It feels sometimes, like people forget how brutal evictions really are. In Minnesota, you only get a 14 day notice before a potential eviction. Your eviction follows you which makes it almost impossible to find housing again and there are very few social safety nets for being unhoused

The kid’s sleepover friends didn’t eat the middle of their cinnamon rolls bc they got full. Told them our generation knew to eat the heart of the roll 1st like a hunter eating the heart of a deer. The look on these sweet teenagers’ faces told me they need more aunties & uncles that give them shit.

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ICE is targeting Native businesses & community/resource centers in Minneapolis. They harassed people at Pow Wow Grounds & sat outside of the American Indian Women's Resource Center for 2 hours last month. Many Native people (that we know of, there's definitely more) have been kidnapped by ICE.

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

Writers, if you're feeling bad about your book sales...

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Thursday night-Saturday morning we have expected windchills of -47 degrees. In the Twin Cities, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social could always use more gloves, more hand warmers, more hats. If you have an extra ten dollars or unused gift card, it would be a big help: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

We hope you will join us for this next chapter. ⁠ And yes, there will be karaoke. ⁠ ⁠ Apply today: ⁠http://mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summer-workshop/

Four citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have been held by ICE since Thursday. The unhoused men were picked up during an ICE raid and despite advocacy from their tribe, three have not been released. The place where the men are being held (the ICE facility in Minneapolis) is

It’s always fun to remember, as I did yesterday, that Tim Kaine voted to confirm Kristi Noem as Secretary of DHS

please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

Lord have mercy, Instagram got me thinking about tinned fish now.

it is so rare for Natives to have an Elder in Hollywood, especially an Elder as iconic, groundbreaking, and talented as Greene may he be guided back in his transition to skyworld peacefully and with ease 🍓😔🪶 deadline.com/2025/09/grah...

🎶AND I PRAY OH MY GOD DO I PRAY I PRAY EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A REVOLUTION🎶

Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.

you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do

Me and my book project

There are still a few spaces in the POV workshop I’m teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Aug.3-9–come join us!

You have two more days to submit to Chapter House Journal’s Indigenous Fiction Prize and have the brilliant Debra Magpie Earling read your work!! +General Submissions pool open for poetry, visual art, fiction and nonfiction!! Submissions close June 30th. chjournal.com?fbclid=PAQ0x... Plz share!

It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day. Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.

anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

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-How do you feel about frilly toothpicks? -I’m for ‘em! -Well this club is formed then.

We continue to raise alarms around Tribal Colleges and the threat we face w/federal funding cuts. This feature on PBS NewsHour debuted this week, telling our story more broadly. We stay fighting for our students and to see that treaty and trust obligations are honored. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

🌈📚 #queerbooks 📖 The Women Could Fly by @megiddings.bsky.social dystopian fantasy - the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #fantasy

Charlottesville is not taking this ICE abduction lying down. Some Quaker activists have called for a protest. TODAY (Wednesday) 11 a.m. - 12 noon in front of the Albemarle County Court House from 11am to 12 noon. Come with signs, to protest warrantless kidnapping of one of our neighbors yesterday.

I’d also love to read your fiction and help you make it stronger. Get in touch here: kellijoford.com/services

I’ve been laying low bc of health stuff, but I’m back, baby. Come see me in August for a course on POV at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. All levels are welcome! fawc.org/summer-progr...

I wrote a whole book about this. bookshop.org/p/books/mona...

@matjohnson.bsky.social Someone recently asked for advice abt MFA applications and I wanted to refer them to the thread you made a few years ago. But of course you left the bad place! Have you complied that advice anywhere else? Thanks!!

Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE

I’ve reached the reading poems and weeping over breakfast phase of this concussion. It’s beautiful. “You will find me, God, like a dumb pigeon's beak, I am pecking every which way at astonishment.” from “A Cigarette,” Ilya Kaminsky

Librarians: now more than ever. I am not joking.

I post this every Martin Luther King Jr Day

Baby’s first panic attack for the holidays

The latest on Ursa Short Fiction!Dawnie and I interview our agents about the publishing industry, what it means to be a white agent representing authors of color, what makes an agent say “hell yes” to a pitched book, common red flags with scammy “agents,” and more!

“If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail"