With affordable childcare hard to find, Head Start helps parents work, pursue education, and build better futures for their families. We're suing to stop President Trump's dismantling of this essential program.

Now while he and his ilk are abroad would be a great time to arrest him and take him to The Hague.

I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t hard to wake up and be hopeful. But I woke up, and I still have the rest of the day to be hopeful.

I refuse to let the next 4 years ruin the time I have here. I will have joy. I will laugh. I will rest. I will dance. I will sing. I will spend time with folks I love. I will find ways I can help my community. I will find the beauty. I will hold on to peace. I will live. I will have joy.

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

This is the longest January I can remember and it’s still not over.

Sharing some resources compiled by @caasanfrancisco.bsky.social, a civil rights org based in San Francisco Chinatown that I work with. There's Know Your Rights info, numbers for Bay Area immigration hotlines, links to legal resources, & more in both English & Chinese. 了解您的权利：如果 ICE 来到您家或社区，您有什么权利？

I've heard a number of people say, "I live in a safe blue district/state--there's no point in calling my reps since they're already on the right side." Yes, there is: You can call and insist that they be among the loudest voices on the issues you care about, since they can afford to be.

If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.

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if you don't know what to do right now, consider doing what Mr Cait did yesterday: calling your government officials and leaving 5 minute long voicemails calling them pathetic cowards

He doesn’t have the authority. full stop. doesn’t mean he won’t try everything or that irreparable damage won’t come of it even if it’s held up in courts or upended. they’re hoping we concede 1 defeat out of1000 hateful orders they vomit and that we’ll call that a victory, 99.99% No. Concede nothing

Fight the chaos burnout: pick one thing, focus on that, support others who picked a different thing, then switch in due time. take a deep breath in between

Join us today at 8 PM EST for our Know Your Rights training to learn how you can protect immigrant communities facing the threat of mass deportation.

If you work for a school, email admin to demand they protect their vulnerable students AND demand they write to their superiors. Then write to those higher ups AND demand that they too write to their superiors, and so on and so on. It will get to the top.

i watched literally TWENTY CALLS change an issue from 2-5 to 5-2 at city council one day.

Make their lives INCREDIBLY difficult. flood their phones, inboxes, mail rooms. slow their gears

Keep pushing back.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social So happy for you!

Great read. I’ve been blown away by the incredible organizing in Chicago over the years to fight deportations and detention expansion. Lots to learn from their efforts and how they are preparing now.

Judge John Coughenour has blocked that fascist from implementing the executive order to end birthright citizenship.

If you’re in DC tomorrow come see Janine Joseph in conversación with Kyle Dargan at the Hill Center. www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-li...

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

“… And in every case we worked on, when the agents realized they were being watched, they abandoned their stakeout.”

Does it violate U.S. law? • It could. The Posse Comitatus Act limits military involvement in domestic law enforcement unless Congress explicitly authorizes it. • The U.S. has obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention to provide asylum, which this obstructs. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

I’m done. I’m done. Have you learned NOTHING. “Bipartisanship” !?!?! GTFOH

Calling all community defenders, advocates, and impacted community members! 🗣️ Join us on 1/29 for a FREE webinar to learn how to protect yourself and your community in the face of potential immigration enforcement. Learn more and register: secure.nationalimmigrationproject.org/np/clients/n...

I promise you you can help. These are the counties who have NOT YET been approved BUT are currently in the process of applying for the 287(g) program to contract with ICE. If you live in any of these counties, you have tremendous power to make sure this doesn’t happen. And it won’t if you step up.

Be an active bystander.

What you can do to help right now: look up 287(g) ASAP to see if your local law enforcement has a contract with ICE. There is usually no expiration date on such contracts, which means they can be cancelled at any time with enough pressure from the local community.

And with that, officially, the near-exclusive means by which migrants were able to access the asylum process at ports of entry is over. There are over 270,000 people currently in Mexico waiting for appointments. Unclear where they will go or what they will do.

A thread on what you can do. You might not know how best to use what resources you have acces to in order to help those undocumented right now, that’s ok. Start THERE, you DO have resources that go a LONG WAY at your fingertips. get to know them. Here’s a few

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

Calling all community defenders, advocates, and impacted community members! 🗣️ Join us on 1/29 for a FREE webinar to learn how to protect yourself and your community in the face of potential immigration enforcement. Learn more and register: secure.nationalimmigrationproject.org/np/clients/n...

Did you know 👀 The ILRC published our step-by-step family preparedness plan 📍 This toolkit splits into multiple sections guiding families on preparedness planning, regardless of status — AND it’s available in Spanish as well! Check it out 🔗 www.ilrc.org/resources/st...

Do not open your door

Media reports say San Antonio could be one of the cities targeted by Trump's immigration raids this week. No matter what, we know that: 1) You have basic rights (listed below). 2) Trump will say he's going after criminals. He's a liar. Texans need to look out for each other.

Today is my birthday, and the greatest gift I could possibly get on this desperate, hopeless, futureless day is a future as a writer. I’m allergic to promoting myself, but if I can earn out my advance, hopefully, I can write another book. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

Cenzontle is *7* years old this month, as old as my son Julian. I’m still bewildered that my small book of poems is still making the rounds still reaching far and wide finding new readers. Never in a million years would I have guessed. 🥹

I'm thrilled to announce that our short documentary film 𝘞𝘌 𝘞𝘌𝘙𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘌𝘙𝘠 is officially premiering at the 2025 #Sundance Film Festival! 📷📷 Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.

Most rewarding about teaching creative writing is when students gell so well that they go off years later and continue the space and continue to meet up without me; the absolute bees knees is when they keep me in the loop and we do a reunion now and then.

Hub City Press is pleased to announce that @paradiselaust.bsky.social will judge the tenth biennial New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. The prize will now award an increased advance of $1,500 and publication to the winner. Submissions open on January 1, 2025. www.hubcity.org/news/derrick...

The duty of the writer… is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet. —Solmaz Sharif * We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. —Toni Morrison