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Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Scenes From the Occupation As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.

Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.

Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said polling sites at School 2 and School 10 in Paterson were shut down after threats were received.

For those of you who don’t know, the residents of Paterson are overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats...

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

In the foreground with his back to the camera, a man in a black suit stands holding a pitchfork in an overgrown cemetery. In the distance, Alison emerges from a green, leafy path into the cemetery in the movie Alison's Birthday.

Robot cows, whales in the walls, a wooden bible, spuds from the darklands. Marcus Silcock serves folk horror with “Potatoes of Promise.”

Read the poem: www.culdesacofblood.com/marcus-silcock

Israel kills Palestinian in Gaza City; Hamas returns bodies of 3 captives Israeli forces kill one Palestinian in Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire, bringing the toll since the truce to 236.

Israeli forces kill one Palestinian in Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire, bringing the toll since the truce to 236.

Pam sits at the dinner table and looks at her daughter Ginger with an expression of concern in Ginger Snaps

We love Pam because she knows it’s her fault (it’s also Henry’s fault, but he doesn’t know it). In today’s Friday Feature, we revisit the tragedy of Pamela Fitzgerald in Ginger Snaps.

Read about Pam’s Halloween night: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

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sobbing as mom makes me smoke a whole pack of baseball in one sitting

Bottom of the 18th. Sisyphus, tired of pushing the rock, is grateful to break up his time in Hell by getting hit with a pitch.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Poster for the movie Red Rooms, which features a black and white image of a woman with colorful digital glitches interfering with the image.

In today’s Friday Feature, all the world’s a red room on the internet:

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

by @raygonne.bsky.social

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Running for office and revealing a giant back tattoo that just says WOMEN. Nobody can agree if it's good or bad

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

Thank you for coming out last night & for all your support of this book!

@ginabird.bsky.social Gina Myers have an incredible reading at the launch of WORKS AND DAYS from @radiatorpress.bsky.social in Philly last night. if you have been wondering what poetry to read next, but needing substance and solidarity, here's the link radiatorpress.org/product/work...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

154 Freed Palestinian Prisoners Reportedly Being Forced Into Exile by Israel “Exiling Palestinian prisoners is the continuation of captivity by other means,” one legal expert said.

Israel is reportedly forcing 154 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the ceasefire deal into exile and deporting them to an unknown country. Experts say the move is a violation of international law.

An image from the movie The Love Witch, featuring Elaine sitting on a circular rug that has a pentagram and astrology symbols on it. She drinks from a goblet while being surrounded by candles.

Poetry is spellcraft, and Kia Alice Groom knows how to do things with words. Behold!

Read the poems: www.culdesacofblood.com/kia-alice-gr...

TRACK CHANGES A READING, LISTENING, & CONVERSATION SERIES WHERE WRITERS CHAT ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE RECORDS NOVEMBER 11 DOORS: 7PM START: 7:30 PM PEN & PENCIL CLUB 1522 LATIMER ST PHILLY FEATURING: RYAN SKRABALAK GINA MYERS HOSTED BY: ALINA PLESKOVA $5-15 SLIDING SCALE (EVENTBRITE OR AT DOOR)

💿 join us on the auspicious date of 11/11 for the next TRACK CHANGES ft. a very auspicious lineup:

@ginabird.bsky.social (Philly) + Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY)!

it’s giving cosmic alignment, it’s giving big admiration, it’s giving we do not dream of labor

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Movie poster for Society (1989) featuring a woman in a fancy dress and white gloves removing her face like a mask while a man in a tuxedo looks on. The tagline reads, "If you don't belong, they'll eat you alive. You are what they eat."

In today’s Friday Feature by @cmcrockford.bsky.social, we make a wonderful contribution to society.

Check it out: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

A vortex swirls in the sky above a decaying building, power lines, and trees in Twin Peaks: The Return

“Millicent Pawlowski, the Happy Medium, stands between the crowd and the police and opens her mind to the glowing cyclone which fills nearly half of the sky above her.”

Buckle up: today we feature @lilliekoi.bsky.social's “Under the Gyre”🌪: www.culdesacofblood.com/lillie-e-fra...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Gina Myers Reviews Susan Landers — Barrelhouse In a time of ongoing grief from multiple, ongoing crises, what if we paused instead of pushing through our days?

Thanks to @ginabird.bsky.social for reviewing WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE in @barrelhouse.bsky.social—ngl, it feels pretty special to be read alongside Jenny Odell, whose book was so instrumental in my burnout recovery and writing process. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/myers-w...

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