Stacy Villalobos (she/her/ella)

being a parent to a 9 month old is like being a surgeon: wash your hands. yes, again. do it now

I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core.

Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.

The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians! The Los Angeles Public Library organized an author talk with award-winning children’s book authors Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad. Library administration abruptly cancelled the event because they...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...

Cutting people’s health care is murder.

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.

Their stories should be known:

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social

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It's not a time for speeches or hand-wringing but for collective action at the state level. This will not end with Minnesota.

FFS LET TRANS PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES IN PEACE

I can’t believe this is real

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

This is why you do stunts.
This is why you do stunts.
This is why you do stunts.

There’s a reason why Homegirl Café’s chilaquiles are “famous”.

@marinamasako.bsky.social hopped on @metrolosangeles.bsky.social to chat with trainees about Homeboy Industries mission to serve good food and serve the community.

Nearest Metro station: 🔵 Chinatown station via A Line

#MetroPartner

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

Wu-Tang Clan Co-Founder Oliver 'Power' Grant Dead at 52 Oliver 'Power' Grant, who died at age 52, played a pivotal role in the formation of the Wu-Tang Clan, and oversaw their business empire.

Fuck.

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"Fuck ICE"
Spotted in Flint, Michigan

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort.

The snowiest of flakes.

Sex pest solidarity.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Unfortunately if this has followed the path of universities acquiescing in advance and paying bribes, it is often the lawyers who are the ones advocating for it. The role of legal counsel in undermining democracy to avoid lawsuits is an overlooked aspect of this move toward fascism.

My mother requested a real ID twice and was denied. The second time I was with her and it was because her birth certificate is from Puerto Rico and included two surnames instead of the one maiden name listed on her marriage certificate. This policy will systematically disenfranchise women.

The Big Chill: U. Of Texas Tells Faculty To Avoid Controversial Topics — Forbes The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved a new policy that directs faculty to limit the discussion of “controversial topics” in their classes.

The overwhelming consensus of the research done on bilingual education indicates its positive social and academic effects.

This new policy means that if students find that empirical claim controversial it either needs to be eliminated or balanced with xenophobic lies.

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Who profits from migrant detention? : Throughline The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And it’s be...

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“Reforms” Didn’t End Police Violence in 2020 and They Won’t End ICE Violence Now We can’t settle for “reforming” the largest law enforcement agency in the nation — it must be abolished.

"These watered-down ICE policy reforms do not serve as a break from the Democrats’ years-long rightward shift on immigration, but a repackaging of immigration enforcement to maintain the status quo."
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New York Mayor Mamdani is breaking his promise on library funding. Fitting that a few days after Valentine’s Day, New Yorkers may be reaching the end of their Mamdani honeymoon. Earlier this week, the Mayor released his preliminary budget for the 2027 fiscal year,…

“A tenth of a percent might seem paltry, but library budgets are on a tightrope (they nearly always are) and we’ve seen during previous funding deliberations that libraries need to quickly cut services and hours in response to even the smallest budgeting fluctuations.” lithub.com/new-york-may...

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

"The FBI's source...claimed in their testimony that Epstein — a wealth manager — "made his money from charging his clients fees to hide their money offshore."

uh, didn't have "PEOPLE has reached out to the Kremlin for comment." on my bingo card. but joke's on me I guess

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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Daily Memo: ICE Pepper-Sprays and Throws an 80-year-old Attorney, Arrests a Community Watcher, and Takes Seven From Lompoc

San Diego County Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer, left, and Paloma Aguirre, right, walk next to U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, center, after he was denied to visit the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego on Feb. 20, 2026. Padilla visit comes amid reports of inhumane conditions at the detention center following the Trump Administration’s surge of immigration enforcement efforts. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters

Alex Padilla and two San Diego County supervisors were blocked from inspecting the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Friday despite having received clearance from ICE days prior. bit.ly/46naulc

📸 Adriana Heldiz