Karuna Riazi

a man wearing a hat that says good morning my brothers and sisters ALT: a man wearing a hat that says good morning my brothers and sisters

It’s timeeeeee

BeetleJuice (1988) - Day-O (Banana Boat Song) Dinner (HD) YouTube video by The Silver Knight

Legends never die…

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

Outstanding Comics Award

okay i have the go ahead to say that ahhh i'm so excited Hello Sunshine won first inaugural Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table (GNCRT) Outstanding Comics Award from the American Library Association!! I FEEL SO HONORED THAT LIBRARIANS LIKE MY BOOK ❤️‍🔥

American Library Association announces 2026 Youth Media Award winners The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Prin...

Love to see #ALAyma trending this morning. Here is a list of all the winners of the 2026 ALA Youth Media Awards! Congratulations everyone! 🏆 And thank you librarians everywhere.

www.ala.org/news/2026/01...

MAGNIFICENT NEWS!!!!!! Love you, @laurelsnyder.bsky.social and love everything you bring to the world!

sending out love to everyone in kidlit today, award winners, authors, illustrators, readers, librarians, booksellers, teachers...books for children matter.

(And by 2026, I meant 2025. That year was such a trashfire of pain and grief for me, I've apparently already wiped it from my mind.)

I LOVE TO SEE THE RIGHT CHOICES BEING MADE I SIMPLY LOVE IT!!!!

The Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot for this year just went out, and congratulations to everyone whose work appears on it, be it under their name or their editor!!

I am glad to see WHY I LOVE HORROR on there but I am also excited for 4 of my authors to make the Short NF list.

Renée Watson wins the Newbery! She is a treasure and so is this book. I just gifted it to a young reader friend. It's a book in verse, so accessible, about grief.

Congratulations to all the wonderful #ALAyma winners today - and for everyone else who had a book out in 2026 that didn't get a nod, hold fast (as I am) to how many names are there who have worked hard for so long to reach this point, and turn the next page. ❤️

Thinking again about how George Floyd believed in second chances, community and his daughter’s smile. He served his time and became a mentor in his community. The media continually portrayed him as a violent criminal despite that. His cruel death made me get more involved in prison abolition work.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Cuz the fash definitely don't

“don’t give them what they want”

they are manufacturing their justifications post-hoc. they are already doing what they want. you are not responsible for the actions of your oppressor. you are only responsible for keeping your neighbors safe and that will always be seen as defiance

“There is no remedy but abolition.”

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

The actions required to fight fascism only get more challenging the further along we are.

If two executions in broad daylight in two weeks doesn't cross your line, what will?

The bravest, kindest men of my generation are being killed. Here. Palestine. Sudan. Congo. Point to a wound on the globe. They are there, and they are being killed by the same vicious system. Enough. Enough. Divest from the system. Uproot it from your mind and heart. Abolish it. Burn it down.

I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Does everyone have a warm bed?
Does everyone have enough to eat?
Does everyone have a place to be safe?
Whose getting snatched in the night?

- Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

these are the last people I want being “better trained”

Yes.