Marta Costello
@martacostello.bsky.social
Author, YOU’RE ONLY TWO ONCE (Kirkus calls it a "comedic hit" :D ) | Writing & making little paintings and drawings for my kids’ lunchboxes | #SCBWI #12X12pb
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Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
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Fucking abolish and prosecute
Interviewing a 5-year-old about how they're worried because "bad guys are taking mommies and daddies" is not something I ever thought I'd do.
February 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Fucking abolish and prosecute
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you can’t focus group this. you can’t means test it. just make it fucking stop.
February 1, 2026 at 4:53 AM
you can’t focus group this. you can’t means test it. just make it fucking stop.
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Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights.
Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights.
Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
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my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.
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ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.
January 28, 2026 at 7:50 PM
ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.
@kaokaliayang.bsky.social is unparalleled. You must read this now: lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
lithub.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:15 PM
@kaokaliayang.bsky.social is unparalleled. You must read this now: lithub.com/letter-from-...
Pay attention ⤵️ ICE never left LA either
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
The intense fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
January 28, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Pay attention ⤵️ ICE never left LA either
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Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
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Trump can’t even fill a high school gymnasium now.
January 28, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Trump can’t even fill a high school gymnasium now.
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So that's now two members of Congress, both black, assaulted by overtly racist Trumpists over the span of a few days.
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 AM
So that's now two members of Congress, both black, assaulted by overtly racist Trumpists over the span of a few days.
THIS THIS THIS
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 AM
THIS THIS THIS
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Solidarity from our doorstep in Los Angeles ❤️
January 25, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Solidarity from our doorstep in Los Angeles ❤️
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I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
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The next stage is Insurrection Act, canceling elections and Martial Law.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
January 24, 2026 at 9:10 PM
The next stage is Insurrection Act, canceling elections and Martial Law.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
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Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go.
Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
January 24, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go.
Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
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You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
January 24, 2026 at 8:24 PM
In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
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he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.
January 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM
he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.
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/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.