Gabrielle Healy

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Finding a 'Storybook Ending' with Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times arts critic - Soundside We talk with Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald about her new novel, 'Storybook Ending.'

My interview with @kuow.org about my novel, “Storybook Ending,” went live this week! Many thanks to Libby Denkmann and @gabriellehealy.bsky.social for a lovely chat. omny.fm/shows/sounds...

Thank you so much for being on the show! Loved producing this conversation. 💕

A cardboard sign that says “Release Lander” outside Federal Plaza in downtown NYC. City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was seized by masked men in plainclothes working with ICE to abduct immigrants coming out of hearings. A crowd of at least 100 New Yorkers has gathered to protest for Lander’s release.

A growing crowd of New Yorkers is protesting outside the immigration court where NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was seized by masked men in plainclothes working for ICE. Other officials and candidates are speaking. Someone in the crowd heckled Andrew Cuomo

and finally, I am legally obligated to remind you all that Eric Adams won in the EIGHTH ROUND of ranked choice voting in 2021 by about 7,000 votes. YOUR VOTE MATTERS. fill out that ballot with as many candidates as you find acceptable!

🌊 Seattle, I am finally here! Looking for all the recommendations, story pitches, books and movies about the PNW, hidden gems. 🏔️

Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Lawsuit blames oil companies for woman’s Seattle heat-dome death The daughter of a woman killed by the Northwest’s extreme heat wave of 2021 is suing the oil industry over her mother’s death.

The daughter of a woman killed by the Northwest’s extreme heat wave of 2021 is suing the oil industry over her mother’s death.

Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.

one thing the Dem establishment doesn’t understand is that Rogan is *downstream* of the right-wing misinformation machine. he doesn’t originate reactionary conspiracies, he absorbs them, and that’s why he turned toward Trump

idk who needs to hear this but both New Bedford and Worcester, Massachusetts are cities! Not towns.

The shifting cultural understanding of the Menendez brothers, who were mocked at the time for saying their father abused them, is an interesting synecdoche for the larger threat that treating children as though they have emotional lives and agency presents to the project of the American right.

Some personal news: I finished The Power Broker.

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

It will surprise few people that this claim is untrue.
"According to some supremacist groups, white farmers are being murdered at higher rates than the rest of the population. This claim, however, is contradicted by the facts."
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based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right

word choice is key here. DHS detained & almost deported many citizens during the 1st Trump admin, too -- just like Obama & others before them

A GAO report estimated 70 "potential" citizens were removed 2015-2020. It's hardly as impossible as it's painted www.propublica.org/article/more...

An image related to my newsletter. The background is the cover from the Sophie album Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides with the title stuff I like, vol. 20.

I wrote my newsletter.

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A photo of Carmy from The Bear, he’s seated and his hand w splayed fingers is crossing his body.

this image is the pride and prejudice hand thing for the 2020s

This isn’t new, per this article: The executive director of an NY-based org. advocating for expanding access to legal representation for immigrant children said that before the contract was terminated, she saw 30% to 40% of kids in a given docket without lawyers. Now she said it’s 50% to 60%.

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent' The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.

“There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy…None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.” via @gothamist.com

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I grew up in this town and visit regularly. About 16,000 people live here, and I’ve never seen/heard of a protest of this size before.

Anecdotes only, but seems like the questions/worries about “where are the protests” have quieted somewhat.

Working with researchers at Yale’s Investigative Reporting Lab, Sarah Stillman studied more than 40 lawsuits involving claims of starvation, dehydration, and severe neglect, filed against more than a dozen correctional entities and county governments.
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Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminal record

Immigration agents blocked the car that he and his wife were driving in and smashed a window to detain him without presenting a warrant.

Text of part of the linked article from the New Bedford Light: “Roll down the window so we can talk,” another agent insisted, while Méndez’s wife asked if they had an arrest warrant for her or her husband. The tense standoff took about 30 minutes. The couple were taken from their car after an agent smashed in the rear right window. “They pulled us out violently. They treated us very harshly,” Méndez’s wife recalled through tears.

From The New Bedford Light:

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White House to Ask Congress to Rescind Funding From NPR and PBS The Trump administration plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some funding for public media in the United States...

Here we go. Support your local public radio station

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Palestinian American teen fatally shot by Israeli troops in West Bank village American citizen Amer Rabee, 14, was fatally shot in the West Bank village Turmus Ayya. The mayor said he had been picking green almonds with two friends.

14-year-old Palestinian American Amer Rabee was one of 3 teenagers shot by the IDF this weekend. Two other American teens were killed last year in the West Bank and their cases remain unresolved.

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DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

So, here, in short, is what the Justice Department is offering the federal judiciary as a constitutionally sound option for migrants who say they face illegal deportation to El Salvador. These migrants have no right to contest their classification as gang members. They have no right to challenge the president's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act or secure a classwide restraining order against it. Their access to the courts is limited to an individual habeas petition in their district of confinement, which cannot practically address their grievances. Moreover, the government has no obligation to give migrants time-even just a few hours-to file a habeas petition or access to a lawyer or interpreter who could help. The government may, instead, whisk them away to El Salvador with no advance notice. And as soon as they are delivered to CECOT, they can no longer file a habeas petition, because they are out of U.S. custody.

The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.

Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away.