As president of the Kerouac Project I wanted to let you know our applications for the writing residency open Feb 7, 2026! Check us out on www.kerouac-project.com

When I found out my story, How to Survive a Black Hole, had been selected for this anthology, by Deesha Philyaw no less, I was like, um, you have the wrong person... But it's real and I'm pinching myself. Thank you Keith, Deesha, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social ❤️ for being the best supporter and friend.

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"We are facing an intense crisis of morality. It demands people of conscious to be able to say something about it." Rev. Michael Woolf discusses his recent arrest outside a Chicago-area ICE facility while @esglaude.bsky.social compared the current moment to America's dark past.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Man can turn into an animal in no time. All he needs is permission.” — Irene Weiss, Holocaust survivor Ms. Weiss’ #CupOfJoe reminds us how fast humanity can lose its moral compass when hate is normalized. Stay aware. Stay human. Learn more about Irene: www.ushmm.org/remember/hol...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Waving to ICE who’s looking through Bluesky to find new people to torture. Hey N*zis! Cosplay Gestapo!

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC. “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…” So good!! 🔥

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

My flash nonfiction piece is up at BULL today. *trigger warning - sexual assault* mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

My flash nonfiction piece is up at BULL today. *trigger warning - sexual assault* mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Michigan Avenue right now.

BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C. Let’s be clear about what this is. This is NOT about homelessness or crime. This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.

#FreeDC @freedcproject.bsky.social

"I was born a bitch. I was born a painter." - Frida Kahlo Here by photograpger Gisèle Freund, c.1953 #womensart

Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

They’re trying to silence us with fear and force. But “darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” On 6/14, we show them what resistance looks like. Peaceful, unshakable, and everywhere!

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

🧵New Yorkers--time to call, email, or testify (IRL or remote): they want to bulldoze historic Luna Park and replace the ❤️ of Coney Island, Brooklyn with a friggin' casino to bleed NYers dry. '80s: I grew up in Brighton, junior high in Coney. 2023: campy engagement pics! lunaparknyc.com/no-casino/

Despite promises of cuts from Trump and Elon, the U.S. spent about $220 billion more in the first 100 days than it did last year. We’re spending far more and getting far less. So where is all the money going?

Poet Skye Jackson is coming to the Kerouac House! Her welcome potluck is this Saturday.

At the Kerouac house Saturday night!

“A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen…received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country.” “Probably, hopefully, [it was] sent to me in error,” she said. 4/15/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

We’re having another humor writing workshop! April 18th online at 7pm EST.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Check out the latest writing workshop coming up!

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

I think a lot about the organizing of queer groups in the 70s and 80s, and how much the idea seemed to be (looking back at it and secondhand), "I don't need you to be perfect, I just need you to show up." Affinity groups, disagreeing often but PRESENT, with common goals but a diversity of tactics.

Joaquin Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee would not be classified, y'all know is a lie."

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Take a moment and read. This is what’s happening. These prisoners had no due process. This is what Trump wants done to protesters.

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Many hours have passed and I’ve thought about what happened in the Senate some more. And you know what? I’m still mad as hell. I may just repost their names every day until everyone knows them by heart.

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem breaks down the shaky legal grounds the Trump administration is using to prosecute the Palestinian activist, including a rarely used legal provision “enacted primarily to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors."

So, for those of you not following, the 1952 code that gives the Secretary of State authority to deport anyone deemed a threat to national security, the one they're using against Mahmoud, was written in the heart of the McCarthy era, a way to target "communists" ie Eastern European Jews.

GOP is gutting DC funding so that it has to fall under trump administration rule. That will mean no protests allowed in DC and potentially National guard in the streets. archive.ph/2025.03.09-2...