There's an outbreak of salmonella in raw oysters: 64 cases in 22 states, with 20 hospitalizations, per CDC. It's not clear yet if there is a certain region or distributor implicated

Me (in grocery, in front of coffee beans): *silent contemplation* College girl (emerging from nowhere, speaking with enthusiasm): "Okay, nobody freak out!" Me: *jumps approximately out of skin* Second college girl: "Okay, you? You can freak out."

Three songs live at The Current: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1V...

#StreetArt by Patrícia Mariano, Lisbonne 2025 @apatmariano

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Coming from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social in May: "Opus Siniestrus: Selected Plays" by Leonora Carrington. Includes "Penelope", which Alejandro Jodorowsky staged in 1961. www.nyrb.com/products/plays

I love cats in Nativity scenes almost as much as I love cats enjoying Christmas trees.

Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE. “ICE Out of Minnesota!” "MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!" "Immigrants are not the problem"

This is an absolutely lovely piece of writing.

'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2

In the ruined turbine hall of a DTEK power station, shattered by russian attacks, a choir sings Shchedryk. Truly, a performance worth a million words 💔

This was a perfect opportunity to take a principled stance. Instead we have a weak moderate position based not on principles, but on not offending anyone who builds their career on plagiarism and chicanery. For shame, @sfwa.org.

Astonishingly vulnerable and resonant with truth.

Speaking of not using AI in comics — she’s here!! STRANGE TAILS #1, “PERCHEESE TO DREAM" Written by me, art by BAILIE ROSENLUND, colors by IAN HERRING, letters by VC's TRAVIS LANHAM, edited by FARAH JAVED & @alannawrites.bsky.social ! share.marvel.com/sharing/issu...

Oh yes. This was very smart, and very hot.

Night comes to Wit's End. A new chapter begins on SABLE: A GHOST STORY sablecomic.com

I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help. The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

I really liked this one.

The ACLU of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against ICE, Noem, and other DHS officials. Susan Tincher, who had her wedding ring cut off by ICE agents, is one of the plaintiffs in the case.

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Call your reps. Yes, even your Republican reps. Tell them to vote to extend ACA subsidies.

I *loved* this book and this cover is perfect. Put it on your preorder list now, friends.

Molly is so smart, so talented, and has so much experience - I can’t think of a single book-related job she wouldn’t knock out of the damn park

Helene Schjerfbeck, Fragment, 1904. Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki), from an exhibition of the Finnish painter now on at the Met

"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body." www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...

What an absolute banger, what a killer fit

Thread Oh wow what a thread

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

Thinking of this heroism makes me even angrier about what happened in Uvalde, about the craven political rhetoric that "only a good guy with a gun" can stop a shooting. (deleted and reposted to correct a spelling error)

“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.

I’ll never forget that one of the Parkland survivors was the granddaughter of one of the few who survived the Camden massacre in 1949.

This is one part of teaching that I don't miss.

✨✨ONE HOUR LEFT✨✨ to buy your shiny things for the holidays! All necklaces still 25% off until 1 pm MST, when I will have to shut down Bleeding Hart Studio for 2025 and get ready for my own holiday travel. www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

GOOD MORNING I AM A COZY BABY A COZY BABY WITH A DIRECT SIGHTLINE INTO THE ETERNAL VASTNESS OF THE ABYSS

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

Making draconian changes to Amercian copyright law for decades to protect Mickey and now they're -- just giving him away? Oh wait I paying $1 billion for the privilege of handing him over.

used to be like "ha ha how could people fall for snake oil" and now it's like "oh everyone falls for every kind of snake oil possible all the time including billionaires and politicians, just guzzling up snake oil at a horrifically alarming rate and vomiting out onto the rest of us" 🫠🙃

I really enjoyed Anna North's Bog Queen. Quiet, but with a lot of depth.

I love this skeleton that is clutching their flowers so, so much.

Minneapolis also decided to block ICE in with their vehicles.

It's Day 9 of the ICE occupation in MSP. Reminder that we are in this for the long haul. Take a deep breath and take care of yourself, your family, and community. If you have not yet gotten ICE training, there's another chance on Zoom tonight led by our friends in Chicago. (Link in thread)

Federal agents are arresting American citizens. This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.

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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Annie Leibovitz Judi Dench and Helen Mirren, 2007 Great shot, Annie, but where's the movie that goes with it?

My story collection BEST WORST AMERICAN is in there! For 25% off! But tbh what someone should really do is buy one of each & have a full collection of Small Beer Press books. ❤️