Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now
@knownforms.bsky.social
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
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The Price: A Queer Daughter of a Queer Mother - Electric Literature
I am doomed to die an ugly death or at least to be separated from my partner, probably violently. So is my queer mother and my partner and my cousin and many of my friends. We are all doomed, it seems...
electricliterature.com
I wrote this and it's still true but also, I've since gone no contact because she's toxic and have been writing a response ever since electricliterature.com/the-price-a-...
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“Jackson Synagogue Burning Suspect [Stephen Spencer Pittman] Indicted on State Charges With Hate Crimes Enhancement *** After being arraigned on federal charges…while declaring ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’ to a federal judge, he is expected to face preliminary court hearings next Tuesday…” 1/13/26 … 1/
Jackson Synagogue Burning Suspect Indicted on State Charges With Hate Crimes Enhancement
State prosecutors charged Stephen Spencer Pittman with first-degree arson of a place of worship for the alleged arson of Beth Israel Congregation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
“Jackson Synagogue Burning Suspect [Stephen Spencer Pittman] Indicted on State Charges With Hate Crimes Enhancement *** After being arraigned on federal charges…while declaring ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’ to a federal judge, he is expected to face preliminary court hearings next Tuesday…” 1/13/26 … 1/
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I really think people are *really* underestimating the depths of misogyny in US society
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I really think people are *really* underestimating the depths of misogyny in US society
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I recall telling a male friend awhile back - there are way too many men who don't regard women as human beings. They don't like women.
I really think people are *really* underestimating the depths of misogyny in US society
January 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I recall telling a male friend awhile back - there are way too many men who don't regard women as human beings. They don't like women.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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This should be a national shutdown
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This should be a national shutdown
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If you haven't been in this spot before, think about how weird it would be to rely on someone else to get you such basics, to help with sensitive things like laundry. It's AWKARD to ask for.
So break the awkwardness a bit by opening up the door with specific suggestions to show what you can do.
So break the awkwardness a bit by opening up the door with specific suggestions to show what you can do.
Mpls: If you are working to support neighbors right now I *highly* suggest avoiding the generic "let me know what you need" and instead asking/offering directly:
"I'm going to the store. Send me a list."
"Do you need shampoo? Fruit? Toilet paper?"
"Can I help with your laundry?"
"I'm going to the store. Send me a list."
"Do you need shampoo? Fruit? Toilet paper?"
"Can I help with your laundry?"
January 14, 2026 at 1:30 AM
If you haven't been in this spot before, think about how weird it would be to rely on someone else to get you such basics, to help with sensitive things like laundry. It's AWKARD to ask for.
So break the awkwardness a bit by opening up the door with specific suggestions to show what you can do.
So break the awkwardness a bit by opening up the door with specific suggestions to show what you can do.
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Update: Since Jan 9, there have been 12 ICE Air flights out of Minneapolis, MN—a jump from the typical 3 flights/week to Minneapolis. This surge is taking place as people with valid refugee status are being taken from their homes in MN & transferred to detention centers in TX.
January 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Update: Since Jan 9, there have been 12 ICE Air flights out of Minneapolis, MN—a jump from the typical 3 flights/week to Minneapolis. This surge is taking place as people with valid refugee status are being taken from their homes in MN & transferred to detention centers in TX.
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Please contribute if you can to get this Senegalese student snatched by ICE home ASAP www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
Donate to Mor Ba
19-year-old Detroit student currently in ICE custody.Mo Ba is a student at Western International High School on Detroit’s west side. He arrived in the U.S. from Senegal in January 2024 as a minor and ...
www.zeffy.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Please contribute if you can to get this Senegalese student snatched by ICE home ASAP www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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These people have wreaked absolute HAVOC on people's lives. I expect that they are already planning to reconstitute in a different form.
NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
These people have wreaked absolute HAVOC on people's lives. I expect that they are already planning to reconstitute in a different form.
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“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”
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Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
wapo.st
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”
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hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk
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Bless the Ford worker who called Donald Trump a pedophile protector to his face today, which made President Pedo Protector throw up his tiny middle finger.
January 14, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Bless the Ford worker who called Donald Trump a pedophile protector to his face today, which made President Pedo Protector throw up his tiny middle finger.
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How the Supreme Court’s Corruption Is Locking Down Reform Public Policy in Its Tracks talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-t... 👇🏻💯The answer to Roberts Court corruption cannot be, OK they win, we have to live with it. It’s to exercise governing power to make them irrelevant.
How the Supreme Court’s Corruption Is Locking Down Reform Public Policy in Its Tracks
I’ve written again and again that reforming the Supreme Court — neutralizing...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM
How the Supreme Court’s Corruption Is Locking Down Reform Public Policy in Its Tracks talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-t... 👇🏻💯The answer to Roberts Court corruption cannot be, OK they win, we have to live with it. It’s to exercise governing power to make them irrelevant.
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need universal basic income ASAP so all my friends can make cool shit without needing to worry about rent
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
need universal basic income ASAP so all my friends can make cool shit without needing to worry about rent
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"If you're a US citizen, you'll be free to go after they briefly destroy your car, injure you, and spray pepper spray everywhere. Also they can kill you" -Brett Kavanaugh
Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver
ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.
sahanjournal.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
"If you're a US citizen, you'll be free to go after they briefly destroy your car, injure you, and spray pepper spray everywhere. Also they can kill you" -Brett Kavanaugh
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This is literally called a "show of force" and it's used in war to intimidate the enemy when you ain't really got shit to back it up.
They are a bunch of wildly insecure pissbabies treating their own capital city like it's goddamn Fallujah
They are a bunch of wildly insecure pissbabies treating their own capital city like it's goddamn Fallujah
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This is literally called a "show of force" and it's used in war to intimidate the enemy when you ain't really got shit to back it up.
They are a bunch of wildly insecure pissbabies treating their own capital city like it's goddamn Fallujah
They are a bunch of wildly insecure pissbabies treating their own capital city like it's goddamn Fallujah
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Career prosecutors are being forced to resign because the Trump administration is pressuring them to not investigate the ICE agent who killed Renee Good and instead go after Good’s widow.
This weaponization of our justice system is stunning.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
This weaponization of our justice system is stunning.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Career prosecutors are being forced to resign because the Trump administration is pressuring them to not investigate the ICE agent who killed Renee Good and instead go after Good’s widow.
This weaponization of our justice system is stunning.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
This weaponization of our justice system is stunning.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Abolish ICE
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Abolish ICE
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Nurses are out in force on Day 2 of the #NYCNurseStrike shout out to all the nurses on this picket line early morning! #WhenWeFightWeWin
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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There he is.
Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 AM
There he is.
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For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good's queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
Renee Nicole Good’s queerness isn’t an aside—it’s a key part of her story | Xtra Magazine
We can’t ignore the misogyny and homophobia baked into Good’s killing—and erasing her wife does just that
xtramagazine.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:42 AM
For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good's queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
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For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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Okay, someone needs to write a couple more verses to this and teach it to every wine mom in Minneapolis.
🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
(now brainstorming 'Come Out ICE and CBP' after my wife played Black & Tans driving into town)
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Okay, someone needs to write a couple more verses to this and teach it to every wine mom in Minneapolis.