Susan Kiyo Ito

Come hear about the joys, challenges, and freedom of being an mature writer: we promise we will be honest, truthful, and fun. Saturday. Noon. @awpwriter.org #AWP2026 @thesusanito.bsky.social @deniselow9.bsky.social

Listen to this week's episode of the LIVE! From City Lights podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts.

We feature a conversation between @jasminiolani.bsky.social and @thesusanito.bsky.social about Hakes' novel, THE PŌHAKU.

soundcloud.com/livefromcity...

open.spotify.com/episode/54pb...

These motherfuckers

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Yeah, this is the year I get back to analog everything.

Please contribute if you can…every dollar matters!

Even though we have raised a lot of money, we have used almost all of it to pay family’s rent the past two months. March rent is coming due, as are utilities bills, and we are down to just $10K.

Why is he alone?!?

Yes, there have been all sorts of studies, including in linked article.

But course everyone, and every brain, is different and even changes over time.

Study below is about paper vs and electronic calendar. I use both, same with notebooks.

WaPo laid off:

-- A journalist covering protest movements and extremism
-- A Pulitzer-winning local enterprise reporter
-- the race and ethnicity beat reporter
-- ... the Amazon beat reporter

In addition to so many others

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

My minister is there! So proud

I got several thousand of my parents’ unclaimed money!

Such a good quote!

I feel that way about my earlier writing

Amazing

"Mama And . . . Gift Wrapping" December 2025 Prompt Photo by J. Francis I spoke with my sister earlier this week and she told me she had spent four hours wrapping presents. Needless to say, she was exhausted. This got me thinking about when I ...

December Writing Prompt from our blog editors:

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.

It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

My 35 year old just moved out of country with her family.

As lawyers, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were involved in bringing this travesty of a case to SCOTUS, and they have now all joined Clarence Thomas—who voted with the majority here—as justices of the court.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

It’s debilitating.

Hollywood must stop writing harmful stereotypes, says adoptee Writers who use adopted children as plot devices for evil characters are "lazy", say adoptees.

🥚 An adoptee scriptwriter calls it:

Hollywood stories reinforce damaging tropes of adopted people as imposters/ devil children with trauma used as a plot device for evil [Marvel’s Loki]

OR

as the grateful waif who graces the lives of others [Roald Dahl’s Matilda]

www.bbc.com/news/article...

$120/2000

Thank you everybody!! 🙏💚💚

If we can get $500 in a chunk, I can lower this goal to $1500 total, so please keep boosting and sharing- new eyes help!!

It’s unreal that we take children from their families and pay strangers to care for them, when the majority of removals are due to poverty in the first place

Should You Boycott Amazon? Robert Reich

Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday?

Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE

I think about this all the time.

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.