Hot damn! Four weeks!

Last May, Tennessee Highway Patrol joined ICE on the streets of Nashville. We @lighthousereports.com + partners mapped the traffic stops and used 1M+ ICE records, dashcam video, and court files to show how supposed routine encounters became deportations.

For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.

My view of lichen has changed dramatically after I started reading Entangled Life by @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social. I went from “oooh, cool!” to “ooooh, magic!” ✨✨✨

Sadly, this was shorter than my #migraine, but so glad its drop perfectly corresponded with the onset of it. It’s my favorite episode ever.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Looking forward to reading next week at this great offsite program at #AWP for the flash lit mag Flash the Court. I’m reading a flash CNF piece and happy to see that form growing! If you want to hear some great flash examples, I hope you’ll join us! #writingcommunity #flash

Churches say threat of ICE enforcement is violating their religious rights

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

OMG yes please!!! Good Alabama folk include The Knights and Orchids Society, TAKE Resource Center, ALTRAC. And if you want to support affirming care for those 19 and older in our area hit me up - we will soon have it in both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.

Relishing writing a review of this poetry/prose collection by @annanygren.bsky.social from @milkweededitions.bsky.social Multiverse series (#neurodivergent & underheard language). #booksky

It’s me! I love reading what the #writingcommunity has been submitting to @fiveminutelit.bsky.social this month!

I loved the collaborative mosaic aspect of this book. This review does a great job of encapsulating it.

For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize: The liar lied again.

He’s not wrong!

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature

Donald Trump just said that voting is a privilege when talking about the SAVE Act. No, buddy voting is a right, not a privilege.

Commentary: "As a Catholic, I am compelled to speak out against the anti-immigrant legislation currently being considered by the Tennessee General Assembly. "My faith, my tradition and my conscience call for me to do so." -- Jim O'Hara

If anyone wants to sit out the SOTU, there is a great organizing call from Catholics in Communion tonight at 6 pm CT about how to support migrant and refugee communities as ICE continues its arbitrary work, denying them the dignity they are due. faithfulwitness2026.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

As an AF drink aficionado, finding a red has been hard. Really looking forward to this new option from www.curiouselixirs.com I’ve been drinking their #alcoholfree cocktails since 2017ish. It’s fun to see what they come up with. I hope they’ve mastered the red-it’s so hard to do!

Oh my TBR! Mount Read Me just got a lot longer with the @thebookerprizes.com announcement! #booksky

Amen, brother. This is why I volunteer with lit mags. Get the art out, it helps!

I love this, except I base my genre-shuffling on time of day: lit mags in the morning, nonfiction in the afternoon, memoir and fiction at night. Currently loving @benningtonwriting.bsky.social for my lit mag.

The County Council of Baltimore adopted a bill this past week that prohibits the construction of any new ICE detention centers inside the county. Here is the emergency zoning act, should anyone want to use the language for your own jurisdiction. countycouncilweb.s3.amazonaws.com/Bills%202026...

not the clear picture of your life, but the essence of what it truly was

And yet it’s even more dumb: Both hospital ships are in dry-dock in Alabama, so they won’t be arriving anytime soon. This is a weird distraction from the Danes medically evacuating a sick US sailor from a US Navy nuclear sub yesterday 9 miles from Nuuk. What was a sub doing nine miles from Nuuk?

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The Daughters of St. Paul (with whom my friend Sister Phoebe just professed!) are the “online nuns,” and have a lot of great resources on this very topic: pauline.org/media-mindfu...

Pam Bondi on the Dow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71X...

This looks like a great online class on #shortstory #writing, from @bridportprize.bsky.social! When? Next Tuesday 24 February at 6:30 pm GMT. #writingcommunity

Today wasn't just about tariffs SCOTUS rejected Trump's claim that courts can't review his emergencies That logic extends to the Alien Enemies Act, The National Guard & beyond The rule of law is holding--for now I discuss @ 6pm ET on @ms.now w/ @arimelber.bsky.social -TN

I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.

"One day with a million people in the streets, that's a holiday; that's not a campaign. What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end. Despite rain, despite snow. That's how they showed their resolve to stand against the government.” www.alieward.com/ologies/revo...

Whoa. Good news for a change!

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I think Quinn Hughes is one of my new favorite hockey players and psychic mediums

To quote a telegram to Carrie Chapman Catt, "the women of the US owe you a debt beyond the possibility of repayment..."

The Cabrini Ministry at Christ the King Catholic Church in Nashville has been holding a solidarity prayer event for all interested in standing with migrant and refugee* communities. Every Saturday after the 9 am mass (usually about 9:30). All welcome, no experience needed.

600 Traffic stops is insane. This is incredible reporting from @nashvillebanner.bsky.social . We're lucky to have them!

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

I understand why prison abolition is controversial but I don’t think you can get away from the fact that the most passionate prison abolitionists work closely with incarcerated people or were incarcerated themselves. The more you know about the logistics of incarceration the more you hate it.

Law Dork published this memo tonight. It's important, DHS issued it & DOJ filed it a day before a key hearing in a Minnesota case, and it is not remotely available on PACER b/c a judge denied my request to open the docket to all. Support my independent legal journalism if you can. www.lawdork.com

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Our fifth annual poetry contest is now open. The grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition. Submit by end of day on 2/22, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response). See the link below for details: buff.ly/AmuRDBZ

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

In the wake of the Washington Post’s decimation of its books section, I’ve been seeing calls for creating an independent book review site. But ya’ll, independent presses have been doing it already. And you can find a list of those doing reviews through @bookcritics.bsky.social

The slipper thief strikes again.

On this #valentinesday #caturday Ernie says he hopes you have someone who loves you as much as he loves his catnip sushi stuffy. ❤️