"Sheโs been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."
"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Hi all. Today I'm barnraising and urgent need for a family with young children referred to us by an MPS social worker who owes February and March and have received eviction threats.
Total need is $3600.
Can you chip in or share? ๐ป
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Enrollment at @laguardiacc.bsky.social is recovering from the pandemic-era decline. But at the collegeโs library, staff said that cuts to the workforce in this vital arena are degrading the quality of education. psc-cuny.org/clarion/onli...
I have some free e-print links to this article. Comment below and I'd be happy to share.
A good few days for publications by long-time romance scholars @profromance.bsky.social , @jessicatripler.bsky.social and @emselinger.bsky.social:
Kamblรฉ, Jayashree (2026). "Recolouring the romcom: humor, respectability, and race in a 1986 American category romance novel." Comedy Studies.
HELP
ICE is still here in MN, and our neighbors are still in hiding. Rent is due TODAY, and Iโm scrambling to raise funds to keep immigrant families in need out of eviction court. Can you help?
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Please share and give if you can! Thank you! ๐ท
"The seasonโs wandering eye for subplots consistently nudges the central lovers out of frame."
*BANGS ON THE TABLE*
Talking #Bridgerton and #HeatedRivalry in todayโs @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...
Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @profromance.bsky.social and I have a piece about adapting romance to the screen. What makes a good adaptation?
In a (vain, probably) attempt to combat the flood of romance-illiterate Valentine's Day thinkpieces, I wrote two of my own this year - one with @profromance.bsky.social about romance adaptations...
Oh this is an amazing deal on a wonderful series
Friday's court order says ICE agents can't stop vehicles that merely follow them. Agents claiming a car is "obstructing" them isn't enough. Judge Menendez says they would have to be "forcibly" obstructing, requiring force or the threat of force. Decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
What an act of betrayal to the Hmong community by our own government. People who put their lives on the line during Vietnam.
JFC
Iโm seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: โNo, I donโt have to show you any documentation.โ
Because thatโs how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.
"Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law."
Tablet with cover of Grumpy Fake Boyfriend by Jackie Lau, surrounded by raspberries and pink popsicles. Cover: serious white man in white T-shirt.
Tablet with cover of Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau, next to bottle and apples. Cover: side profile of tattooed Asian man, green background.
I have two ebooks that are always free at all retailers!
1) Grumpy Fake Boyfriend (Kwan Sisters 1)
2) Her Big City Neighbor (Cider Bar Sisters 1)
jackielaubooks.com/books/
If you're in the NYC area, I hope you will support this on Tuesday. I'll be there!
A poster for 'Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance: An Online Course' including front covers from the following books: Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Sheik by E M Hull, The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer, Tabitha in Moonlight by Betty Neels, Indigo by Beverley Jenkins, Hen Fever by Olivia Waite, The Isle of the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up!
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
EASY WAY TO HELP
We literally donโt need ICE for anything
Can confirm I have personally seen three attempts just today of agents in a convoy of ICE vehicles trying to snatch random POCs along Central Ave - and then being chased off by neighbors with whistles. It's blatant racial profiling.
Minneapolis city council member says POC should stay home:
CODE RED: ICE is currently going DOOR TO DOOR in Minneapolis and Saint Paul! You do not have to open the door for them without a JUDGE SIGNED WARRANT! Monarca: 612-441-2881 Immigration Law Center Detention Line: 651-641-1011 Warrants labeled "Form I-205" or "Form l-200" are *NOT* judicial warrants. You do not have to open the door for them
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New York City turned OUT.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social โโค๏ธ
NO WARS NO KINGS NO ICE HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SEr HANDS OFF OUR CITIES SUNDAY, JAN 11TH โข 1PM โข EAST 60TH & 5TH AVE
PROTEST TODAY (1/11)
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE. Billions of $$$ are being funneled into more violence here and overseas. This is not a failure of the system; it is the system.
Join us to demand No Wars, No Kings, No ICE:
โฐ 1 PM
๐ East 60th St & 5th Ave
Learn more:
HandsOffNYC.com/jan11
It's not like policing works both ways. It only works one way. It only oppresses. It just might not be you, right now.
College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle
College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends...
