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This is a country that cannot imagine the abolition of youth prisons and jails.

Freezing at the Mount Pleasant, Michigan protest against ICE.

Ice protest in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. 16 degrees out.

Catherine O’Hara made me laugh and brought so much joy to me since I was a child. What a wonderful diva. What a legacy.

They are arresting journalists.

💥"tear out the system like copper wiring"💥

This Thursday night, I’m reading as part of the Meijer’s Visiting Writers Series.

He was a nurse.

That was an execution. And they all ran. All seven of them. They all shot him

It’s been cleared now. I hope the messages were listened to. You need to act.

These are the Dems in the house who voted to fund DHS. Call and write them now to demand they resign.

@slotkin.senate.gov Your voice mailbox is full. You confirmed Noem. Now another person has been murdered in MN by ICE. What are you doing to do? Stop the funding of the DHS bill. Get your colleagues to be a united front. We are dying out here!

ICE just murdered a man in Minneapolis. There’s a video that is easy to find if you need to see it to believe (sickos). Multiple agents had him on the ground beating him. Another agent came up and shot him multiple times. MURDER!!!

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

Campus closed today due to negative zero temps and extreme windchills. It takes a lot to close schools in Michigan.

I interviewed two queer activists in Minneapolis who are modeling what community defense can look like. We have so much to learn from them.

No snow cancellations in mid-Michigan.

I love the movie Frankenhooker. It’s all about patriarchal control and bodily autonomy. I don’t know if it was intentional or accidentally brilliant.

Chuckling at the Nazis being hit with water balloons and then crying 'please stop'

Please don’t ask me how many times I’ve lost my mind enduring my first Michigan winter.

Fuck.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

First day of the spring semester. I haven’t had fever since last Thursday morning and all my syllabi are done.

And ICE shot two people in Portland today. abcnews.go.com/US/2-shot-fe...

The Nazis drew so much inspiration from US history. They borrowed Jim Crow, they modeled their eastern expansion after Manifest Destiny, and Hitler praised Anglo American settlers for maintaining so called blood line purity in comparison with Latin American settlers…

I think my fever is gone. And I’m on the mend from Covid. While mine was short, it was still awful. Covid sucks.

Don't let copaganda fool you – police violence is not tied to their safety. The vast majority of police killings actually start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

ICE is shooting our poets in the streets. Renee Nicole Good. We remember you.

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

Murderers.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

My first Covid infection. I hate it. Fever off and on. Sweats and chills. And a barbaric headache that won’t go away.

Covid has come to our house for the first time. And it’s heavily snowing outside.

Danez Smith posted this poem by Mary Oliver over on Instagram, and frankly, yeah.

And now everyone in government positions of power will write strongly worded letters and do nothing.

Also, I missed yoga class because I was napping.

ah yes, news focused on the concerns of the average american

CBS leaning into, e.g., the reinforcement of what people *feel* about crime over the responsible dissemination and interpretation of actual crime rates and statistics (a/k/a journalism).

The guy in the mine shaft with the suitcase, he played Chip on Kate and Allie. That’s my contribution to Stranger Things discourse.

I made collard greens with mushrooms, blackeyed peas, and spicy tofu. My Mimi would be so proud (though she’d want bacon or ham, and not tofu, but seasoned well). And my mother would be tickled I’m eating blackeyed peas on New Year’s Day (a southern tradition).

I’m so happy it’s snowing. If it’s going to be below freezing, I want snow.

This year my two complete manuscripts were both finalists in contests. One was longlisted/semi-finalist in two other contests. I published two essays. Have one essay and one short fiction forthcoming. My AWP panel was accepted. I landed a post-doc for teaching CW and moved to Michigan.

It's good she's doing this, but what a gigantic farce and an embarrassment for our entire profession that we're forcing a graduate student to waste precious time away from her studies to battle the Republican grievance machine on her own.

It’s snowing again. Tiny tufts of fluff spinning in the air.

Found out an old friend died of an overdose in June 2022. That same month, he came to my mother’s funeral. There’s no obituary for him. I just happened to see where his aunt recently wished him a happy heavenly birthday on FB.

I’m so annoyed. Our power is out. And it’s cold.

My astro-poets horoscope predicts peace and calm for 2026. Yes, please.

This is the longest winter of my life. And we still have at least three more months of it. Michigan is a long way from Memphis. My in laws in Memphis had on short sleeved shirts when we FaceTimed with them on Christmas, and said the temp was 70 F.