calebcrain.bsky.social
Into #birding, #CrossFit, and sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
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Per CNN bsky.app/profile/pete...
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I read Richard Henry Dana Jr's journal entries about the Anthony Burns FSA trial/rendition the other day (1854) and wow his description of the US Marshals sounds a lot like ICE/DHS: "the lowest villains in the community, keepers of brothels, bullies, blacklegs, convicts, prize-fighters, etc."
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It's true! It's another participant's suggestion, and they had been talking about since before I joined. But I can see why you would have doubts.
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(though I *may* have had something to do with the fact that we’re reading Trollope’s “The Warden” currently)
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We’re reading that next in my CrossFit gym’s book club! (Not my doing, honest)
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Tacitus
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It’s a very Tacitus decade
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he's probably in the files, too
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from your skeet to god's ears
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Maybe not too close, given the zoonotics lately!
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I’ve never seen one that close up!
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wow!
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