It's always nice to realize, after a month of reporting, that your brain knows how to put the narrative Tetris pieces together in a way that is pleasurable, interesting and edifying. But WOW I'm exhausted.

“The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting.”

Sounding the alarm

Now this is how ya do it. And her album is a fantastically crafted morsel of a thing

No beds, no blankets, no medical care.

A couple of students very sweetly said they loved my class today, and I was so flabbergasted, I said THANKS-I-LIKE-IT-TOO.

if you are in MN and hear of anyone in need of a flight home from detention please send them my way ([email protected])

Grateful to @clmporg.bsky.social for including my poetry collection Peculiar Heritage on their reading list for Black History Month! @masonjarpress.bsky.social

In Minnesota, it’s been Groundhog Day for 64 days.

In honor of Black History Month, we’re featuring a collection of books on Black artists, designers, and the impact of Black culture in American artistic life. Learn more: mitpress.mit.edu/black-histor...

We are accepting submissions for one more month! The most recent book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was just named a PEN/Bingham finalist! Could you be next? What do we want? Boundary-breaking prose which we interpret broadly…

A new consultant contract at a Texas Educational Service Center would muzzle authors & harm students, barring them from inclusive experiences. Y'all, this is REALLY BAD. This is the next step in banning any voices outside those deemed right by white supremacy. bookriot.com/texas-esc-1-...

America can be a land of whiteness or a land of freedom, but it can't be both.

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

A mother’s confession on SNL😂👇

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

We will NOT let this anti-Black administration take away our joy. Happy Black History Month!

"In the quiet—and sometimes in the wild, too—I couldn’t help but write..." @wordsbyrb.bsky.social interviews Emily Patterson, author of The Birth of Undoing: Poems, in our Jan/Feb issue:

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

This.

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

Scenes of South Mpls Two blocks away, my neighbors are roasting marshmallows over a bonfire in the street where we’ve blocked off traffic Parents wear whistles around their necks and FUCK ICE buttons on their coats as we all check in on each other and add one another to stray signal chats

i’m sorry, i don’t mean to be a downer about objectively good news but this is just something i’ve been thinking about all the time. we are not good culturally at sustained attention, or at recognizing the horror in the things we don’t see. i don’t want us to let this continue in darkness

i am so grateful that liam ramos as home. this is also a story about the importance of observation and getting these stories out there. how many children are detained that don’t get the same treatment because they don’t have powerful photos

Art is magic. 💕

There are so many tragedies these days and this is among them. I saw many wonderful shows at the KC when I was a kid. It never ceases to horrify me that no one (in power) is stopping this president from ravaging the country. They could learn from the folks in ICE occupied cities.

Um just so we name this, the president is abusing us collectively. He's an abuser, & he's abusing America, & beyond. We experience abuse from him, that's the dynamic.

Free them all

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

If you still don't think ICE is secret police who's job is to terrorize neighborhoods and nothing else, here you go. Plain as day. If you can't get on board with abolish and dismantle this immediately then you should take a long time to think about what path this leads to. And quickly.

Hey #writers, who'd be up for doing a workshop to raise some funds for Minnesota charities? @alexpenname.bsky.social and I are putting something together. Repost and spread the word, please!

It was JUST 45 days ago that Trump destroyed the brand of the Kennedy Center by slapping on his name. And already Trump says he has to close it.

Black History Month isn’t nostalgia—it’s truth-telling. This city, this country, was built by Black hands, Black labor, Black brilliance. Honoring that history isn’t radical. Erasing it is. Remember who built the mosaic—and who’s still trying to break it.

"They are being arrested at airports, at the border, at immigration courts, at immigration check-in appointments, on their way to and from schools, at parks, on the street and anywhere else they can be found."

I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !

Just a reminder that while we did finally add the whistles to our shop, we also sell many other cool things and would love to send them to you! I'm scheduling this thread to post some of my favorite shop things while I'm off doing Whistle Stuff! http://thebrokencirc...

Beyond shameful. What else is happening behind those locked doors?

No one should tolerate this in a free society. No one.

i haven’t read this one yet, but chantal james’ first novel lives in my head. gonna order this one!

Hey y'all did you know I'm a Black writer? I'm sure I never mentioned it before. Here's where you can get your Black History Month on by supporting by books. Here's my debut novel from my neighborhood bookstore! bookshop.org/p/books/none...

In celebration of today's full moon, the last full Moon of meteorological winter, I'll post my fox curled up in snow once more 🦊❄️🌕 #FullMoon #SnowMoon #FoxoftheDay

Sick people of MN: do yourself a solid and get the hot and spicy lemongrass pho from Pho Hoa. I swear I could feel my health meter going up

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

hyping myself up to do basic things like “WOOOO TOOTH-BRUSHING, LET’S GOOOOOOOO”

one of my standing complaints is every february 1st a lot of you are like read Black writers! and then name the same five people to read. Some writers who could use your pre-orders: The Great Wherever by @shanders.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

My 14 year old and hundreds of other kids were among those tear gassed by ICE yesterday in Portland.

Fresh from yesterday's raku firing, meet Perseus' Cloud. Born from fire and smoke, this raku vessel is inspired by the Perseus Molecular Cloud. This little fragment of the cosmos, imprinted by fire, holds echoes of stars long gone. Like us all, it is stardust. #space #ArtAdventCalendar #pottery