“Of the 14 million undocumented people in the United States, 800,000 to 900,000 are South Asian. With approximately 6.5 million South Asians in the United States, roughly 1 in 8 South Asians is undocumented.” www.asatapower.org/take-action/...

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Masked federal agents held a teenage boy at gunpoint, pushed him facedown on the ground, and arrested him. Cellphone video showed the 19-year-old bleeding out of his head as ICE agents put him in their vehicle. Only in the car did agents realize they arrested the wrong person. trib.al/o2TQBEz

Gaza genocide death toll rises to 72,628 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-genocide-death-toll-rises-72628

my review is up 😭 i still can't believe this book is real, that I got to write it.

Drug lords, billionaires and trafficked hippos... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Cascio siblings are suing Michael Jackson’s estate after standing by him for years as he faced accusations of child molestation. They say that they were groomed to protect Jackson and became, as they call it, his “soldiers,” and that Jackson had repeatedly sexually assaulted each of them.

AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.

Boycott the Michael Jackson film. The estate which will heavily profit from the movie paid millions to scrub any mention of his sexual assault of multiple children #NoMoneyForPedophiles #MichaelJackson www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/07/m...

Go see this movie!!! SO INSPIRING!!! Happy 30th Birthday @democracynow.org

Here are the 7 senate democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Netanyahu. Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) John Fetterman (PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Jackie Rosen (NV) Chuck Schumer (NY)

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Happy International Children's Book Day! A great day to pick up A YEAR OF KITES! bookshop.org/shop/bajaj

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

My book was targeted for "strongly" promoting "gender equality” and “following one’s dreams”. Oh no! If you want to rebel against the sad dream haters (and if you like children’s books about joy and love and dance)....

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Perez-Jimenez is the thirteenth person to die in ICE custody this year, and the thirty-sixth person to die in detention since Donald Trump launched his sweeping immigration crackdown. trib.al/l8bjUAQ

As Americans all across the country worry about costs going up because of Trump's war, what's Donald Trump doing? Creating chaos for millions of Americans with student loans.

🎊DIASPORA-ISH launches today🎊 We are honored to champion educator Sethi’s powerful and heartfelt memoir-in-verse, a learning resource for young adults that creates space for deep conversation and community. #socialjusticereaders #socialjusticeeducators #edusky

In the spirit of solidarity this #IWD2026, please consider supporting Lit for Queer Liberation Auction to uplift LGBTQIA2+ folx facing financial hardship. We have manuscript and query critiques to bid on, but there are 580+ items to choose from! Auction: www.32auctions.com/LitforQueerL...

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Come learn about A YEAR OF KITES at the New Orleans Book Fest Family Day 3/15. A story of finding unity in diversity - a message we need in these times @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Applications for the summer/fall 2026 session of @thenation.com internship are now open! 🔴 $20/hr, 35 hrs/week 🔴 6 months long, starting June 22 🔴 application deadline April 19 thenationfund.org/apply/

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

A YEAR OF KITES is on sale at @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social February sale! @amberren.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/year-of-k...

A YEAR OF KITES is on sale at @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social February sale! @amberren.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/year-of-k...

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...

$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace" $10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $135M for Trump's golf outings The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.

When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/chicago-ofelia-torres-death-cancer-father-ice-custody

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The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

In a country with a bad president, be a Bad Bunny. [Cartoon by Matt Davies]

Educators in San Francisco are fighting for better health benefits, better wages, improved special education and more. Their fight to get SFUSD to invest in classrooms, educators and students’ futures is all of our fight. Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco on strike!

AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."

Monisha Bajaj on her new picture book, A Year of Kites www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...

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From @theathletic.com: Activists at the Super Bowl handed out towels at the entrance of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara with the slogan “ICE OUT.” The other side of the towel has a bunny kicking a football that is inside a block of ice. nyti.ms/4quQynz

Such a good book! 700 pages and I didn’t want it to end. “If you don’t have love, you don’t properly exist. If you don’t properly exist, you don’t have love.” ~Kiran Desai

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

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.

"We are all citizens with a voice, so we must speak. A lot of people like to say, 'I am apolitical!' How can you be apolitical in this world? My stance is clear," Kiran Desai tells Chintan Girish Modi. Read the full interview: scroll.in/article/1090...

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

One legal expert said even up until recently, “it would have been pretty unthinkable” for ICE to come onto school grounds like agents did at Roosevelt High in Minneapolis.