Wishing everyone except the N*zis a magical, safe, warm holiday.

I’m exhausted and horrified by *waves at world*, but my daughter is on her way home from college, Christmas music is playing, my husband is baking, and I’m arranging lights to spell out “f*ck ICE” in our window and I just had a brief moment of peace and hope.

The only way I like this Epstein files release is if every day in Advent we get another section revealed.

ICE moved their group of 200 traveling gestapo into Columbus, Ohio, and for the last few days my community has been scrambling, connecting, activating and showing up in the most magnificent way. There are so many different emergency trainings, protests, etc. that I physically can’t go to them all.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Very helpful map for anyone wondering where Venezuela is in relation to the US.

U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt

Once an older white customer at the library told me how the “youngest woman” to ever give birth was six years old and he asked if I knew why that happen so I looked him straight in the eye and said “r*pe” and the man looked shocked, said well I don’t know, then told me about hormones in milk.

None of my trans friends are saying that r*ping children is ok if they are slightly older children. None of those banned queer picture bks have illustrations of teen girls perched on pedo’s knees. None of the drag queens in storytimes are asking for sex traffickers to get luxury prison treatments.

Negotiating with terrorists who gleefully starve children seems like a bad precedent.

Seeing a whole lot of Dem senators rushing to get their heartfelt, “I voted no” posts up. Remember that those 8 yes votes were carefully selected bc they aren’t up for reelection. The caucus picked who would take the fall so the rest could claim to be on our side. I don’t trust any of them rn.

NOT ONE CENT.

Tonight was a very bad night.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this plot line…

berkeley and raleigh are sold out, but: come hang out with me in these other cities!! us.macmillan.com/tours/alix-e...

This is so disturbing. Every American should be asking why. This is so far outside of anyone’s ability to defend as reasonable. Even people who think ICE is somehow doing good work (???) can’t possibly believe they need to stockpile war weapons.

cc: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

If you are looking for a fun read this Indigenous People’s Day, try an alternate history where Atahualpa discovers Europe. My nerdy little Peruvian heart was continuously delighted reading Civilizations, then I got mad when it ended. 

I am so delighted and honored and humbled and flabbergasted 😭🥰🤩

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

Come listen to @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social and I talk about this fabulous anthology, Banned Together, during Banned Books Week @columbuslibrary.bsky.social

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Lately, instead of counting 25 seconds for my daily plank and V sit I’ve been reciting Snyder’s lessons on Tyranny. Trying to get to where I can do 10 in the morning at 10 at night.

I want more Maria Ressa content! Listening to those who have lived through this (and the worse that follows) feels like sanity. I’m glad I’m not the only one, even if I have to wait!

If my tax dollars are funding funerals for the victims of gun violence, might I make a friendly suggestion that it go to the children murdered at school rather than the millionaire? Seems more practical…

I use squarespace and I emailed their help center reporting this doxxing website as a security risk. See more in this thread. People WILL be targeted by this website.

These are very easy things to say: I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator. I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. Please let's choose love over fear.

My new approach to spam texts.

Wow, Columbus, you all sure love RL Stine. 800+ tickets sold out in 2 minutes!

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

A number of years ago I was asked if I wanted to be part of the NYC Columbus Day parade, and I said sure, as long as they were okay with me noting that Columbus was a genocidal fuckface to anyone who asked. It was then decided I should not be part of the parade.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Exactly this. Pretty excited to see anyone stand up to the bully in chief.

It’s hard to think about anything else while an entire population is being intentionally starved to death. The food is there. Right there. Waiting for someone with the power to stop this. Our government has that power, but instead does nothing. This is Israel. This is the United States.

Excellent article, very useful tip. ⬇️ therevelator.org/how-to-get-a...

Two different people at #ColumbusBookFestival stopped me to say they love my books and ask if they could bring them for me to sign! 🥹🥰 I’ll never get to be a featured author at the best book fest ever (it’s ok, I really love my job!), so it was really special to be seen as my author self for a sec!

The Columbus Book Festival was a blast - well run, with an enthusiastic and supportive audience. I met so many readers and fellow authors, and they sold out of both my books. I sent quite a few folks to @bookshop.org as an alternative. Thanks for having me Columbus!

columbus book festival was so fun, book people are the best people 🥹

Had an absolutely wonderful time this weekend at the Columbus Book Festival! This was an unfolding delight: beautiful space, lovely people, fantastic programming, plus a sprinkle of meteorological drama just to add spice. Kudos to everyone involved in planning and orchestrating!

My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/

Many of these cuts don’t happen until after the midterms. We need a giant online countdown to when every cut takes effect (medicaid, Medicare, state-specific terms that people don’t realize are part of it, etc). People think in the now, not the future. They need to know what their reps did.

This is a concentration camp. Alligator Auschwitz will haunt us and our descendants.

Last night, librarians, educators, parents, trans/queer folx and those who love them, and many more waited across Ohio to see which of these staggeringly damaging policies DeWine would veto. Here is the list of what he shut down.

I remember the days when I didn’t stay up scrolling to see if the governor would maybe use his veto power to put the brakes on at least some of the train cars that are about to careen off the track in our state budget.

Oh my fucking god I’m so furious all the time

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4