Esmeralda Lopez, quoted in the article, says "It makes you rethink in history all those heroes.. The movement — that’s the hero.” So many of us constantly caution against pedastaling. It harms us all - shielding from this kind of unspeakable violence to diminishing our collective responsibility.

I can feel Dolores' words deeply in my bones: "I kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the movement." It resonates for me. Wishing everyone impacted by and reeling from this today much ease.

Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

People are commenting about how this is about "powerful" men, but in a society that listens to men over women and girls, that treats the former as competent and credible, the latter as not, every man is empowered to abuse, and it happens at all levels and in all sectors of society.

Spotted a steelhead salmon swimming in this beautiful creek in Healdsburg today. Watch closely and you’ll see it scoot by in the lower left corner.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Has a moment to reflect. OBAA was fine as a movie if you ignore how underwritten and underused the Black women were. PTA is a good director so sure whatever. But Sinners was masterful. Vibrant. Layered. What an accomplishment from the entire cast and crew. I’m glad it exists.

My god they're talking about him like he's...a woman. How dare he have an agenda and stick to it. Why aren't his elbows...soft? (Though at least they can't say he should smile more.)

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

Whiteness is a way to package a variety of nationalities in a way that erases their individual identies and attempts to unify them in a culture of opposition to blackness. The racial identity is inherently pro-discrimination and deserves no sanctuary anywhere. Doubly so for South Africa.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Scum leaders, scum nation.

We’re entered the “please say sike” portion of the news cycle.

Major guajalote action en Roseland last weekend

Developing a theory about good fire therapy as a tool for surviving perimenopause.

Was tempted to do the Kate Bush Wuthering Heights dance at my work site this morning.

check it out: carla and @danisavestheworld.bsky.social are hosting another Corvid Anarcho Witchcraft writing circle for paid members on March 7th! 🐦‍⬛ also included in this write up are some fabulous writings from the Solstice Writing Circle! www.cawshinythings.com/come-out-of-...

💪🏼🔥union power

Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca. Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm @ Local Economy, Oakland

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.

Heat pumps are quietly one of the most sci fi pieces of tech on the market Part of an efficiency revolution that should get so much more attention, but the entire tech sector is mesmerized by AI

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Spotted in San Francisco at Andytown Coffee Roasters on Taraval Street. ❤️

Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled, but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/minneapolis_ice

Dim sum in Sunset District, San Francisco. The best way to lunch.

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps. There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of the landscape.

WE WHO???????

I’m available to start a book review cooperative. I don’t have any money, but I have a ton of editing experience, and I love doing it. And I write, too.

@jwoolington.bsky.social on the sage grouse beat! 👏👏👏

The main business model of Silicon Valley from Uber to AirBnB to Spotify is: skim profit off others' goods and labor. Often in ways that are exploitative of individuals or destructive of larger forces (as with Amazon and the retail that kept people heading out in public).

Noooo! 😖

As of 4am this morning, I’m the parent of a teenager!

Apparently Latino agents murdered Alex Pretti. It’s not a shock. Many Latinos support Trump and MAGA (I say this as a Vietnamese American whose community has many such supporters).

The inspo we all need right now: youtu.be/qbBkRttx7kM?...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Congrats to ICE for dropping a metric ton of tear gas on a bunch of nurses, teamsters and children just now

I Love Boosters. In theaters May 22nd.

Prepping for the first contract negotiation meeting today at the Teamsters Hall.

I don't believe in destiny. I don't believe hard work is rewarded. We don't live in a meritocracy. But I believe in inevitability as the result of a series of variables of which one has no control. Being pulled over by ICE is example of chilling inevitability.

i am so proud of @coyotemedia.org for being a place that can run stuff like this without pulling punches and i also feel it should be known that @soleilho.com wrote this powerful piece in like two hours *with the flu*

The murder of Alex Pretti got me reflecting back on my experiences with border patrol while living in San Diego for many years. Driving up to L.A. meant going through a bp checkpoint towards the north side of Camp Pendleton on the 5. You never knew of they would pull you over or not.

Three pages in & the book proposal chapter from Take it From Me is already so helpful! It’s demystifying the process & providing a clear map. Like I didn’t fully comprehend that a full manuscript is neither “expected or desirable for most nonfiction.” @aliahanna.bsky.social

New chant: “Show me who Whittier’s named for”/“This is who Whittier’s named for”

Powerful story by @soleilho.com up now at @coyotemedia.org