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unserious moonlight owner of bookmoonbooks.com www.kellylink.net she/her Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 42m
The goal in detaining these children, a former official says, is “to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.” Read @samanthamichaels.bsky.social + @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social report on the administration's new family separation policy that targets children in the nation's interior.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3h
Michael Whelan’s work is in my imagination’s double helix, so SO important to me when I was a young would-be writer. Love this thread
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thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 1h
Nowadays the only infrastructure the United States is investing in is data centers, flock cameras, concentration camps and ballrooms.
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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 18h
Omjameel:Sorrow, homelessness,&illness this is how om jameel is spending her birthday.She lies in an intensive care unit, suffering from severe hemorrhaging.She need urgent $200 donation for the surgery to stop bleed&needs to return to the embrace of her kids Save her😭😭😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...
Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket.Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket, fed by another.Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - plead for help in a tent shelter. A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 9h
Our water companies have been dumping raw sewage into the rivers and seas, and what will the Conservative party propose today? Abolishing the Environment Agency who try to enforce environmental protection measures against polluters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 17h
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6h
I know some folks won't read a Substack, so here's her same coverage at The Addison Independent: www.addisonindependent.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Terror in the Backyard: ICE’s shadow surges in Vermont
Liza Cochran, author of Brave Little Voices, delves deep into the Aug. 8 ICE raid of Mary Richards’s home in Cornwall.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h
THIS IS SO GOOD
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John Sununu is in the Epstein Files @karenblackpilled.bsky.social · 13h
Please watch Marjoe it’s one of my favorite documentaries of all time
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 18h
folks we're only ~$15K away
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 16h
If you read this as "yet you live in society," I urge you to pause, reflect for a little longer, and generally do those important intellectual tasks that techbros don't want you to do. 'Cause Josh isn't simping for capital here, he's reflecting on how powerfully sneaky it is.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the last four years, I have said that Spencer Cox is the most dangerous aspiring Republican presidential candidate: he is an extremist who hides behind a calm demeanor. The exact pivot I think Republicans will want to make in 2 years. An example of extremism www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22h
no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome
The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.
My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 21h
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h
New York at Night, 1932, by the great Berenice Abbott.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 21h
“They shall not pass.” 90 years ago today, as antisemitism and fascism were on the rise throughout Europe, Oswald Mosley’s racist British Union of Fascists planned a provocative march through the Jewish community of East London.
A placard that reads "every street is cable street" in front of the Cable Street mural Someone holding a sign that reads "no pasaran"
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 17h
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 17h
a little stoned currently
a black curly Labradoodle, long snoot pointed at camera. She has been given a Mohawk
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 23h
“No president can arbitrarily assassinate people from the sky based on their sole say-so,” said Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Court Rejects Bulk of Trump Administration's Rationale for Keeping Boat Strikes Memo Secret | American Civil Liberties Union
As the government continues to bomb civilians in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, this decision ordering in camera review of the memo is a crucial win...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 20h
After an appeals court overturned Crystal Mason's conviction in 2024, Tarrant County DA Phil Sorrells continued to prosecute her. His choice has become a flash point in his reelection race this fall against Democrat Tiffany Burks.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 20h
I believe it was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey who said, if you want to know which side you're on, look at which way the police are facing.
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 21h
It is once again time to bless your skyline with pics and video of my dogs eating tiny pancakes #PancakesTime
Three large fluffy dogs in bowties with a plate of tiny pancakes. A shaggy black dog eating a tiny pancake. A golden retriever eating a tiny pancake. A giant fluffy white dog eating a tiny pancake.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
I watched it closely because I thought it would tell me where we were. And it did. And no you don’t want to know.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 21h
The Katharine Briggs Award 2026 Shortlist: www.folklore-society.com/blog/post/th... The winner will be announced 10 Nov, after The Katharine Briggs Lecture by @yinkaolusoga.bsky.social, 18:30-20:30 @warburginstitute.bsky.social Tickets £10: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
Photo of the spine labels of the 5 books shortlisted for The Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2026, namely

Tom Clark, Christopher D. Bader and Joseph O. Baker, Paranormal Britain: Belief in the Uncanny in England, Scotland and Wales (Bloomsbury Academic)  

Caitlin Blackwell Baines, How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession (Profile Books)

Davide Ermacora and Simon Young (eds.) The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore: The West Eurasian and Mediterranean Tradition (University of Exeter Press)

Matt King,  A History of Goblins (Palgrave Macmillan)

Rory Waterman, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County (Five Leaves Publications)
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20h
This is endless amounts of f--ked-up. Considering that Israel has murdered more journalists in recent years than any other country, that they're surveilling reporters in *Syria* who are wearing war correspondents' distinctly-marked gear, it's sinister and menacing.
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
In Gaza, Abood has autism, an intellectual disability, & severe epileptic seizures. Without his medication, he suffers immensely.Treatment in Gaza is too expensive & his family cannot afford it. Any small donation could help save his health. Please don’t leave him in pain chuffed.org/project/1844...
Picture of Abood with a text : "i'm abood from Gaza please donate me"
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 21h
CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h
NO, NYC PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOT "FULLY FUNDED" despite what the influencers on social media are regurgitating. Our libraries remain UNDER-FUNDED. Library workers need to be paid MORE MONEY, we need more funds for collections, we need more funds for programming & for capital expenses.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My favourite bit of this article: Since it began surveys in May, the Countryside Regeneration Trust has installed 39 footprint tunnels along hedgerows and woodland edges, with nine of the tunnels recording dormouse footprints. Imagine a tunnel small enough to allow dormouse access.
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kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.adrierose.link · 04/10/2026
it's fun to refer to things as "lovecraftian horrors" but there's always a voice at the back of your head reminding you that lovecraft's nightmares were comprised of things like tomatoes and the smell of oud and turmeric
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The judge: I loved that AI. Thank you for that The appeals judges: It clearly impacted the sentencing judge, who said he ‘loved’ the video and felt it ‘was genuine,’ pointing to the AI victim’s ‘obvious forgiveness’ of Horcasitas, which he characterized as coming from the AI victim’s ‘heart'
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Arizona court tosses sentence in road rage case over AI victim video - National | Globalnews.ca
A three-judge panel said that allowing the presentation of the AI victim video 'constituted fundamental error' and 'clearly impacted the sentencing judge.'
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You've really got to admire how astonished and appalled he is about an institution he runs acting exactly in the way it always had, and on an issue that didn't bother him until it became a public scandal. Nothing the person who runs the place could possibly have done before now.
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Cornell president calls alleged gang rape 'deeply disturbing,' pledges greater transparency | CBC News
Scrutiny has mounted in recent days over Cornell's response to allegations that the woman was sexually assaulted by multiple fraternity members in 2024. The woman, identified in court documents as Jan...
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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yep, that's me. Didn't have "your former publisher tries to convince people you protect fascists" on my career bingo, but here we are. Grateful for everyone who keeps speaking out, so that we can protect future authors from this.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Harper Zacharias @harperzacharias.com · 04/10/2026
A very informative thread about the complex dynamics at play when it comes to reporting of sexual violence in colleges!
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No one likes looking at a child in such acute suffering. But there's a reason his family's showing you this terrible sight--because only we can help them in Israel's genocidal siege. Without our shares & donations, they can't pay for Ahmed's treatment. Please help, by sharing & donating:
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💚 Help Mahmoud Care for His Family and Four Orphaned Children
My name is Mahmoud Mohammed, and I am from northern Gaza.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
oh, fabulous!
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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Om jameel:health om jameel is in grave danger.The loss of her tent because bomb caused severe uterine wall hemorrhaging &a rupture, requiring urgent surgery for which $200 is still needed. She also suffers from a loose heart valve; please save her to hug back their kids😭🙏 chuffed.org/project/1839...
Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket.Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket, fed by another.five Palestinian children lie on dirty mattresses outside A Palestinian man and woman, Mohammed and Om Jameel, sit with their five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“On this issue, the dynamic has really shifted,” Third Way’s Lanae Erickson told me in an interview She described the “Republicans’ sheer obsession and extremism” in promoting transphobia. This very notable shit by a leading centrist group was omitted in the nyt article. Why?
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
mistakes were made
california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
If you believe in humanity, Don’t skip 👋🏻 Aboud suffers from epilepsy & severe, sudden seizures that are becoming more frequent without medication. His condition is worsening, but his family cannot afford his expensive treatment. Please help him get his medication💔 chuffed.org/project/1844...
Picture of Abood Picture of Abood with a text 
I’m Abood from Gaza
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Mark Coupe Photography @mcoupephotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Light wasn't great and I couldn't get a clean background without going for a swim but I'm pretty happy with the action. #birds #heron #wildlife #photography #mcoupephotography #beautifulbc
Great blue heron swallowing a fish
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🖖🏳️‍⚧️ T'Lynn 🦇 David 🦇 Cooper 🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hahahahaha god damn this picture is hilarious.
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