@leilaniclark
Writing about freeways in East L.A, living off the 101 in Northern California. Published at The Guardian, The Rumpus, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED, Coyote Media. Day job: environmental nonprofit comms manager. Teamsters Local 665.
The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.
So weird to attend a nonviolent communication training at work while my country actively wages a war run by liars, grifters, and bullies.
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.
Scum leaders, scum nation.
We’re entered the “please say sike” portion of the news cycle.
Major guajalote action en Roseland last weekend
Developing a theory about good fire therapy as a tool for surviving perimenopause.
Was tempted to do the Kate Bush Wuthering Heights dance at my work site this morning.
check it out: carla and @danisavestheworld.bsky.social are hosting another Corvid Anarcho Witchcraft writing circle for paid members on March 7th!
🐦⬛ also included in this write up are some fabulous writings from the Solstice Writing Circle!
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Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca.
Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.
Heat pumps are quietly one of the most sci fi pieces of tech on the market
Part of an efficiency revolution that should get so much more attention, but the entire tech sector is mesmerized by AI
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
Spotted in San Francisco at Andytown Coffee Roasters on Taraval Street. ❤️
Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled, but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/minneapolis_ice
Dim sum in Sunset District, San Francisco. The best way to lunch.
Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps.
There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of the landscape.
The scene where he slashed open the thingy on the calf with sepsis was truly something! 🤢
WE WHO???????
I’m available to start a book review cooperative. I don’t have any money, but I have a ton of editing experience, and I love doing it. And I write, too.
We’re planning on driving in from Santa Rosa on Saturday to celebrate my kids birthday at the KPop store in Sunset. Any word on traffic on that side of the city?
@jwoolington.bsky.social on the sage grouse beat! 👏👏👏
