They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

1/1🧵 Immigration enforcement report: WA State | July 16-31, 2025 In the last two weeks of July, the WAISN Deportation Defense Hotline received 445 calls from people documenting or verifying immigration activity in their area. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇

I just love the way he talks so dang much. That rising tone on "neighbors" 🤌

if you're interested in pop culture that actually pushes back against the erosion of freedoms, you'll get more of it from one issue of an SFF zine than you will in a year of every streaming service combined

"I’m not afraid of the fallout of last week’s news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned." open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

It’s natural & correct to love big trees. But it’s NOT natural or correct to love a few big trees in your own nbhd at the expense of housing our neighbors, fighting climate change, saving many more old trees elsewhere, growing the next gen of plants, & building a just city free from car dependence.

Wednesday! Our annual hygiene drive with @ywcapierceco to assist them in providing needed items for clients in all of their programs! YWCA has always advocated for those in our community who require housing, counseling, legal assistance, emergency shelter, and much, much more.

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (The Great Divide, Pink Slime, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Black people are experts on how America works. If you want to survive this country and hopefully meaningfully transform it, you’d do well to listen to us.

I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Already building up their narrative. “It prob wasn’t a trans but it COULD have been a trans. You probubly thought it was a trans at first for absolutely no reason and not at all because it’s what we’ve been propagandizing for years at this point, no it’s just cause the transes are bad.”

I don't think I've ever seen anything more Seattle lmao She better win!

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"Activists working to end ICE Air’s presence in Seattle have zeroed in on Signature’s work as a service provider for charter flights.

Over the last few months I've become fascinated with Abundance, the new nominally liberal ideology pushed by liberal stalwarts like Ezra Klein. But if you peak behind the curtain and look at the funding you discovering something horrifying: Peter Theil, the Koch Moreover, ICE must b destroyed

Thread about which books of mine I expect to be eligible for the Anthropic settlement in case it is useful to see how it breaks down for one author (who is not expert in copyright law but has read everything she can on this so far.) +

This is also very true of the RELIGIOUS right — Paula White, Lance Wallnau, Al Mohler, Sam Alito, Steve Strang, Charlie Kirk, Mike Johnson, JD Vance, Sean Feucht, Doug Wilson, David Barton, Ralph Drollinger, Eric Metaxas, the De Vos family, those relying on donations from the De Vos family, etc.

sometimes it's kind of entertaining to wake with no context memento style to discourse. everyone yelling, "show me the horny old men with an erection! name one lusty professor with a co-ed i dare you!" and you're looking around for notes and tattoos to figure out how you got here and maybe a weapon

La Resistencia did a video call with Gerson Enrique Castaneda Piche. The second person who is doing the hunger strike with Steven Antonio Chavrria Portillo.

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d have to warn writers against submitting to Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock’s, or Ellery Queen’s.

My review of the May/June issue of @analogsf.bsky.social for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...

oh god, my very first thought is that I would hire one of those doctors rich people get, and keep paying them until they can make the pain in my shoulder finally go away, but that's, you know. depressing so maybe what I would do is buy a decent mid-tier art school and then just run it tuition-free

If Trump isn’t dead do we think some poor staffer is going to have to tell him about today’s Posting? Because that would be really funny, if he ended up reading all the posts

Thank you @meganpiont.bsky.social for the radical resources. Just made a deposit at the local Little Free Library!

#Tacoma, this is on Monday!

I also find this fascinating and have written a little about it. They're cosplaying authoritarianism while doing authoritarianism, actively nostalgic for and recreating twentieth-century police states that had horrific death counts.

Just wrote up a blog post about THE WEST PASSAGE by Jared Pechaček. 10/10 this book is excellent and everyone should read it. Did it win any awards yet? It should win awards. www.joannerixon.com/post/the-wes...

This is a good thread. I think, and I could be wrong, that people younger than I are less likely to be taken in by accounts like these, but it’s a good thread for everybody using this site to read.

I'll tell you a cracker barrel story. it doesn't really pertain to any of the recent story. we were on tour with another band a long time ago and we were all friends so we would sometimes catch breakfast together

Dobson is up there with Kissinger in terms of people I'm glad are dead. My parents weren't even close to the worst of his followers, and I still hate that motherfucker.

I often get overwhelmed at the amount of need in Palestine and don't know what to do about it but sometimes you gotta try to empty the ocean with a teaspoon

TOMORROW.

Eve Ewing's "April 5, 1968" is one of my very fav poems: www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Maga... (and this book is on my shortlist of books to acquire soon!)

1/🧵 Immigration enforcement report: WA State | June 16-30, 2025 In the last two weeks of June, the WAISN Deportation Defense Hotline received 840 calls from people documenting or verifying immigration activity in their area. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇

have some good news

Even being pretty sure that this was Stripe's operating procedure (given their history and how they've talked about "adult" content in past), it still feels like shit having it confirmed.

Microsoft Word has recently started doing this thing where it will auto-"correct" words by randomly changing a vowel in the middle of the word into an apostrophe, e.g. monster's > m'nster's or automobile's > automob'le's This is not helpful.

McCaffrey's DRAGONFLIGHT, and also DRAGONQUEST and then THE WHITE DRAGON and so on, I read all the Pern books before I was even a teenager lmao

If we're excluding fantasy novels (which I was reading pretty much as soon as I learned to read, Tamora Pierce got me young)... I don't know, we're probably talking, like, Animorphs and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Both of which I'm comfortable calling part of the old canon of SF, actually

I..... wonder how much money one can earn writing such things .... probably not *zero* dollars

The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics. "The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

Today show some support to an author who is important to you. Send a message on social media or the contact form on their website. Bonus points if their books are being banned. Bonus bonus points if they're from a community that is being targeted. Cannot overstate how meaningful these notes can be.

I love them, I swear I will send money to their commissary if they actually get arrested

And … the AQI is going up here in the PNW. Take it easy, drink lots of water, mask up if you are going outside.

ooooo out of print books written by women and queer people

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

I finished Margaret Killjoy's THE SAPLING CAGE this morning while waiting for my kid to get his cavities filled, so I can verify that this book is super cute and also full of subtly provocative politics and terrifying monsters. 5/5 stars I love it

this is so so amazing