BOTH/AND: Reading and Writing the Mixed-Race Experience This workshop holds space for multiracial people to read & discuss a diversity of essays & free-write from prompts exploring: coming of age, racism, whiteness, ancestry, and belonging. 6.30-9.1, 5-7 pm PT on Zoom Scholarship apps due: 6.15!

Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging will be out on 10.13.26! This book was born out of my annual Both/And writing workshop, and is made up of 29 personal essays by emerging & established writers, from many backgrounds. It’s for mixed folks, and all of our relations.

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.

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Recommend watching! Knowing de-escalation tactics is essential to keep observers safe. The more of us who feel emboldened to get out there with our cameras and whistles, the better.

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

We’ve made it easy to email your senators and demand they reject any DHS budget that puts more money into Trump’s deadly deportation machine. With a vote expected later this week, it’s extra important for your senators to hear from you right now.

Pretti Good reason for a national strike. #NationalStrike

We’re approaching 50,000 signups for tomorrow’s training on exercising your rights at a time when federal agents are terrorizing our communities. We hope to see you there.

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The point a lot of people are missing: "The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life."

Note to self to do this this week. I’m better at writing letters than I am at calling.

Should infuriate all of us.

How do we go on offense versus defense? What does that look like for you?

After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign. Pay-to-play imperialism.

This is what a police state looks like.

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

We are building and financing a corrupt detention/industrial complex. It’s human trafficking, and it has to end.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

FYI: Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Let's get Avelo Airlines, one of the charter companies complicit in deportations without due process, trending for all the wrong reasons. (source in first comment). Now what if when folks saw different search results than the vanilla ones in the second image below.

Scholarship & early bird applications are due Monday for my Yearlong Creative Nonfiction Manuscript Program for 8 women & nonbinary writers! Final apps due 8.4. Email me or learn more on my website. Access: Beloved Community. Accountability. Workshops. Coaching. A full manuscript edit. Support. ✍️ ♥️🌈

Trump is using a 1798 wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act to deport people without due process. @jayapal.house.gov says that sh*t ain't legal.

I would really like there to be more headlines and articles making it clear that what Trump did yesterday was unconstitutional. Thomas Massie already said it was. We need a lot more people saying it.

I love you Seattle. #abolishice #nokings

Everything is frightening … but the revolution can also be fun. More matching bands, synchronized dance, puppets, songs, skits, murals, storytelling and art please! More intergenerational parties and art-making. More joy. Less fear. We got this. Let’s tap into our radical core.

Seattle showed up peacefully. 75,000 no cops, no kings.

My sign for tomorrow. Hope I hear horns! 😆

Never underestimate the cathartic power of yelling, “Hey Ho, Donald Trump Has Got to Go,” in the streets! #nokings

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

This is where we are at.

We have one request: livestream, take photos, and share everything you see. Don’t let them control the narrative. Tomorrow will be powerful and we can’t wait to see you out there.

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU. Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

It's incredible these people are trying to set up a military dictatorship with 40% approval ratings in the oldest democracy in the world. Good luck, motherfuckers!

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

Who is causing the violence?

America is not under invasion from undocumented immigrants who are mostly peacefully living & working in communities that value their contribution to society America is under invasion by Trump who is literally sending military to invade & occupy peaceful cities to crush the will of the people there

Half a million Americans have signed up to attend No Kings events on Saturday. Join tomorrow night’s pre-mobilization call to discuss best practices, messaging guidance, and much more: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Where will you be on Saturday?

Every act of defiance, no matter how small, pushes the Resistance forward. The rebellion grows on hope.

Let them push their fiction, America is seeing through it. To pretend this is normal is to bury your head in the sand. Yes, MAGA will cheer, but they are a shrinking minority. The tide is turning. Oppression breeds rebellion.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.