😭 thank you 😭
I found out I have a last minute spot in the Vermont Studio Center in March for a writers residency! You can help me make this possible by sharing the link, letting me know about funding opportunities, or donating if you feel led. Thank you!
gofund.me/91bc2cfa3
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.
Abolish. ice. 💔
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Emotional support terrierorist
state-sponsored child trafficking
I wrote a substack about dogs disguised as a substack about snakes.
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
If you're rich and powerful enough, rich and powerful Republicans will ignore your crimes -- including child molestation.
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
AOC leading school tours during the shutdown. Always doing the most.
Republicans took the day off while all democrats showed up to work. Could you see a republican showing students around just as a nice gesture?
We can, in fact, oppose ALL political violence, no matter the form, source, or reasoning.
Genocide (& supporting it) is bad.
Ethnic cleansing is bad.
Murdering people in a boat off Venezuela is bad.
Murdering people for Existing While Black is bad.
Shooting someone whose views are repellant is bad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Life comes at you fast
This article increasingly horrified me, and made me grateful that I might be out of bachelorette trip demographic. www.thecut.com/article/awkw...
Dumpster and Dumpster alone is getting me through the horrors. Anyway call your congress people.
Even worse if you're dual career.
When you strip away humanity
I started a post in January, and finished it today. Which kind of lets you know how my mental health (not great Bob!) went this winter. Thanks to @lyz.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social for helping me get some initial ideas going.
open.substack.com/pub/katiekar...
I got to interview Dom Flemons, a hugely talented multi-instrumentalist and performer and music scholar back in January, and wrote about it for Nevada Humanities in May. Here it is on my new Substack!
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
I started a Substack to write about my arts/humanities work in the Wild West. I hope you check it out.
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
#uketa #scam
If you use the website uketa.com, you are getting triple charged for a UK travel visa, even though they make it look like they are affiliated with the UK government. Ask me how I know.
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead:
House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing
Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year
Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
Today someone I know who has fought for low wage workers his whole life was detained while observing an ICE raid. David Huerta is a citizen and a proud Angeleno. He must be released now. If this can happen to David, it can happen to anyone. It’s unacceptable.
