Thank you @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for your tireless efforts to protect families harmed by family detention. Juan needs medical care, safe housing, access to nutrition and a nurturing environment. Detention and deportation without due process is cruel and wrong.

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

Me: I read Wuthering Heights last month so I'd be ready for the movie but now I don't really want to see the movie because it doesn't look at all like the book. My psychiatrist: I meant any problems with your medication

Valentine’s Day is a scam run by Scorpios to create more Scorpios

Ok—I have been doing my #LastMan200, and I’m up to chapter 5! I have the edition with the Solnit intro, and reading up to this point, I’m a little confused by her disappointment with the female characters. They seem kind of fine to me! Certainly less out of place/time than riding a horse, haha

only proofs due tomorrow could force me to finally do my emails

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present. The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

We turn the lights on for each other. We fix it for each other, together.

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Through this #SuperBowl weekend, you can get the e-book edition of "P FKN R" by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau for $9.99 or less! Links to retailers are on our site. #BadBunny buff.ly/c3O101k

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

What hope, what joy! Who else is crying

Chapter IV #LastMan200 Choices Leading to change: 1) Lord Raymond - to marry Idres& pursue the crown or follow his heart (unnamed but Perdita 2) Lionel - vow to devote himself to the restoration of Adrian 3) The House - to vote for Ryland’s motion or for Raymond &the restoration (Ryland lost)

Annoyingly, this doesn’t specify what exactly is happening. But it sure seems like DHS filed a “motion to pretermit” the asylum application. Which it is doing in countless cases around the country. There’s been a little reporting on this; there needs to be a bunch more. I’m working a piece myself.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

“Public outrage at the imprisonment of this small child is why we must deport his whole family” is *literally* what’s happening here. We need a stronger word than “monsters.”

This is so depraved

“Girl we are trending” -me to Emily Brontë

Hi Coloradans! Reminder, in Colorado, the election primary looks like this: Caucus -- > Primary --> General Election This means that in order to get progressive Democrats on the primary ballot, we need to attend caucus to get them on.

This is what I mean about Congressperson Titone: she'll say what she thinks is right because she's unflinchingly focused on truth and accuracy. This is exactly the kind of person I want in government: someone who will issue a gentle correction even if it's not in her favor.

* Brianna Titone for Colorado State Treasurer - the best state Rep I've ever had, term limited out of her state congressional district, who has been fighting in the legislature for AI regulation and has passed right to repair bills in the Colorado legislature.

Here are the progressives who are most important to me in this race: * David Seligman for attorney general, who has spent his life standing up for people against corporations and wants to prosecute ICE * Julie Gonzales for Senator, who wants to abolish ICE and get Medicare for All.

Chapter III. #LastMan200 The Pursuit of Happiness: Adrian: love &philanthropy; Lionel "to be something to others" & gratitude; Lord Raymond: power. ? Adrian: Lionel; Apollo: Mercury ? Hymn to Mercury: allpoetry.com/Hymn-To-Merc...

Cue the endless screaming

We need a better way to get the 3800+ kids out of ICE detention than this. We know Liam’s name and we can advocate on his behalf, but that isn’t true of almost any of the other people stuck in detention centers. We have to stop ICE on a systemic level.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

I received a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies from Texas A&M in 2018. If you know my work, you know how much that foundation shaped what I do. I'm not sure what else to say right now.

taps sign

For Liam.

the absolute tender privilege of being able to participate in the strike

Prepare for white hot rage www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

My dudes, if BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN does not like you, maybe examine your life

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The Publishing for Minnesota auction launches this week to support groups providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

The people driving their neighbors' kids to school, showing up to take a turn patrolling, spreading info quietly on chats about where agents are lurking, stocking toy stores with free whistles, texting neighbors to check on them. BEING COMMUNITY. Which you can't pay for because we care for free.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Kids are protesting and begging for freedom in Dilley, TX at an ICE detention center. Kids. Liam Ramos was sent here. These are children screaming for freedom.

“We descendants from one and another, must be enemies also.“”We were born to be friends to each other.” Much discord is imagined and not inevitable, not genetic, not pre-ordained. Do not prejudge.

Apologies for my delay, #LastMan200. I have been trying to think a way in to Chapter 2 of Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN amidst the horrors. But perhaps we can begin with Shelley’s meditations on the power of friendship, and on her yoking of gentleness to justice.