A group of authors, editors, illustrators, and agents have responded to the crisis in Minneapolis by organizing an auction to raise money for organizations in MN. The auction starts today! Items include signed books, original art, and more. #booksky #minnesota www.32auctions.com/organization...

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

People never really understand how surreal being black is

Anna Gifty@itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

lol never forget

This kicks off on Wednesday. So many amazing opportunities here, with plans to do some good. Let’s get to work. 💪🏽 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

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People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

TikTok is under right wing billionaire control now. Plan your exit strategy.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 7mo ago

there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

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There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

Minneapolis.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights. I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique. Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨ www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

WELCOME VIRGO SEASON! ECLIPSES ARE NIGH! GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER! ORGANIZE! GLOBAL STRIKE EVERY THURSDAY! BOYCOTT! NON COMPLIANCE AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! IT’S NOT COMPLICATED! NO TO APARTHEID! FREE PALESTINE! LET AID IN! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! END THE OCCUPATION! DO SOMETHING W YOUR LIFE AND BE OF SERVICE!

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12mo ago

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

✨Please share and bookmark!✨ In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... + A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights. I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique. Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨ www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Sandra Proudman@sandraproudman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

✨Please share and bookmark!✨ In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... + A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

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

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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lol and 2020 may have helped prominent Black authors finally get their due, but overall, not much shifted. Pre-orders are a way to signal demand for a book. When you pre-order a book, you're telling the publisher "print more copies". #blacksky

Publishing Pledged to Diversify. Change Has Been Slow. (Published 2024)

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