"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents. “Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"

Holy hell!

THIS: It’s the hole in every bucket! "People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems. ... Climate change is not a separate bucket. The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket." @katharinehayhoe.com

I've watched them all. The Day After, Testament, and now this. 😱

Do you watch these two every Saturday morning (or whenever you can)? They heal my heartbreak at what this country has become. www.youtube.com/live/ifoc7b0...

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Billionaires and corporations with business in front of the Trump administration are coughing up millions to build Trump's BALLROOM. What are these companies getting in return? I'm pushing for answers.

I’m standing with my colleagues to call out Donald Trump’s luxury ballroom grift and the pay-to-play politics that come with it. Public office is a public trust—not a VIP suite for the highest bidder. We must reject this corruption.

"The United States is now the proud owner of $20 billion in increasingly worthless Argentinian currency. America First, baby!" www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-cry-f...

New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace "After discovering — too late! — that you have to tell reporters beforehand if you want conversations to be off the record, Halligan now finds herself attempting to prosecute 2 high profile cases on the 'rocket docket.' It’s not going well."

Join @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social at 8 pm ET for a live discussion of Bower’s article about her Signal exchange with EDVA U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan. youtube.com/live/SZZyccE...

Wow

Trump’s Secretary of Lying shared the “your mom” text exchange — where she wouldn’t answer who picked Hungary as the site of the Putin-Trump meeting @svdate.bsky.social tried to explain the significance, which is almost definitely lost on her (and Trump)

Block list of US Gov Bluesky accounts. You don’t want them seeing your stuff.

No one pays me to protest. I pay taxes to a government that daily violates the U.S. Constitution. I am as antifa as my dad was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. #nokings

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Showing up in Boston! #nokings

“.. Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu speaks during a "No Kings" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's policies, in Boston, Massachusetts.” @reuters.com #NoKings 👑

I write stories I want to read, that I wish I had been able to find as a queer young adult. I read, I write, and I support sapphic and women-loving-women stories. #bannedbooksweek #SapphicsWithTheBanned 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🏳️‍⚧️

Stories silenced are lessons not learned, truths denied, human beings ignored. Remember, minds are like parachutes. They only function when open. #BannedBooksWeek 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️

Do something revolutionary! Read a book! #bannedbooks 🏳️‍🌈🪐📚

Once again, this time with the alt text! #Ineedcoffee #BannedBooksWeek

Stories matter. Point of view matters. Who gets to tell stories matters. Stories change lives. Stories can save lives. I write stories I want to read, that I wish I had been able to find as a queer young adult. I read, I write, and I support sapphic and women-loving-women stories. #BannedBooksWeek

Thought this might make you laugh.

As I was saying…

Writer Beware is an invaluable resource for authors of all kinds. They root out the scams and the shady deals; even stuff you probably wouldn't think of--like making sure your copyright has been properly registered. writerbeware.blog/2025/08/29/i...

My newest, Tenacity, is included. With an interview at iheartsapphfic.com/2025/09/03/a... If you crave a heroic, but relatable, sapphic space adventure...If you seek a speculative peek into the not-so-distant future...Look no further! (Farther? With a wormhole, that’s easy.) 📚🪐🌈💙

Endurance, Book 1 of my sapphic SF, is on sale for $2.99 till midnight EDT, where most ebooks are sold. Check it out. Oh yeah, it won a Goldie. 📚🪐🏳️‍🌈🚀 elaineburnes.com/endurance/

See what started it all! Endurance is on sale at $2.99 for three days only. I wanted to tell the story of a leader pushed to the limit with no one but herself and her crew to get them through. I found her in Lyn Randall and an extraordinary survival tale set in space. Come along! #booksky 🪐📚🏳️‍🌈

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

In which I parse some terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

🔥 “If I’m willing to drive three hours to come here and talk, I’m gonna ask you to get off your phone and listen to what I have to say.”

Hill: Trump asserted in his Fox interview there were no countries in the world that allow mail-in voting. Well, Russia allows mail-in voting.

Good stuff here on how to #resist in DC from The More Stable Union newsletter- worth a read! substack.com/@morestableu...

Feels like bringing a Little League team to the World Series. Don't mean to insult Little League. "Most trusted advisers"? Also most incompetent.

I guess he's already given Alaska to Putin...

And not a single member of the National Guard was deployed.

This. I hated every book I was required to read in school.

A federal judge ordered that work must stop for 14 days at the detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz." It's the latest result of women environmental leaders fighting to protect the Florida Everglades, going back to the work of pioneers like Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

Thanks to everyone who came to last week's Quick Reads! We hope you had a blast. We sure did! 😄 Our next event is coming up on August 21st. Click the link to register and get reminders and the Zoom link! Everyone is welcome (and it's FREE!). share.google/qJYOjdWehsBk...

Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the

I'm trying! #amwriting #writingsky

Haha 😂

Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*. This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

I don’t blog often, but when I do… #blog #amwriting #nature elaineburnes.com/2025/07/25/n...

Black holes are scary…. 😂

If you missed The Gaithersburg Book Festival, they've made my talk available on YouTube. I discuss The Martian Contingency, sci-fi, and storytelling with Mariko Hewer: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/the-...