Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins

"“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours and share our responsibility to Mother Earth,” Redman said. “We’re asserting our sovereignty. We’re here to give them notice that we have our trade corridor and we’re implementing that.”"

This matters for any members of the National Guard following orders, for her to point out that they are illegal orders.

We let everyone who is not kidnapping Chicagoans use the bathrooms, so... 🤷‍♀️

THIS IS FUCKING UP MY STAYCATION. 😭

I'm just trying to have a staycation to relieve stress. 😭 I don't want to be monitoring hearings to see if we're getting invaded next.

I also haven't had a chance to post about it between the High Holidays and a lot of Dayjob Workthings, but!

There are TWO out intersex authors who won Lambdas this year, I think this has never happened before. Awesome!

@kaylaancrum.bsky.social with Icarus & Yael Van Der Wouden with Safekeep!

I mean, just speaking of the part of the legal system we interact with at work, where you go to immigration court pretty much determines your chance for legal relief. Same cases, different states= wildly different outcomes, not remotely equal. And that's before you factor in race, money, language...

Lawyers need to be more scared of being reminded that they are officers of the court.

💯😂

I think I have to go right past there when I fly into Logan to visit Tamsen. 😂 If I'd only known I was missing out on a elephant sitting on an octopus!

The ISP have been assaulting protestors at the illegal, unlicensed ICE detention facility in Broadview. There is no reason for them to be body slamming Illinoisians to the ground in defense of an out-of-state ICE contingent who are zip tying children in midnight raids. None.

Oof. Too much making the history circle. How do we get off this ride?

An old yellowed newspaper clipping reads: Gov. Altgeld has addressed another letter to President Cleveland with regard to the federal troops being massed at Chicago. He declares their presence unnecessary and calculated to incite disorder, and demands their withdrawal. The President insists that he is acting strictly within the law and refuses to recede from his position.

Seriously, though

I can't believe I've never seen this. Must rectify asap.

I hope so! I'm heading out early tomorrow to try and find a Nelson's Sparrow at a park I've never birded before, so maybe I'll throw the little superzoom in the car too... Just in case.

This is a good statement. But why are the Illinois State Police currently assaulting Illinois residents for protesting the brutality and unlawful actions of the hundreds of out-of-state ICE agents the same President you're speaking out against here?

​I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

I did something to my camera--no idea what--but all my pictures I tried to take this morning look like I took them at night. I shoot in RAW, so all the info is still there, but the untouched photos are super dark. I thought I'd figure it out tonight, but I got nothin. I'm too tired for this. 😭

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Thank you for the brilliant storytelling!

Hope you enjoy it!

Argh. Why is that text blurry. Grrrrr.

Metal From Heaven is a brilliant book on so many levels--worldbuilding, characters, relentless tension. But my absolute favorite part is how Clarke just *wallows* in what language can do. GAH. Look at this paragraph! 👇😍 When you want your revenge bloody.

Right??? I'm a massive fan.

Cover art for CL Clark's The Faithless with the tagline, "Every queen will take her due." above an illustration of a long-haired blond white woman in blue sprawled with her legs spread on a stone throne with a red cushion and round lacework bronze back, clutching a can in her right hand and staring daggers at us.

Wait til you see the cover for book two...

So good. One of the best series of this decade.

I have the new book waiting for me, but I might do a series reread and just wallow in it this week. 😍