Laila Sabreen

A group of authors, editors, illustrators, and agents have responded to the crisis in Minneapolis by organizing an auction to raise money for organizations in MN.

The auction starts today! Items include signed books, original art, and more. #booksky #minnesota

www.32auctions.com/organization...

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

People never really understand how surreal being black is

Publishing for Minnesota Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

This kicks off on Wednesday. So many amazing opportunities here, with plans to do some good.

Let’s get to work. 💪🏽 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc

(GFM in next post)

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TikTok is under right wing billionaire control now. Plan your exit strategy.

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle.

No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw' A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.

This is not new but it is expanding.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

An orange-pink flier that reads “I’ve donated to the we the people summer fundraiser” + “August 18th through 27th to benefit #Kidlit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights”

The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights.

I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique.
Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

WELCOME VIRGO SEASON! ECLIPSES ARE NIGH! GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER! ORGANIZE! GLOBAL STRIKE EVERY THURSDAY! BOYCOTT! NON COMPLIANCE AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! IT’S NOT COMPLICATED! NO TO APARTHEID! FREE PALESTINE! LET AID IN! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! END THE OCCUPATION! DO SOMETHING W YOUR LIFE AND BE OF SERVICE!

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

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In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights!

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

+ A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

An orange-pink flier that reads “I’ve donated to the we the people summer fundraiser” + “August 18th through 27th to benefit #Kidlit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights”

The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights.

I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique.
Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨

Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza!

322 still without bids:
www.32auctions.com/organization...

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Publishing Pledged to Diversify. Change Has Been Slow. (Published 2024)

lol and 2020 may have helped prominent Black authors finally get their due, but overall, not much shifted.

Pre-orders are a way to signal demand for a book. When you pre-order a book, you're telling the publisher "print more copies". #blacksky