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G Myers
@ginabird.bsky.social
writer, editor, reader
new book forthcoming in October 2025
https://www.thetinymag.com/
https://www.culdesacofblood.com/
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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
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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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."
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...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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.
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.
www.chicagomag.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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For those of you who don’t know, the residents of Paterson are overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats...
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.
newjersey.news12.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Israeli forces kill one Palestinian in Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire, bringing the toll since the truce to 236.
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.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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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

@raygonne.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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sobbing as mom makes me smoke a whole pack of baseball in one sitting
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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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.
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In today’s Friday Feature, all the world’s a red room on the internet:

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

by @raygonne.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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...
October 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Running for office and revealing a giant back tattoo that just says WOMEN. Nobody can agree if it's good or bad
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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"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
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.
www.kktv.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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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
October 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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@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...
October 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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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.
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.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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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.
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.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Poetry is spellcraft, and Kia Alice Groom knows how to do things with words. Behold!

Read the poems: www.culdesacofblood.com/kia-alice-gr...
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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💿 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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October 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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In today’s Friday Feature by @cmcrockford.bsky.social, we make a wonderful contribution to society.

Check it out: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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“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...
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM