ICYMI Free Press team built a tool that makes it easy to find your local ABC affiliate station and its phone number. Give them a call! We need to let these companies and the Federal Censorship Commission know that we've had enough of their capitulation, cowardice and corruption.

As a writer who knows honest expression requires free speech, as a U.S. citizen committed to our First Amendment as central to our country’s values, and as a human who hates bullying…I’m joining the boycott of Disney, Hulu, ABC & CBS.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Gail Brodholt, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt #Saturday #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is the life-or death scenario all our leaders really need to address. Hope more people wake to the fact we’re all in this together, before it’s too late

Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, 1979, used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #womensart

R.I.P. Robert Redford. You transcended Hollywood stardom: a compelling actor and thoughtful director…outrageously handsome yet humble…charismatic yet private…a man of integrity who cared about people and planet. My grandma & I would’ve cried over the memories, if she weren’t also gone.

A sweet story about the kind of caring acceptance of others we can all benefit from giving and receiving - from a writer whose words always convey the beauty of compassion.

In a big fuck you to CBS, Stephen Colbert wins the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian photographer known for her photography in black and white particularly #WomensArt

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

This is a real image of what a new solar system looks like. The light from the central star is blocked, so it's possible to see the lanes of cleared-up dust around it. And that small, yellowish blob at lower right? That's a whole, brand new planet.

Petal deer, 2012 by Ellen Jewett, sculptor known for her often surreal depictions of animals #womensart

This is a five-frame video of one of the giant eruptions on Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon. Taken in 2007 by the New Horizons probe on its way to Pluto, the images span about eight minutes. The motion of erupted ash and debris is from a volcano called Tvashtar, and rises 330 km into space.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 20/20 Paper Birds/Pájaros de Papel Sonia Gutiérrez, Poet #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

They’re having a hard time coping because the killer was white and Christian, but statistically that’s the profile for political violence. And that profile gets the benefit of the doubt. If he were Black, she’d be foaming at the mouth. “What happened to him?” -Megyn Kelly Nick Fuentes happened!

You had questions about President Trump's deployment of federal troops to U.S. cities, and we have answers.

ICE is acting as Trump’s secret police to torment and destroy our communities. But we aren’t helpless. Join me and hundreds of committed activists at ICE’s main Chicago-area facility Friday morning at 7 am.

Also check out A Bridge Home, a finalist for two awards…another historical novel about an America few people talk about…by a writer who always keeps it real. ✍️🏆📚 Congratulations, @mafbooks.bsky.social #booksky

There’s still time to sign up for my @tinhouse.bsky.social workshop this Sat 9/13 on Experimentation in Memoir: Exercises to Get Unstuck. We’ll look at examples of hybrid memoirs, learn techniques to break through common challenges and write difficult scenes. Join us! tinhouse.com/product/summ...

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 19/20 Creep Myriam Gurba #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

The Supreme Court might have denied my rights this week, but hey, the 2025 Int’l Latino Book Awards are honoring my historical novel about immigrants. So there’s that. Hope more people read it, & books like it, to learn the stories under America’s skin. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6wqxm9U/ #booksky

Grateful for light in a dark week: the 2025 Int'l Latino Book Awards has given Candlelight Bridge honorable mention in historical fiction! It's inspired by family stories of my Mexican & Chinese American grandma: tales of immigrants, mixed-race kids & the search for home caralopezlee.com #booksky

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 18/20 The Water Dancer Ta-nehisi Coates #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

‪Garrett M. Graff‬: We are watching an unprecedented public rejection of federal law enforcement (and, increasingly, by extension, the National Guard as well). It is not hard to see why the public is reacting so strongly to ICE’s abrupt takeover of daily life in America.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 17/20 Death of the Author @nnedi.bsky.social #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

Great book display... #booksky

Ruby Silvious, contemporary artist who utilises the teabag as her canvas #womensart #SundayMorning

"Pink Moon Over Water". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 16/20 She’s Under Here @karenpalmer.bsky.social #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

Where do you stand? You can want solutions for the unhoused, you can want safer cities, but you can also be dead set against federalizing them and against military occupation. I stand with DC!

Among the people ICE is targeting. Those who pick the food, fill the boxes, drive the trucks & stock the shelves - for America. Nobody is taking the place of those who’ve been taken, chased, or frightened away. Who will the regime blame next, when food shortages take hold?

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

Bad news for Black people. Black unemployment has soared to the highest level since the pandemic. Black youth unemployment skyrocketed to 25%. And Black women have lost more than 300,000 jobs this year. #jobsreport #blackunemployment #blackwomen #keithboykin #inthesestreets #losangeles

Michelle Kingdom, fine artist based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in embroidery #WomensArt

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 15/20 Anny in Love Barbara Wright #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

When you have a platform and use it for good. The wonderful Hugh Bonneville. The skill is to move on before the interviewer can say, "Yes, but..."

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 14/20 Fortunate Monsters Manuel Luis Martinez #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

That's what I keep asking, too, as I know many of us do: "What...comes...next?"

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

English documentary photographer Janette Beckman, Tracy Chapman, New York, 1988 #WomensArt

#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...

Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf. 1 book per day for 20 days. No explanations, just covers. 13/20 The Western Horse Randi Samuelson-Brown #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky