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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kyla! I've been thinking about you, too. Glad you're still here, hope all is going well.

Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hi, BlueSky friends, sorry I haven't been here in a while. I plan to post here more often. Hope you're doing well, in spite of all the things.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Any chance you'll be coming to New Orleans?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026

Oakland! Only a few tickets left to “The Nerd Reich” event at Clio’s with @adambecker.bsky.social Get ‘em before they’re gone. www.eventbrite.com/o/clios-book...

Screenshot of Need Reich event at clio’s

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/09/2026

It won’t improve journalism to impose “significant monetary damages whenever the inevitable mistakes occur,” @seth-stern.bsky.social told @theguardian.com, expressing alarm at the $300,000 defamation verdict against Louisiana newspaper.

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Press freedom advocates alarmed by $300,000 defamation verdict against Louisiana newspaper

Experts say ruling could undermine the ‘actual malice’ standard and make publishers more wary of critical reporting

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/05/2026

Anyone who cares about reproductive care access should be extremely alarmed. They could easily do the same to abortion providers in blue states. They are testing this out on trans people hoping most people won't care enough about it to stop it.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

May 15 is the deadline to nominate a poet who volunteers to assist a literary event or org to submit a manuscript to the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. May 31 is the deadline for manuscript submission. Contact me with any questions! wordworksbooks.org/submissions/...

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every American needs to watch this:

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/01/2026

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

From your lips to any deity's ears!

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

at a gas pump, kneeling on his neck until he apparently loses consciousness, and then kidnapping his limp body. Word is that the woman and the gas-station man were targeted as ‘known activists.’ ” (Cut & paste to share, please.) [5/5]

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

(What is the lesson? “Don’t drive?”) —ICE kidnapping a white American teenager from a Target parking lot (the boy is a curbside-pickup employee) and dumping him in a Walmart parking lot eight minutes later, bleeding and bruised. —ICE agents dragging a white American man from his car [4/5]

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

why he’s “following them.” When the man explains that that he’s just trying to get home from the grocery store, stopped because there’s no room to pass, and had no way of knowing he was even behind an ICE car, the agent says “haven’t you learned anything from the past few days?” [3/ 5]

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

screaming white American woman out of it, kidnapping her, and leaving her wrecked vehicle partially blocking one of the busiest streets in the city. —An unmarked ICE vehicle blocking a residential street. When a (white, American) man pulls up behind it, an agent demands to know [2/5]

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is horrific. Sharing from Lorna D Cervantes: (Today’s eye-witness report from Minneapolis) “Things I’ve seen with my own eyes as of 11:23 AM Pacific today, January 12, 2026: —ICE ramming a civilian car through a red light on Snelling in St Paul, dragging an injured, [1/5]

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Huge gratitude to Jennifer Barber, whose insightful and beautifully written review of my Turned Earth and Rosanna Warren's latest, Hindsight, is up at On the Seawall! www.ronslate.com/on-turned-ea...

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on Turned Earth, poetry by Brad Richard & Hindsight, poetry by Rosanna Warren – On the Seawall

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

miss you and wishing the same for you, dear Alina! ❤️

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I love this question! Let me see if I have something. I have a couple of workshops that I do on sentences, might be some fun stuff in there. Some of the material works best in a classroom, but it might give you some ideas. Hit me back if I don't share something in the next day or two.

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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

living in 2025, almost 2026:

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

@tisserand.bsky.social saw this on the evil site, thought you'd be interested/horrified.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's actually Occam's Razor to assume that in the age of Trump, RFK, Musk, etc.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's writers like you that made me cancel my subscription to @theathletic.com.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thanks, I received that text and blocked the number. Glad to know it was in fact bogus.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Trans friends, I am very sorry and very angry that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. I refuse to link any stories about it here. Fellow cisgender folks: please call your senators.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I needed to read this. Thank you.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When I was young, I *hated* nihilism. It mattered terribly to me that nothing mattered. I wanted to *make* things matter, somehow. Now that I'm old, I'm resigned to the fact that nothing matters--and there's nothing I can do about it, except exactly what I would do if things mattered.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

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Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

My book has a webpage and a release date (April 20, 2026). And if you preorder now, it's 40 percent off. It's all happening! @lsupress.bsky.social lsupress.org/978080718678...

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Also: this is a particularly ugly, poorly cut trenchcoat. Please see Neil Patrick Harris in STARSHIP TROOPERS for some inspiration.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I don't understand how anyone looks at 7 million people on the street and sees anything but raw potential for a mass movement. I don't understand tearing it down or telling people it's for nothing. I don't understand this at all.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Yes, this is a great model. And MN's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, while essentially falling in line w/the national Dem party, is still rooted in the kind of labor-based socialism that was strong in the Midwest, once upon a time. Could that be revived? I dunno.

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Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Which instances are you thinking of? Ross Perot pretty much handed Clinton a victory by splitting off GOP voters. True, Nader helped the Dems lose in 2000, but he did so from the left. And Marianne Williamson? I think that one is hard to asses b/c the context was fraught with so much interference.

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