"It's not an addiction I can quit anytime I want."

Whoever first said that a #book is a window into an author's soul was 100% right; I just didn't fully realize it until I wrote my own. #booksky

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

A teenager in Pennsylvania is going to trial—for protesting ICE at his own high school. Then, a few weeks later on May 8, Quakertown borough broke its silence and said that Chief McElree and the officers involved will not be disciplined. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/t...

Live look at my bedtime routine this week #book #booksky

Very excited to be launching my first #book at Book & Puppet Co in downtown Easton. If you're local to the Lehigh Valley, be sure to sign up for details about the event! #booksky www.armando-mc.com/launch

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

When the socialists and republicans agree that something is bad, people should pay attention.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

ICE arrested a 5th and 2nd grader at the school bus stop in San Antonio as their classmates watched in horror. Their stepmother was detained with them. The community at Alamo Heights Independent School District elementary is speaking out—no child should be locked away at the Dilley trailer prison.

Up is down & down is up.

The redevelopment of the Dixie Cup site is an inevitability, whether with the current developer or another one. Why should the school district, borough, and county forego millions over 20 years to make the inevitable happen? Simple answer: They shouldn't.

This is a necessary and emancipatory reading. So glad I found @equatormag.bsky.social : America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come www.equator.org/articles/gho...

The past week has been a rush to get my book finalized on design, formatting, and minor tweaks to front matter. With everything done and submitted, waiting for the eproof feels like an eternity. #booksky

Hate everything about this. This use of AI is a "solution" looking for a problem

Well into formatting and my god these footnotes are going to be the end of me #booksky

Hot take: No, it wasn't. whyy.org/articles/qua...

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Need a @somemorenews.bsky.social episode to break this down for me thanks @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social

“Even after children are released from detention, post-traumatic stress symptoms can be long-term,” experts said. Liam Conejo Ramos’ parents say he’s struggling following his detention. “… it worries us a lot that he's no longer as he was before and we're worried this could last a long time.”

Democrats, your message and governing position on this should be obvious: "Trump and the GOP lost you this war. Democrats would have won this war by not starting it in the first place." Trump doesn't want to be called a loser, but that's exactly what he is, and what he's made us.

This is cool. Paging @lgaustindavis.bsky.social to replicate this for PA. We got great colleges and universities for this

"A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio" (1/2) Source (video not split here): old.reddit.com/r/interestin...

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

Getting older means listening to songs that defined you at an earlier point in your life and realizing you're a dramatically different person now. youtu.be/zJZ7QcDewq4?...

We didn't deserve this day.

So I need to stop a panic attack, then call my reps to beg someone to stop him, then do my job answering emails and collecting data. Do I have that right?

Today would be a great day to disobey illegal orders.

Hell yeah

Wonder if it would make any difference if people called their congressional reps and used this same language or just read this verbatim

Libraries still great.

Begging political journalists to correctly pronounce the names of countries

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

This reads like video game cutscene text (not complimentary)

Not sure if this was intentional, but Borick just made a great case for abolishing DHS to get TSA out of this budgetary mess youtu.be/bSfhu40UEso?...

NEW: The 9-year-old who begged Ms. Rachel for help getting out of ICE detention so he could attend his spelling bee has now also been released from Dilley. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sure wish we have any sort of check or balance for this kinda thing.

The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.

Let me get this straight: public school parents and families need to shift to online instruction *for three days* because an event is going to be too disruptive for a city's existing infrastructure? What the hell are we doing? triblive.com/news/educati...

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Libraries are great.

share.inquirer.com/mzQKvv?utm_s... [gift link] - I knew this was going to be the case.

There's nothing patriotic about reflexively having a political stance based entirely around a political figure.

Anyone supporting the idea of a national strike should consider how to support this historic action. (Open to suggestions too)

"The revolution will not be televised" was perhaps too subtle. Granted, my alternative isn't much better: "Engage with people around you because that is often the most transformative work you can do"

So glad Ludovic is home youtu.be/kmZRpIOXRFQ?...