FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Inner Worlds is out!! My (t4t love story) of two queers healing from loss with the help of a strange octopus/alien? creature that gives them otherworldly dreams is free to read today :') & so many other creature stories! Would be so thankful if you read some 💜 🐙 inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...

I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.

My god. My god. Oh fucking hell. God.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Wtf

So true, Ezra. Abundance!

I just backed Apex Magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com and you can too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going? Here's 3 ways you can support us: 1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne... 2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne... 3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

I exist! I finished (the first part of) a thing!!! It has been years since I've gotten this far on a project. 92 poems, by me sent off to the editor! I'm really proud of pushing through chronic health challenges & allowing myself grace to take a glacial pace & get it on its way & make Olivia proud.

This is serious. Very serious.

An actual post from the official White House account. You can't even make this up.

You'd have this expression too if your bottom half looked like the ghostly disembodied hands that played old-timey songs in a haunted saloon and your top half looked like floof.

While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.

Awesome

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

What the literal actual fucking fuck. Did these white folks steal that baby after stealing the land and fucking up the environment? #heritage

Wild that right-wing families somehow aren’t to blame for their longstanding and systematic snubbing of queer and lefty children.

FUNGI ISSUE IS GO! 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 I know a certain ecofiction team who is gonna love reading this 👀

That there’s a police state.

It cannot be stated strongly enough that ICE is a Nazi organization that not only needs to be disbanded, but every single masked goon held responsible for their crimes

LIVE NOW: Violence has erupted again as what was a peaceful standoff is ended by agents storming the protestors and firing more tear gas. Authoritarianism: broadcast live on ABC 7 LA. Reports of more than one farm in Ventura County, LA currently being raided by ICE. @governor.ca.gov

"'We are the federal government, and if we choose to take power away from a governor or away from a mayor, this is the new normal.' And my response is, I've seen this movie before. It used to be called a coup, and it happens in other countries." @mayor.lacity.gov‬ on the feds in LA:

Icymi Ventura county was invaded with military vehicles today in a few locations. They are not allowing duly elected officials or the press to witness. They are tear gassing peaceful protesters and shooting them with rubber bullets. It is surreal and fuked up.

⚡New Story!⚡ 'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue! Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

This doesn't make anyone safer. These pawns in Trump's fascist spectacle are not rounding up hardened criminals. This is all about spreading terror in California and around America.

w here’s a picture MN can celebrate. State Senator John Hoffman discharged from ICU today after being shot numerous times during assassination attempt. His family tells me he’s moving to a rehab facility and still has a long road ahead.

“Community groups have long tried to address homelessness in the LA park. Workers with a St. John’s Community Health street medicine clinic that was serving homeless people said agents pointed guns at them & instructed them to stop their work & leave.”

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party youtu.be/b0q-UoMwc3A?...

I went to the House Floor to stop the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid. Republicans blocked it—wouldn’t even consider it. So let’s be clear: they know exactly what this bill will do. And they do. not. care.

House Republicans are only allowing an hour of debate on a massive bill so devastating that it will rip health care and food assistance away from MILLIONS of Americans. @housedemocrats.bsky.social are using every tool available to fight against this Big Ugly bill. ⤵️

NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌱🍄 Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!

Congratulations to all the folx in this best of 2024 eco fiction TOC, and to those published in @apparitionlit.com - @anovelescape.bsky.social for making the toc, and to @marofthebooks.bsky.social for making the short list! violetlichen.com/years-best-e...

"no one wants a government handout" It's OUR MONEY. Our. Money. Every purchase, every paycheck, every year's filing, we pay into taxes. That is alllll a government money is. Our money, pooled in hopes it can be used to better everyone's lives, not to provide a "government handout" to the rich.

Unbound/Boundless who no longer have the rights to sell my book are still selling it for FUCKING $4 on Amazon. Talk about some shady fucking shit. Trying to burn through the inventory THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SELL before they are forced to send me the remaining stock. Weasels.

Hey John Roberts, you see what you signed off on here?

👇👇👇

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

Incredibly important read. This is exactly what LAPD did to me and two other legal observers standing on a quiet street corner this past weekend—except with rubber bullets, not pepperballs, and aimed at our heads, not our feet. …oh, and the officer waved tauntingly right before shooting at us.

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

Hard to argue with that.

Tell me that these evil motherfuckers didn't time this for the exact day Skirmetti dropped.