Best I Voted sticker around!!

I’m holding a self-imposed one day WRITING RETREAT today!! Will that be any different from my normal daily routine? No! Can I trick myself mentally into being more productive than usual? We’ll see!

Got my copy of the Rebel Loon Archive book (and lots of extra goodies!) and it’s even more beautiful than anticipated. Huge kudos to everyone involved.

Based on extensive data, Minnesota's ICE surge was "more about racialized class oppression than targeted immigration enforcement." !!! That's the stunning finding from Professor @ryanplarson.bsky.social and his colleagues. Stunning because it confirms what most folks already knew, now with DATA.

Post nor’easter seaglass!!!!

"'I saw him laying there,' she remembers. 'I saw him all bloodied.' 'What am I going to tell my daughter?' she asked aloud, in a haze." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...

An ICE agent shot and killed her partner in Maine. Now, she wants justice. - The Boston Globe

In her first sit-down interview with a newspaper, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez called for justice to be carried out for the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, her partner and father of their ...

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Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.

Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...

dissentmagazine.org

You are so kind! Thank you!! I quit Twitter years ago (you can guess when) but only finally joined in here and it’s already so lovely?!

johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · last mo.

Many C-villians who know & admire Nora Neus's powerful & deeply researched book on the events of 2017 will be happy to hear that she's now on Bluesky. 👇🏽 @noraneus.bsky.social

This is not a small thing coming from Amnesty International

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · last mo.

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.

POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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Boarding my (domestic) flight home from Minneapolis and TSA is re-checking every passenger’s ID at the gate before allowing them to board. I’ve never seen that before.

I have given up my fight against joining another social media platform and it’s actually wonderful here??