To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian in the Maen area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n5k3lj

Abolish ICE.

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/

“The rule change amounts to an immediate transfer of income from poor farm workers to the very rich, very large agribusinesses which dominate US farms.“
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The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Join us — Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social , Michelle Peñaloza, R.A.Villanueva, & @rhonierika.bsky.social — for a virtual reading & conversation, OUR HISTORY BRINGS US HERE * 8:00 ET, Wed Oct 8 * We're
toasting our books published this past year/this year, so RSVP now at aaww.org/events/

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence

👇Here's the whole poem

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

“… When we take them into the [operation] theatre they’re alive, they’re bleeding to death".

Australian Dr Saya Aziz, working at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, says she has lost count of how many amputations she has performed aje.io/9v68pu

Sometimes I look up dream interpretations like "finding an axe" to interpret my awake life.

Israel is pushing towards the centre of Gaza City from two directions, 'sandwiching' Palestinians and forcibly displacing them toward the coast in a bid to drive them out of the besieged enclave’s largest urban centre aje.io/e8bfqz

Today is pub day for my third book and debut monograph! This baby has had quite the journey, and I'm so thrilled to see where it lands in the world. Link below for the info - please buy it if you have the means, ask your libraries to stock it if you don't, and ask me to things!

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A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Looking forward to this collection of poems by @asaldrake.bsky.social. Explorations of “lineage and future lineage of a body shaped by economic, ecological, and political dissonance” are my jam. Coming February 2026!

It's all my favorite things! 🐍🐰🍌 🪻

Thank you so much to everyone at @tinhouse.bsky.social for taking even the frivolous parts of my heart seriously, and thank you Adam at @debutiful.bsky.social for helping me celebrate this incredible cover!

There are some empires that destroy themselves…

But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t harm others on the way down. My love to Breezy & all harmed by this man & series.

Free Palestine

Say. it. louder. for. the. people. in. the. back! 👏🏽

This is one of my favorite poems I wrote this winter. It's a little messy but also one I was resistant to change? So glad @cerena.bsky.social and Poet Lore gave it a home in its current form. Every once in a while, I need to protect a sentimental poem.

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W

I'm so sorry this is happening to y'all. When I lost my sense of scent, I slept with a lemon for two weeks and called it my smelling lemon until I could smell it again. There are probably better ways to scent train but I cried over that lemon.