Heather Christle

The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.

You can't put anything into words; they are already full; you can only ask them to occur in an order and then notice how they respond to each other and you.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Also I cannot get over the perfection of "tongs." Just looking at the word makes it (them? tongs!) politely extract a sugar cube from my head.

The word dismantle has been dogging me in various forms all morning. (Not kindly, not unkindly. Determined.) And the image of a sugar cube. And I do not have time to write a poem. And my notebook is out of reach. So.

This exactly why I tell people to fight misogyny and child abuse if they want to fight authoritarianism. Those are pillars of fascism that so many people think are “normal” parts of a “democratic” society. News flash: they have no place in a democratic society.

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key.

“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

It’s a shame that Glasgow don’t have any artists.

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall.

I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.

Next year I'll use this.

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

In a country with an actual free press, the photo of that poor old man would be the cover of every single paper with a headline that reads ENOUGH.

Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow. “A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis” via @idreesali114.bsky.social on X

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Photo via Reuters)

Dislike the days where lines from "England in 1819" start running at random through my head.

much love to you today

News Stories Shape Public Perception of Trans Lives. We’re Keeping Score. — Assigned Our Trans News Tracking Project seeks to catalogue bias at major news organizations in the US.

In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people are grooming them to be Nazis.

ICE/CBP just shot two people in Portland.

ICE shoots two people in Portland, ABC sources says U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News sources.The shooting occurred near East Burns

Confirmation here.

katu.com/news/local/i...

Make it viral.

They shoot people, then lie about it, almost as if that's their job.

“We are here to say no — no to the kidnapping of our neighbors, no to the normalization of fascist violence. We are here because our love and decency are stronger than our fears, and because we know we will find courage in each other.”

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

Minneapolis.

this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them

Witness Says Victim Was ‘Obviously Scared’ Before Fatal ICE Shooting The victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave," Emily Heller told HuffPost.

an eyewitness to the Minneapolis ICE shooting told me the victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave" before an ICE agent fired multiple shots "right into, it seemed like, her face" www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.

They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Working on syllabi apparently sets off some Rube Goldberg machine in my mind that ends with a hammer smashing a toothpaste tube full of poems--two have already come out today.