Mamdani apparently just pulled the kid out of the Omelas hole. Turns out we could've done it anytime

Primero Sueño Press authors with Puerto Rican roots who you should follow ❤️🇵🇷 Keila Shaheen Mayra Cuevas Denise Soler Cox Cynthia Pelayo Natalie Caña

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. 🧵

the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less

This is excellent.

yes but that does not excuse their imperialism in kuwait, iraq, and afghanistan

if anything, bad bunny thinks there should be 49 states, at MOST

btw don’t use Bad Bunny’s halftime show to call for Puerto Rico statehood - his album is quite literally AGAINST statehood. maybe listen to his body of work before trying to use it to push for more active colonization of our country.

The sugarcane fields on the field. The jibarito victims of Luma. The purposeful showcasing of Puerto Rican joy - piraguas, our sense of community, our defiance in the face of hostility. Then adding Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and appearances by Pedro Pascal and Cardi. Well fucking played, Benito.

Everybody: That show was beautiful. Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

tonight you are all boricuas

This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.

2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

bad bunny united generations of puerto ricans in 2025 with that album and he has been rewarded with a little gold horn for his valiant effort

death from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.

@crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social needs urgent help to stay open in Vancouver, BC. @charliejane.bsky.social @yilinwriter.bsky.social gofund.me/313858e1c

Illegally sending juveniles to a private prison in one small county in Pennsylvania netted those involved millions of dollars. So yeah, now imagine that a million times over.

Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos was deported to Honduras on January 11 despite being a US citizen, and now she is trapped in a country she had never known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

#BSFA voters...

Jason Collins explores how the upcoming Africa2Moon project reflects ideas inherent to Africanfuturism in this new essay, and what it means in practice. You can read it now by subscribing for just AUD30/year (~GBP15 or USD19) - get 12 extra essays / year! www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

to all the girlies who wear earplugs to the club: ily

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Gmail is now asking if I’d like to have two sentence emails summarized

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In the efforts to protect and support children, one side is clearly in the wrong, choosing to ignore the purveyors of child pornography to instead attack healthcare. Today's article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

Confirming the NYT's reporting: FBI agents arrived at Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home this morning and conducted a search. Natanson penned this outstanding first-person piece last month about being "the federal government whisperer." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

"...impacted workplace safety..." The fuck?

Sinners not winning everything is pretty embarrassing, imo.

This is such a small thing in the face of everything else going on... but the 57th NAACP Image Awards nominations were announced today and they left off the illustrators of four out of the five graphic novel nominees. I remain dissatisfied with how comic artists are treated.

Proud of my colleagues and peers in the industry for speaking up about this with @thehill.com. Keep fighting for these stories. Don’t give up. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

When I talk about leaving the door open for Trump voters, and about looking for recruits instead of alliances or convenience, this is exactly what I mean No one had to compromise any values here. No one made the left more paletable by throwing trans people under the bus. And yet, here she is

“I want every single person who was in the hallway charged,” Velma Duran, whose sister Irma was killed in the shooting, told the AP. “My sister put her body in front of those children to protect them, something they could have done. They had the means and the tools to do it. My sister had her body.”

my personal conspiracy theory is that @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social sold netflix the uglies franchise as a trojan horse so they would distribute the perfect leviathan anime series. I'm literally kicking my feet like a kid on xmas it's so perfect! Thank u Mr. Westerfeld for my rights

i should be issued a little horn to honk at people who ride their lime scooter on the sidewalk. and i want a button that makes it louder if they're not wearing a helmet

Puerto Rican Governor, Jennifer Gonzalez, has signed a law that recognizes natural personhood to any being conceived in utero This is amazingly fucked, and apart from needing to be repealed yesterday, be aware that PR is where a LOT of experiments get tried out before rolling them out stateside

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.