This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

I just released a long solo episode on the Israeli-US war on Iran and what it might mean for Iran, Lebanon and Israel - on @thefirethesetimes.com On all podcast apps Also available on thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/03/t... and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-2...

Dan Simmons died and I want to say that being a piece of shit racist overshadowed his amazing work but I can't because Hyperion was overrated anyway

Writer friends: are folks aware of any MFAs in creative writing (not art) where a student could study/create comics, graphic novels, etc? Looks like Ohio State might be somewhat flexible and of course Lynda Barry is at UW-Madison...

1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state. This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process. Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The issue: St. John's University has decided that unionization is illegitimate and will no longer recognize the union. After 56 years of unionization... www.ncronline.org/news/st-john...

get your limited run ICEBREAKER merch at friendsatthetable.shop, proceeds from purchases made on our shop during february and march will go to The Immigration Law Center of Minnesota. 1312.

Hi friends, I know a bunch of you are probably getting very sick of hearing about me talk about living under occupation instead of my signature Getting Mad About Publishing Stuff but a VERY important MN community hub that is sending out thousands of bags of nourishing, culturally-appropriate foods

The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction. Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism. Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...

Read the Abstract of this New paper by Bilal and Känzig “The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global Versus Local Temperature”👇

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

Relevant to AI writing, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, and Sonia Sanchez noted that many want to be writers but don’t wanna write. As Morrison said, “Writing has become almost a celebrity thing in the sense that people don’t want to write; they want to be authors. And that’s quite different.”

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

Came on here for a minute to look for something and immediately got waylaid, LOL. Before I log off, I did want to share this excellent toolkit by @detentionwatchnetwork.org with all of you who want to take action re: Federal warehouses: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn and and Ash talk about communes, what they are, some historical background on them, and some thoughts on relating to them now. live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/fd43...

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

Read and nominate @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org. The team over there does high-minded, high-brow analysis of SFF with a strong social justice lens. Jake, Misha, Bianca, Zachary, Cynthia, Liz, Lane, and Gary have been knocking it out of the park. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/23/t... 10/X

Look, everyone knows that Andor was great, but what part of the series to nominate? My plan is to nominate *BOTH* seasons as one entry for Long-form Dramatic, which is allowed under the rules. It's too integrated a story to pick one episode. Star Wars that grapples with what fascism means. 3/X

"Whoever thought we would live through this ... or that any of this shit would happen?” The creator of "Andor," the "Star Wars" series centered on a growing resistance to authoritarian power, spoke to @status.news about the show's real-life parallels. More here: www.status.news/p/andor-ice-...

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations. We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community. Read our full statement: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

ICE is getting ready to come for Haitians next week. Help the families JD Vance smeared with his ugly racist lies. This is an organization in Springfield connected to the Haitian community there. They need our help. ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...

Springfield Ohio is uniting and preparing. Across the state, the nation, ICE resistors are reaching out to support us. Don't let fear mongers or reddit groups tell you otherwise. The people united will never be divided. Reach out. We gon be alright.

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year! We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Totally wild!

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

Something you almost certainly won’t see in the national news is how many tiny protests are all over the Twin Cities today. They’re at stoplights. Parks. Bridges. Just everywhere. And people walking by are joining in. The solidarity is so deep. It’s beautiful and brave. I love this city.

I’ll start. Call your reps. Call five friends to talk about what happened—be in solidarity with each other and use that solidarity to start building something bigger. Attend an ICE Watch training. Combat disinformation by sharing the truth.

Get ready for them to tell you the man struggling on the floor and getting shot in cold blood gave the half dozen ICE agents that were beating him up internal bleeding. Fuck ICE.

VERY important for US university professors because the semester is starting!!! If certain people come to your class asking for this information, you can send them away! (Ofc it is not guaranteed they will go away, but this is how it technically works.) #HigherEd #LFK #KU #Jayhawks

a reminder that I’m on the Reckoning team and if you send us a novella and if we decide to publish it there’s a chance I’ll be the one to edit it. an even higher chance if it’s queer, weird, and obsessed with birds, snails, moss, or other cool shit. no promises of course! but it could happen 👀👀👀

The standards and expectations of what resistance, protest and daily life look like have shifted definitively towards mutual aid, community orientation and militant struggle for so many people in the US. Keep pushing, building and fighting. We are going to win 😘✌️

Overwhelmed? Action is a cure. Pick ONE survival fund, click "weekly"/"monthly," put it in your calendar to share once per day, put it in your email auto-reply, print a flyer—don't forget these families. Here's one fund for six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...

This is why "abolish ICE" is the moderate position.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

When it collapses it will seem sudden, all at once. But if something doesn't change soon this regime is finished. Keep striking, keep fighting, keep pushing where you can, keep building resilience and mutual aid, keep caring for one another and building the world you want to live in.

It is very very dark right now. But hold on, dawn is coming. You see its light reflected in the eyes of tens of thousands across this country when they tumble out into the streets in below freezing weather for vigils and marches.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Find your local ICE watch and sign up.

If you're angry, please go join your rapid response group. If you know you can't be out recording, I guarantee they need people to help cover their hotline. Action is the antidote.

Sometimes you need a poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

This is a new evil spawned from the ancient capitalist hydra, we need to be using historical context to fan the flames of what the FUCK and not just retreating to smug well this is how empire has always worked you can't be surprised by it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

All right, I've been sleeping on Legos as an adult. I was just mildly interested as a kid, but my husband got me Andor's u-wing for Christmas and this is the literal best. The satisfaction!

Truly, not trying to be doomer. If anything I think that the hope that arises out of *determination* — the capacity to fight on despite all odds — comes not from painting a falsely reassuring picture of the past and present, but by cultivating qualities that allow us to rise up and fight on. 7/n