Well, someone at our local hospital refused to schedule our child for a non-urgent procedure on any day which wasn't Passover, and was very vehement about it - not on a different day, not in a different place, etc. I'm not a person to throw the word antisemitism around but I'm just stunned

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Aphid used to study with @bogiperson.bsky.social , we know him. He and his loved ones are trying to leave Kansas for a safer state. Any contribution to this fundraiser would be much appreciated. Please spread the word, and let's help Aphid relocate.

My dear former student Aphid is fundraising to leave Kansas and move to Colorado. He is a 100% real trans person in Kansas, I personally know him and vouch for him. You can make an immediate big difference in someone's life this way!! Please spread the word & contribute if you can!

Aphid used to study with @bogiperson.bsky.social , we know him. He and his loved ones are trying to leave Kansas for a safer state. Any contribution to this fundraiser would be much appreciated. Please spread the word, and let's help Aphid relocate.

I haven't been around much. In my so-called spare time I've been writing endless rec letters for my trans/non-binary/gnc/queer mentees / students trying to leave the state, + mutual aid. Everyone has worked so hard to build communities and a life here. I am determined.

The world is burning, everything is awful, our rights are being taken away, but one thing does not change: Target boycott. For me it started when they tossed out Ash + Chess and it will end never. Cheers

My state. I don't even know what to do while it's business as usual for almost everyone else here. But yes, if anyone knows of a creative writing/SFF or disability studies academic jobs in CA or elsewhere where we will have rights, this is a good time to DM me. Thanks.

Not sure if you’re looking at OR or WA specifically, and it’s not a relocation resource specifically, but some folks I know made a zine to welcome queer folks to Tacoma, WA. There’s also linktr.ee/welcometotacoma which has info on healthcare etc. My kid is on Apple/Medicaid and it’s very good

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

PSA wrt suggestions: please do not suggest organizations in this thread unless you are in Kansas and/or have first hand knowledge that the org you are suggesting helps trans Kansans right now. It's extremely discouraging to contact an org in your hour of need and hear back nothing, or be misled.

Thread from last night. I live in KS. It is a state with a small population (just under 3 million). There is a vibrant LGBTQIA+ life here, but resources can be scarce, and a lot of awfulness happened quickly. I will be adding to the thread when I have more information.

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Back after shabbes. Why do those people always start wars on shabbes. Please don't tell me, I don't want to know. Thanks to folks who are checking in. We are hanging in there (as much as it's possible) but this is awful. I am hopeful this law will be struck down, though how soon idk.

on a separate note, thanks to everyone who checked in. We have a plan B in place at this point, but I really, really do not want to be displaced yet again. With our disabled young adult child everything is harder - Medicaid eligibility is via the state, so if we move, he loses his supports.

I just realized that the Nebula voting closes tomorrow. I haven't been around much because of, well. In any case I hope you consider my @strangehorizons.bsky.social poem "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

this is the way www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What Bogi is describing happened to us - we reached out to an org to try to understand our options wrt our complex situation, and never heard back. Last year I also reached out to our local ACLU multiple times and heard nothing back. Every org is overloaded.

Does anyone have *personal* good experience w. any trans relocation orgs, before I tell people to send them money. I have had a not-great experience last year (just general total unresponsiveness - I know people are overloaded, but a "sry we're overloaded" would've been nice.) Feel free to DM

I'm in Kansas and yes, this is 100% to terrorize - and also it will cause and has already caused irreparable harm. It's not the only law out of a barrage of anti-trans laws pushed through in Kansas recently. Our Dem governor vetoed and was overruled.

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Just reposting my award eligibility thread. My poem "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" is up for the Rhysling and it's eligible for a bunch of other awards - you can read it here. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... Thank you so much for considering my work this year.

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

re: LRT, both is good. In my town: Somos Lawrence ballardcenter.org/somos-lawren...

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet: helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis. and you can help.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

how is he so cool and how can we have more politicians like him

We want it abolished, you absolute cucumber

That's funny because I'm seeing community care. I am seeing more and more people coming together to stand up for each other. I'm seeing people who don't have to choosing to put their bodies on the line for strangers. I'm seeing people donating to stop people from being evicted./1

I've been working for the last 10 days to set up an Etsy shop. I'm launching it now. Two things in this shop are 100% for Minnesota relief - the Bird of Protection mug and the Dragons Against Ice sticker. The other two mugs are for general happiness. www.etsy.com/listing/4447...

Karen is an amazing editor. 😍 So glad to see the whole anthology on the list.

Republicans redistricted to win five new seats in Texas. All five are projected to be between R+4 and R+8. To achieve this, they diluted their advantage in other districts. A 15-point swing in November wipes out Republican control of the state. A 30-point swing erases Republicans in Texas entirely.

The Locus recommended list is out with some wonderful wonderful works on it. Congrats to spouseperson @bogiperson.bsky.social for having a SF novel on it! And a story. Song of Spores is great! My "Other Wars Elsewhere" is there too, the only story I had out in 2025! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

That's good news.

Reminder that TOMORROW, JANUARY 31ST is the last day to register for the ability to nominate for the Hugo Awards! (You can still register for Worldcon after that; you just won't be able to nominate.)

My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents. “We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said. I started sobbing uncontrollably.

My husband is working with a group delivering groceries to families from an overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Mpls. He will be buying groceries this Friday. $350 will finish covering their food needs for the week; if he raises more he will buy TP/laundry detergent. Venmo: Edward-Burke-MSP.

The tuba, truly, has so many uses

A few suggestions come to mind: The Purim grager -- used ritually to drown out the name of a villain Kazoo -- economical, many people already have one Pots and pans -- already in use Tuba -- my great-aunt's favorite instrument, LORGE, can they ban the whole band? A BIGGER WHISTLE

Just a periodical reminder that defeatism is a form of surrender to tyranny.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

I have been reliably informed by members of this government that losing access to twitter is one of the worst things that can befall a human being so this may be the single harshest consequence they have imposed on one of their own

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Harm-reduction: www.preblestreet.org/2026/01/22/p... Mutual aid: www.presentemaine.org Immigrant rights org: maineimmigrantrights.org Immigrant legal aid: ilapmaine.org Immigrant aid: www.ptla.org

We are in the news. DHS causing a “Public Health Crisis,” Federal workers say Full letter from us to Senators at www.SaveHHS.org

Got some royalties from Fairwood Press (home of my Le Guin Prize finalist collection Geometries of Belonging) and I'm waiting for @bogiperson.bsky.social to help me choose where we're donating today from the list at www.standwithminnesota.com Will post more in a similar vein soon