Rene Denfeld
@renedenfeld.bsky.social
Death row investigator, French Prix winning and bestselling author of The Enchanted, The Child Finder, Butterfly Girl and Sleeping Giants.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
There it is, in a nutshell.
April 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There it is, in a nutshell.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
New beauty from Suleika Jaouad. Essays by so many luminaries, including @renedenfeld.bsky.social ("When we see enchantment in one another and ourselves, the world blows wide open") and @bethkephart.bsky.social ("Love's first wish is to make what is broken whole again"), along with writing prompts. 💙
April 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
New beauty from Suleika Jaouad. Essays by so many luminaries, including @renedenfeld.bsky.social ("When we see enchantment in one another and ourselves, the world blows wide open") and @bethkephart.bsky.social ("Love's first wish is to make what is broken whole again"), along with writing prompts. 💙
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Ummm, this. This novel blew me away. I've always been a fan of this author, but jeez-laweez, Sleeping Giants moved me. The message was a powerful one, too.
I couldn't put it down.
@renedenfeld.bsky.social
I couldn't put it down.
@renedenfeld.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ummm, this. This novel blew me away. I've always been a fan of this author, but jeez-laweez, Sleeping Giants moved me. The message was a powerful one, too.
I couldn't put it down.
@renedenfeld.bsky.social
I couldn't put it down.
@renedenfeld.bsky.social
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
April 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials.
nyer.cm/hMT7u9R
nyer.cm/hMT7u9R
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials.
nyer.cm/hMT7u9R
nyer.cm/hMT7u9R
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Please listen to an expert on the subject. This administration is NOT fighting against antisemitism. They are doing the exact opposite. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Fomenting Antisemitism
Not Combating It
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Please listen to an expert on the subject. This administration is NOT fighting against antisemitism. They are doing the exact opposite. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Worth noting that the Trumps invited a violent criminal accused of human trafficking INTO the United States: Andrew Tate.
These lies are reprehensible. That includes what they're saying about Mr. Abrego, a man who has never even been charged with a crime and whose sole criminal arrest was for loitering outside a Home Depot seeking work; they've called him a "violent criminal" and accused him of human trafficking.
I just want to reiterate that the White House Press Secretary — predictably but notably — lied through her teeth about this when asked.
April 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Worth noting that the Trumps invited a violent criminal accused of human trafficking INTO the United States: Andrew Tate.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Welcome !
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Welcome !
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
This is a dangerous slippery slope for ALL of us
Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is a dangerous slippery slope for ALL of us
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Robert Johnson, whose conviction was vacated last month. He was just 16 years old when he was arrested, and he now plans to get his driver’s license.
www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...
www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...
Charges dropped against Robert Johnson, who spent nearly 30 years in prison for 1996 murder
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Robert Johnson, whose conviction was vacated last month. He was just 16 years old when he was arrested, and he now plans to get his driver's license.
www.wbez.org
April 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Robert Johnson, whose conviction was vacated last month. He was just 16 years old when he was arrested, and he now plans to get his driver’s license.
www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...
www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
Super excited to be part of Get Lit at the Beach this year, a festival lauded by Ursula Le Guin and other writers for its warmth and connectivity to other writers & readers.
The nonprofit sponsors this week’s comedy festival and Get Lit at the Beach in April, as well as an autumn celebration of Indigenous heritage, art classes, concerts in the park,
Tolovana Arts Colony: Nurturing the Cannon Beach arts scene for 20 years • Oregon ArtsWatch
The nonprofit sponsors this week’s comedy festival and Get Lit at the Beach in April, as well as an autumn celebration of Indigenous heritage, art classes, concerts in the park, and a mini-golf fundraiser.
www.orartswatch.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Super excited to be part of Get Lit at the Beach this year, a festival lauded by Ursula Le Guin and other writers for its warmth and connectivity to other writers & readers.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
March 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...
Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers on It Too
You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibi...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Latest essay, on inviting in and not selling out. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
I am knowingly violating my Lent social media fast for exactly sixty seconds so I can drop this link because my big NEA article went love this morning and I’m very proud of it
okay bye see you Sunday
www.orartswatch.org/trumps-execu...
okay bye see you Sunday
www.orartswatch.org/trumps-execu...
Trump’s Executive Orders and the NEA: A Detailed Timeline • Oregon ArtsWatch
Claire Willett explores the new guidelines around gender ideology the National Endowment for the Arts has set for grant applicants and how they might affect Oregon arts organizations
www.orartswatch.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I am knowingly violating my Lent social media fast for exactly sixty seconds so I can drop this link because my big NEA article went love this morning and I’m very proud of it
okay bye see you Sunday
www.orartswatch.org/trumps-execu...
okay bye see you Sunday
www.orartswatch.org/trumps-execu...
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
JOB: Democracy Docket is seeking a Reporter with strong news-gathering and writing skills and a passion for voting rights and democracy to join our News Team. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...
Reporter | Work With Us
Job Overview Democracy Docket is seeking a Reporter with strong news-gathering and writing skills and a passion for voting rights and...
ats.rippling.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
JOB: Democracy Docket is seeking a Reporter with strong news-gathering and writing skills and a passion for voting rights and democracy to join our News Team. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
the revolution will need people to take meeting minutes
One thing I said I would never do is get involved in local politics. Naturally, I applied for a citizens’ board last month.
February 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
the revolution will need people to take meeting minutes
Reposted by Rene Denfeld
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.