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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen

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Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com Cover art: Nancy So Miller Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)

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The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

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Minnesota is the best of us.

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The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?

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i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

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I always frame citational practice as relational:

Whose ideas do I want to inherit and carry forward?

Whose/which ideas am I responsible to/for?

Which thinkers have offered me intellectual, emotional, spiritual guidance?

Who are my ontoepistemological ancestors?

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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A book cover. *Sadiq and the Fun Run* by Siman Neurali, Art by Anna Sarkar. Artwork on the book cover depicts a boy running through a finish line tape on a grassy field.

A book cover. *Sadiq and the Fun Run* by Siman Neurali, Art by Anna Sarkar. Artwork on the book cover depicts a boy running through a finish line tape on a grassy field.

Capstone Press in Minnesota has a series for young readers by Somali author Siman Nuurali, featuring a Somali child as the central character. In libraries across the country! Available in paperback! (Thanks @readingspark.bsky.social for highlighting these.) shop.capstonepub.com/Shop/s/categ...

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Love this series with my whole heart, and love doing this work with you too!!! 💙

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One of the BEST nights of my life! So glad we could share this experience together!!

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Wow!!! 😍

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Fellow KidLit writers:

I’m begging you to stop with the twins separated at birth who miraculously run into each other later in life stories.

🕳️🕳️🕳️

It is a played out trope that perpetuates harmful stereotypes about orphans, adoptees, and fosterees.

It is also lazy writing.

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👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

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😢 hope it goes away soon

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Winners Can't Take All in AI Competition to dominate the AI race comes at the cost of needed global advancement

My 80th anniversary tribute to Vannevar Bush's July 1945 manifesto: No winner can take all in #AI and we must keep it that way.

🙏 @cartercenter.bsky.social

uscnpm.substack.com/p/winners-ca...

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Are we great yet?

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The Republicans timed the Medicaid cuts to hit right after the 2026 midterms so that the idiot masses will blame the Democrats after they take back the House.

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The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Rebellions are built on hope.

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Press Release Fun: We Need Diverse Books, Authors, and Indie Bookstores Support Trans and Nonbinary Youth Someone's raising money for trans and nonbinary youth and creators? Get on this, people!! It's happening today!

We Need Diverse Books and over 25 critically acclaimed authors have launched a virtual panel series, “Magic Stories Are For Everyone,” to raise money in support of trans and nonbinary youth and creators. With Holly Black, Dhonielle Clayton, Marieke Nijkamp, Mark Oshiro & more.
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LOL what were we saying in that action shot 😂

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Hard to argue with that.

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

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protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles

protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

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The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.

That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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