Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 23h ago

Days before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

My blurb: unfolds the era of Alexander the Great's conquering rampage across Eurasia with a graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate & mythic, starting from the Indian subcontinent and stretching all the way to ancient Babylon--it resounds in time, and sings to the present with a singular voice.

Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · 15h ago

Cover reveal for the @littlebrown.bsky.social edition of THE POISON PALACE, about Eka, a poison maiden who is sent to kill Alexander when he invades ancient India. Cover art by the brilliant @micaelaalcaino.bsky.social. Pre-orders: linktr.ee/shreyaila Out January 2027!

Also, Big Yech is a winner typo.

Andrew J Douglas@ajdouglas.bsky.social · 13h ago

There’s no way to spin this. “Big yech”—actually a nice typo (slip?) in the article—was able to buy off the leadership of the nation’s second largest teacher’s union for a paltry $12.5 million.

Mythic Delirium will be publishing a collection of Richard Chwedyk's saurs stories in the spring of 2027. Go pre-order it today! These stories are a delight. mythicdelirium.com/9925?fbclid=...

Announcing our next release (plus a cover reveal!) — ONE BIG PLACE: The Saur Stories of Richard Chwedyk • Mythic Delirium Books

Announcing the next book from Mythic Delirium: ONE BIG PLACE: The Saur Stories of Richard Chwedyk. Also a cover reveal!

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The Planetbreaker's Son

Nick Mamatas An outrageous collection of Mamatas's short fiction along with our world famous Outspoken Interview.

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Adrienne@adrienneleigh.bsky.social · yesterday

15. I wanted to pick something that isn't obvious, so: THE PLANETBREAKER'S SON is a novella by @nmamatas.bsky.social that is like nothing else you've ever read (and yet exists solidly in the context of all that came before it). It's nominally about uploaded people in a virtual universe; but really…

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

Put some respect on Lot’s Wife’s name.

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

Morton Salt Girl is actually Tom Bombadil’s wife Goldenberry

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

is it not kind of dizzying how often we read about cops using flock cameras to stalk women? like that specific use case. not even talking about all the other abusive and harassing uses

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

We found the Flock cameras cops used to spy on women

I asked not to give them ideas.

Heartbreaking details in the story by @gwynnefitz.bsky.social, including that Lopez-Cornejo had reported numbness in his face and hand shortly before he died, and that neither GEO Group nor ICE bothered to call his mother to say he had died or tell her what happened.

Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE just announced that an immigrant in New Jersey's Delaney Hall died on Saturday after an unspecified medical emergency. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo was 41 years old.

Halberstam’s key takeaway is that the decision to conduct American foreign policy according to what many leaders knew to be a total Illusion for domestic political considerations had tragic decades-long ramifications that cost immense blood and treasure.

Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3d ago

One thing that Halberstam does brilliantly in “The Coldest Winter” is linking red-baiting (“who ‘lost’ China?”) and the growing political power the pro-Nationalist China Lobby to the decimation of the State Deor’s East Asianists, causing decades of distorted foreign policy through the Vietnam War.

"Right. I have no idea what's happening. I don't know what's true. I don't believe in anything. I'm staying home." So, the purpose of Russian propaganda nowadays is to confuse people and make them nihilistic and apathetic.

APPLEBAUM: Putin really specialized in learning how to make internet work for him. We see his tactics in other countries including United States. Rather than presenting Russians with single line, "Here's one narrative," Putin will present many conflicting narratives all at once.

Happy Market Manipulation Monday - brought to you by the most corrupt family in American history. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Why Wall Street Firms Are Paying $100,000 a Month for a Fast Track to Trump Posts

Traders who already monitor the president’s pronouncements with automated systems can pay for an ultrafast feed. At least five firms have signed up.

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“These children, some too young to speak for themselves, will be forced to face trained government attorneys by themselves, in a language they may not speak, in a system they cannot navigate without help.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The administration’s decision to end this contract goes against a nearly two decade precedent in which Republicans and Democrats alike supported legal assistance for the most vulnerable children who came to the United States alone.” acaciajustice.org/trump-admini...

You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2mo ago

So do you all remember Lynne Freeman who sued Tracy Wolff because Freeman wrote a YA paranormal set in Alaska where the hero was hot and the heroine only learned about her paranormal heritage as a teenager, and so did Tracy?

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

Man this wishy washy bullshit is so fucking infuriating. There's only one red line that matters here and it's the red line that denotes Ukraine's border, which Russia needs to get the fuck out of, which would end the war immediately.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5d ago

Secretary Rubio: We understand that both sides [Ukraine and Russia] have some pretty strong red lines and until we can bring those red lines a little closer together we're not going to be there yet.

I thought I'd seen all the old-lady movies, but Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont is feeling new to me. And not only Lady Olivier but...Anna Massey! What fun!

Frog fanatic, here! Marvelous little jumpers. 😁

Golda Velez@goldavelez.org · 5d ago

gonna release these Tucson toadlets soon as the next rain comes. meantime they get to fatten up on fruitflies.

struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...

Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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Direct action gets the goods

tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d ago

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

oh hank green is not john green

@phish.com Thank you for your attention to this matter. Play the whole thing for Halloween some time.

Ward Q. Normal (he/him)@wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wearing my English Settlement t-shirt on the night Phish plays Melt the Guns for the first time since 1987. #Phish