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boosting this again because honestly I am proud of this near future and very political sf story, the illustration by Juan Bernabeu is exceptional, and big shout out to the editor Oliver Dougherty for having such a keen eye.

Excellent story. I’ve sent it to my husband too.

Barnacle. Written by Kate Elliott. Illustrated by Juan Bernabeu. Edited by Oliver Dougherty. A rocky cluster of barnacles rests on a beach. Crows fly over head and two have landed to pick at the barnacles. Red sky, white cloud/background, and green-toned beach.

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.

Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...

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Watership Down 3D Pins LAST CHANCE | DeguArts These 2 inch wide 3D enamel pins feature El-ahrairah (gold plating) or the Black Rabbit of Inlé (black plating) from Watership Down by Richard Adams. Both include glitter accents in the ears, tail, an...

My officially licensed Black Rabbit and El-ahrairah 3D enamel pins are almost sold out and will not be reordered! Get the last few at deguarts.com/shop/?item=8...

Black-and-white group portrait photo of 19 men in three rows against a draped backdrop. Back row: 9 men in military uniforms with peaked caps. Middle row: 5 men in traditional Indigenous attire with feathered headdresses and blankets, plus one man in a suit at center. Front row: 5 seated men in suits and traditional clothing, some with necklaces; three hats on the floor in front.

Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day.
This day honours the contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
They fought for Canada despite being denied rights by the country.
This is the story of some of those veterans.

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Concretion?

I really hope that when this ends— because it IS going to end— every last person responsible for these abominable abuses of power rots in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.

No one who participates and profits from it has any business being accepted by polite society ever again.

This cruelty must stop.

There’s no doubt countless more stories like these that will never be told

People being harmed who will never have justice.

We know 1200 people went missing from the Everglades facility and 3000 are missing from the Chicago raids.

Make noise for all of them.

Abolish ICE

Mother of Houston autistic teen in immigration custody still unable to see son Attorneys have joined an effort to help a Houston mother reunite with her son, a teenager with autism who has been in immigration custody for weeks.

Lastly there’s Emmanuel Garcia, a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing a month ago.

Houston PD had his mother’s missing persons report, but chose to call ICE.

He’s been in federal custody ever since, and his mother has not been allowed to see him

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him

His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary

www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

Pup peeps! URGENT from Taos Hound Underground: A horribly quilled pup showed up at a local woman's house yesterday. Jen has stepped in and the dog's been taken to Alpien in Alamosa, but they need at least half down of what they expect to be at least $1K [screenshot below].

Global international waters map showing no international waters in the Caribbean region.

Caribbean oceanic boundaries map showing the entire Caribbean region is composed of overlapping country territories and no international waters.

Why does the media keep repeating the lie that the illegal killings in the Caribbean are in international waters?

They must know there's no such thing in the region. See link & map. Blue areas are international waters.

People are dying in their own waters.

www.marineregions.org/eezmapper.php

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

More Rumors And Verifiable Info About What Is In The Epstein Files. Congressman Jamie Raskin has issued a press release with verifiable information regarding the blatant coverup by the DOJ of what is in the Epstein case files. Seeing as it is a press release, here it ...

In case you're still trying to convince yourself Trump wasn't a major player in the Epstein sex ring's horrors, read on:
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Meet our speakers! Naomi Kritzer, blogger and author. Let's talk about balancing writing and life! Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com Image background is of a theater from the seats, curtains drawn. A headshot of Naomi Kritzer is in the center: a white woman with long dark and grey hair pulled back, blue glasses, looking knowingly at the camera.

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her fiction has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.

We're so excited to have @naomikritzer.bsky.social joining us!

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are Trans visibility and pronounced dahdahnaytleeyuhskuh-hee guhkah-wahduhdee gaysuh-hee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

Patent paperwork. JB Beers, Preventing contraception. Two technical drawings of a device which is a piece of bent wire with a tiny loop and a bend at the bottom. At the top of the device is a hinged hoop. In the left-hand drawing, the hoop is at a right angle to its stem. In the right-hand drawing, the hoop is pointed in a more upright direction.

You haven't had a cursed old-timey patent in a while, lucky you! Let's break this winning streak by showing you a gizmo from 1846: the "wife's protector", a contraceptive device patented by JB Beers of Rochester, New York, USA.

FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.

www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.

If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

"Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states" according to an FBI bulletin.

Which, of course, gives ICE cover to commit the same crimes.

"It wasn't us, it was different thugs, dressing up as us."

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.

The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP “We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”

Thanks to @leximcmenamin.com for editing, Shayna Posses for fact-checking, & @kuhlaire.bsky.social for publishing as news continues to break on the status of SNAP. Truly appreciate hearing from sources who talked about how loss of SNAP benefits impacts their lives & experts who shared resources:

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP “We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Ah, but the law and order is for everyone else.

just....enjoy this