Your first instinct will be to look away It's important that you do not

Sleep debt is seriously the worst.

Oof I get this and it’s hard when you struggle to retain memory.

Honestly good advice.

If you had to fill a room with things that inspire you, what would you bring into it?

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Sorry, Bsky. I got hypnotized by Threads. Will try to be better about being here, where the ideas aren't copied and regurgitated for clicks.

This is illegal. Trump and Republicans shut the government down, and now they are resorting to unlawful threats to try and cover up their recklessness.

Rushed to the Farmer’s Market this morning because I thought it was the last day, but apparently there’s one more weekend! Also got TWO compliments on my Bikini Kill tee (including one from a lady I was very much not expecting such a compliment from—never judge a book!). Yay small wins!

“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.” - Federal Judge Karin Immergut granting a TRO keeping the National Guard out if Portland - for now. Immergut is a TRUMP APPOINTEE. www.opb.org/article/2025...

#MonsterTheEdGeinStory is more about the influence he had over cinema and pop culture than it is about getting any truth out about his life, it seems. It’s disturbing, gross at times, and yet as a fan of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho, I can’t stop watching.

Speaking in my unofficial role as the most official looking Taco Bell account here, everyone quit because work sucks and they don't pay enough

This is the very best use of the hipster homing beacon, though! I always use it for the same purpose. Love a proper latte requiring zero sugar because that’s just how good those beans are!

This from the latest issue of DUH! Quarterly

Windows & doors of ICE #Broadview are boarded up. So nobody can see in. No elected officials can get in to see people or assess the site, as is their right. It's actually not all that large a building. But I guess the important part is the roof, where the guys with guns hang out & DHS films #content

"After locking herself in the kitchen, Tilly's character prepares one thousand pancakes, a feat technically plausible but logistically absurd. Let’s break it down. Assume you cook two pancakes at a time on an electric griddle. Each batch takes three minutes. That’s 500 pancakes..."

I think what I'm saying is I would like Taylor to write a song as gutting as "Happiness" about the state of the world, but she's never pretended to be a songwriter focused on politics and the state of the world and that's probably okay. A LOT of artists don't actually talk about the world.

I’ll probably never like a TS album more than Folklore and Evermore. I like a few tracks off some of the others, but those (especially in the midst of early pandemic days) are what drew me in. That and her whole “let me rerelease my own version of albums to stick it to the man.” Ah well.

Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE custody via @theguardian.com

Furloughed Department of Education workers’ out-of-office emails were changed to blame Democrats for the shutdown without their permission. Why is Trump resorting to such desperate, and likely illegal, tactics? Because he knows that he’s the one to blame for this shutdown.

Protesters were largely confined to either side of a road and every so often they would push at us onto the lawn of a local business. I did see several people thrown to the ground and taken away. To my eyes, these acts were pretty random and I did not see any protester be physically violent. At all.

I went to the protest this morning at ICE facility in Broadview. Some photos if you wanna follow along. My guess is that at its height there were 300-400 people there, all protesting the inhumane treatment & illegal kidnapping of our neighbors. #broadview #iceprotest #abolishice #broadviewprotest

My feed has been mostly reposting on the ground journalists covering the ICE raids in the Chicagoland area and the Broadview detention center.

Working on a story about AI toys. Anyone (parents especially) have any questions about these?

Yikes. Dodgers all the way.

Just fucking read to your kids, you shits.

Now’s a great time to cancel Paramount Plus if you haven’t already. They still haven’t reinstated Colbert who was cancelled for rightfully pointing out that CBS took a bribe. They bent a knee. Now they’ve made Bari Weiss, notorious misinformation spreader, the head of CBS News. Cancel. Now.

I've been social media-ing a LOT lately. But the good news is that I've started to see more acceptances to pitches, find more writing opportunities, and just feel more like the lightbulb on my brain is staying on, so that's...good?

"By the time I began kindergarten, I was already fully bilingual as a result. And thanks to [PBS] shows, I felt less alone in my bilingual, bicultural existence." @prisblossom.bsky.social time.com/7320532/pbs-...

Been mulling over my own thoughts on this show since finishing it, but here's an excellent take on it. Also, I have a slight fear of toads due to encountering one on a walk once when I was in a really bad state of mind and also really high, so I'm glad no one is actually being turned into any here.

Made my debut in @timemagazine.bsky.social today with a story about the impact @pbs.org had on my childhood (and that of many other Latine kids). Give it a read! time.com/7320532/pbs-...

The phrase "feral leprechaun" indicates the existence of a "domesticated leprechaun" maybe? 👀

📣 Submissions close tomorrow! #TheMagazine is still seeking pitches from #Indigenous storytellers for our next edition about Indigenous changemakers in 2025. 📆 Deadline: Sept 30 Read the thread for the details. 🔗 Find the guide for submissions here: crushingcolonialism.org/call-for-sub...

Cake Zine's next call for pitches is for a rogue 🥩 issue: www.instagram.com/cake_zine/p/... Writer's rates: Shorter pieces (350 words or less), poems, and recipes: $125-$175; Mid-length (500 to 1K words): $200; Longform (2K words - plus or minus): $300 Visual art: Rate based on commission

Want to hear @alinaetc.bsky.social and I read from our new books? Want to listen to us chat about the similarities and differences between poetry and prose collections, and the craft/process that goes into writing and publishing them? 👀🥰 writer.org/event/grieco...

To be ICE is pathetic, but to try to be ICE & fail miserably with multiple team members against one brown delivery biker is just as pathetic, but in a completely new & innovative way! 👀

Is One Battle After Another sensationalizing extremism? I dived deep into the world of Thomas Pynchon to bring down what Paul Thomas Anderson so skillfully says about the absurdity of government, hatred, and history. For Silver and Gold Film Mavens! thefilmmaven.com/one-battle-a...

Do you love doing bookish things? Are you ready to talk about your forthcoming book? Want to get invited to conferences, libraries & more? This Sunday, Sept. 28, 10am-12pm PT, I’m doing a Zoom session on BUILDING YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM at @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. Link below ⬇️

A judge dismissed a terrorism charge against a member of the Irish-language rap group Kneecap on Friday, saying that prosecutors had not brought the charge “in the correct form” within the required timeline. Prosecutors had accused him of displaying a Hezbollah flag. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/a...

Good. But he should be arrested for assault. It won't happen, but a lot of things that should happen don't.

Villain crap right here.

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.

Making my debut in Latina Media Co. this AM reviewing @cristela.bsky.social’s latest special, Upper Classy (now on @netflix.com). Read it here👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 latinamedia.co/upper-classy/

It’s beyond time the United States joined a majority of UN nations in recognizing Palestinian Statehood and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Making my debut in Latina Media Co. this AM reviewing @cristela.bsky.social’s latest special, Upper Classy (now on @netflix.com). Read it here👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 latinamedia.co/upper-classy/