My 2 biggest pieces of advice for debut authors: don’t look at Goodreads and don’t ask about preorder or sales numbers. I’ve somehow been very disciplined and have to believe that this is simply info that has zero benefit so I’m steering clear!!

Aliya Rahman told ICE “I’m disabled”. Their reply? “Too late”. They smashed her window, cut her seatbelt and violently dragged her from her car. They just beat up a deaf teen for “not following orders” They dragged a blind man across the pavement. Fascism & eugenics go hand in hand.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

Snowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

chop chop from the top

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

Today is week from publication and I’ll be on WNPR’s Where We Live this morning live for the 9am hour! Talking caregiving and my new book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

TODAY is the FINAL DAY to apply for Summer 2026 residencies! This summer we have fellowships for writers of color and trans writers through the Smokelong Quarterly fellowship! Scholarships are also available! www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

Might have to do a lesson on DARVO in my college class this semester. 🤔

Read the highlighted sentence a few times, jfc From @lukeferrell.bsky.social's "THE MEANS-TESTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

My book made it to the top of the pile and book recs for AARP Magazine! I’m right up there with several celebs, totally wild. Book is out in 2 weeks!

They're so ANGRY that we take care of each other, and not just angry. So CONFUSED by it. And that is why we will win

My book made it to the top of the pile and book recs for AARP Magazine! I’m right up there with several celebs, totally wild. Book is out in 2 weeks!

If any disabled/chronically ill people in the South want to share any stories of how they've been impacted by the storms, please reach out at [email protected] or signal juliametraux. 49 This is for a potential @motherjones.com story, thanks!

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.

Our federal government as organized crime

Call your senator’s office now! Defund! Impeach! Abolish ICE!

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass

Call your Senators and tell them to defund and abolish and vote no on the omnibus. Do it now.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

BOOK TOUR is on for IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH from @eccobooks.bsky.social which will be out on Feb 10th!!

BOOK TOUR is on for IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH from @eccobooks.bsky.social which will be out on Feb 10th!!

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

Call your reps and yell at them - I just called and I got halfway through my sentence and the aid was like "they're voting no!" lol find your rep > reps.fyi

It’s the first day of the spring semester—let’s set the tone for these kids

It’s the first day of the spring semester—let’s set the tone for these kids

Unboxing day came! And my book events are pretty set— more info soon on that but here’s a preview: 2/12 The Strand NYC 2/18 Head House Books Philly 2/19 Politics and Prose DC 2/24 Mechanics Hall Portland, ME 3/3 Virtual event w @newamerica.org 3/4 @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social Brooklyn

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.” 🔥

It’s all eugenics

Celebrating MLK day by calling my senators and telling them how I feel about ICE. I used a script and also did some embellishing cuz I’m mad as hell.

This is a great teaching example for why cross-national comparison matters in social science. People also make “bad choices” in peer countries, but they’re far less likely to end up homeless.

beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers! beestungmag.com/about/

SNAP now has work requirements for people 55 to 64. But because of the axing of a USDA food insecurity survey, we may not have comprehensive data of the effects of this barbaric change. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01...

The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.

“Simply put, ICE Watch does not spur violence; it reduces it.”

U.S. citizen, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor's appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she was brutalized by #ICE on Tuesday. "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled," she said. Read what happened next. ⬇️

All the other horrors aside, I just can’t believe how many people are complicit in pretending he has any clue about anything beyond burying the White House in hideous gewgaws.

Amid all that is happening, I urge you to pre-order my new book. As our systems further collapse and the state chooses to spend its funds terrorizing communities rather than investing in our collective care, we need to bear witness 1/5 www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

Amid all that is happening, I urge you to pre-order my new book. As our systems further collapse and the state chooses to spend its funds terrorizing communities rather than investing in our collective care, we need to bear witness 1/5 www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

the left has offered solutions: -raising wages -universal healthcare -affordable housing -universal childcare -paid parental leave -action to mitigate the climate crisis if only our leaders supported these wildly popular solutions. people don’t want kids in a world we’re struggling to survive in.