Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

Alright folks, what are your Discord alternatives?

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Remember. Your Ring camera is fascist.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

what a shot

I only recognized that Reggie Dinkins trailer because of The Photo to end all photos

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

No Kings includes Draft Kings

there was a post going around awhile ago re. what a women’s sports version of “Heated Rivalry” might look like which enforces oppressive norms of femininity the way the men in Rachel Reid’s books feel trapped by oppressive norms of masculinity, and I have been thinking about this nonstop ever since

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

is anyone interested in reviewing this?* *i do not have venues/publications lined up >> hmu at [email protected]

so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.

I also want to shout out the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library. My brother is an avid reader using their audio player. When they heard what happened, they sent him a replacement player so he could have at least one normal thing back. They are a lovely lovely program.

I am once again awake in the middle of the night with a stomach ache. 🥲

A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not “following orders”. He couldn’t hear their orders. They denied him an interpreter. Denied him accommodations. This is who they are. They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

Not to rain on anyone's perfect month parade, but I'm a Monday start kinda gal

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Sounds Mortal and Immortal Questions Organic Chemistry Thermodynamics Figure Drawing

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

I spend a lot of time in Instagram, but just wanted to share here that I couldn't share a post about a forthcoming day of action in my stories. Just kept getting "upload failed" errors. Anyway, January 30th. No business as usual.

I get a lot of AI-generated emails about book promo services. But today I got one that at least had a human somewhere in the loop...because the person who sent the email didn't BCC the 300+ people they emailed. So now people have started to reply-all and I love/hate it.

#birdbot

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

We need Democrats who are willing to put their bodies and reputations on the line and understand this fucking moment. If you have the power, prosecute them. If you don’t yet, make that your mission until it’s done. I know it’s mine. This isn’t a drill. This is an emergency. Act like it.

I am obsessed.

Dreamt last night that @brucespringsteen.net wrote me a note to excuse me from my job today, and he is the Boss to end all bosses right so it should totally count.

To the world we dream about And the one we live in now 🌹 #Hadestown

I'm unreasonably devastated that I can't set custom text and ringtones for my contacts using audio I have. I remember when I used to be able to, and this is just yet another (minuscule) sign of enshittification.

Good morning. I woke up and started drafting what I can only describe as speculative smut. But now I want to read speculative smut stories. If you have speculative smut stories, please link me to your speculative smut stories. #reading #writing #recommendations

None of my to-do list items include scrolling the feed but I am nonetheless finding it difficult to ignore Events.

It really is a refreshingly warm January day if you try not to think of climate collapse.

Opening my workplace's Notion space and not remembering why I opened my workplace's Notion space is the online equivalent of walking into a room and not remembering why I walked into the room.

MEASLES IN NEBRASKA: Three more confirmed cases of measles have been reported in Nebraska’s Platte County, bringing the total reported over the past week to four. Two are in the infectious stage. From Cindy Gonzalez:

Good morning from me and these noise cancelling headphones that blocked out the sound of someone's car alarm out my window this morning.

My book comes out in two weeks 🥺

I've gotten this text twice today and I'm tempted to rename this group message "Workers of the world, unite" and reply with some labor history.

GRADES SUBMITTED. LAUNDRY DONE. TIME TO HIBERNATE. GOOD NIGHT.

The perpetual question.

TIL David Duchovny is a poet???

David Duchovny is our POTW this week and our lovely interview is up on onlypoems.com now! 💙 "...is shadowing something that can’t be said directly." 📝

psa: you have not yet bought my silence on giving tuesday :')

If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.