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Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

‘the sex/work & magic digest’ is one of those rare places with something for everyone to enjoy: allies, clients, and fellow workers.

woke up to a new paid subscription on my ‘2026bitch’ 50% off deal (expires sunday) thepasteldomina.substack.com/2026btch from an ally who left this lovely message.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Donate to House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee, organized by Sophia Ulmer My name is Sophia, and I live in Charlotte, NC, where last week CBP/… Sophia Ulmer needs your support for House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee

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Donate to House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee, organized by Sophia Ulmer My name is Sophia, and I live in Charlotte, NC, where last week CBP/… Sophia Ulmer needs your support for House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee

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Please consider donating to my fundraiser. Brie and I have gotten pretty tight over the last couple weeks—we make a good team! I’m thankful for all of you for how you’ve helped so far.

Donate to House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee, organized by Sophia Ulmer My name is Sophia, and I live in Charlotte, NC, where last week CBP/… Sophia Ulmer needs your support for House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee

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Please consider donating to my fundraiser. Brie and I have gotten pretty tight over the last couple weeks—we make a good team! I’m thankful for all of you for how you’ve helped so far.

Donate to House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee, organized by Sophia Ulmer My name is Sophia, and I live in Charlotte, NC, where last week CBP/… Sophia Ulmer needs your support for House and Feed Mother and 2 Kids of ICE CBP Detainee

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Speech, Sex, and the Slippery Slope of Censorship YouTube video by Woodhull Freedom Foundation

When law meets activism, freedom has a fighting chance. This Sexual Freedom Month, join @myadultattorney.bsky.social & Brad Mitchell for a live discussion you won’t want to miss.

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Writing desk, complete with bowl of cherries, looking out a window into green leafy trees.

Poster reading “Is that a cowboy or a cowgirl? —Honey, that’s an outlaw.”

Vernon, BC is located north of Kelowna, between Vancouver and Calgary.

Really my brief stay at this wonderful residency. ♥️ www.caetani.org

If you haven’t read Garrard’s novel, you are missing out. Last summer, I listened to the audiobook twice. That’s right: it ended, and I started it again immediately.

Ok I’m a fiction writer now?

Banff 🤩

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

Why thank you, Ethan! The feeling is mutual. I most admire your talent and your dedication. I’ll send you something one-of-a-kind here one of these days. This is the friendliest kick in the pants to do so!

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I think Greta Thunberg is the best example of how there is no way of protesting that will satisfy the scolds. It'll either be called too aggressive or a self-serving publicity stunt.

Please, for the love of God

I once famously asked my friends if “All I Want for Christmas” was performed by Hanson.

"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now.

This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence.

Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys

46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll

to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

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Ok I’m a fiction writer now?

The Poetry Marathon 2025 was THE BEST creative exercise I’ve ever done. 24 poems in 24 hours (or a 1/2 marathon option). ~340 participants globally.

I wrote some things I’m polishing & really proud of, and the hour 21 “write a poem about your favorite vegetable” prompt gave me this silly series.

I’ve been commissioned to write a Western! My dozen+ years obsessing about frontier brothels is paying off. (What irony that it’s a fiction assignment—my least-flexed muscle. Light a candle for me, y’all.*) More details to come, but suffice to say I am EXCITED! Yee-haw 🥂🤠🃏

*I have my main and sub characters, all their respective little plots and big plots… three acts (I think), a love story, the protag’s main conflict and existential struggle, the philosophical questions about Westward expansion … I mean… all I have to do now is write sentences? Right? Write?!

I’ve been commissioned to write a Western! My dozen+ years obsessing about frontier brothels is paying off. (What irony that it’s a fiction assignment—my least-flexed muscle. Light a candle for me, y’all.*) More details to come, but suffice to say I am EXCITED! Yee-haw 🥂🤠🃏

…live Joni encounter, so it’s quite possible my poet is doing some mythmaking 🔮😉

Thanks! It’s been fun to watch it evolve over time—how her music/stories accompany me as I navigate relationships. But really, using the “bitchy adjunct” persona to pelt Lotharios and idiots w/ the info is my fave part