Stephanie Kuehnert

The enemy of my enemy still did two Nazi salutes.

23 arrests at heated ‘Fascist Family Values’ protest in Seattle A crowd waving transgender flags and signs denouncing the "Trump Fascist Regime" gathered in counterprotest of a "Mayday USA" event. It quickly turned violent.

This happened in Seattle yesterday. On the eve of the anniversary of George Floyd's murder. Ppl on the ground said it was clear whose side the cops were on. I worry this is what they'll use to justify martial law. I hope I'm wrong. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

When you use Grok, you poison folks in Memphis. Imagine a small child, gasping for air through a cloud of methane gas next time you type “@grok lol context?”

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

I didn't think it could get more horrific than back when I was calling my reps while nursing my baby to beg them to stop caging babies, but it has. The evil is compounding and we must speak up and fight back. For Kilmar, Mahmoud, Rumeysa. For all the others kidnapped by ICE. For our humanity.

My kid's school is part of a coalition of (mostly Title 1) schools that fund raise together through an annual move-a-thon. The funds raised cover things ranging from basic supplies to after school enrichment that helps young scholars get to grade level in their learning. Every $ makes a difference!

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

Yesssss! Thank you, WI friends!

Sen. Booker just broke the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history—a record set by Strom Thurmond trying to block the Civil Rights Act. The irony ain’t lost on us. From fighting against justice to fighting for it. This is what courage & being on the right side of history looks like!

Two weeks ago, I demanded answers from the Trump administration over the detention and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil.

They failed to respond and gave no reasonable grounds for Khalil’s detention. That's unacceptable.

My full statement⬇️

I remember reading this story in the early days of COVID of moms meeting in a field just to scream... can we bring that back? Mutual Aid and activism are key parts of my survival right now but I also need a scream space. Or to meet ppl in the woods to do witchcraft. I'll take either really. Or both

Today at work we lost our funding for an early learning program we've been doing for 15+ years. Because, you know, supporting our youngest learners and families is woke. Just another reminder that the GOP doesn't give a shit about poor or working families. Are we great yet?

If this doesn't chill you to the bone, it should. So many more people will be disappeared by this administration.

Just when I think I can't get more disgusted.

Mahmoud Khalil is only the first case in Trump’s war against free speech — and it certainly won’t be the last.

He’s using an authoritarian playbook to silence any and all dissenting voices. We must fight back.

ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵

I'm Stephanie. PIECES OF A GIRL is my story and it's more relevant to these times than ever. It's about surviving relationship abuse and substance abuse. It's about surviving and fighting patriarchy and toxic masculinity. And doing it by finding your people and your voice. Thanks for reading it.

But this morning I woke up buoyed by my belief that our stories matter. Our stories threaten them. This is why they are trying to ban and erase words like... "women," "mental health," and "community." Well, unfortunately for them, words are my favorite weapon and I won't be putting them down now.

I'll be honest that it's hard for me to celebrate anything right now. In the past week or so, I've been swept under by a wave of despair brought on by all that has been going on nationally and globally, by fighting as Rebecca Solnit puts it so perfectly this "stupid coup."

And there aren't enough thanks in the world for my editor, Andrew Karre, for believing in my story, seeing what I really wanted to tell, helping me find all the important pieces of me in the process and reclaim my love of creativity.

Huge shout-out to Suzy Exposito whose illustrations really helped tell the story with the emotional impact I wanted. Meeting & celebrating with Suzy was the highlight of last year for me. Deep thanks also to Anna Booth, the book's designer who transformed it into the zine-style memoir I imagined.

Pieces of a Girl by Stephanie Kuehnert: 9780525429753 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A raw and bold memoir about abuse and addiction, and the power of expression and community that helped Stephanie Kuehnert, the author of Ballads of Suburbia and regular Rookie contributor, survive...

Happy first birthday to my YA memoir, PIECES OF A GIRL! Thank you to everyone who read, shared, and celebrated it with me over the past year. And if you haven't checked it out yet, I hope you will! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318849...

When abusive people do something very wrong, they will always follow it by pretending it was no big deal or even that it didn’t happen. Leaving you to feel a lot of rage, confusion, and self doubt about your own decisions. Like—should you stay or go?

The parallels make themselves, guys.

I love this. Thank you.

If only America would protect school children the way it protects Teslas.