I've got a piece in here 🤸‍♂️

A powerful new release is here📚 Strangers in the Province of Joy by Mary Fontana A compelling look at radical hospitality on the US–Mexico border and the stories that reshape how we see one another Explore the book: orbisbooks.com/products/str... @maryfontanawrites.bsky.social #Mexico

I especially loved this week's poet offerings over at OP:

Summer volunteer application window now open. Join us and be changed. More info annunciationhouse.org/get-involved...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

This article by @tinavasquez.bsky.social captures some of the devastating complexities surrounding the recent César Chávez revelations: prismreports.org/2026/03/23/c...

A new report from the Women's Refugee Commission and Physicians for Human Rights traveled to Honduras to document what U.S. deportation policy looks like from the other side. What they found is alarming. 🧵

I appreciate this call to collective action from @cdelawalla.bsky.social . I've seen this dynamic play out many times: a small number of people taking on the work for change that will benefit many, and paying the personal cost of less time and energy for their own research.

Today I got my first scam email targeting authors... I have arrived.

Thirty-two people died in ICE custody nationwide last year, surpassing the previous high of 20 in 2005, according to federal data. Nearly a quarter of last year’s deaths occurred in Texas.

Measles outbreak at the children's immigration detention facility... it's like a greatest (worst) hits record of the Trump administration.

“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are: - End qualified immunity - Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy” - Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo - Reinstate TPS - Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions He doesn’t even *ask* for it.

Greetings from the El Paso-Juárez border, where we have Blue Sky in abundance.

Featuring me... and many other talented poets!

New poem in THE SHORE @theshorepoetry.bsky.social : www.theshorepoetry.org/mary-fontana...

I feel this acutely. Someone close to me, who has been a naturalized US citizen for decades and presents as an elderly white woman, is afraid to travel outside the US to visit family for fear she will not be allowed back in.

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

I wrote this choose-your-own-ending story about migration across the US-Mexico border to illustrate the many impossible choices that Central and South American refugees often navigate in their home countries, on the journey, and once they reach the US. Please check it out and LMK what you think!

This is exhausting.

This is shocking, and also an example of Orwellian language creep. Sending a US citizen to another country is not "deporting" that person. Kidnapping, maybe. Exiling.

Have never said or even thought these words before, but: GO HARVARD!

@vcardenas.bsky.social: "The U.S. Supreme Court has been clear that Mr. García should be brought back to his family in Maryland. Yet, today, President Trump said they have no plans to abide by the Court’s ruling and return a man that President Trump’s own DOJ acknowledges was mistakenly deported."

Couple of new poems up over at The Wild Umbrella. One is about babies and astronauts, the other death and crocodile cousins. If none of that intrigues you, you aren't human: www.thewildumbrella.com/profile/eab3...

The man pictured in the below post is Andry, who came to a port of entry seeking asylum. A foolish CBP officer threw him into ICE detention last year because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos with little crowns over them. That was bad enough. Then Trump sold him to El Salvador. BRING THEM BACK.

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

This is the best thing I've read all week. The winner of the windfall is the one who finds the...

One small victoriousness: it appears we CAN still say "equity."

A few more pics from today's Stand Up for Science rally in Seattle. Phagocytose the rich! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Sunny vibes and great turnout at Seattle's rally to Stand Up For Science. Glad to see UW Immunology well-represented. @standupforscience.bsky.social

Opinion piece from UW scientists Jakob von Moltke @jmoltke.bsky.social , Patrick Mitchell, and Thornton Thompson advocating against proposed cuts to biomedical research. Washington (state) readers especially take note: www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comm...

Wondering what you can do TODAY to oppose the madness? Comment on proposed changes to passports that would change "gender" to "sex" and require everyone to choose only M or F based on sex assigned at birth. Links below take you to the comment forms. Took me about 8 min to do all 3.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Seattle keeping President's Day with a protest at the Federal Building.

No one can tell that whole story & no group can fight all of those changes. Pick a lane. Fight for that thing. Tell that story.

Let me see if I've got this straight. The one group of refugees the US is accepting right now is... white South African landowners?

Today I discovered the song "Espresso" solely because it got covered by I'm With Her and that right there tells you most of what you need to know about my knowledge of popular music

Trump has frozen trillions of dollars in federal funding--affecting Medicaid, DV shelters, school lunches, life-saving biomedical research, student loans and more--and meanwhile over at F*x News the top headline 🤦 is:

My weekend with immunologists devising new strategies to treat cancer, allergy, Alzheimer’s, autoimmunity and infection. The WH has just paused peer-reviewed NIH funding that pays for these studies. If you care about human life, write your representatives. Demand that NIH funding is restored asap.

A friend recently asked me with honest curiosity: why should US be expected to receive large numbers of refugees coming from other countries? Even if they leave home country due to well-founded fears, if they have to cross several other countries to get here... like, why should it be our problem? 🧵

"America’s immigrants are renowned around the world for their ingenuity, hustle, and work ethic. Imagine what it could be like if America didn’t spend billions of dollars terrorizing them." From Karla Cornejo Villavivencio's excellent commentary in Prism: prismreports.org/2025/01/22/x...

Among the things feeding my fragile little hope fern today:

This move will increase illegal immigration markedly and rapidly, as will the proposed reinstatement of Title 42.

This looks like fun!

The daphne is blooming in Seattle. On every neighborhood walk I find myself arrested by that smell in the air, and half to scout around until I find its source.

This bill violates constitutional principles, forces indefinite detention after mere arrests, and grants states the power to dictate immigration and foreign policy by suing the federal government. Join our efforts to stop this attack on due process: immcouncil.co/stopLRA

Traffic court with the death penalty.