A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and itβs the first time a whole city has been put forward for the prize.
04.02.2026 04:14 β π 12568 π 2143 π¬ 228 π 104@vacharat.bsky.social
π Autistic Author. Artist. Opinion-haver. π THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS - a weird novel - May 2025, Dutton / Penguin π I also paint fountain pens π https://aavacharat.com/link-tree
A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and itβs the first time a whole city has been put forward for the prize.
04.02.2026 04:14 β π 12568 π 2143 π¬ 228 π 104BREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
01.02.2026 21:20 β π 8127 π 3557 π¬ 724 π 317
MINNESOTA β Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!β
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
Nothing is improving here in Minnesota. Nothing at all. We continue to be occupied by lawless sadists at the pleasure of senile lunatic obsessed with revenge.
Read this story.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
I know what Iβll be not-doing tonight! So much to look forward to!
29.01.2026 21:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
TECHNICALLY by legal definition, murder is premeditated and intentional killing. Manslaughter is when you kill someone without premeditation or intent.
In the case of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, βmurderβ is correct because both times, agents chose to draw their lethal firearms & shoot repeatedly.
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
27.01.2026 19:30 β π 30815 π 10484 π¬ 636 π 337
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
π§΅ Yesterday, the finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards should have been announced. The organizers wisely postponed the announcements, which are always a much anticipated event in the vibrant Minnesota literary communit, in light of the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis. 1/6
25.01.2026 18:55 β π 33 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isnβt just peaceful, itβs INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who wonβt be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols donβt turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
25.01.2026 17:00 β π 17470 π 4327 π¬ 143 π 119A reminder to the news media: βconflicting accountsβ is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
25.01.2026 12:28 β π 47546 π 14324 π¬ 523 π 600
Hey illustrators/agents!
Iβm a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture bookβweβre looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; fantasy; magic; AND Mahjong! The tiles! The drama!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
πβ€οΈ #artcommissions
The Epstein Files, everybody!
19.12.2025 21:13 β π 21038 π 5471 π¬ 998 π 1049
A.A. Vacharat's THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS made the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens in 2025.
www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
#yabooks #writingcommunity #bookcommunity
It seems like the Murdochs are suddenly exerting their interests? I actually didnβt realize they owned HC until I saw the Prager U thing.
19.11.2025 00:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot of paragraph from article from NYtimes. βAs the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the Internet and the #MeTooMovement.β
The article was as bad as the headline.
16.11.2025 14:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs been making me question my own grip on reality.
06.11.2025 22:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
1:22 until showtime!
#writingcommunity #askanagent #publishingQA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-0...
Itβs a good day for a game of cards. #nokings
18.10.2025 21:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Drawing of a sheep painting the Oval Office gold to cover up the words EPSTEIN and falling Epstein files
Cover (up) everything in gold!
29.09.2025 02:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Breaking the Fourth Wall: A Conversation with A.A. Vacharat by Charlotte Fleming" written in white at the bottom of Vacharat's grayscale author photo (depicting a black and white cat perched on Vacharat's shoulder, nibbling on her hat).To the right of these words is the book cover for This Moth Saw Brightness beneath the full Rumpus logo in white.
"Donβt let them tell you that youβre not worthy of life."
Charlotte Fleming interviews @vacharat.bsky.social about This Moth Saw Brightness (@duttonbooks.bsky.social for Young Readers).
β‘οΈ buff.ly/tEfoAOz
Greyscale illustration of a white fluffy cat atop a fireplace mantel, which is decorated for Christmas. The cat is looking at the viewer while tumping a lit candle over the edge of the mantle, onto a pile of kindling and firewood. The illustration is done with pen and ink line work. The values are flat washes of grey scale.
Hi #kidlitartpostcard ! A little cat art for today. I think it captures the current emotional moment π
Iβm Amanda. I especially love making illustrations in greyscale, with pen and ink.
Rep @kellydhouse.bsky.social at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social
A simple line drawing. A cute sheep is rolling gold paint onto the Oval Office wall. The paint is poorly coming up graffiti that says βEPSTEINβ. Behind picture frames, file folders and papers have been poorly hidden. The paint can says 24 k Gold *color.
But the gold is so useful tho.
22.08.2025 20:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My novel was officially deemed a paperweight, never imagined Iβd feel so pleased about that.
22.08.2025 01:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hi #booksky
This is my debut novel. I think Bluesky people might like it. Itβs a literary incarnation of a rabbit hole.
Thereβs even a conspiracy-themed discussion guide so your bookclub can talk about Epstein etc even when itβs not talking about all of that.
aavacharat.com/this-moth-sa...
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-trump-protest-photos/84200945007/
β π #NoKings β
As we sift through the many many photos, #Andor signs are absolutely *everywhere* β¦
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16.06.2025 02:22 β π 4828 π 875 π¬ 158 π 87βA deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if youβre an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who wonβt identify themselves telling you to get in a vanβ, what a fuckin country
14.06.2025 16:33 β π 36786 π 10690 π¬ 366 π 250
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her