🌱 Another shade in the garden.

🌱 Laelia anceps - weird LA winter.

Fatima Bhutto is on the @theguardian.com's podcast with @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social, on surviving an abusive relationship while in the public eye. We publish her memoir THE HOUR OF THE WOLF on 26 Feb: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

In the south side of Minneapolis, community members have started setting up filter blockades- which are make shift roundabouts. The intent is to slow down the erratic ICE driving behavior among other things. Full report to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

STRIKE! tomorrow! STRIKE!

National Strike.

What he said

Today, Rep. Castro and I visited precious Liam and his father, Adrian, at the Dilley Detention Center. My heart absolutely breaks for Liam, his family, and every person being wrongfully detained.

We have to do something; we have to do it en masse, together; it's time. Please share. nationalshutdown.org

Rep. Jamie Raskin says a nationwide general strike may be needed to stop Trump’s authoritarian crackdown, praising Minnesotans’ mass demonstrations and general strike as “the direction we may need to go” nationally.

Years ago I helped found a reading series in Los Angeles dedicated to strange, experimental, & half-finished essay writing. Tonight, as part of Betalevel's final week, that series ends. Join us for readings by @amarnath.bsky.social, @cadaverformosus.bsky.social, David Eng, & myself. It'll be great.

1/27 Confirmed Border Patrol raids targeting Compton, Lynwood, Watts and surrounding areas. 1 community watch member brutally detained by CBP and Sheriffs are assisting Federal Agents by interfering with community members and escorting agent vehicles.

We have to do something; we have to do it en masse, together; it's time. Please share. nationalshutdown.org

Minneapolis friend: "I am safe but I am not okay... the reality is so much worse here at ground zero and so much more violently cruel and morally repugnant than what is being reported via the media just due to the sheer scale of ICE flooding the zone. This is so so so much worse than 2020...

Fuck ICE every single day. Taking folks who are the best of this city and the best of every city.

I'll be reading at this tonight, my reading dedicated to Alex Pretti. betalevel.com/2026/01/25/b...

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

01/25 9:45AM Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central. Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.

A national general strike is needed not just to protest the violence, but to acknowledge the absurdity that we’re all just supposed to carry on with our stupid little daily lives amidst the ambient terrorism of an unchecked state militia executing innocent people in the streets of our country.

Every Democratic Senator must vote NO on DHS/ICE funding. Continuing to fund this agency that is terrorizing and murdering our people makes you complicit. They EXECUTED Alex Pretti. Every Senator must draw a line in the stand here.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

A love letter to a weird space whose time is coming to an end, and to @zota.bsky.social’s enduringly wonderful aesthetic.

underreported is how out of breath he is. like watching a race to see if the idea or the oxygen runs out first

On my aunt, the late Allison Miner. 64parishes.org/a-miner-seco...

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Praise for BLUE SUNSET “Blue Sunset streams onto the page in layers or sheets or waves, the emotional weather of the novel meeting the formations of sky, land, and sea. Sublime and inscrutable. In mourning, but alive.” —Amina Cain @aminamemorycain.bsky.social

Praise for BLUE SUNSET “This slim novel should be read slowly because on every page there is a treasure . . . Hansen is so delicate, so singular, and so precise, that it seems as if she has only ever read the greatest poets.” —Anne Serre

Very excited to announce our Fall 2026 books via our newsletter today. And now here! BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026! Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/

Important work here from the NYT. Ross wasn’t run over. He dropped his cell phone, which he had shifted to his left hand to draw his weapon. And then he shot and killed a person with the gun in his right hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

In the two-minute clip posted to Reddit, a masked agent wearing a Minnesota Timberwolves hat approached a man in his car, saying, "“Stop fucking following us, you are impeding operations ... I guarantee you’re not gonna like the outcome." trib.al/hU2pDN4

Trump is clearly not well. At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

I feel like a lot of people have learned a lot from the past couple of days. I just don't think it's the lesson this guy seems to think it is.

ICE also shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old in Illinois in September and lied about what happened

I will be speaking at this tonight.

Reading nook.

A good profile on my cousin Rashi and how he's been doing since the fire. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…

Excited to share today's episode, a live recording with Caren Beilin at @powells.bsky.social , where we discuss SEA, POISON (@ndbooks.bsky.social), a seriously bonkers journey of medical Oulipo, stolen plots, stolen uteri, botched eye surgeries, dirty dancing & more tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...

Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm... @twolinespress.com

Very much looking forward to this conversation w/ Lisa Robertson and curator Gemma Blackshaw (Wednesday eve London time) in conjunction with artist Cathie Pilkington's HOUSEKEEPER at the Freud Museum. www.freud.org.uk/event/works-...

ICE is confirmed in Asheville. Please share this widely to anyone who may see this who lives here. stay safe!

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

It's been 33 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.