It's really frustrating, as someone who's written about sexual violence for two decades -- always being dismissed as too sensitive, as selfish, as not "really" political -- to have a set of documents which truly show how rape culture runs our world, and ONLY have it parsed as a comment on class.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT! You can buy whistles from us now! I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK! thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...

Speculation that ICE will start focusing on Springfield, OH due to lapse in protected status for Haitian asylees by Feb. 3. - Surge in ICE is speculative (leaning likely) based on expiry - Exact start of activity is unknown but would last at least 30 days www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springf...

‼️‼️‼️There is a massive strike set to begin tomorrow that corporate media doesn't want you to know about: prisoners across the state of Alabama will begin a work stoppage to demand an end to widespread murders and abuses. Statement below. Tune in tonight: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/the...

Open the door to better craft and amazing community at the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop! ⁠ ⁠ Fee waivers are available! Applications open until February 9th! ⁠ ⁠ Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

Ms. Shirley is and was the blueprint for relentless action. each action may have been arguably small, but she did them every day, all day, for people who needed them. her impact was immeasurable, because she showed up again and again. letting any amount of her light in your life will make it better.

Publishing for Minnesota is up and running! Please check out the items and bid! There were 500 slots and they filled incredibly fast - I know I'll be bidding on some amazing items/services up for auction. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

@soleilho.com is right on all the things as usual. I agree w/ them that the Bay Area absolutely could have been first. www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-owe-...

If you made an art today, congratulations. 🎉 Way to go! If you did any work on an art today, congratulations. 🍾 Great job! If you had art thoughts today, congratulations. 🎊 Look at you go!

Importantly, AB1627, the proposed law to ban Trump-era ICE officers from becoming teachers in California would also apply the ban to school administrative jobs, jobs in public colleges and universities in California, and policing.

💫 “Among our scholarships this year, we have awards for writers without MFAs, those over 40, Trans, Indigenous, and Palestinian authors, and for artists born outside the United States. As for all our programs, we offer payment plans and application fee waivers. APPLY TODAY!” 💫

Come for the craft and stay for the community at the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as Tin House Summer Workshop)! Applications due February 9th! Apply: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...

Tin House Workshop fans! Follow the workshop under its fancy new name, McCormack Writing Center. Still got the spice: Lance, A.L., Autumn, Yimei. Still in Portland, same street, same game. ✍️📝🖊️

@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me were on @reallandsend.bsky.social's Death Panel podcast to talk about Crips for eSims for Gaza, "how disabled people built and sustained an internationalist solidarity mutual aid project under siege, grief + death." on.soundcloud.com/utzFoAVtN4OK...

The Bulletin’s mission—protecting civilization from manmade existential threats like nuclear weapons and climate change—is important, says Bulletin Editor-in-Chief John Mecklin. "Filling civilization with art and the humanity it fosters is important, too." See the winners of our fiction contest ⬇️

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

hi, so @leftie-diskaurs.bsky.social and i and a few others are helping karen not have to sleep outside in these past few days. i have known karen for more than a decade and she is so funny and knowledgeable. no one should have to sleep outside!

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

It’s Hamza’s bday today! Please consider sending him and his family some funds: bit.ly/help4hamza

ICYMI: "The Passing of a Little More Than a Year," flash fiction by @elliswkim.bsky.social:

The blood of Anas al-Sharif and other slain journalists is on the hands of Western media figures who have justified Israel’s crimes while ignoring, or excusing, the killing and intimidation of Palestinian journalists.

"She threw the ball and her dog fetched it. This much they did for each other. The two of them were not a gang, but they weren't nothing." "The Passing of a Little More Than a Year" by @elliswkim.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

but hearing it directly out of the mouths sticks with you the most "I remember especially this sunny warm day hanging on the fence and looking out and … everybody’s free,” Maya Nagata Aikawa told KCSM-TV. “We could see all the people and their freedom. Home was so close, you see?”

Alt text. This is pretty awful, but probably what has to be done to preserve the service at all. IMLS still has a chance- please make sure to show support.

If you find what the NYT continues to publish abhorrent please, PLEASE stop paying them to play Wordle, sudoku & crosswords. The NYT makes a massive chunk of their income from that $4 games & crosswords app. The ONLY substantial power we have when it’s not Election Day is the power of our wallets

Some rare good news: In May, DJ Bracken shared an essay on @huffpost.com Personal about his quest to help vanquish student lunch debt He was shocked when HuffPost readers donated over $20,000 to his org and many asked him for tips on how to start erasing lunch debt in their own communities ❤️

“Both the Senate and House reconciliation bills provide $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities.” "The overwhelming majority of the funding for ICE detention would go to private companies contracted to build and run detention facilities.”

Left's strong night, updated: —Mamdani finishes well ahead. —All 10 challenged NYC Progressive Caucus members win, or way up. Jumaane Williams, too. —Left may add councilors (AOC- or WFP-backed newcomers up) —WFP-endorsed candidates win primaries for Syracuse & Buffalo mayor.

I still don't get why Cuomos nursing home deaths - and the cover up- aren't bigger deals

Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

🧵 THREAD: Introducing COYOTE Media Collective 11 Bay Area journalists are launching a worker-owned newsroom because we're tired of corporate control sapping all the joy out of journalism. Independent Bay Area journalism—with a BITE 🐺 1/4 givebutter.com/coyotemedia

A disquieting story about a woman who runs into a missing person from her childhood at a bar.

Hi! I'm now offering one-hour writing coaching sessions over Zoom! I've done this with a few people who've taken my classes, and it's been great! Need advice, support, tips, prompts? Hit me up for some writing therapy. Message for more details and pricing. 😘 Info about me below:

I’ll be that killjoy. We are not going to get along if you’re quipping about “asking chat”

Yall we are matching the next £420 for Mai. Please help. She is not eating. chuffed.org/project/help...

lucky number $88K!! :D #ConnectingGaza

I have a leetle story in this issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social, and please read the winning short story by Jumaana Abdu, “Two Burials.” It’s incredible. TGIF, everyone. 💚 phoebejournal.com/54-2/

For everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law: 1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

“Should these funds be appropriated by Congress, over the next few years ICE could ramp up mass deportation operations to a level never before seen in American history, making ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the entire federal government …”

If you’re looking for some summer poetry on the west coast—swing by this joint reading with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me! Thanks to @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social for hosting!

Such an honor to talk to @ariannarebolini.bsky.social about her memoir Better, what it means to be “healed,” and the craft of writing about real life.

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...