Adib Khorram

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Advocacy groups in Lancaster County express concerns about county's agreement with ICE District Attorney Heather Adams released a statement saying the county's involvement with ICE is minimal

""The Young Center For Immigrant Children’s Rights issued a press release in May 2025 calling these “wellness checks” exactly what they are: “...a pretext to locate, interrogate, and deport children and families."

Haven’t watched season 2 yet (excited to binge) but bringing back an old Luffy art 🏴‍☠️
#luffy #onepiece #🎨

New Braunfels ISD bans 600+ books, ages up 800+ titles using AI & overly-restrictive selection criteria. Lonesome Dove, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Guinness World Records & The Three Musketeers among hundreds of books removed from school library collections.

As of February 2026, New Braunfels ISD has permanently removed more than 600 books from its high schools in response to Senate Bill 13. Additionally, over 800 books have been removed from district middle schools and aged up to the high schools.

www.txftrp.org/new_braunfel...

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

For more context on how these policies affect creators:

Hey worth dropping in a comment here—these policies can be used to censor games, comics, e-books and more.

Missouri could become second state with a domestic violence offender registry Under a Missouri House bill, if a person is convicted of domestic violence and has been convicted at least once before, they would have to register as a persistent offender.

Under a Missouri House bill, if a person is convicted of domestic violence and has been convicted at least once before, they would have to register as a persistent offender. (@kbianews.bsky.social)

Missouri Supreme Court considers if constitution allows mid-decade congressional redistricting If the court strikes down the new map, Missouri's congressional lines would revert to the prior map — which keeps the bulk of Kansas City within one district.

If the court strikes down the new map, Missouri's congressional lines would revert to the prior map — which keeps the bulk of Kansas City within one district. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)

Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Grateful to @anildash.com for covering this absolute nightmare for indie podcasters:

this is like an episode of The Pitt!!!

Less than a week to go! Could really use some financial support.

Missouri wages a new redistricting battle over who is counted in state legislative districts A push from Missouri's Republican attorney general to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.

A push from Missouri's Republican attorney general to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults. (@npr.org)

Howl and Sophie holding a glowing orb (heart) between them, with wings and hair flowing around them

still a fav~ #howlsmovingcastle

ugh i'm still mad Prodigy got cancelled!

San Diego friends, don't miss your chance to hear from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social tonight!

Or maybe another DS9-ish show set in a central location—a planet, a station—where adventure comes to them!

Actually I'd love it if they picked a cheap-to-do alien and set a show on THEIR home planet or something. Where they're the default and the humans/Federation are "other."

this will not surprise you but I'd pay real money if they just brought back Lower Decks!!! Year One doesn't excite me either tbh? I'd love to see an era we haven't seen—the early days of the Federation, or the adventures of the Enterprise-C!

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

this is going to make me furious and i can't wait to watch it and tell everyone i know to watch it

WOW WOW WOW

A graphic with text on the top reading "COVER REVEAL" and on the bottom reading "Coming September 22, 2026" with an illustrated book cover with text at the top that reads: award-winning and bestselling author Sonido Reyes. The title at the bottom reads: To Our Untamed Core. A Brown boy stands in front of the title font with his back to the "camera" looking off to the side. There is a hole through his back that has a beam of light shining through it. In the distance is a pyramid with the sun behind its peak, the sunlight shining straight through the hole in the boy's back.

Centuries after the conquistadors claimed the Afueras for their own, Temo spends his life obeying the Holy Order’s decree, undergoing their sacraments to tame his supposedly violent nature. The only rule he breaks: hiding that he’s trans. If that fact is discovered, Temo will face El Torneo, a brutal, fight-to-the-death game pitting the untamed against one another. No Afuereño who enters El Torneo ever escapes with their life. But when Temo’s boyfriend is unexpectedly arrested and thrown into the deadly tournament, he’ll do anything to rescue Ollin from his gruesome fate, even if it means entering El Torneo himself. Only there's far more to this tournament than meets the eye—survival is just the beginning. When the cost of saving the one he loves is higher than he ever imagined, is Temo willing to pay it?

A graphic that reads " Yesterday, we were each a single drop of blood... Tomorrow, it will rain."

The rumors are true! (and I may or may not have started them 🤭)

To Our Untamed Core is coming September 22 to a bookstore near you. I’m so freaking proud of this book and I hope you all love it as much as I do 💛

Art: Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza @powl_art
Design: Jessie Gang

oh blurgh!!!

A panel from the webcomic Keeping Time. Four dudes, the members of the band Tennyson, sit in a bar booth. Stef, the Black bassist, is in the middle of giving a stern speech to Daniel, the new Japanesse-American singer who sits kitty-corner across from him. Stef's dialogue reads, "But if you’re in, you gotta really be in. It’s gonna be hard. Sometimes you might regret making the commitment."

Stef is willing to give this new singer a shot. As long as he doesn't do something like start a complicated intra-band romance with the straight* guitarist he's had a crush on since high school, I'm sure it'll all work out

#KeepingTime #webcomics

🎸 Latest: keepingtimecomic.com

oooo fanceh

if anyone sees "advice" from me on grammarly, it's NOT me, it's the OTHER adib khorram, the one who writes books of simpsons mad libs.

yessssss

The illustrated cover of DESIRE AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Olivia Dade, featuring a sunset and rocky cliffs in the background near a sandy shoreline, with an embracing couple in the foreground. The woman is brunette and fat and pretty, with her hair swept back. She's wearing a Grecian-style dress and has her arms around the neck of a dark-haired, lean man with glasses in a dark gray suit.

One of my self-published novellas, DESIRE AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, has a gorgeous new cover from @lenikauffman.bsky.social and a new audiobook narrated by the incomparable Joy Nash--and that audiobook is out today!

rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

I hope you love the cover and the story! ♥

Requiring the Internet is a form of classism.

oh i love this

Stop Calling Stakes High or Low: Call them Near or Far Instead This Saturday I’m reading at Babylon Salon in SF! You can still get a signed personalized copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel about a trans witch...

"I would like to throw the concept of low stakes and high stakes into the nearest volcano and never speak of these concepts again. Rather, I would like to talk about stakes that are near or far."

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