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Querying my first novel, outlining my second. Also known for: tech leaderizing (now with @NYC!), dog loving, nap taking, vegetable cooking, needlepoint doing
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w agoICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.
Lomi Kriel@lomikriel.bsky.social · 4w agoSons of man killed by ICE in Houston demand investigation: “My father would have complied." “To have been killed by our own federal government, aided by federal policies that are deliberate choices, just makes me so angry,” another said. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/08/t...
This is on Wed. It's free to register. Importantly, I plan to mostly offer a number of resources that are free to use that will help you to find a role to play in lessening suffering on your street, in your neighborhood, in your communities. bsky.app/profile/inte...
Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · last mo.Register now for this training next week with IC cofounder Mariame Kaba! Come identify your most sustainable, effective role in social change based on what fits your skills, capacities, relationships, & lived realities. 🗓️ Weds, July 8 🕰️ 7pm ET/4pm PT
NIGHT FOLK, WE'RE up @romancingthevote.com! Bid on sweet 1st ed. '09/10 Gothic novels, one of 1st mass-market paperbacks to have expressly cross-genre details! "HISTORICAL" + "FANTASY" + "ROMANCE" What do you MEAN we can have all 3 ON THE SPINE?! Listing here! www.32auctions.com/organization...
Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2mo ago#BookSky & #Romancelandia, help me gauge if there's any interest in these for @romancingthevote.com auction? 1st edition Dorchester Mass-Markets of my award-winning, bestselling STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL saga (Romantasy before it was cool). Book 2 was 1 of the first romances to have 2 genres on the spine!
Grateful to NYC based writers, authors and scholars who have signed on to An Open Letter to @mayor.nyc.gov urging him to adequately fund our public libraries. I see some @bsky.app mutuals on here as well as some fave writers. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
NYC Public Library Action Network — open letter to Mayor Mamdani
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Quick clip of Alicia Keys singing 'Empire State of Mind' ❤️celebrating the Knicks championship win last night while at the 25th Anniversary of the Tribeca Festival.
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Penguins Running Together
Alt: A group of penguins running toward our donation form, because penguins also believe in voting rights.
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I deeply regret reading this piece--but also feel compelled to point out that it contains this absolutely spectacular example of Both Sides-ing it. An NYT all-timer "influencers who are accused of human trafficking and rape" are "functionally equivalent" to feminists
$328k. 1.2k backers. 47 hours to go. As one of the authors, thank you so much for the love and support of this campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahp...
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Tom Suozzi is a traitor who crossed party lines to vote for $10 billion in ICE funding. He's advocated for compromise with Trump. He's a professional politician! Danielle Welch lives her values. A f-t public defender, she wants to Abolish ICE, Impeach Trump, and Save Democracy. Pitch in $ to help?
Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03)@votewelch.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo, if you can, I am asking you to donate to my campaign. Today, because I have to make a decision soon. Tom Suozzi is doing real harm. People deserve to have a choice 6/23. I've put a lot into this campaign, and I want to keep fighting, but I can't do it alone. Please help if you can. 11/11
Still looking for someone. Holler at me if this is you.
Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 3mo agoDo I know any people #onhere who are pros at bedazzling and live in NYC? I am seeking someone for our June 13 Library Art and Propaganda Fair who can facilitate a "bedazzle the cover of your book" session. I stole this idea from @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social who attending such a workshop in Boston.
Holy wow, this lineup. I've attended a couple other one-day conferences organized by @roxanegay.bsky.social at Rutgers, and they have been excellent Hot tip: If you're heading to New Brunswick from NYC, a NJ Transit train will leave you a short walk from the building where this is held
Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn June 20th, Belonging: A Black Writers’ Convening will take place at Rutgers New Brunswick. It is co-sponsored by the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in blah blah blah (my day job) and The Rumpus.
I continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.
In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).
Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...
I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.
I've gone to @roxanegay.bsky.social's previous two Rutgers conferences, and they were both great. This will be her last writers' conference at the school as she completes her time as the Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies. Attend if you can! PS. Go, Lady Knights! IYKYK
Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe still have a few spots left in our May 2nd memoir writers conference at Rutgers. You can register here: ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social · 4mo agoFox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
I regret to inform you: I had a LOT of thoughts on this week’s very stupid Democratic Party discourse. amandalitman.substack.com/p/build-a-bi...
