I think it's time we call them by their rightful name: Concentration camps. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Come hear about the joys, challenges, and freedom of being an mature writer: we promise we will be honest, truthful, and fun. Saturday. Noon. @awpwriter.org #AWP2026 @thesusanito.bsky.social @deniselow9.bsky.social

Listen to this week's episode of the LIVE! From City Lights podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts. We feature a conversation between @jasminiolani.bsky.social and @thesusanito.bsky.social about Hakes' novel, THE PŌHAKU. soundcloud.com/livefromcity... open.spotify.com/episode/54pb...

These motherfuckers

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Yeah, this is the year I get back to analog everything.

Please contribute if you can…every dollar matters! Even though we have raised a lot of money, we have used almost all of it to pay family’s rent the past two months. March rent is coming due, as are utilities bills, and we are down to just $10K.

Yes, there have been all sorts of studies, including in linked article. But course everyone, and every brain, is different and even changes over time. Study below is about paper vs and electronic calendar. I use both, same with notebooks.

WaPo laid off: -- A journalist covering protest movements and extremism -- A Pulitzer-winning local enterprise reporter -- the race and ethnicity beat reporter -- ... the Amazon beat reporter In addition to so many others

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

My minister is there! So proud

Such a good quote!

December Writing Prompt from our blog editors:

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

As lawyers, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were involved in bringing this travesty of a case to SCOTUS, and they have now all joined Clarence Thomas—who voted with the majority here—as justices of the court.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

🥚 An adoptee scriptwriter calls it: Hollywood stories reinforce damaging tropes of adopted people as imposters/ devil children with trauma used as a plot device for evil [Marvel’s Loki] OR as the grateful waif who graces the lives of others [Roald Dahl’s Matilda] www.bbc.com/news/article...

$120/2000 Thank you everybody!! 🙏💚💚 If we can get $500 in a chunk, I can lower this goal to $1500 total, so please keep boosting and sharing- new eyes help!!

It’s unreal that we take children from their families and pay strangers to care for them, when the majority of removals are due to poverty in the first place

Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday? Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

Ughhh I wish I’d done this the past 15 years 😭

It’s just cruel to students and faculty that colleges only give Thursday and Friday off this week. 😫

"I’m thinking about the bleached bones O’Keeffe collected as her symbols of the desert. I’m remembering that, like O’Keeffe, my parents initially came to the desert from the East Coast hoping for a kind of renewal." @jennyqi.bsky.social therumpus.net/2025/11/18/p...

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

I tried to do what my good friend LP is doing and finish my bachelors degree as a working professional. I failed, but if I’d had this community back then, it would have meant everything to have this happen. It would mean everything now to see my friend get to do this. Let’s share far and wide, ok?

In a mad attempt to stave off the AI beast, i introduced my students to letterpress printing this week.

it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

There is no such thing as unskilled labor, only devalued labor.

I invented a thing called Admin Night and I've come to recruit for it. Get hip to the tiny obligations grinding us down, isolating us and stealing our time! Wake up to the structural reasons why! Get shit done! Admin Night is fun and funny and helpful! Start your own! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

A classic example of the inversions of settler colonialism: the settler becomes the native and the Indigenous person becomes an outsider on their own land.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3

Bounty Hunters. They are really revisiting the original purpose of policing-slave patrols-to inspire their visions of the future.

I will say that I hate that adopted people constantly have to address this question when trying to access their records or other information about *themselves* and their family of origin. It’s a foundation of their identity. It belongs to them and they’re entitled to have it for that reason alone.

"truly it was out of curiosity"

Nobody needs a 🐻 cup

If any of these Senators 👇👇👇are yours, CALL NOW and tell them not to cave. On the heels of Tuesday’s election results, literally thinking about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is why Mamdani won.

List of US airports where flights will be reduced during the shutdown. Cuts will begin tomorrow (Friday the 7th)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...