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Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...

A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.

“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."

Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.

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‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida | Fortune Signed contracts for Manhattan homes over $4 million skyrocketed 25%; “the idea that people would flee New York was overblown,” said realtor Donna Olshan.

In the aftermath of much well-heeled panic about a potential mass exodus of New York millionaires and billionaires following the election of Zohran Mamdani, the contrary is already happening, and Manhattan luxury apartment buyers are voting with their wallets.
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage. When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.

Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."

newrepublic.com/article/2039...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.

www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

and the sister driven wild by the edict of a tyrant in Thebes."

“Early in 2003, the situation that pertains in Sophocles’ play was being reenacted in our own world. Just as Creon forced the citizens of Thebes into an either/or situation in relation to Antigone, the Bush administration in the White House was using the same tactic to forward its argument for war on Iraq. Creon puts it to the Chorus in these terms: Either you are a patriot, and a loyal citizen, and regard Antigone as an enemy of the state because she does honour to her traitor brother, or else you yourselves are traitorous because you stand up for a woman who has broken the law and defied my authority. And Bush was using a similar strategy, asking, in effect: Are you in favour of state security or are you not? If you don’t support the eradication of this tyrant in Iraq and the threat he poses to the free world, you are on the wrong side in ‘the war on terror’.

“Theme and tune coalesced. I remembered the opening lines of Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill’s lament, an outburst of grief and anger from a woman whose husband had been cut down and left bleeding on the roadside in County Cork, in much the same way as Polyneices was left outside the walls of Thebes, unburied, desecrated, picked at by the crows. But it was the drive and pitch of the Irish verse that clinched it: in the three-beat line Eibhlín Dhubh’s keen I heard a note that the stricken Antigone might sound in the speedy, haunted opening movement of the play: (…) In Frank O’Connor’s translation this goes: ‘My love and my delight The day I saw you first Beside the markethouse I had eyes for nothing else And love for none but you. I left my father’s house And ran away with you, And that was no bad choice.’

Gradually, then, this voice of a woman in mourning becomes the voice of a woman outraged, as she finds the body of her beloved lying beside a little furze bush, dead, without the last rites, without anyone close except ‘an old, old woman / And her cloak about you’. Because of the pitch of that voice, however, I made a connection between the wife traumatized by the death of her husband at the hands of the English soldiery in Carriganimma and the sister driven wild by the edict of a tyrant in Thebes; and through that connection I found the metre for the first dialogue between Antigone and Ismene: “Ismene, quick, come here! What’s to become of us?”

Heaney found the "poetic go-ahead" for his Burial at Thebes through the Bush admin's "reenactment" of Creon's position in their 'war on terror' & the confluences b/w Antigone & Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, between "the wife traumatized (...) at the hands of the English soldiery... (cont)

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

hell yeah!!!!

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Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworldmagazine.com The Clarkesworld robot (center) looks to the right at the cover of Clarkesworld #230, which is in yellow, orange, and brown and features a futuristic cityscape with a small craft approaching. Cover art is "Neo Mars" by Guy Warley.

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Independent Arabia journalist among 20 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital Witnesses have told The Independent five journalists and multiple medics were killed in a double strike as they rushed to attend to and document the wounded

FWIW, all jokes about Trump putting me on a list aside, I can still do my job. That's very different from journalists in Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Gaza. A few months ago, an Israeli strike killed Maryam Abu Daqqa, who wrote for my outlet. I'm blessed.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Favorite SFF Stories of 2025 Reactor Magazine wants to know: What were YOUR favorite scif-fi/fantasy/horror/romantasy genre books, movies, and television shows of 2025?? We’d like you to share your favorite genre fiction books, m...

ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!!

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making an absolutely unhinged gift guide reccing gifts based on what you got at the scholastic bookfair circa 2000s-2010s. any titles i need to include?

Taurus: Live fast, die young, and leave a deeply confusing browser history.

Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88 Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.

R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.

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underreported Dem Gains in NY earlier this month

Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...

I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels.

Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine

There are 3 kinds of Bluesky user:
1. Was just kicked in the head by a horse
2. Raised in Plato's cave where they were only shown 2010s tumblr posts
3. Normal

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

Only a few spots left so grab yours now if you want to join my workshop and write some stories where Dorothy never left Kansas, but also Kansas got a little weird

Over the past few weeks, HiLoBrow has run installments of my long essay “Without Care,” which maps out a 21st century gothic that I started calling The Devoid. All four installments are now live and you can read the whole thing here; enjoy!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.

Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

A picture of the title page, illustrated in black and white

Fionn got his first training among women. There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup's mother teaches it to fight, and women know that fighting is a necessary art although men pretend there are others that are better. These were the women druids, Bovmall and Lia Luachra.

An inset full color illustration for the wooing of Becfola. Becfola is shown up a tree, fleeing wolves

zoomed in detail of the wolves from previous illo

deeply, deeply in love w/ today’s research project: this gorgeous 1920s collection of Irish Fairy Tales illustrated by Rackham (!!).

“Fionn got his first training among women. There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup's mother teaches it to fight (…).”

a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

Graphic with 36 Solaris titles shown as ebook covers

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