Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging will be out on 10.13.26!
This book was born out of my annual Both/And writing workshop, and is made up of 29 personal essays by emerging & established writers, from many backgrounds.
It’s for mixed folks, and all of our relations.
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
Recommend watching! Knowing de-escalation tactics is essential to keep observers safe. The more of us who feel emboldened to get out there with our cameras and whistles, the better.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
We’ve made it easy to email your senators and demand they reject any DHS budget that puts more money into Trump’s deadly deportation machine. With a vote expected later this week, it’s extra important for your senators to hear from you right now.
Pretti Good reason for a national strike.
#NationalStrike
We’re approaching 50,000 signups for tomorrow’s training on exercising your rights at a time when federal agents are terrorizing our communities. We hope to see you there.
Read this thread 🌹
This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigrat...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
The point a lot of people are missing: "The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life."
Note to self to do this this week. I’m better at writing letters than I am at calling.
Should infuriate all of us.
How do we go on offense versus defense? What does that look like for you?
After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
This is what a police state looks like.
We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis.
It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents.
This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.
We are building and financing a corrupt detention/industrial complex. It’s human trafficking, and it has to end.
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
FYI: Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
Let's get Avelo Airlines, one of the charter companies complicit in deportations without due process, trending for all the wrong reasons. (source in first comment). Now what if when folks saw different search results than the vanilla ones in the second image below.
You have till end of day Monday, or let me know if you need an extra day as I’m late getting this posted on Blue Sky. Happy to hop on a call & answer questions. 5th year offering this program. Past participants have found it to be transformational. We need the help of community to birth our babies!
Scholarship & early bird applications are due Monday for my Yearlong Creative Nonfiction Manuscript Program for 8 women & nonbinary writers! Final apps due 8.4. Email me or learn more on my website. Access: Beloved Community. Accountability. Workshops. Coaching. A full manuscript edit. Support. ✍️ ♥️🌈
Trump is using a 1798 wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act to deport people without due process.
@jayapal.house.gov says that sh*t ain't legal.
