Hugo award nominations are now open and I would love it if you considered my Locus-recommended story “Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush” published in @podcastle.org. it’s about birds, magic, love, and extinction. thank you for your consideration!

Only $1700 more to help keep seven St. Paul families in their homes. This needs to be filled by tomorrow so their kids can be safe inside for another month. Let's get them there!

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Powderhorn Rent Fund. Unfortunately, Governor Walz has refused to enact an eviction moratorium, so we need the help of our community. gofund.me/335f2d840

Great to have the West St. Paul City Council join Minneapolis, St. Paul and Roseville in calling for an eviction moratorium so no family is forced to choose between making rent and risking being kidnapped by ICE. Governor Walz is choosing not to stop evictions for our neighbors in hiding from ICE.

so, if someone made 5 figures using a software program that stole my work where is my cut of their books because I helped write books

Who would have thought we'd need a fundraiser for the kind tow truck driver who is rescuing the cars left behind--sometimes engines still running--after ICE kidnapped the driver? Fundraiser tomorrow in MPls or please donate. www.tiktok.com/@leos.tow/ph... www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Today I led the City Council to allocate $1 million to provide emergency rent assistance to families facing eviction due to ICE’s ongoing occupation. This action was in response to Gov Walz failure to enact an eviction moratorium, leaving thousands of renters across Mpls vulnerable to eviction.

My friend and colleague @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social being insightful as always

If you want to donate to us, please donate to the heat fund instead right now, it is getting dangerously and critically low Venmo electric-tumbleweed ❤️

a small personal feeling about all this: I don't know if I would have much of a career without The Washington Post's Books section; the coverage and thoughtfulness of their reviews of The Women Could Fly and Meet Me at the Crossroads helped readers and librarians find me

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

This is very good. But, it bears repeating, none of this is isolated. The subhead says "A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe." This is EVERY school in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and many suburbs and small towns across the state.

if you are in MN and hear of anyone in need of a flight home from detention please send them my way ([email protected])

Hi everyone, with no eviction moratorium happening in Minnesota, mutual aid organizations like @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social could always use more donations (I mean they always could be, but the need is getting ever bigger): linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

I know something is broken inside me because whenever I read an Isaac Chotiner interview, I understand why people climb Everest or deep sea dive, here, finally is the challenge

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

one of my standing complaints is every february 1st a lot of you are like read Black writers! and then name the same five people to read. Some writers who could use your pre-orders: The Great Wherever by @shanders.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

so glad this resonated! if you have capacity & want to help, look through this list for donate to good & vetted Minnesota organizations. these folk are helping, and you helping the helpers will make you feel better, I promise: www.standwithminnesota.com

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

After this, she answered our questions about immigration, helped a constituent figure out how to do their immigration appointment and receive SNAP benefits, and gave a local teen an award for building a cool app. I have never been more impressed with someone as a speaker and politician

one of the most minor complaints (and I know this is done in the spirit of solidarity and care)I have right now, is I would like to go to the grocery store again without someone I don't know treating me like I am very brave

My neighbor, a single mother of two in South Minneapolis, was abducted today and everything about it is heartbreaking. There is an immediate (and steep) financial need for lawyer costs. I know there are so, so many of these right now, but please consider this dear family: gofund.me/9516b14f7

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.

the dissonance and joy of a peaceful march past where your graduate students read their creative work, where you take your cats to the vet, where you go to drink a gin and tonic and eat the best samosa in town and the dissonance and terror of another murder down the street from your dentist's office

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

Thursday night-Saturday morning we have expected windchills of -47 degrees. In the Twin Cities, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social could always use more gloves, more hand warmers, more hats. If you have an extra ten dollars or unused gift card, it would be a big help: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Thursday night-Saturday morning we have expected windchills of -47 degrees. In the Twin Cities, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social could always use more gloves, more hand warmers, more hats. If you have an extra ten dollars or unused gift card, it would be a big help: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

I feel like I have become their go-to obvious wrong answer for these book quizzes

This is exactly the kind of piece I would have once eagerly/nervously shared on Twitter but alas. Read the piece to learn why. For the memories!For the sausage-making! For the Pamela Paul reference! This was Bookternet!

this is our school, and families there are really hurting. i know there are so many worthy destinations for aid right now, but it would mean a lot to me if you'd support this one. And if you donate $50 or more, i will make you a beaded FUCK ICE bracelet.

Today @danadiehl.bsky.social's THE EARTH ROOM was released. It's a beautiful short story collection that I was lucky enough to blurb. If you're looking for an imaginative, lyric short story collection, you could request it from your library or buy it here: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...

to be maybe painfully earnest on main, today's a day where despite everything that's going on, you can dedicate yourself to progress. Helping other people in your communities directly or sending financial support or sharing info about how to help other people

your five dollar donation means we can continue aspiring toward incompetence on the state level, a fifty dollar monthly donation will prove we can continue financially exploiting our incompetence on a federal and international level

Our biggest need beyond coats and waterproof gloves is men's pants! We have a lot of clothes donations now thanks to you wonderful people and at this point are mostly looking for men's pants and hoodies ❤️

A group of 6 families are coordinating transportation, groceries, rent & utilities for 60+ Folwell families in South Minneapolis (this number grows daily). Most of the students have now shifted to e-learning. Please help our neighbors who are impacted by immigration enforcement. gofund.me/b8514bb4b

it's infuriating to be lectured about not taking the bait and being a bigger person by a politician who keeps voting to fund this and is famous for throwing binders over petty inconveniences

Boosting again, with the note that we feel so lucky to have relationships and to know people who have relationships with people who are hiding, so that they can still receive life saving help. People are regularly choosing between necessities and safety, and everyone deserves both.

one of the few positives of these past weeks is seeing truly how much people do want to be a community that helps one another

We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.

The frigid Twin Cities temperatures will hurt the homeless; so do not gloat about the impact on ICE without also stepping up here:

Bumping this up again because donations are always welcome

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

If you're still able to help Minnesota, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social is always accepting donations. $10 buys a pack of handwarmers. If you were given Amazon gift cards this year for Christmas, you can shop their Amazon wishlist: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

One member of Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's campaign staff pointed out that in order to look up a detainee in ICE custody, you have to select a country of birth from a dropdown list. They said that is not a viable tool for locating four Native American men.

We’re at $440. If you’re outside Minneapolis and you want to help, WE NEED MONEY. And maybe you’ll win sweet mittens! Suggested orgs in next skeet.