Asa Drake

Please join me in writing for her release. We know that ICE has stopped medical treatment for detainees. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. Read them today on @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I should probably preface--many content warnings. Ends in moral horror.

I am a slow reader but read "Vanishing World" by Sayaka Murata in one sitting. I promise it's weird.

I uncovered my plants after a week of temps in the 20s. Somehow, it's the pineapples that survived Florida snow flurries?

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters

and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...

My book is available for pre-order!

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Here is one of my blurbs:

“The Afterlife of Sweetness is exactly what a first book should be: It is a next step, for the poet and also for poetry.” —Shane McCrae

#poetry #poetryreleases #debutauthor #debutpoet

Looking through the Dual Lens: Michelle Peñaloza’s “All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems” Michelle Peñaloza’s second full-length collection, “All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems,” reminds us of the function of poems: to record, to remember, to share.

"Peñaloza’s latest collection emphasizes how new forms don’t supplant or forget existing ones, but offer variation — a kind of play — which is the point of the poem, to make and to make again."

@asaldrake.bsky.social reviews ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS by Michelle Peñaloza.

Journalist Orgs outraged at arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort: ‘The First Amendment is not Optional.’ | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents.

ATTN: Today's arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon are an escalation by this administration to criminalize press freedom under the guise of law enforcement.

The First Amendment is not optional, and journalism is NOT a crime. We demand their immediate release!

newsguild.org/journalist-o...

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed | Milkweed Editions “When I tell you a story about my body, I cannot separate it from a story about water. And a story about water is also a story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sa...

Excited to share the 1st episode of my new partnership with @milkweededitions.bsky.social, with the remarkable Sangu Iyer, about her memoir Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed
Audio👂🌱: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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In my last piece here, I talked about the rhetoric employed against Hamas, or indeed any group the status quo is set against, and how neutral, militaristic rhetoric is always employed for Israel's actions. There's the emotive impact, of course, but it goes further. The rhetoric of hatred and terror, the sensationalist language, is used by the State to designate its enemies as essentially mindless, as less than animal, in order to render them exterminable. Reason and civility can do nothing against these manifestations of embodied hatred; this magical thinking runs in reverse, too, where no logic is required, no reason, no thinking on the part either of the messenger or of the audience receiving this message, what you are expected to do is feel-first fear, and then reassurance at the bloodletting or promised "crack down" to follow. What's another right, another check on power, in the scheme of the nation's security? And that's what you're being asked rhetorically to shoulder, in these moments, each time: the whole nation-state rests on your willingness to give more power to the very same security and enforcement agencies that fail repeatedly.

Over and over, we see this tactic employed by the powerful: they are never to be held accountable, to sacrifice anything, it’s up to individuals to do more, while the status quo remains unchanged and the system unchallenged, except to accrue more power and money. sakr.substack.com/p/the-stalki...

Submit by May 1st to receive a prize of $2,000 and publication by Noemi Press for one book-length poetry collection. The editors will judge.

Visit our Submittable page for full guidelines: noemipress.submittable.com/submit

We'll be waiting 👁👄👁

Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it

Pressure your senators

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

Oracular Maladies by Sophia Terazawa is now available for preorder on the Noemi website!

A book of curses, Oracular Maladies summons an ecstatic performance of divas arriving in glamorous form. The backdrop: Vietnamese tonality, displacement, and reclamation.

Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow.

My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

my second book, raw & zero, is out May 5 from Nightboat Books • i’m so proud of it, & can’t wait to share w y’all! • Preorder >>> nightboat.org/book/raw-zero/

Since I wrote this last week, two more people have died in ICE custody: Heber Sanchaz Domínguez and Victor Manuel Diaz. That’s at least 6 people dead in ICE camps so far in 2026, and it’s only mid-January.

Fear factor: Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, observers say there are signs that federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citiz...

Anna Brauch said an ICE agent grabbed her by handcuffs, and used all his strength to yank her repeatedly around the car.

She told him: “You're breaking my hands, you’re breaking my hands.”

He told her: “I don’t fucking care. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.” (6) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

We hope you had a great day, FAM. Don't forget to enjoy our new JANUARY ISSUE with a loved one, and we'll see you tomorrow 🌙 buff.ly/xnuvf6J

We Teach Each Other How to Stay T. De Los Reyes All good things in the life I know involve me stumbling into my own astonishment. I take a half-step in the dark and you are beside me, my hand nestled in your hand as if it has always belonged there. When you call me little flower as a way of saying good morning and all good things spill into the day like sunlight, how grateful I am for a cracked window. When you place a wet kiss on my nape while washing my back in the shower, I think of all good things and forget I am wounded. When I find you in the kitchen failing to make coconut buns you've seen someone else do, when I try to braid your hair and it becomes a hot mess, when I use too much spice and you still lick the spoon, I recognise all good things hold our mistakes gently. Each time I think I finally know who you are, I am grateful for my ignorance. All good things come in waves, and each version of you I would take gladly: when I'm awake, or in my dreams, in this life or the next. If every corner of this universe where you exist are all good things, I beg to be allowed to hold you close. Let me embrace your ghost to my bones.

Poem for your Tuesday
We Teach Each Other How to Stay
~T. De Los Reyes
—All good things in the life I know involve me stumbling into my own astonishment. I take a half-step in the dark and you are beside me / and each version of you I would take gladly: when I'm awake, or in my dreams —

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

Blocked off complex with caution tape and cop cars

Border Patrol has shot two people in Oregon close to Portland. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. The two who were shot allegedly drove to this location for further help and are now en route or at hospital. Their condition is unknown.

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.