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Brenden

@brenden.bsky.social
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Editor, linguist, writer, anti-fascist, shitty gardener. BLM. He/him. ✍️ in the Forge, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Pithead Chapel, Entropy, other places. @b_layted at that other site. Stuff I wrote: linktr.ee/b_layted

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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thrilled to have a piece of flash in the summer issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdobbie.bsky.social for giving "Eigengrau" a great home!
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
there's no "just let ICE go after the 'bad ones'" there are no good immigrants/bad immigrants. there are no acceptable targets, no justifiable victims of state violence. I do not accept the starting position of fascism. I will not compromise when the stakes are someone else's life or freedom.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is the official fundraiser for Johan Sebastián, who was murdered yesterday in Biddeford, ME. This will support his young family to grieve this loss, and cover costs to repatriate his body to Colombia. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-an...
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Donate to Justice and Support for Johan Sebastián’s Family, organized by Keyko Torres
[English version below] Hoy, una vida fue arrebatada injustamente en… Keyko Torres needs your support for Justice and Support for Johan Sebastián’s Family
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
View from this campsite doesn’t suck
Mountains with lots of trees and a sunset
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No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today, ICE murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Once again, a family, friends, and community are left carrying the unimaginable weight of a life taken. There are no words that can fully honor the gravity of this moment or the profound loss.
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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:
Cecelia Humiston, 22, lives on Chapel Street. She was asleep with her two-year-old son when she woke up to the sounds of a commotion on surrounding streets.

When she went to investigate, she saw what appeared to be a person lying on the ground on Pool Street.

She remembers hearing an older woman with a distressed family, yelling, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

“They were with a little girl, she couldn't have been older than three,” Humiston said. “She was still in her Bluey pajamas.”

Humiston described law enforcement as “rude,” and said they barricaded family’s car from leaving. Another yelled at the little girl, who was trying to smell flowers.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE murdered someone again this morning, this time in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/sign...
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Person killed in shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, official says
Police closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I know everyone’s making their jokes, but to be real: it’s an American sickness that the media and political class are praising someone who has spent last year calling for a genocide. Lindsay Graham was the worst of us. He wanted the blood of children to flow in the streets of Gaza and got his wish.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 22/04/2026
"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Can think of nothing more cowardly than pressing a button to shoot a missile that will land dozens or hundreds of miles away. Little bottle of water next to your desk. "Yes sir" and all that shit. Walking around saluting each other. Fucking losers. Killers.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If it's low ABV beer and you're staying hydrated this is light work
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The duality of blizzard in Roslindale. @weatherishappening.com @universalhub.com
Tape measure: 25” of snowTape measure: just under 16” of snowSnowy doorSnowy sidewalk and road
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 11/02/2026
This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 07/02/2026
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
ICE just grabbed somebody in Roslindale Square in Boston. Two black Ford Explorers circling the area, one with plates 4vk 382, and maybe a Kia in Jamaica Plain, too, according to folks on the neighborhood Facebook groups. @universalhub.com
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Turkeys are slowly taking over my neighbor’s yard. I fear we’re next.
Turkeys on porch railing, recycling bin, and car
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/01/2026
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Something incredibly uplifting about being on the bus downtown and people hopping on at each stop with their protest signs
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
lfg
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Dylan Tusinski @dylantus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
the demands schumer laid out, in light of existing rules and current ICE practices, are not a serious effort at modifying ICE’s behavior in any meaningful sense. they’re an attempt to mollify the base with meaningless bullshit without actually changing anything so they can move on to affordability
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
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Brenden @brenden.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
20” or so average in Roslindale, but pretty severe variation. @weatherishappening.com @universalhub.com
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/01/2026
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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