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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.
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A photo of a child wearing a hat
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Abrazos 🌻
McNally Jackson in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Team @older.bsky.social
so pleased that we're able to republish this story from the great @thinink.bsky.social - read about the seed library, then go read more from news.thin-ink.net, and more from globalvoices.org!
If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
I wrote my ode to cabbage more than 20 years ago, but it's nice to see folks are starting to come around
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Anyway, there are so many good stories in it -- I got to read it fro review but I don't know when my review will run. Link to the publisher here: www.simonandschuster.ca/books/We-Wil...
Clearly this administration doesn’t understand law.
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
It’s not my monkey, nor my zoo but this nyc mayor race is something else.
So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.
So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.
50% of people in LA descend from Latin America. More than 50% speak a language other than English at home. 0% of them get to write in your favorite magazines.
Despite hollow promises to diversify staff, magazines continue to drown out the voices of the very people you should be reading rn.
My new novel, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF, will be published by @aaknopf.bsky.social in Oct 2025! It is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. Cover design gratitude to Tyler Comrie!
There are still spaces left for this in-person class! Sign up here centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
If people take the trouble to tell you you don’t matter, you do. Otherwise they wouldn’t bother.
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
Believe it or not, Uranus has rings!
(Credit: NASA/Hubble Team/Kevin M. Gill)
Latest image of the Sun taken today by NASA 🌞
Latest image of the Sun taken today by NASA 🌞
Southern food writer John Egerton wrote that spoonbread offered proof of the “perfectibility of humankind.”
This week's recipe for @wweek.com
SOOO MANY JUNE EVENTS come thruuu!!!
THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES (Mossa & Pleiti #3) comes out a week from tomorrow!! Pre-order now and get a lovely, snarky, linguistically rich mystery-romance set on Jupiter and steeped in petty academia on June 10!
