let’s stop calling each new outrage a “distraction” from the last outrage and instead call it what it is: a vast ongoing machine of death, kidnapping, graft, abuse, and larceny built to operate on many fronts simultaneously at home and abroad for the benefit of the wannabe god-emperor and his toads

I can't stress how depressing and exhausting this is as someone who writes queer kidlit

If you can sign up in your district to be a poll worker, do. It’s more important than ever. You can help protect someone’s right to vote.

In the 13 years I've lived in this state, I've never once known when Go Texan day was. People just... Show up one day, en masse, dressed for the rodeo. I've also never taken a bluebonnets photo. It feels like some weird insider ritual.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

How do I tell the Libby search that I would never read any of these books and half of them aren't romances?

If you shout “fuck-ass bitch” while Trump is speaking you’ll receive $1 billion in donations tomorrow and immediately become the 2028 frontrunner. It’s crucial you do not do this.

Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

We had $18k in rent requests come in just today (so far). We’re anticipating needs at our neighborhood school to be over $100k again this month, but this time donations are WAY down. We don’t have enough money to cover everyone. Please help us keep our neighbors w/ young kids from being evicted!

Good morning friends! Your neighborhood Whistle Witch was hiding for much of the weekend, but I am back because today we will cross 900,000 whistles shipped!!! (585k this month!) If you need whistles, reach out to us: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles Especially if you're an org prepping for No Kings!

Did you know if you are sad, Brennan Lee Mulligan will just tell you a little story? And then you'll feel less sad?

This match up is for the gays specifically (and also against us, because Fire Island against our eternal queen?!)

These books are good and cheap!

The old white dudes bloviating at the young Black women receptionists at the EKG place are making me grateful I'm already on blood pressure meds.

I frequently pass a sign that's been up since 2020 that says "how many weren't filmed"

The Elder Millennial urge to ask if you have the time to listen to me whine?

I was kind of joking when I talked about editing an anthology based on every song on August and Everything After, but I can't stop thinking about it

I want to help Marie complete her utter domination by getting her the resources she needs. If we could print her tens of thousands of red cards, I have faith that she would distribute them ALL. So help us help Marie. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-whist...

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

I'm obviously thrilled that Andrew was held to some degree of accountability.... Eventually.... After his mother died... But I do think it's more a case of "Charles will throw literally anyone, including brother, wife + son, under the bus" + less a case of like, England doing Justice.

You absolutely want this!!!!!!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

I'm in the twin cities and want today's news to bring relief, but it hasn't yet. A friend in Washington organized this to help me but lately, it's been hard to get out of my own way and admit I'm still in need. I'm facing big bills related to what's been going on here and I could use the help.

Y'all when I tell you that this current paradigm of "AI" being shoved down our throats does real, persistent harm, and that said harm will fall first on the most marginalized and then on everyone else, this is the shit I mean. I mean god DAMN.

Delighted to have contributed to the Detroit Public Library’s African American Booklist this year, which features a terrific profile of @authormsbev.bsky.social and a history of Black romance by my friend Dr. Nicole Jackson! d2qp1eesgvzzix.cloudfront.net/uploads/imag...

If today were the day I would renounce my lifelong hatred of Valentine's Day and become a true believer in all things Valentine's.

If you are celebrating the fact that (whether they leave or not) Minnesota made these shitheads take a big public L, there is no better way to thank them than by reaching out to help repair everything they have sacrificed to do so.

These accounts are indistinguishable from what happened in early concentration camps of other regimes, where many people died of malnutrition or diseases. This is the time to stop these. Right now. Because we know what is next.

I don't wanna wait for our lives to be over.

James Van der Beek, one of the most iconic TV actors of his generation, had to sell the mementos from his career just to pay for his cancer treatment. His death is a tragedy and a shameful indictment of our broken, cruel "healthcare" system.

Oh, not Dawson.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

What I appreciate from Wired though, and what sets it apart ethically, is that they just don’t tell a vague story about expansion but explicitly list out the locations to help the people preparing to resist this state violence. It’s very courageous. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

I used to admin a huge Facebook page for children's librarians. I went viral for advocating that libraries support BLM. I published an oped that often gets taught in library school about how libraries aren't neutral. I published it because I saw so many kids libs+ admin carrying water for fascism.

This is why I push back on calling library workers the last stand for democracy or superheroes. We're not. Many are so committed to "neutrality" that they'll let fascism go unchecked. And there are more of these people than you think.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

I know I'm the only person on this entire app who watches When Calls the Heart but truly... How long can one proposal take

I posted this and immediately had to put the album on, but I'm going to have to switch to Cake soon. 😭

Me, a middle aged person wandering around my kitchen with my 40 oz tumbler of water: it's the only chance I have to feel good even though I feel bad.

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Remember that one time I wrote a book about two ridiculous married people who couldn't figure out how to be together or stay apart, or have a conversation? It's on sale right now for 2.99, all month.

Do you ever just think about how Trayvon Martin should have turned 31 yesterday and no one ever got held fucking accountable that he didn't? I do.

Fobazi is an amazing human who has changed the face of our profession, and many others, with her scholarship. Please, if you're able, donate.

If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month. This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.

This is so hopeful to me because Surprise has not historically been like,a hotbed of liberalism. Fuck yeah AZ.