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Yemile Bucay

@yemile.bsky.social
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journalist safety & press freedom evangelist. teaching @ cuny j school. ex @buzzfeed. many past lives researching news quality & disinfo, covering migration. wandering MexTex. she/ella

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17/07/2025
For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing: "Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
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Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/06/2025
Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or worse. (Published 2022)
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Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or…
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The claim that Emil Bove told DOJ lawyers they might have to say "fuck you" to court orders rightfully shocked people. The full scope of lawyer Erez Reuveni's claims, however, paints an even more damning picture. At Law Dork, here are 11 key allegations from the whistleblower disclosure —>
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11 key allegations made in Erez Reuveni's whistleblower disclosure about DOJ
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche attacked the claims as "falsehoods," but many of the fired longtime DOJ lawyer's allegations are already backed up by public facts.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:
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161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/04/2025
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's latest filings include a strong set of declarations from a number of experienced immigration lawyers in MA, NH, VT, and ME who say the way Öztürk was rapidly shuttled out of state and then from place to place was highly unusual, illogical, and (by all appearances) unnecessary.
I have reviewed the Declaration of David T. Wesling. In my 16 years of practice,
I have not seen or even heard of an ICE detainee arrested in Massachusetts being booked and
repeatedly moved in the manner described in that declaration. I have never seen or even heard of
an ICE detainee arrested in Massachusetts being moved to Methuen, Massachusetts, then Lebanon,
New Hampshire, then St. Albans, Vermont, within a matter of hours. The conduct described in Mr. Wesling's declaration is, in short, highly irregular.
Executed on April 2, 2025, in Boston, MA.
Stefanie Fisher-Pinkert13. I have reviewed the Declaration of David Wesling. The procedures described
therein for Ms. Ozturk are not consistent with anything I have ever observed in my 17 years of
immigration practice. I have never seen or even heard of an immigrant booked in 14 minutes. I
have never seen a client transferred twice in the same day. The fastest transfer I recall seeing was
24 hours after initial placement. I do not recall ever seeing a client arrested in Massachusetts be
detained in St. Albans, Vermont. I have never seen an F-1 revocation where the noncitizen was
arrested and detained on the street, by masked men, with no prior notice that the visa had been revoked. To the best of my memory, in each of the F-1 revocations I have seen, the noncitizens' alleged actions leading to the visa revocation would (if true) have been clearly in violation of the
terms of the visa (e.g., the immigrant was no longer attending the listed school, the immigrant
had overstayed the visa). I have never before seen an F-1 visa revoked, and the student arrested
without prior notice of the revocation, based on an op-ed published in a school newspaper.

Executed on April 2, 2025, in Boston, MA.
Heather Yountz6. CCJ provides our clinic with daily data concerning, among other things, the number
of civil immigration detainees housed in its facility.
Paragraphs 7-11 below summarize
voluminous writings that cannot be conveniently examined in court, in part because they contain
personally identifying information concerning certain persons housed in CCJ.
7. On March 7, 2025, records indicated that approximately 27 civil immigration
detainees were housed in Pod C3 at CCJ. Pod C3 is the female housing unit.
8. On March 7, 2025, records indicated that approximately 62 total female detainees,
including civil immigration detainees, were housed at CCJ.
9. On March 25, 2025, records indicated that approximately 19 civil immigration
detainees were housed in Pod C3 (the female housing unit) at CCJ.
10. On March 26, 2025, records indicated that approximately 18 civil immigration
detainees were housed in Pod C3 (the female housing unit) at CCJ.
11. On March 26, 2025, records indicated that approximately 46 total female detainees,
including civil immigration detainees, were housed at CCJ.
12. Based on my review of these records, and my extensive experience working with
CCJ and detainees at CCJ over more than a decade, I conclude that there were at least 16 open beds to house additional female detainees at CCJ on March 25 & 26, 2025.
13. Throughout my years of experience working with the immigrant population in
northern New England, I have never heard of an ICE detainee being arrested in Massachusetts and
being transferred to Methuen, MA, Lebanon, NH, and then St. Albans, VT in a matter of hours.
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Anna R. Welch6. The St. Albans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office serves as a subordinate office to the ICE Boston Field Office and is where ICE conducts Enforcement and Removal Operations including supervision. It is a small administrative office that has been staffed by visiting officers on secondment from southern districts for several years since marked attrition over 2020 and 2021. In my years of practice in Vermont, I have only ever seen or heard of people being detained at the St. Albans office upon initial arrest in Vermont. I have never previously seen or heard of people from other states being transferred into the St. Albans Office for detention.
7. Last year, ICE Boston Field Office and St. Albans Sub-Office leadership called a meeting with Vermont immigration legal services providers in Burlington, Vermont to introduce us to new management who would be permanently staffing the office. There, I had the chance to personally meet with Boston and St. Albans ICE leadership, solicit their practice and prosecutorial discretion priorities, exchange contact information to facilitate more efficient resolution of represented parties' immigration custody and removal proceedings. I understood from this engagement and have heard confirmed by numerous and pro bonos I supervise, that the St. Albans office is a small, simple administrative office not suitable for long-term custody and detention.
8. Moreover, in my seven years of practicing in Vermont and serving as a local expert on immigration matters, I have never once encountered the case of a detained person who is being transferred into Vermont for the purposes of continued ICE detention. I have only encountered individuals being held in Vermont who were initially detained in Vermont and being held temporarily on their way to longer term detention in nearby over-72-hour facilities. It is even more extraordinary for a person to be transferred into the St. Albans ICE office, which is a government office and not a det…
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/04/2025
Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If more Americans realized just how fundamentally bad at business Trump always has been, then maybe we wouldn’t be in the mess. But the media at large—news, publishing, TV, social—has always upheld this myth. It’s part of the myth of capitalism itself
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Cynthia Hope Laub @bloomlove.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
CNN got one right
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Exactly. The Argentinian organizers we spoke with tonight spoke about this kind of violence (there and here) as a form of communication.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
WHAT DOES BUKELE GET FOR TAKING IN VENEZUELANS DEPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES? Cash, a U.S. seal of approval for his human rights-challenged prisons and gang leaders who might otherwise have testified against him in U.S. courts Mary Beth Sheridan reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Why Bukele opened his infamous prison to Trump
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has sharply reduced violence but is criticized for his authoritarian style and harsh crackdown on gangs.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When civil society institutions — big law firms, Ivy League institutions — cave to Trump rather than fight what appear to be illegal demands, do they expect him to be satisfied and stop? Do they believe others should step in and fight where they have not?
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Yemile Bucay @yemile.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
As a Jewish Columbia alum, disgusted to see this capitulation of the university to a fascist regime under the pretense of fighting antisemitism
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Vichy Columbia
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Amidst an increasingly hostile environment, the Helpline has been extended through the first 100 days of the Trump administration. U.S. journalists and news outlets concerned about their safety can email urgentcare[at]electionsos[dot]org with “SAFETY” in the subject line for safety consults. (2/3)
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I think this is our future unless someone stops him. Musk’s plan for X has been for it to replace the entire banking system. His keen interest in seizing control of Treasury payments (and its tech) may forebode an intention to have such payments go through X www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/2...
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Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank
Musk wants your “entire financial life” on his platform.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We're witnessing the wholesale hijacking of the federal government by a single billionaire. Struggling to think of a parallel in American history.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I hope people see how truly alarming this is: 1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees 2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Let’s talk about what the authoritarian aggression we know is coming will look like. Built on an existing system of political harassment, it’s already taking shape, as it did this week in my neck of the woods. Thread. 1/26 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Edmonds School District cancels immigrant rights event after threats
On social media, commenters threatened to take pictures and use the meeting to help immigration officers with enforcement.
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Yemile Bucay @yemile.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Long shot ask: Anyone know what state is of the Al Faranj synagogue in the old Jewish Quarter in Damascus (very near Talisman Hotel)? The elderly people who took care of it all passed away in the past few years. (Last synagogue in Syria after Assad destroyed the one in Jobar in 2013) #damascus
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Syria Notes @syrianotes.org · 09/12/2024
“Raghad al-Tatary, a pilot who refused to bomb the city of Hama during the uprising against Hafez al-Assad in the 1980s, was freed after 43 years; Tal al-Mallouhi, 19 when she was arrested in 2009 for a blogpost criticising state corruption, was found alive.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Tears of joy and sadness as ‘disappeared’ Syrians emerge from Assad’s prisons
Men, women and children, many jailed for speaking out against regime, reunite with their families
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Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The red ropes seen in the video were used for daily executions in Sednaya Prison. They should stand as one of the symbols of the dark era Syria endured under the rule of the Assad family and their prisons.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
So, that was it. Oral arguments in US vs Skrmetti is now in the history books, though the judgement won't come until June. I haven't read other commentary. Not yet. I wanted to write a thread of my impressions first, and see what the experts are saying afterwards. 🧵
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The helpline provides one-on-one support for digital, physical, psychosocial & legal concerns like threats, arrests & doxing. Created by Knight Election Hub, PEN America, @jejem.bsky.social @yemile.bsky.social Ramy Ghaly & a team of safety organizations @freedom.press @pressfreedom.bsky.social (3/3)
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Peter D. Kramer @peterdkramer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
3/ And if Trump exits, there is no functioning government to lead. Each news & opinion piece about piecemeal outrages should also make note of the way that the outrages degrade democracy. The existential threat is the ongoing story. @jfallows.bsky.social
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Richard Newell @richnewz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“The fact that Trump prevailed is a damning statement on the health of our media systems. These institutions have all failed us.”
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/11/2024
"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." defector.com/what-the-fuc...
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What The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? | Defector
At darker moments, contesting this kind of stuff in the wake of the 2024 election—and all the shameless, shameful, unforgivable work the American media did to produce that election’s outcome—feels as ...
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WIRED @wired.com · 14/11/2024
NEW: Legislation that would bar the United States government from spying on journalists—except under rare, specific circumstances—is currently stalled in Congress. Now, with only weeks left to legislate, press advocates are urging Senate Democrats to pass the bill, known as the PRESS Act.
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Senate Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Pass a Shield Law to Protect Journalism
The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the House—but it’s unclear whether the Senate will take it up.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
More thoughts on the news, thanks to a chat with @farrahfazal.bsky.social. Fascists rely on overwhelming us with information and fear. Overload. They want us to feel overwhelmed to the point we feel paralyzed. Beyond the actual horribleness of the news we are seeing, this is also the objective.
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Yemile Bucay @yemile.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If you’re a journalist in the U.S. and face risks to your safety or wellbeing because of your work, please reach out for one-on-one holistic safety support
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Trump went to an event about antisemitism and said it would be the Jews’ fault if he lost the election
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Matthias Daniel @matthiasdaniel.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
"Langsam entsteht in Redaktionen ein Bewusstsein dafür, dass es für Journalist*innen immer Bedrohungen geben kann. Man kann physische Risiken nicht von psychischen oder sozialen Gefahren oder auch von Angriffen auf die Reputation trennen", sagt @yemile.bsky.social: www.journalist.de/startseite/d...
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"Gutes Sicherheitsmanagement ist der beste Burn-out-Schutz"
Yemile Bucay berät Medien in Sicherheitsfragen, von Kriegseinsätzen bis hin zu Bedrohungen auf Demos. Sie sagt: "Allen Beteiligten muss klar sein, dass Sicherheit in diesem Beruf sehr leicht erodier...
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Please Follow the Official AP News Account @apnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
‘A curse to be a parent in Gaza': More than 3,600 Palestinian children killed in just 3 weeks of war
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‘A curse to be a parent in Gaza': More than 3,600 Palestinian children killed in just 3 weeks of war
In just 25 days of war, more than 3,600 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza, according to the strip’s health authorities. They were hit by airstrikes, smashed by rockets, burned by blasts and crushed by buildings.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/10/2023
one thing I don’t think a lot of people have internalized is how much worse a second Trump term will be they aren’t neophytes anymore this time they have plans, one of which is replacing basically every federal bureaucrat with a 25 year old groyper it will get very bad very fast
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I think part of the despair we’re all feeling is not just the immediate horror of what is happening but it’s the knowledge that all of this will make the next 20 years be like the previous 20, only worse.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
The saddest conversations I’ve had this week are with Palestinian and Israelis who see each others pain, and feel helpless to stop the cycle of violence they are in. They sound so defeated.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20/10/2023
i just want to be sure everyone knows that there is absolutely NO privacy on this fucking website. the firehose-- every post being made by everyone-- is publicly available by API. do not post anything on here you don't want scraped and used by bad actors
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
i was nervous to publish this for so many reasons, but i did it anyway. as i write, it’s time to be brave. i hope you’ll read it. www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-can-cho...
Right now, Jews and our allies face an enormous test of bravery, but probably not the one you’re thinking: We have the opportunity to be brave enough to imagine an option other than violence. We can look at the prospect of mass murdering innocent Palestinians as a means to bring us the peace we’ve spent our entire history chasing and say No. Not in my name. Not ever.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Many died unambiguously. The killers waited, anonymously, to be identified, and in the void between weapons were put into motion, found bodies, and rendered them dead, killings all authored with the authorship implied, inferred, unknown, not yet full established, as their real victims died actively.
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