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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 4h

I'm going on the job market this coming year, so if you ever wanted to publish some of my poems or essays or have me come read or give a workshop (on zoom or IRL) now is the time to ask me! Help me build my c.v. 🙏

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Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social · 4h

Right wingers keep trying to crush protest movements in so many supposed democracies

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Areanna @areannathatsall.bsky.social · 7h

178 left this kid is living with a bullet lodged in her brain. Her family has to depend on all of us because there is no other way.

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Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hundreds of people are outside of FedEx's massive warehouse in Oakland today. They say FedEx is shipping F-35 fighter jet parts from OAK to Israel and they want the company and airport to stop.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.

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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)

Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is the same thing that was done to Central Americans in the early 1980s and was the whole reason for the Orantes Hernandez litigation back then. It’s due process and access to asylum unraveling in real time. Orantes for those interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orantes...

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Orantes-Hernandez injunction - Wikipedia

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To be clear, this is not voluntary departure granted by an immigration judge— which itself can be coerced. They didn’t even get a hearing with a judge: just a form from ICE “I-210 Voluntary departure and verification of departure”

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The “voluntary departure” orders are an absolute scandal. You detain someone illegally. Conditions are terrible. So then DHS deprives them of a hearing with an immigration judge or even a credible fear screening (after expedited removal order) by having them sign all their rights away to DHS

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And, there’s this whole other component of the problem: there is literally NO reception infrastructure here in Cap Haitien. Unless there are relatives to pick people up. Just taken from airport, to police station, and dropped on the street. In their ICE sweatpants and no shoe laces.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Many stories of illegal detention (while still in active TPS status) and just brutal treatment in detention. People so brutalized that they ask to be deported— one man asked every week — but remained detained for 6 additional weeks! He could have been put on several previously deportation flights!

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was writing fast so what I meant above was that the deported people have most of their families in the U.S., including sometimes their children, more frequently their siblings and spouses. And on the property: deported Haitians had cars, bank accounts. All inaccessible.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And so many of them deported without any documents— with basically this fake form that DHS made up and the Haitian “government” agreed to accept — which was just an expulsion paper. They’ve got no ids.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Their treatment by the US immigration authorities is just unconscionable. Also: many of them have most of their relatives there. And so much property just impounded and stolen by our government.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The prospect of returning to the center of the country— which is extremely insecure and violence— is just impossible. A young man just broke down an started crying at that point. He said nobody cares about me here in Haiti.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Emphasizing: people I am speaking to are strong and have tremendous spirit. But they have been devastated. They mostly entered the U.S. legally, worked for several years, were detained (frequently illegally), arbitrarily deprived or denied status, treated brutally, and dropped here with nothing.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 9h

There is a long history of this white supremacist international that developed out of the French New Right in the 1960s as a reaction to the Algerian Revolution.

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ainsi atteint-on les astres 🎃 @galileanhimejoshi.bsky.social · 8h

listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on Ian Smith, it was basically the confederacy 2.0 (white supremacist agrarian society with an overhyped military)

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Perplexed Great Auntie Weatherwax @mysticolive.bsky.social · 7h

You would be hard pressed to find a better parallel. Even in apartheid South Africa, ex-Rhodesians were known as when-we-s because they were always saying "when we lived in Rhodesia...". It's a hankering back to white supremacy in ascendancy. It's a huge red flag.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I called a bunch of people today to ask: what can Mamdani actually do to keep ICE out of NYC? The answer? Legally, not much. But advocates on the left say he can do more than offer harsh words for Trump and ICE. And he can start with his own NYPD theintercept.com/2026/10/09/i...

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ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem

After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike.

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 19h

Today's quick update [Oct 9]: - At least 30 civilians killed & dozens injured in RSF drone strike on displacement camp in Abu Shandi, Blue Nile State. - At least 6 civilians injured in RSF drone strike on residential neighborhoods in ElObeid, North Kordofan. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19h

This is pure bad faith from MRM—they are not new to this business and are perfectly aware this is all bullshit. These magazines essentially no longer exist: they were bought simply to use their reputations as a trap to suck IP out of writers and artists who don't know any better.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 21h

Publishers might have the fig leaf of "oh we would NEVER use it for creative work" but many are using AI to generate publicity and marketing copy, cover copy, etc -- and I would argue that IS creative work. Not to mention the ethical issues with using a tech built on stolen creative work!!!! Anyway

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamteayang.bsky.social · 21h

Every major publisher is using AI and a lot of the smaller ones are as well. You can tell because they're all hiring AI engineers for 4x the pay of their regular staff. The hypocrisy and shortsightedness is so depressing.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/10/2026

We gotta have some real uncomfortable conversations with our agents/publishers.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Among many things that are a huge bummer re all this AI crap, people in publishing have been overworked & burned out for so goddamn long. And we know that bosses are not going to give rank and file workers these so-called tools to lighten their workload. We all know that’s some bullshit, as always.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My next book is contracted with a Big 5 publisher & to be crystal clear, I love that team& they did right by my 1st book. But for books beyond my next? 😬😵‍💫 I have never looked down on other publishing models (zine girly from way back) & every day, self pub looking ever more possible for future work.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s amazing how many companies have opted to give off the stench of cheapness because they seem to have such contempt for their audiences’ standards.

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Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social · 23h

This is such a betrayal. "One source at HarperCollins says multiple editors have asked managers if they could paste a full manuscript into an open-loop LLM and were told not to by the company’s legal team."

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also famous for making translators sign away the rights to their own translations. So they’re well on their way to not recognizing the humanity of translators, why wouldn’t they embrace the robot movement?

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

oh my God. this is all so fucking dystopian. this bit in particular really got me:

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In August, Michael Reynolds, executive publisher at Europa Editions, an independent press in New York best known for publishing Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet of novels, told a room full of booksellers at the New Voices New Rooms conference in Baltimore he was excited about the possibilities for AI in translation and “seemed baffled by critiques of it,” according to attendees. Europa Editions is already controversial among literary circles for leaving the names of its human (for now) translators off the covers of its books.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 09/10/2026

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 255 of The Continent The warning signs in Tigray have been building for months. The Continent reconstructs how peace failed. bit.ly/255_TC

The cover of Issue 255 of The Continent shows a tall, cracked stone monument rising from a pile of rubble in the middle of a city. The words “Peace for Ethiopia” run vertically down its front in large blue letters. A white dove perches on top, beside a pair of scales, symbols of peace and justice. The monument is broken and weathered, with cracks running through the stone. Behind it, pale blue buildings sit beneath a soft, hazy sky, glowing yellow around the horizon. The scene feels quiet but uneasy, as if the promise of peace is still standing, just barely, amid the wreckage. It is illustrated by Wynona Mutisi

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Days later, reports emerged of Eritrean soldiers crossing into Tigray. It's a serious escalation, & Ethiopia formally requested the UN issue a statement condemning the violation of its sovereignty. Eritrea denies having done so. Fighting is on a lower scale right now, but hasn't completely halted.

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Witnesses spot Eritrean troops inside northern Ethiopia as tensions flare

Eritrea dismisses allegation as Ethiopia's pretext for more war.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminder: after the rebels suffered battlefield setbacks in Tigray, Ethiopia accused Egypt, Sudan & Eritrea of funding them. All 3 leaders plus Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had an impromptu meeting last weekend, which almost certainly had discussions on containing Ethiopia on the agenda.

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Four African leaders issue joint declaration as Ethiopia war escalates

Egyptian, Eritrean, Somali and Sudanese leaders also call for talks to end the civil war in Sudan.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've provided an explainer for @aljazeera.com on the African frictions of Ethiopia's war; why Eritrean soldiers have intervened on behalf of the rebels, what possible role could an alliance between Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Somalia play, the geopolitical mess in the Horn of Africa here for you.

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Will Ethiopia’s neighbours intervene as Tigray war escalates?

Tigray’s renewed war is testing Ethiopia’s already strained regional ties.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026

In January 2025, 45 Democrats voted to sanction the ICC.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026

A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.

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Geekcliché @pshipley.uk · 07/10/2026

A decent book bundle available for not much. (If you’re in the UK then a VPN is your friend) www.humblebundle.com/books/africa...

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 09/10/2026

Africanfuturism is an anchor point for science fiction that is not just by Africans, or set in Africa, but about Africa. This is an excellent sampler from my brilliant publisher @dawbooks.bsky.social Its a great deal! www.humblebundle.com/books/africa...

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African Futurism: Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, and Adam Oyebanji by DAW Books

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🐺🌙 DNDJordanLea 🌙 🐺 @dndjordanlea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

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The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's also a case of power imbalance. This is a pretty clear case where Palestinian activists don't have institutional power to apply soft pressure, they can only be loud and in your face, so they are. Like, do you want them to let off while still getting cleansed? (See quote for smarter version).

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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

crazy how liberals (and especially "social democrats", though i may be repeating myself here) still get upset about "their guy" being protested against. they still haven't learned that they're supposed to hold their guy accountable!

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