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Writer, cartoonist, librarian. Halschrieve.com for writer-y info, Halschrieve.itch.io for comics, @ howlmarin on insta for art. Buy and read Fawn’s Blood, my vampire novel
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Fawn's Blood
Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist. The librarian and critic...
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ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from Texas to Honduras, group says

Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.
ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from TX to Honduras, group says
Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.
www.mysanantonio.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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My last two shots before my world went dark.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas
January 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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OK nerds, ANNOUNCEMENT
I have a book coming out this May with @sevenstories.bsky.social!

it is called

The Dinner Party: A Book about Love"

it's a collection of five sequences or stories, all in verse. They are about different kinds of love. You can pre-order it here, if you are so minded.
The Dinner Party by Cat Fitzpatrick: 9781644215487 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Cat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, The Call-Out— a trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme. The Dinner...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Reading update: tiptree jr short stories continue to slay in their exacting pessimism, hilary mantel’s thomas cromwell is addictive in his understated psychopathic thirst for power, poppy z brite writes vampires just like me at 13 daydreamed about. I guess its evil men hours
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Back in queens ny
January 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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ICE tries to raid restaurant after they helped community.

It didn’t go the way they’d planned.
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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i wrote about laughing at ICE and that one margaret atwood quote about men being afraid of women laughing at them
www.patreon.com/posts/148398...
January 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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For more on Cambreros’ surely ongoing crime spree, see the San Diego Union-Tribune’s coverage. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/25/s...
South Bay businesswoman granted clemency by Trump sent to prison again for new fraud scheme
Adriana Camberos was sentenced to 14 months in custody after a jury convicted her and brother Andy last year
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Are you currently 480th in line for an e-book and wondering why @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social doesn't just ... buy more copies?

The short answer: e-books are incredibly expensive. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to curb the excessive pricing from publishers, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Assorted whatever. Chickens and shapes. Really into eggs laid on bird spikes at this time.

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We're out of office but we'll be back Jan 5!
December 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Is ICE coming to your neighborhood?

I share some tips learned in Rapid Response training here in Chicagoland.
Losing My Perspicacity, January 16, 2026: How we stop ICE
How we stop ICE
losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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So I shared this thread on the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 & I'll share again because I think it is important for folks to know what it is the Trump admin has to undo to undo our US citizenship in order to set a precedent for challenging birthright citizenship.
Forgot to share here but to help put this into perspective, my great grandma was 9 years old when ALL Native Americans gained US citizenship on June 2, 1924 with the Indian Citizenship Act.
January 16, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Minneapolis tonight.
January 15, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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Naaaaaaailed it
January 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
January 15, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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THANK YOU TO ALL THE ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING YOUR SAFETY ON THE LINE TO PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE TO YOU ALL.

NO THANKS TO THE VICHY POLITICIANS WHO ARE FAILING COMPLETELY TO MEET THE MOMENT.

NO FORGIVENESS FOR ANYONE WHO IS FORCING YOU TO DO THIS
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM