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How Baltimore organizers are preparing to fight back against ICE baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

surprise: it's pre-order time! 🥩✨️ seeing this collection emerge into the world makes me feel so loved. a lot of passion & effort from multiple people went into creating this. i hope that you're all as excited for it as i am

Snowcat! 😺❄️

Well said.

“Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Icy harbor

"In a Historic Resolution, Tommy Lee Walker Is Declared Innocent 70 Years After His Execution in Dallas": innocenceproject.org/news/tommy-l...

Recently, a document was leaked that exposed that the Dept of Human Services is in the process of establishing over 20 new concentration camps throughout the country, including one in MD intended to hold 1500 beds. Rally today to protest these heinous plans at Hagerstown Public Square at 4pm.

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

Sorry it took me this long to get here, folks

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Breaking news, first time in decades. Bus home from work smelled like beer today instead of weed. Like glimpsing a species made endangered by some new, disturbance-tolerant competitor

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Gift link to FBI-targeted Post reporter Hannah Natanson's sweeping look at how federal workers have been targeted by Trump. wapo.st/49BQBrh

Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp. ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans. They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first. They’ve been kidnapped.

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

📚🚀💀🧚‍♂️It’s that time again! I lost track of how many stories this is (what are numbers? why are numbers?). Flash is heavily represented this year, for people who want a quick read ⏳ #speclit #scifilit #shortfiction #amreading #horrorrecs #horror #weirdlit idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images. n.pr/49BPyI1

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down

A reminder from Huffington Post that DHS and ICE have opened fire on unarmed civilians 16 times since Trump took office, killing 4 people. In every case, DHS claims that the victims "assaulted officers" and/or tried to ram them with cars. In every case, evidence proves they are lying. Every time.

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

Agita is a new triannual online magazine for flash horror and sci-fi. Each issue will contain three flash stories around a theme. The first issue, coming in May and co-edited by Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social), is "Bad Science." Subs open March 1. Details at agitamag.com

We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine. So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at [email protected] and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.

The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith, writes digital editor John Grosso.

I did not steal and replace stoker-nominee Sasha browns dog

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

NPR story on the 40th anniversary of the bombing: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

That’s right!

What a quote.

Look what’s arrived! A beautiul volume of @fraidycatpress.bsky.social Fraidy Cat Quarterly, featuring stories by me and others including @nicholeon.bsky.social and @abigailkemske.bsky.social. Pick up a copy at fraidycatpress.com/shop/

Sneak peek at my story coming soon @remainsmagazine.bsky.social in issue 4 (winter 2026)! Pre-orders available here: remains.uk/products/iss.... Art by Richard Wagner

Sneak peek at my story coming soon @remainsmagazine.bsky.social in issue 4 (winter 2026)! Pre-orders available here: remains.uk/products/iss.... Art by Richard Wagner

Day 27 of Translunar Travelers Lounge 2025 retrospective and today we're spotlighting Watermen by @kayv.bsky.social in which young watermen, growing up by the bay, find human life encroaching despite the harsh rule of King Malcolm

Publishers everywhere: if you’ve gotten a story submitted by me in the second half of this year, know that it was a rare special gem and should be cherished because I sent it during the 2 hours of free time I have had since August

HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

ECO24 IS HERRRRRRE I think this from @apexmag.bsky.social is the most important anthology of the year, and @marissavu.bsky.social is the editor of the year. There, I said it. There's a clarity of vision happening here (and quality) that's unparalleled.

The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)

My brother told me to bring a soup that blinds you for one day for Thanksgiving dinner so I made this and had a test bowl and I’ve been hiccuping for 3.5 hours

Dawn in late November