march in NorCal
just had a traumatic flashback to a job where one of my primary responsibilities was getting Mail Merge to work. no idea what caused this particular horror to surface in my awareness but I can tell you no salary was worth all that
driving to the waterfront and writing for exactly one hour. just some things I like to do.
An incredibly talented team of my colleagues at @propublica.org have created a searchable database of Trump's team financial disclosures, to help explore potential conflicts of interest: projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
waking up to yet another nightmare of “governance”
the Boomers of berkeley, california are such an odd bunch
“Why don’t victims tell someone about the abuse?”
“Why I Didn’t Tell” from Excavation: A Memoir (Northwestern University Press, 2025; [1st edition Future Tense Books, 2014])
I wish someone in LA would just like… offer me their home for the summer.
the other night I was in bed CACKLING reading the exchanges between June Jordan and Toni Morrison after Jordan had her lawyer request her work back from Random House. Absolutely hilarious. Girls will be girls!
My publisher @haymarketbooks.org is offering some of my books at 40% for Black History Month: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/103-ha...
This week I recommitted to my writing project. I’ve been going to cafés to support myself through the emotionally taxing parts. In two different cafés the songs from the playlist started playing.
You don’t gotta believe what I believe but you can’t tell me I’m wrong.
On the day of my mother’s death I made a playlist of all her favorite songs. A lot of disco, 80s and 90s r&b. I listened so much that summer. Over and over.
Today @lataco.bsky.social launched a fundraiser to help me start their investigative news desk. We're hoping to raise $25k to help pay for lab tests, analyze ICE data that the Daily Memo's been compiling + work with more freelancers. Been dreaming of this for years!
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I watched Wuthering Heights (2026) and all I can say is I'm happy for the art department. It looks like they had fun.
i'm wondering whether to move back to LA again.
the neighborhood cats love my car. every morning I come out to paw prints on the hood, leading up the windshield to the roof.
🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
🚨 New from me
I spoke with 3 healthcare workers on strike at Kaiser Permanente.
“It is not the same Kaiser… This is no longer a place to get your care. This is now an investment firm that dabbles in hospitals.”
@therealnews.com
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I’ve had a really significant week but on a subterranean level if that makes sense. 4th house people will get it
This is tonight, in case you’re in Brooklyn and bored 🤷♀️
I’ve decided to do a road trip to LA. yes this is my attempt to set achievable goals
Struggle is not the goal.
It’s the method.
To get free.
Too many people imagine struggle is the goal, so any acts of worldbuilding that prefigure freedom are dismissed as incidental, as distractions.
people ask what I’m up to these days and the answer is I’m literally screaming while reading Toni Morrison on the couch for hours at a time
I need to locate my ideal breakfast burrito. Immediately.
What you want is COPWATCHING. The cameras turned on THEM.
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” says Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Illinois).
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
"Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it.”—Toni Cade Bambara
