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"Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, died Dec. 15 in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a detention center in Baldwin, Michigan." "[S]uffered from diabetes that went untreated while in federal custody." #Illinois #Michigan #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

On #InternationalMigrantsDay, we honor migrants in Washington and worldwide. They enrich culture, drive innovation, lead critical roles, support families, & help societies thrive. Let's ensure migration isn't criminalized and continue to voice that freedom of movement is a fundamental human right.

As Greg Bovino returns to Chicago, this story looks at children detained by ICE, including one 5-year-old swept up in Operation Midway Blitz earlier this year. “We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

"[S]eeking safety is not a crime." "[A]bout 40 people gathered Monday [..] protesting the arrests of Utahns who went there for appointments like a green card interview and left in the custody of immigration agents." #Utah #USA #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Courts

Your tax dollars at work www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Minnesota, you fuckin' go 💕

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Why should all the (fiction/memoir) writing folks read this? Because "sex scenes are craft" and "romance...is streets ahead of other genres in its ability to write interesting, sexy, compassionate sex scenes." Thank you @readingtheend.bsky.social.

Olivia is so good at highlighting some of the best romances from a variety of voices with a vast array of vibes, from deadly serious to hilarious to touching, and if you want to try the genre or discover great gems, her recs will never steer you wrong!

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

Book 1 of a #SFF series I copyedited is free on ebook **today only** — in which a found family of black marketeers has a very unexpected cross-galaxy prize dropped into their lap. DOUBLE EDGED by @jkwak.bsky.social Get it here: books2read.com/doubleedged

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

I copyedited all @kwakjessie.bsky.social's SF novels (so far). I bought a few sets in paperback to send out for holiday gifts this year. And the one that's always been my secret favorite—if I admit to having a favorite—is free to download right now ... so. #SFFLove dl.bookfunnel.com/c388r7r1ck

Started the morning reading poetry from my friend's new collection. One stanza for my day: Wood is light being a tree. Till something gives In the wood — the fire gets out. (By S.J. Hodson in "New Songs of Innocence")

HUUUUGE Black bear caught on our garden cam in our backyard in Jersey the other night.

This week Trump's ICE fascists illegally kidnapped & deported a 19-year-old girl to Honduras despite a court order to keep her in the USA—while Trump himself pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of running Honduras "like a narco-state" & accepted millions in bribes from drug traffickers. smh.

ICE fascists: •Detained Indigenous American actor Elaine Miles, claiming her "papers look fake" •Arrested wife of Navy Vet AT HER Green card Interview •Arrested & kidnapped Brazilian immigrant & mother of Leavitt's nephew •Arrested, kidnapped,& deported to Honduras a 19-year-old student here legally

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.

This is next week, 12/2! For the release of the amazing anthology "We Will Rise Again," come hang out with activists and authors @booksmith.bsky.social to talk about hope, storytelling, and resistance.

"Federal agents busted into an East Elmhurst apartment early last Thursday morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children, according to video." "[D]ragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter." #NewYork #USA #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Yesssssssssss.

Rest in Power, Alice Wong.

Every American must read this. Every one of us. To remind us to fight harder against this evil, criminal, corrupt administration.

This is someone who was reading fantasy when I was reading fantasy. Great thread. The thread *does* say, but I want to highlight: I read A LOT of fantasy and science fiction written by women in the 1980s and 1990s. Let's not forget this exists. You can still find it — and you should! #SFFLove

Excellent use of a red pen.

#Seattle, check that your vote is counted. I checked mine and my dad's to be sure they were accepted. Easy to do.

We are just about to begin week 1 of Writing in Good Company, for the last cycle of 2025. I am so grateful to have had this rhythm of checking in and writing once a week with brilliant, generous women throughout this year. #AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity

I'm signing this petition because I believe in that skills in clear communication serve students and the rest of us.

“We do not want any secondary Americans. We do not want a weak and imperfect democracy. We do not want poverty and hunger and prejudice and fear on the part of any portion of our population. We want America to really be America for everybody.” - Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution

Greg is telling the important truths

This one is fresh off the easel, inspired by the early #evening light this time of year. Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6" Original is available (ships when dry, approx 2 weeks): tishamark.com/product/low-... #BlueSkyArtShow #art #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm #painting

I love this.

Thread.

So when the American people, together, spend years researching and building and funding a campaign to save people's lives ... what we do matters. And when a couple rich guys say, "Nah, in my personal opinion that's all a joke and a waste of money, we'll cancel it" — then 400,000 children die.

This is an essential piece: grounded, brief — and extra important to read for anyone who was too young to be paying attention to US cultural, security, and military movements in the first decade of this century.

We’re so proud of everyone who made this happen. Thank you for knocking on doors, making calls, writing postcards, working the polls, and most importantly voting. Let’s have another round tonight! 💙🇺🇸 And sorry for blowing up your newsfeed today, we promise it’s all for a good cause! 😉

Free childcare. Universal healthcare. Full SNAP benefits. Freeze the rent. Cancel student loans. Abolish ICE. Tax the rich. Now!

This. Yes.

I met Espinoza at the Northwest Detention Center. She was kidnapped from her job. She spent what should have been her wedding day in detention. She was working, contributing to our community, and is now married to a US citizen. This is who ICE is targeting. www.kuow.org/stories/she-...

Trump says he will not release SNAP benefits, despite a federal court order requiring him to do so.

Honoring the Day of the Dead.

I am required to show off this spectacular cover (artist: Juan Bernabeu) for my near future political novelette coming on @reactorsff.bsky.social on Nov 5. An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

This. HT @mostlybree.kitrocha.com + the writing/reading community

Fantastic thread