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Screenshot from NY Mag feature on how much people make in NYC: "Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

Screenshot from NY Mag feature about how much people make in NYC: "Consultant $17,000,000 $9.5 million from consulting fees $7.5 million in stock in companies that went public The big-picture way that I make my money is consulting; that work covers my day-to-day. Separate from that, I had stock in a couple of companies that went public. Because I made money later in life, my tastes and needs are a lot simpler. I don't spend money on things like having multiple homes, or flying private, or watches, or boats. I make enough money that I do what I want and I don't think about it. I also don't believe in leaving my kids a crazy amount of money because everyone I know who has that is fucked up, so why would I do that to them?"

When people in the future ask what America was show them this

EIC @maureenlangloss.bsky.social and fiction editor @whatll-i-do.bsky.social are at table T960 to chat & take selfies!

The best part of AWP is meeting @splitlipthemag.bsky.social contributors. If I’ve edited your work, please come say hi at the Split Lip table. I’ll be there a lot!

Our fancy new Library Kids Club tote bag and an assortment of postcards and books, including TINY VESSELS, BLOB, DECOMPOSE and TERMINAL SURREAL. Not featured: Monica Brashear’s novel.

Exciting news, FAM ✨ At our reading next Thursday, we'll be raffling 2 LIBRARY KIDS tote bags with goodies inside, including postcards, pens, & books from contributors @sfeycreates.bsky.social, @litmagreject.bsky.social, @jrfenn.bsky.social, Monica Brashears & the late Martha Silano 😘

I am so excited to be able to support a GREAT CAUSE at AWP!

If you are wondering where I'll be at AWP, this very special event is my number 1 priority! Please join us! I will also be at the Split Lip Mag table at the book fair, so please come find me & say hi!

Saint Paul, Minnesota has free youth recreational sports for kids 8 and up. Beginner clinics and teams. Free swim lessons for all children in the city. My kids have improved their swimming and learned new sports, including volleyball and lacrosse. Better cities are possible.

Surrender — Split Lip Magazine A bunch of mumbling, phone crackling, panicked voices, angry voices, threats, demands. It never stops.

A stunning first publication from Maria Lata! What a way to debut! Please read this, friends!

"Maybe I’d be blissfully ignorant, too, if I hadn’t been an eleven-year-old transplant patient due to a rare congenital heart defect."

splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0226/...

Get ready FAM ✨ Our FEBRUARY ISSUE drops tomorrow!! 🥳 We'll see you then 😉

My friend and colleague @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social being insightful as always

On Finding—and Rebuilding—a Safe Haven in Minnesota

wrote a bit about being a twin cities transplant at this particular moment www.vogue.com/article/find...

if this man knows a single day of peace in “retirement” it will be an injustice

whew haven’t thought about that publication in a few years

CNN cuts to reporter Sara Sidner, who is in distress: "I'm trying to breathe"

An NYT headline reads “Federal Officers Shoot Person in Minneapolis”

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident.

ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Here's a very small thing you can do to send a little love to Minneapolis bookstores in the meantime. Search by state on Bookshop.org to support a particular independent bookstore, and rather than choosing your favorite local shop this week to receive a profit share, pick one that's in Minneapolis. Some favorites include Magers & Quinn, Moon Palace Books, Comma, Strive, and Wild Rumpus. Fuck ICE forever.

I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.

this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child

hi from MN, this has been an extra bad one!

Twin Cities Native American community members share resources, support amid ICE operations Incidents involving ICE agents and Native American community members have prompted tribal leaders and Native advocacy groups to mobilize resources and provide guidance to tribal citizens and families.

One member of Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's campaign staff pointed out that in order to look up a detainee in ICE custody, you have to select a country of birth from a dropdown list. They said that is not a viable tool for locating four Native American men.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

If you're headed to AWP, save the date 📆: March 5th is our fundraising reading to benefit CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth. We'll have food, drinks, and a wonderful reading 😊Check out CHARM's site for all they do to support young Baltimore writers: buff.ly/iknCACH

apply! teach and mentor cool students in a great literary city! get twin cities pilled!

Ostlund mega fan here to agree

thanks buddy!!

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...