks.
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Benjamin Kissell
@praetor1983.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hullo Bluesky.
I guess introductions are in order?
I’m Benjamin Kissell - I’m rather gay and I write fantasy books for various ages.
My (ages 14+) faerie drag queen series:
A Queen of Blood and Glitter
The Young Gentlemen books (all ages)
#QueerAuthor #FantasyAuthor
I guess introductions are in order?
I’m Benjamin Kissell - I’m rather gay and I write fantasy books for various ages.
My (ages 14+) faerie drag queen series:
A Queen of Blood and Glitter
The Young Gentlemen books (all ages)
#QueerAuthor #FantasyAuthor
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when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY
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Ride or Die is an LGBTQ/supernatural webcomic about street racers and a demon-possessed muscle car tracking down a missing person!
🔥🔥🔥
* Rideordiecomic.com
* tapas.io/series/ride-or-die/info
* webtoons.com/en/canvas/ride-or-die/list?title_no=720539&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
🔥🔥🔥
* Rideordiecomic.com
* tapas.io/series/ride-or-die/info
* webtoons.com/en/canvas/ride-or-die/list?title_no=720539&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ/supernatural webcomic about street racers and a demon-possessed muscle car tracking down a missing person!
🔥🔥🔥
* Rideordiecomic.com
* tapas.io/series/ride-or-die/info
* webtoons.com/en/canvas/ride-or-die/list?title_no=720539&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
🔥🔥🔥
* Rideordiecomic.com
* tapas.io/series/ride-or-die/info
* webtoons.com/en/canvas/ride-or-die/list?title_no=720539&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
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🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Background: For years @ndlon.bsky.social, based in Southern California, has encouraged people to make everyday connections with day laborers. When ICE activity escalated in LA last summer, they formalized the initiative into Adopt a Corner. ❤️🔥
www.kqed.org/news/1205466...
www.kqed.org/news/1205466...
To Monitor ICE Activity, Volunteers Are ‘Adopting’ Street Corners Near Day Laborers | KQED
KQED's Farida Jhabvala Romero takes us to one intersection in East Oakland to meet the people "adopting" street corners.
www.kqed.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Background: For years @ndlon.bsky.social, based in Southern California, has encouraged people to make everyday connections with day laborers. When ICE activity escalated in LA last summer, they formalized the initiative into Adopt a Corner. ❤️🔥
www.kqed.org/news/1205466...
www.kqed.org/news/1205466...
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If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.
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Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us.
Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs.
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go.bsky.app/FzSc9z
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us.
Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs.
go.bsky.app/FzSc9z
Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs.
go.bsky.app/FzSc9z
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the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take
WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
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Denmark: LGBT Asylum - Migration and Home Affairs - European Commission
UNHCR - Norway | Gayther Refugee Directory
LGBT+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees - LGBT Ireland
RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service
Rainbow Path NZ – Connecting LGBTQIA+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Aotearoa New Zealand 2/3
UNHCR - Norway | Gayther Refugee Directory
LGBT+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees - LGBT Ireland
RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service
Rainbow Path NZ – Connecting LGBTQIA+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Aotearoa New Zealand 2/3
February 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Denmark: LGBT Asylum - Migration and Home Affairs - European Commission
UNHCR - Norway | Gayther Refugee Directory
LGBT+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees - LGBT Ireland
RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service
Rainbow Path NZ – Connecting LGBTQIA+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Aotearoa New Zealand 2/3
UNHCR - Norway | Gayther Refugee Directory
LGBT+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees - LGBT Ireland
RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service
Rainbow Path NZ – Connecting LGBTQIA+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Aotearoa New Zealand 2/3
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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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Some truly masterful use of the passive voice and other evasive phrasing in this response from Representative Wittman (VA-01).
ICE delenda est.
ICE delenda est.
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Some truly masterful use of the passive voice and other evasive phrasing in this response from Representative Wittman (VA-01).
ICE delenda est.
ICE delenda est.
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I wanted to show my support as well. I'm glad Liam is back home. #comics4Liam
February 2, 2026 at 6:04 AM
I wanted to show my support as well. I'm glad Liam is back home. #comics4Liam
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Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
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the government is gassing our children.
Right passed the park now and a little girl maybe 5 years old got out of the car. She's saying "oww" and coughing, an older woman with her rushed her inside
February 2, 2026 at 3:48 AM
the government is gassing our children.
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we knew it was Klan because the pastor is ICE but now we really know it’s Klan
One detail getting lost in the coverage of Don Lemon's arrest?
The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.
The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.
The church at the center of Don Lemon’s arrest hat ties to Christian nationalism
And the "TheoBros."
www.motherjones.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:21 AM
we knew it was Klan because the pastor is ICE but now we really know it’s Klan
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The X-Men’s ICE Man and the Justice League’s ICE Maiden working together to take down the real villain.
#xmen #justiceleague #marvel #dc #iceman
#xmen #justiceleague #marvel #dc #iceman
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The X-Men’s ICE Man and the Justice League’s ICE Maiden working together to take down the real villain.
#xmen #justiceleague #marvel #dc #iceman
#xmen #justiceleague #marvel #dc #iceman
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I won’t stop reporting the truth. The First Amendment is the bedrock of our democracy, and I’ll continue to fight to protect it 🤝🏾🇺🇸
January 31, 2026 at 4:40 AM
I won’t stop reporting the truth. The First Amendment is the bedrock of our democracy, and I’ll continue to fight to protect it 🤝🏾🇺🇸
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January 31, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
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Murdering dissenters & arresting journalists is what dictators do.
Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.
Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.
Breaking news: The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested on charges connected to a Minnesota church protest, people familiar with the matter said.
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.
nyti.ms
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Murdering dissenters & arresting journalists is what dictators do.
Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.
Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.