Cari Luna
@cariluna.bsky.social
Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc.
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🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One
Feds could be in your group chat
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:29 AM
🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a wild success. #taxtherich @House Our Neighbors: Yes on 1A @Tech 4 Housing
TikTok video by Ron Davis
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February 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
I’m just a human being standing in front of the news, asking this year to suck a little bit less.
February 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I’m just a human being standing in front of the news, asking this year to suck a little bit less.
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Post a banger that’s not in English.
February 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Post a banger that’s not in English.
Current (habitual) status: incandescent with rage
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Current (habitual) status: incandescent with rage
Hey, Portland Public Schools parents! We just got a survey via email about our opinion on using AI in school. Please take a minute to fill out the survey and let PPS know that you’re opposed to this attack on human critical thinking and creativity and that AI has no place in our schools.
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Hey, Portland Public Schools parents! We just got a survey via email about our opinion on using AI in school. Please take a minute to fill out the survey and let PPS know that you’re opposed to this attack on human critical thinking and creativity and that AI has no place in our schools.
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Hey guess what? @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are creating our own news outlet to cover the PNW, launching soon.
Please consider subscribing.
Please consider subscribing.
Are you tired of journalism by parachuting east coasters?
Sick of stories with clickbait headlines that lack context and reporting to explain what's really happening?
Want stories that illuminate the Northwest without bombarding you constantly for your attention?
Welcome to the Western Edge.
Sick of stories with clickbait headlines that lack context and reporting to explain what's really happening?
Want stories that illuminate the Northwest without bombarding you constantly for your attention?
Welcome to the Western Edge.
February 7, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Hey guess what? @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are creating our own news outlet to cover the PNW, launching soon.
Please consider subscribing.
Please consider subscribing.
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
I’d like to thank my noise canceling headphones for making the work I have to do today possible in spite of the football game that my family (none of whom actually give a fuck about sports any more than I do) is noisily watching in the living room.
February 8, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I’d like to thank my noise canceling headphones for making the work I have to do today possible in spite of the football game that my family (none of whom actually give a fuck about sports any more than I do) is noisily watching in the living room.
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o : The Language of Languages | Milkweed Editions
Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is an iconic figure in postcolonial tho...
milkweed.org
February 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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okay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
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February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
okay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
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Nonfiction Writers! Looking for a summer workshop? I’m excited to be one of the nonfiction faculty at this year’s McCormack Writing Center’s Oregon Summer workshop (formerly Tin House). mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
Where else have I facilitated workshops? ⬇️
Where else have I facilitated workshops? ⬇️
Oregon Summer Workshop - McCormack Writing Center
mccormackwritingcenter.org
February 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Nonfiction Writers! Looking for a summer workshop? I’m excited to be one of the nonfiction faculty at this year’s McCormack Writing Center’s Oregon Summer workshop (formerly Tin House). mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
Where else have I facilitated workshops? ⬇️
Where else have I facilitated workshops? ⬇️
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Interesting to see which councilors are uncomfortable with city council using its charter powers to investigate unreported funds hmmmmm
February 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Interesting to see which councilors are uncomfortable with city council using its charter powers to investigate unreported funds hmmmmm
When you think you're reading an ICE joke and then you get to see actual turkeys.
The free-roaming turkeys of Saint Paul, Minnesota:
- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really
- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really
February 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM
When you think you're reading an ICE joke and then you get to see actual turkeys.
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Obviously unsettling to learn about even more unaccounted for funds especially during a period of fiscal strain for households and the city alike. This is precisely why I filed a resolution to initiate formal oversight proceedings in December. We’ll take that up on Wednesday.
‘No way to run a city’: Officials learn Portland has millions more in unspent housing funds
The revelation comes months after policymakers learned of a different $21 million in unspent money.
www.oregonlive.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Obviously unsettling to learn about even more unaccounted for funds especially during a period of fiscal strain for households and the city alike. This is precisely why I filed a resolution to initiate formal oversight proceedings in December. We’ll take that up on Wednesday.
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Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.
February 3, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.
I spent the afternoon with @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social staff (I’m on the board) at a training about noncooperation in the face of authoritarianism and left with way more hope than I went in with. If we work together, we WILL win.
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I spent the afternoon with @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social staff (I’m on the board) at a training about noncooperation in the face of authoritarianism and left with way more hope than I went in with. If we work together, we WILL win.
Me, neurotypical, trying to tell a story to my husband and kids, who all have ADHD.
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Me, neurotypical, trying to tell a story to my husband and kids, who all have ADHD.
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ICE must be abolished, and it will be. The American people won’t stand for this.
In the meantime, we need every elected official at every level of government to leverage the powers that we have to hold them accountable. I will be doing my part and I will expect other leaders will too.
In the meantime, we need every elected official at every level of government to leverage the powers that we have to hold them accountable. I will be doing my part and I will expect other leaders will too.
February 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
ICE must be abolished, and it will be. The American people won’t stand for this.
In the meantime, we need every elected official at every level of government to leverage the powers that we have to hold them accountable. I will be doing my part and I will expect other leaders will too.
In the meantime, we need every elected official at every level of government to leverage the powers that we have to hold them accountable. I will be doing my part and I will expect other leaders will too.