Simon A Corvid (sometimes a bear)
@scrow1022.bsky.social
Writer, artist, seeker. Queer trans man. He/him.
Abolish ICE & police.
On Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi land.
Abolish ICE & police.
On Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi land.
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Fundraiser to support Felix and his family
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Fundraiser to support Felix and his family
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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A Chicago attorney filed for a preliminary injunction challenging Broadview's protest restrictions near an ICE facility, arguing time limits violate First Amendment rights for working people.
Lawyer seeking preliminary injunction in lawsuit over protest hours appears outside Broadview ICE facility
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A Chicago attorney filed for a preliminary injunction challenging Broadview's protest restrictions near an ICE facility, arguing time limits violate First Amendment rights for working people.
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
@monkeelino.bsky.social @amayna60.bsky.social The 2026 Charco Press books are here! Including a new Claudia Piñeiro!
It's here. Our 2026 Bundle.
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
@monkeelino.bsky.social @amayna60.bsky.social The 2026 Charco Press books are here! Including a new Claudia Piñeiro!
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
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shocked.
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
shocked.
Book mail! I have been so enjoying our bonkers November read, Victoria Holt's "On the Night of the Seventh Moon", thought I'd get "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" as well. Loving these covers too.
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Book mail! I have been so enjoying our bonkers November read, Victoria Holt's "On the Night of the Seventh Moon", thought I'd get "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" as well. Loving these covers too.
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
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Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
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In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. buff.ly/tmtqu4s
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her…
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. buff.ly/tmtqu4s
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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He’s on a mission from God.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
He’s on a mission from God.
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Summer definitely over in Lincolnwood
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Summer definitely over in Lincolnwood
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damnit best i could do is goslings
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
damnit best i could do is goslings
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Sorry for the delay! I stepped out of the house right after posting, but before you commented.
To help immigrants pay their $1500 bond donate to the nonprofit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. They're affiliated w National Bail Fund Network @bailfundnetwork.bsky.social
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
To help immigrants pay their $1500 bond donate to the nonprofit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. They're affiliated w National Bail Fund Network @bailfundnetwork.bsky.social
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sorry for the delay! I stepped out of the house right after posting, but before you commented.
To help immigrants pay their $1500 bond donate to the nonprofit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. They're affiliated w National Bail Fund Network @bailfundnetwork.bsky.social
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
To help immigrants pay their $1500 bond donate to the nonprofit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. They're affiliated w National Bail Fund Network @bailfundnetwork.bsky.social
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
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///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
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Good afternoon from Chicago's Federal Plaza. A rally is underway now in support of the "Broadview Six," who face arraignment in about 45 minutes on federal conspiracy and impeding charges, stemming from their participation in a Sept. 26 protest in front of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Good afternoon from Chicago's Federal Plaza. A rally is underway now in support of the "Broadview Six," who face arraignment in about 45 minutes on federal conspiracy and impeding charges, stemming from their participation in a Sept. 26 protest in front of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.
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Happening now: a small demonstration is getting underway in front of Chicago Police Department HQ, protesting cooperation between CPD and federal immigration agents.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Happening now: a small demonstration is getting underway in front of Chicago Police Department HQ, protesting cooperation between CPD and federal immigration agents.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
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My mentions are full of people telling me not just about the books but about moments in their lives reading gave them, ppl who passed these titles along, the accidental match making of a book and reader in random shops and libraries, and of course, how words on a page made them into someone new 😭❤️
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My mentions are full of people telling me not just about the books but about moments in their lives reading gave them, ppl who passed these titles along, the accidental match making of a book and reader in random shops and libraries, and of course, how words on a page made them into someone new 😭❤️
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Chicago Police District Councilor Dion McGill says community members have seen actions from CPD officers that seem to violate the IL TRUST Act, which limits cooperation between state & federal police on immigration enforcement.
"Words like collusion and collaboration are used constantly," he says.
"Words like collusion and collaboration are used constantly," he says.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Chicago Police District Councilor Dion McGill says community members have seen actions from CPD officers that seem to violate the IL TRUST Act, which limits cooperation between state & federal police on immigration enforcement.
"Words like collusion and collaboration are used constantly," he says.
"Words like collusion and collaboration are used constantly," he says.
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
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The most optimistic read is that rapid response networks in place now will be better able to respond to the more targeted kidnappings and continue to jam up ICE whether BP is here or not. The most cynical one is that a lot of people will stop paying attention.
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The most optimistic read is that rapid response networks in place now will be better able to respond to the more targeted kidnappings and continue to jam up ICE whether BP is here or not. The most cynical one is that a lot of people will stop paying attention.
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hear me out: victorian strongwomen are an entire beautiful vibe
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
hear me out: victorian strongwomen are an entire beautiful vibe