Koren/K. M. Enright

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I had the most horrible thought that I am taking to DMs

......so much blood

Yes

oh it's so good!

dudes rock may not have made it onto the locus recommended reading list but i still think it's worth recommending :)

Ugh that is annoying

That said, I still insist on bagging my own groceries in the regular check out line. I just tell them I’m going to do it and they don’t fight.

I refuse to let people bag my groceries for this reason lmao

Oh don't worry, Isaac and Shan are on that!!! 😈

😂😭😂😭

he's making things so difficult

It's actually Samuel, the little bastard!!!

Right there with you (but in the book 3 mines)

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Readers: keep buying, sharing, and talking about books, esp by marginalized authors. Put in purchase requests at your library. Buy from your local bookstore. Preorders are ideal. Don't wait for the series to finish before buying. Read widely and more often. Read trad pub, small press, and self-pub.

🖤🖤🖤

THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT a blue boom featuring lesbians holding hands stop a yellow, blue, and purple blanket inspired by the text next to a print of the characters, respective chibis, and another sticker featuring the books sigil

I haven't yet shown off the scarf that @loping419c.bsky.social made for me inspired by THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT and it is among my favorite things in my home

You can get the book and its merch on my Square site: ladz-merch.square.site/product/the-...

oh my god

Delta P??? 👀

you see, the question I have is less "that's where it is" and more "how the fuck did they *get* it???"

I am both curious and frightened

😂

cause it's all so cursed!!!!

Every day I learn something new

And it's mostly cursed history facts thanks to @ladzwriting.bsky.social

I'm with you, I say, having just taken an edible

!!!!!

Manifesting an editor pick this up so I can read it!

Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

My DMs. Now!!!

it's honestly really cute

She tries!

Not very well, mind you! But she tries!

I wanna smooch her