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Kari Nguyen

@knguyenwrites.bsky.social
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Writer. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 3h
“I wish there were people from the other party here. I just, I beg them I plead with them to support humane immigration policy,” he said. “It breaks my heart that some of them claim to be followers of Jesus, and what they're doing goes directly against the gospel…" religionnews.com/2026/09/30/a...
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As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue
(RNS) — From US senators to John Legend, many are voicing support for the city’s Haitian community, even as neo-Nazis marched downtown Saturday.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Each time I see an announcement of the banning of THE BLUEST EYE, I pick up the book from its pride of place on my desk, open it to a random page, and read a passage aloud, relishing its lyricism. "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die."
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New bro code: "Protect women. Respect women. Believe women." The code is accountability, human decency, human kindness, respect. It has to be.
New bro code:
"Protect women. Respect women. Believe women."

Photo of Mychal in Valkyries shirt.
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 01/10/2026
We're looking for a Senior News Editor to shape NHPR's journalism strategy, both online and on air — with a focus on By Degrees, our climate change reporting project. Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4yZtXE8
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Refugees International @refugeesinternational.org · 01/10/2026
460 people. 39 nationalities. Sent to a country they've never known. Our new report documents the stories of third country nationals forcibly transferred by the U.S. to Costa Rica and calls on the Costa Rican government and IOM to take immediate action. www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
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Left in Limbo: Emerging Challenges for Third Country Nationals Forcibly Transferred by the United States to Costa Rica - Refugees International
The Costa Rican government and IOM must undertake concrete measures to protect the rights of individuals forcibly transferred to Costa Rica.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"In more hopeful times, speculative fiction brings forth a dystopia to show that it can be survived, if not defeated" @mcflycahill90.bsky.social interviews @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social about social horror, the "ooze" theory of writing, and her new novel The Unhaunting!
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"Two Sides of a Scratched Coin" — A Conversation With Micaiah Johnson - Reactor
On writing complex character relationsips, and moving from speculative fiction to horror
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SummerReed @cafsbsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...70% have no criminal record. We are living in WW II era Germany, where most of the populace pretends notto see. www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
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ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
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SNHU Online MFA @snhumfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eye Contact, Seton Hill University's literary journal, is looking for 1,000-word science fiction stories on the theme "Legacy" until October 24th. First prize is $250! Details here: sites.google.com/setonhill.ed...
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Eye Contact - Genre Flash Fiction Prize
Eye Contact is a college literary magazine. But don’t let the term “literary” turn you off — we also love to publish genre fiction and poetry! Stories of escape and adventure and love and fear and won...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
HELLO NEW HAMPSHIRE THIS IS HAPPENING NEXT WEEK
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026
in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach
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AILA @aila.org · 01/10/2026
"A 528-bed facility for immigrant children and families is expected to open soon at a Louisiana airfield, according to local officials and advocacy groups, a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub." nyti.ms/4jz7oli
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heroine www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/10/2026
We are at part of the cycle where Republicans are about to lose badly, and so they pivot to talking about the rhetoric temperature as if there is no pathology to it. Every dang time, hacking a real desire for dialogue but asking nothing meaningful of the most vicious voices in the right.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The renewed political smear campaign against Jack Smith comes as GOP faces massive losses in midterms. It is a distraction and a lie. Smith did his job as a prosecutor — investigated the facts, found evidence of crimes that could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and filed charges.
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Too many Americans have willingly refused to understand that — which is why we're in this very dire situation.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
Protesters camped out across Spain demand passage of housing measures reut.rs/4AHUpnz
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Protesters camped out across Spain demand passage of housing measures
Thousands of protesters camped out ​on Madrid's main square and in other Spanish cities demanded on Wednesday that parliament swiftly approve ‌new measures to protect tenants and curb the country's acute housing crisis.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
well my day is improved approximately 10 trillion percent
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Super Intelligence."
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New York AG Letitia James’ office will reportedly probe Cornell University’s handling of gang rape allegations made by a former student
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Letitia James' Office To Review Cornell's Handling Of Rape Allegations: CNN
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did not realize my route would take me past this building but I guess I'll take the opportunity
Me giving the finger to the Trump building in Chicago
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Steam rising from highway side ponds. I watched a flock of starlings this morning flying quick above the fog like it didn’t matter what was below.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow is one of those publication dates where you could only read books that are pubbed on September 29, 2026 for an entire year and be pretty satisfied. The photo is just a sampling.
No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention by Mahmoud Khalil

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry 

About Looking by John Berger, afterword by Tom Overton

Wither by Dan Warner

Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason

I Want to Be Famous: When Everybody and Nobody Is a Celebrity by Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

Heavy Cream by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Ply by Hernan Diaz
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a former college journalist, and an irrepressible loud mouth, I applaud the editorial board at the Cornell Sun. Let the successful actions of these students in shaming the prosecutor and other adults to do their jobs awaken the silent amongst us. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“It is illegal under federal law to use public funds for “propaganda purposes,” and the Government Accountability Office has said the prohibition applies to communications that are “purely partisan” and/or “designed to aid a political party or candidates.”
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As of April, "the Brookings Institution put the total number of affected children at about 205,000 — 71% of whom are US citizens. Most of those cases involve the loss of one parent... but researchers believe that [in] more than 35,000 of the cases... a child has been left with no parent at all."
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“They stripped language requiring the systems to operate in a “predictable” and “reliable” manner, the people said, and removed a clause mandating that ethical considerations be taken into account when using AI weaponry.“
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children:
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"1 person died in ICE detention every 10 days from January 2025 through August 2026. Source: NPR." Image of a barbed wire fence against the sky. ACLU logo.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Roses are red The Wheel of Karma turns
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These smart glasses have been recalled for overheating temples causing burns
Stop using these smart glasses immediately.
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Kari Nguyen @knguyenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gingerale in a tea cup, like a boss
sly-smiling elementary school kid (me) at a tea party last century
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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewer: "Is that iced coffee?" Me: "OMG no, that would be so inappropriate." Interviewer, laughing: "I was gonna say!" Me: "It's straight Bailey's on ice."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/09/2026
We’re in federal court today to defend over 100 Venezuelan men who the Trump administration deported to a a torture prison in El Salvador last year. Multiple courts have found their removal under the wartime Alien Enemies Act was illegal — these men deserve to finally have their day in court.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alt text: in front of what looks like the MN state capitol building (?) an enormous quilt travels across the whole courtyard and up the steps
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Kari Nguyen @knguyenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Activists unveil massive quilt to protest ICE
YouTube video by Audacy
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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Given the Ayotte/Sununu record of packing the NH Supreme Court with cronies who may wind up having worse criminal records than those on trial before them, reelecting Ayotte to make more mistakes makes no sense. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/23/m...
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Three N.H. Supreme Court justices worked to keep chief’s disciplinary proceedings confidential before his resignation - The Boston Globe
Court records show their attorney warned that premature disclosure would create an “unmistakable” impression that they, too, had been accused of judicial misconduct.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans won in 2024 arguing Democrats were too obsessed with trans people to focus on the economy. As billionaires like Elon Musk flood the airwaves with anti-trans ads amid Trump's own floundering economy, Democrats have a chance to flip the tables. My latest for @thenation.com
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Transphobia Isn’t Winning Votes. But It Is Making Our Lives Much Worse.
Trans people must now live out another election cycle knowing our friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors are being flooded with agitprop designed to dehumanize us.
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David Archer @davidetc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It should be a scandal, the way ME/CFS and Long COVID patients are treated. Millions and millions of people. Most of us are too tired to effectively advocate, which is why it’s such a relief to see real attention. Help this break containment!
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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That this is happening on the day Xi Jinping is being welcomed as they try to create another red scare will certainly be an interesting notation in history.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remembering today the rule of law. This is serious. Every political leader & media outlet should be screaming about it. Let’s hear it.
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