a good day to throw your Ring into a volcano.

These Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem: Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)

What we can learn from the people of Minneapolis Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.

Genuinely thank you so much to everyone who leaves any kind of review on my books. Post twitter death i have literally no idea how to reach people about them

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

How many people have ICE/CBP sexually assaulted? This is a serious question. We know, absolutely know, it is much more than zero.

What's happening in this city is unacceptable. We clearly need to increase their funding so they can get better training. And by the way, I hate the monster you turn into when you're drunk. So I've hired someone to teach you Judo

I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward

ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from Texas to Honduras, group says Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.

My last two shots before my world went dark.

i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

OK nerds, ANNOUNCEMENT I have a book coming out this May with @sevenstories.bsky.social! it is called The Dinner Party: A Book about Love" it's a collection of five sequences or stories, all in verse. They are about different kinds of love. You can pre-order it here, if you are so minded.

Reading update: tiptree jr short stories continue to slay in their exacting pessimism, hilary mantel’s thomas cromwell is addictive in his understated psychopathic thirst for power, poppy z brite writes vampires just like me at 13 daydreamed about. I guess its evil men hours

Back in queens ny

ICE tries to raid restaurant after they helped community. It didn’t go the way they’d planned.

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

i wrote about laughing at ICE and that one margaret atwood quote about men being afraid of women laughing at them www.patreon.com/posts/148398...

For more on Cambreros’ surely ongoing crime spree, see the San Diego Union-Tribune’s coverage. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/25/s...

The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.

Are you currently 480th in line for an e-book and wondering why @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social doesn't just ... buy more copies? The short answer: e-books are incredibly expensive. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to curb the excessive pricing from publishers, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

Assorted whatever. Chickens and shapes. Really into eggs laid on bird spikes at this time. - We're out of office but we'll be back Jan 5!

Is ICE coming to your neighborhood? I share some tips learned in Rapid Response training here in Chicagoland.

So I shared this thread on the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 & I'll share again because I think it is important for folks to know what it is the Trump admin has to undo to undo our US citizenship in order to set a precedent for challenging birthright citizenship.

Minneapolis tonight.

Naaaaaaailed it

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING YOUR SAFETY ON THE LINE TO PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE TO YOU ALL. NO THANKS TO THE VICHY POLITICIANS WHO ARE FAILING COMPLETELY TO MEET THE MOMENT. NO FORGIVENESS FOR ANYONE WHO IS FORCING YOU TO DO THIS

Men don’t choke out children. MEN DO NOT CHOKE OUT CHILDREN. MEN DO NOT LAY THEIR HANDS ON CHILDREN.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all

This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time. Some thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

They're coming for us again.

i have held my fire on a lot of the disrespect around renee good's wife becca good this whole time but i just heard an ostensible journalist describe her as her "friend" and felt a deep rage well up in my chest. what the fuck is wrong with you. what the fuck do you think you're doing

I owe this cartoon an apology. It was, if anything, underplayed. youtu.be/m__J1Jw6TxA?...

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

A project to dismantle ICE will be years in the making. This is because you will have opponents [not just in the fascist GOP but also in the Democratic party]. And that means that organizing campaigns will have to be strategic and they will always be subject to being undermined by purported "allies"

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

I don’t know how anyone can look at what’s happening in Minnesota and think “this is a regime that intends to allow for a peaceful transition of power.”

does everyone not know that "more training" in any american cop context just translates to "more funding that they can divert and use for bullshit"

Last week, Austin PD called ICE to turn in a woman from Honduras and her US-born 5 year-old daughter. They only knew about them because the woman called 911 for help with a domestic disturbance. She needed help and they handed her over to ICE. The police don’t care about protecting you.