I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.

it’s one of those fundamentally cursed hospitality violations that you read about in ancient texts

oscillating constantly between the intense sadness and rage and despair and intense tomfoolery i am my own jester in my own court mostly i just want to see that seagull deepthroating a whole bagel again

PLEASE this is so good argh

llps.substack.com/p/2026-and-i... new world war 3 griefstack just dropped.

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨ Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up. This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year. Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

“Bad Apples” is out today! A vampire story about a Zimbabwean mother who buys a coffin one day while running errands & decides to abandon her children to become a vampire. What does it mean to be a “good woman”? Is a “good woman” one who denies her hunger? theseventhwave.org/publication/...

"...we wanted to create a space where translation isn’t just a bridge but a form of companionship, between poets, readers, and the worlds they inhabit, between languages that hold memory." Norah Alkharashi, in conversation with Yasmine Haj & Alton Melvar M. Dapanas. #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

was very excited to be an adult when I was older as most kids are stopped being excited for the things I was excited about and now am watching the unfurling of age with ????

If you’re an alumnus of an #HBCU 👨🏿‍🎓tell me about your school’s teen summer programs. It’s booking time!

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

👋🏿 I'm Winifred. In 2025 I: *Survived a MN winter w/o consistent heat/hot water *Sold an "erotic houseplant horror" story *Had surgery *Did births in 3 diff states w/ 4 diff midwifery practices from off grid shacks to urban mansions to tiny apts I'm exhausted but I'm only 9% away from fully funded.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

This is not an unhopeful thing.

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Regularly fighting the urge to send things out immediately instead of waiting for them to settle

if you can donate to keith porter's gfm for his daughters, i would appreciate it tremendously. keith was killed by an ice agent on new years eve.

Reverting to home-bred diction because no one can say that’s AI, Code switching coming to save me yet again

So much of what I say and do is done with the knowledge that the future I want for me is not my end goal, but the future I want for my descendants is. I am working for a world I may never see. A world that might not even be for me.

There was heavy bombing all through yesterday afternoon and evening in Gaza, shaking the ground and scaring Samaa's children. This feels like full-blown war. Please help the family if you can. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily @mommunism.bsky.social @pepsffk.bsky.social @gofund-gaza.bsky.social #MutualAid 🍉

And if anyone is even vaguely thinking "This isn't the right time for this type of conversation" It is ALWAYS the right time for this sort of conversation.

The rage and frustration you feel is not incompatible with conversations we should all be having around who gets to be humanized as a mother and a poet and who doesn’t. What happened in Minneapolis is a tragedy but do you know what it reminds me of?

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

Not a new book but extremely hard to find: The Garden Letters of Yvonne Vera by Tadiwa Madenga. Yvonne Vera and I are both from Bulawayo and haunted many of the same places. This short book was illuminating and made me so very nostalgic. bsky.app/profile/hara...

In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin: –Bombed Nigeria –Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader –Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean –Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba –Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

Sometimes I wonder if this is all adulthood really is? I think about my very neurodivergent parents living through iterations of what I live through while raising daughters in a the death grip of small, daily violences against them and I can’t help but forgive them

🔴 Thousands of tents supplied to displaced Palestinians in Gaza fail to meet minimum UN winter standards, according to a new assessment by the Palestine Shelter Cluster coordinated by UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reported by The Guardian. Severe rain and wind in recent...

A friend of mine who used to be an investigative reporter at a major publication warned me repeatedly to never go to the NYT with a scoop because all they do is trade for access and the fact that they didn’t sound the alarm BEFORE this happened is a great example of trading silence for access

This explains why the op-ed was ready to go

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

It's here! My 2025 digital sketchbook full of sketches/doodles/WIPs/concepts that I've played with throughout the last year. At the start of 2025, I'd created a compilation for all my art from 2024. I've definitely improved since then~ vmango.itch.io/2025-digital...

Westland Books invites submission for vol. 2 of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1. sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

You got it. My relationship to writing has evolved a lot, but especially in the last few years. I stopped writing for a while. I felt sure that nothing I had written up until then had been “enough” because it couldn’t stop a genocide (which is a distorted way of thinking, but sincere).

Little reminder we’re open and excited to read your work. Also that it really is worth reading a few published stories on the website to identify the kind of thing most likely to get published …

Art Summary, 2025 in review~ Template by @dyebaths.bsky.social (I'm using an old one from 2022 as part of a long running bit~)

wo years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.) Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, and we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza

We've received all the written submissions we can take for this "month" (15 December to 14 January) of the submissions period! We reopen 15 January for 200 more written subs. (That was super fast ... 🥰) Still open for art, graphic narrative, and music subs!

would someone please buy this book? my publisher and i think it's funny. www.blaft.com/products/con...

We’re thrilled to announce that we will be publishing THE BODY OF THE THING, Karishma Jobanputra’s debut collection of short fiction, on August 11 2026. ‘Arresting, beautiful, humorous, observant, serious, all at the the same time.’ Paul Beatty www.andotherstories.org/the-body-of-...

Look! It’s the far shore of hyper independence it’s *squints* wanting to be tucked in and told poor baby here’s socks for your poor-circulation-feet and you never have to labor another day in your life

One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.

Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are now open! Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰 bit.ly/48cM1iy

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

I’m saying this right now: if I ever become the kind of person who a) has pirateable content and b) starts talking OUT OF MY ASS about piracy, you’re allowed to smack me.