A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and it’s the first time a whole city has been put forward for the prize.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

Nothing is improving here in Minnesota. Nothing at all. We continue to be occupied by lawless sadists at the pleasure of senile lunatic obsessed with revenge.

Read this story.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I know what I’ll be not-doing tonight! So much to look forward to!

TECHNICALLY by legal definition, murder is premeditated and intentional killing. Manslaughter is when you kill someone without premeditation or intent.

In the case of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, “murder” is correct because both times, agents chose to draw their lethal firearms & shoot repeatedly.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

🧵 Yesterday, the finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards should have been announced. The organizers wisely postponed the announcements, which are always a much anticipated event in the vibrant Minnesota literary communit, in light of the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis. 1/6

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Hey illustrators/agents!

I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; fantasy; magic; AND Mahjong! The tiles! The drama!

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Best Books for Teens 2025 Our expert librarians have selected the year's best books for kids, teens, and adults! Discover a selection of 25 e-books that you can read right away—with no wait times!—through December 31, 2025, pl...

A.A. Vacharat's THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS made the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens in 2025.

www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

#yabooks #writingcommunity #bookcommunity

It seems like the Murdochs are suddenly exerting their interests? I actually didn’t realize they owned HC until I saw the Prager U thing.

Screenshot of paragraph from article from NYtimes. “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the Internet and the #MeTooMovement.”

The article was as bad as the headline.

It’s been making me question my own grip on reality.

October AMA With the Tobias Literary Agency: Firsts - Sentences, Pages, Chapters, Etc. YouTube video by Literary Lens

1:22 until showtime!

#writingcommunity #askanagent #publishingQA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-0...

It’s a good day for a game of cards. #nokings

Drawing of a sheep painting the Oval Office gold to cover up the words EPSTEIN and falling Epstein files

Cover (up) everything in gold!

"Breaking the Fourth Wall: A Conversation with A.A. Vacharat by Charlotte Fleming" written in white at the bottom of Vacharat's grayscale author photo (depicting a black and white cat perched on Vacharat's shoulder, nibbling on her hat).To the right of these words is the book cover for This Moth Saw Brightness beneath the full Rumpus logo in white.

"Don’t let them tell you that you’re not worthy of life."

Charlotte Fleming interviews @vacharat.bsky.social about This Moth Saw Brightness (@duttonbooks.bsky.social for Young Readers).

➡️ buff.ly/tEfoAOz

Greyscale illustration of a white fluffy cat atop a fireplace mantel, which is decorated for Christmas. The cat is looking at the viewer while tumping a lit candle over the edge of the mantle, onto a pile of kindling and firewood. The illustration is done with pen and ink line work. The values are flat washes of grey scale.

Hi #kidlitartpostcard ! A little cat art for today. I think it captures the current emotional moment 🙃

I’m Amanda. I especially love making illustrations in greyscale, with pen and ink.

Rep @kellydhouse.bsky.social at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social

A simple line drawing. A cute sheep is rolling gold paint onto the Oval Office wall. The paint is poorly coming up graffiti that says “EPSTEIN”. Behind picture frames, file folders and papers have been poorly hidden. The paint can says 24 k Gold *color.

But the gold is so useful tho.

My novel was officially deemed a paperweight, never imagined I’d feel so pleased about that.

This Moth Saw Brightness - A weird novel with conspiracies, neurodivergence, subjectivity of value — A. A. Vacharat: Author & Artist This Moth Saw Brightness, the novel. Here find a synopsis, a guide to help you decide if you might enjoy this novel, a description of the novel's core themes, and a downloadable discussion guide for c...

Hi #booksky

This is my debut novel. I think Bluesky people might like it. It’s a literary incarnation of a rabbit hole.

There’s even a conspiracy-themed discussion guide so your bookclub can talk about Epstein etc even when it’s not talking about all of that.

aavacharat.com/this-moth-sa...

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-trump-protest-photos/84200945007/

❌ 👑 #NoKings —
As we sift through the many many photos, #Andor signs are absolutely *everywhere* …

🚨

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her