Rowan Driftwood
@rowandriftwood.bsky.social
Fanfic writer, tea drinker, hobby genealogist, professional archaeologist, GenX, Queer (they/þei/xe), Burien (greater Seattle area).
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ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break
ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break
In Oregon, federal immigration agents forced a 17-year-old high school student…
www.democracynow.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break
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“The boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim ‘Antifa’ uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets.”
"The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine" @theintercept.com - The Anarchist Library is linked in the article
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim ‘Antifa’ uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets.”
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
My mom used to bury pennies in the sandbox and tell me pirates came in the night and buried treasure. I would be out there happily for hours with my little trowel and sieve while she had a quiet morning to herself. Now I am an archaeologist.
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My mom used to bury pennies in the sandbox and tell me pirates came in the night and buried treasure. I would be out there happily for hours with my little trowel and sieve while she had a quiet morning to herself. Now I am an archaeologist.
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"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
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At COP30 in Brazil countries "could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels." So that's cool.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
To which I ask, again:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
To which I ask, again:
What Good Are UN Climate Talks Knee-Deep in Oil?
Some new analysis from activists sheds some light on just how deep into the international climate negotiations process Big Oil has managed to burrow.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
At COP30 in Brazil countries "could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels." So that's cool.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
To which I ask, again:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
To which I ask, again:
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A Puyallup man exploring London for the first time announced he’s named the towering clock he discovered today all on his own “Tahoma” after his favorite mountain back home almost 5,000 miles away.
Man Exploring London Names Clocktower ‘Tahoma’ After Mountain 5,000 Miles Away at Home: tinyurl.com/ms62y9kx
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A Puyallup man exploring London for the first time announced he’s named the towering clock he discovered today all on his own “Tahoma” after his favorite mountain back home almost 5,000 miles away.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
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ICE raids are rising, and Seattle says SPD cannot help. Advocates call Harrell’s order mostly symbolic, so the council is pushing SPD to spell out how officers will respond, what they can refuse, and how they will protect residents if federal agents overreach.
Seattle Braces SPD Against ICE Operations
Camille Baldwin-Bonney doesn’t buy it. The police accountability advocate and co-chair of People Power Washington called Mayor Bruce Harrell’s new anti-ICE executive orders “performative rather than s...
www.thestranger.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ICE raids are rising, and Seattle says SPD cannot help. Advocates call Harrell’s order mostly symbolic, so the council is pushing SPD to spell out how officers will respond, what they can refuse, and how they will protect residents if federal agents overreach.
This action will cost taxpayer so much more than so-called “fraud” does. Let people eat. It is a fine use of tax dollars.
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has said the department will "completely deconstruct" SNAP in an effort to "remove fraud and corruption" from the program.
Pure lies and just cover to inflict as much cruelty as they can on as many people as they can.
Targeting is weak. We need universal basic income.
Pure lies and just cover to inflict as much cruelty as they can on as many people as they can.
Targeting is weak. We need universal basic income.
SNAP benefits update: USDA to "completely deconstruct" program
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has said the department will "completely deconstruct" SNAP to combat fraud.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This action will cost taxpayer so much more than so-called “fraud” does. Let people eat. It is a fine use of tax dollars.
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports
1 Nov 2024 to 20 Nov 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally."
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally."
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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Hearing a lot about Oz this week? 🧙🏼♀️ Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog!
📖 Learn more ⬇️
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#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
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#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hearing a lot about Oz this week? 🧙🏼♀️ Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog!
📖 Learn more ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
📖 Learn more ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
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When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
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No hell hot enough, part 924
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
No hell hot enough, part 924
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Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.
JD Vance's steady assertion of hostile claims against Greenland, which rarely ever rate a mention in US newspapers, are front page news across northern Europe.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.
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before megyn kelly said it was okay for her friends to rape 15 year olds she was ranting about how trans ppl are 'grooming' kids.
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
before megyn kelly said it was okay for her friends to rape 15 year olds she was ranting about how trans ppl are 'grooming' kids.
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Epstein Files Forgotten After Trump Starts Wearing Glasses and Sweaters, Giving Shit About Malaria: tinyurl.com/244eayc6
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Epstein Files Forgotten After Trump Starts Wearing Glasses and Sweaters, Giving Shit About Malaria: tinyurl.com/244eayc6