Ryan Van Loan
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Former infantry NCO turned fantasy/scifi author repped by DongWon Song. Proud Girl Dad.
THE SIN IN THE STEEL, THE JUSTICE IN REVENGE, & THE MEMORY IN THE BLOOD out now from Tor Books!
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THE SIN IN THE STEEL, THE JUSTICE IN REVENGE, & THE MEMORY IN THE BLOOD out now from Tor Books!
Eat. Lift. Travel. WRITE.
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Ryan Van Loan
@ryanvanloan.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hey old friends from X & new followers! I'm a fantasy author. You can check out the link in my bio for my books which are about found friends overthrowing corrupt society along with magic, dead gods, & a lot of swashbuckling. I'm a former infantry NCO and polisci grad so politics comes up a lot 😅
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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This. Save your purity test for another time. Perhaps never.
it's been an absolute motherfucker of a week, give each other some grace today
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 PM
This. Save your purity test for another time. Perhaps never.
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The number of people who believe CSI was real and the state can just “biometric” up the identity of the Minnesota killer, and therefore the fact they haven’t done so in less than 24 hours is a failure of political will that means nothing will ever be done is, uh, certainly something.
January 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The number of people who believe CSI was real and the state can just “biometric” up the identity of the Minnesota killer, and therefore the fact they haven’t done so in less than 24 hours is a failure of political will that means nothing will ever be done is, uh, certainly something.
This is a really good essay.
I have been adamant that Stranger Things made clear promises to the audience in the first episode/season and never lied afterwards. If you thought the last season a failure, I don't think the story was for you?
I have been adamant that Stranger Things made clear promises to the audience in the first episode/season and never lied afterwards. If you thought the last season a failure, I don't think the story was for you?
Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
We Are the Stranger Things - Kameron Hurley
CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at t...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM
This is a really good essay.
I have been adamant that Stranger Things made clear promises to the audience in the first episode/season and never lied afterwards. If you thought the last season a failure, I don't think the story was for you?
I have been adamant that Stranger Things made clear promises to the audience in the first episode/season and never lied afterwards. If you thought the last season a failure, I don't think the story was for you?
This is what we need every Dem elected official to acknowledge. In their bones and in their words and actions. There is only one political party in America today. There is an unAmerican fascist party, but it is not American. In fact it is actively seeking the death of America.
The Republican Party is no longer American in any meaningful sense of the term, to borrow the language of the Claremont Institute.
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
This is what we need every Dem elected official to acknowledge. In their bones and in their words and actions. There is only one political party in America today. There is an unAmerican fascist party, but it is not American. In fact it is actively seeking the death of America.
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It's also factually wrong. According to polling, Americans do not approve of ICE and do not support Trump's deportations. The 2024 election was not an up-or-down vote on a $1.3 trillion ICE budget
In 1933 a plurality of Germans voted for the NSDAP -- winning an election doesn't make your actions moral.
Sen. Katie Britt: "This is what America voted for"
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
It's also factually wrong. According to polling, Americans do not approve of ICE and do not support Trump's deportations. The 2024 election was not an up-or-down vote on a $1.3 trillion ICE budget
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Our political leaders need this clear eyed morality and courage now.
"Murdering a mother of a 6-year-old child, you're in the wrong place in your soul. God help you! Her son's name is Emerson; Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday!" -Minneapolis ICE protester scolds line of ICE agents ⬇️
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Our political leaders need this clear eyed morality and courage now.
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So is Bari Weiss planning a town hall with Renee Good's widow?
January 8, 2026 at 1:34 AM
So is Bari Weiss planning a town hall with Renee Good's widow?
Not every day I agree with Tom, but today? Cosigned.
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Not every day I agree with Tom, but today? Cosigned.
Stood in the cold this morning, coffee in hand, contemplating yesterday. I'm not a poet, nor even a short story writer. It takes me a hundred thousand words to get going, but this scrap of doggerel snuck in & wouldn't leave.
May her memory be a blessing, her life a brand that lights us all aflame.
May her memory be a blessing, her life a brand that lights us all aflame.
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Stood in the cold this morning, coffee in hand, contemplating yesterday. I'm not a poet, nor even a short story writer. It takes me a hundred thousand words to get going, but this scrap of doggerel snuck in & wouldn't leave.
May her memory be a blessing, her life a brand that lights us all aflame.
May her memory be a blessing, her life a brand that lights us all aflame.
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now you got me making reconstructionwave
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
now you got me making reconstructionwave
Once you dehumanize others you e already taken the first step to losing your own humanity. Which is something to watch out for ourselves when it comes to right-wingers. But I have more faith in libs being able to hold multiple thoughts in their heads at once.
Reading the right-wing reaction to today's murder and I cannot escape the conclusion that they are simply less human than we are
January 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Once you dehumanize others you e already taken the first step to losing your own humanity. Which is something to watch out for ourselves when it comes to right-wingers. But I have more faith in libs being able to hold multiple thoughts in their heads at once.
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This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.
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it's been an absolute motherfucker of a week, give each other some grace today
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 AM
it's been an absolute motherfucker of a week, give each other some grace today
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984
Trump defends the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.
Video footage does not support Trump's claims.
Video footage does not support Trump's claims.
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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If you are running as a Democrat in the 2026 or 2028 elections, ask yourself, do you really want to be running to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of dismantling an authoritarian police state?
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
If you are running as a Democrat in the 2026 or 2028 elections, ask yourself, do you really want to be running to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of dismantling an authoritarian police state?
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"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
January 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
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The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago.
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
January 7, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago.
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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Btw, you don't step aside, pull your gun, and put 3 evenly spaced shots into someone in an adrenaline-soaked, fear for your life moment. This is someone who had contemplated using their weapon, was ready for an opportunity, and leapt to it.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
This. I know the fears of further escalation if you have a local or state officer arrest them...but bullies and murderers don't stop until they meet resistance. Arrest them immediately, hold them for 24 hours, and determine if they can be charged...
Bring state murder charges. They can try to pull it into federal court, but let a jury decide.
January 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Btw, you don't step aside, pull your gun, and put 3 evenly spaced shots into someone in an adrenaline-soaked, fear for your life moment. This is someone who had contemplated using their weapon, was ready for an opportunity, and leapt to it.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
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If you need the details, read this. Folks, as someone who spent their formative years in the infantry and most of '08 in eastern Afghanistan... believe me when I say you don't need to actively seek out trauma. If you care enough to know, that's enough.
The video shows ICE agents removing the woman's body from the car & carrying her down the road, no ambulance. An onlooker tried to approach to help, identified himself as a doctor & ICE pointed guns at him.
January 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM
If you need the details, read this. Folks, as someone who spent their formative years in the infantry and most of '08 in eastern Afghanistan... believe me when I say you don't need to actively seek out trauma. If you care enough to know, that's enough.
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Good, direct, unequivocal messaging here.
Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.
Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Good, direct, unequivocal messaging here.
Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.
Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.
Btw, you don't step aside, pull your gun, and put 3 evenly spaced shots into someone in an adrenaline-soaked, fear for your life moment. This is someone who had contemplated using their weapon, was ready for an opportunity, and leapt to it.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
This. I know the fears of further escalation if you have a local or state officer arrest them...but bullies and murderers don't stop until they meet resistance. Arrest them immediately, hold them for 24 hours, and determine if they can be charged...
Bring state murder charges. They can try to pull it into federal court, but let a jury decide.
January 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Btw, you don't step aside, pull your gun, and put 3 evenly spaced shots into someone in an adrenaline-soaked, fear for your life moment. This is someone who had contemplated using their weapon, was ready for an opportunity, and leapt to it.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.
Guaranteed their texts will show this premeditation.