Rene Denfeld

Thank you!

There it is, in a nutshell.

Suleika Jaouad's new book of essays by various authors, with writing prompts.

New beauty from Suleika Jaouad. Essays by so many luminaries, including @renedenfeld.bsky.social ("When we see enchantment in one another and ourselves, the world blows wide open") and @bethkephart.bsky.social ("Love's first wish is to make what is broken whole again"), along with writing prompts. 💙

thank you!

Ummm, this. This novel blew me away. I've always been a fan of this author, but jeez-laweez, Sleeping Giants moved me. The message was a powerful one, too.

I couldn't put it down.

@renedenfeld.bsky.social

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

A quote from Sarah Stillman that reads, “What I found . . . is hard to describe as anything other than a pattern of widespread torture of people with mental-health issues in county jails.”

In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials.
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Fomenting Antisemitism Not Combating It

Please listen to an expert on the subject. This administration is NOT fighting against antisemitism. They are doing the exact opposite. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Worth noting that the Trumps invited a violent criminal accused of human trafficking INTO the United States: Andrew Tate.

Welcome !

This is a dangerous slippery slope for ALL of us

Charges dropped against Robert Johnson, who spent nearly 30 years in prison for 1996 murder Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Robert Johnson, whose conviction was vacated last month. He was just 16 years old when he was arrested, and he now plans to get his driver's license.

Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Robert Johnson, whose conviction was vacated last month. He was just 16 years old when he was arrested, and he now plans to get his driver’s license.
www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

Super excited to be part of Get Lit at the Beach this year, a festival lauded by Ursula Le Guin and other writers for its warmth and connectivity to other writers & readers.

What the United States did was a crime.

time.com/7269604/el-s...

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers on It Too You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibi...

Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...

Trump’s Executive Orders and the NEA: A Detailed Timeline • Oregon ArtsWatch Claire Willett explores the new guidelines around gender ideology the National Endowment for the Arts has set for grant applicants and how they might affect Oregon arts organizations

I am knowingly violating my Lent social media fast for exactly sixty seconds so I can drop this link because my big NEA article went love this morning and I’m very proud of it

okay bye see you Sunday

www.orartswatch.org/trumps-execu...

JOB: Democracy Docket is seeking a Reporter with strong news-gathering and writing skills and a passion for voting rights and democracy to join our News Team. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Deadline: March 31

www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...

Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social

Thank you! I'm honored.

the revolution will need people to take meeting minutes

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

8th House with Claire Willett grantwriting mentorship for artists, activists, and grassroots change makers

hi to the FOUR THOUSAND new followers who inexplicably found me today (???)

if you were a fan from Twitter, hi! I now have a tip jar (linked below and in bio), a paid newsletter you can subscribe to for as low as $5/month, and a mentorship program for nonprofit folks!

tinyurl.com/Support8thHo...

I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.