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Andrew Karre
@andrewkarre.bsky.social
Antifascist. Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
"An officer engaged a domestic terrorist with his CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E., but the domestic terrorist moved erratically, and the officer feared the terrorist was reaching for his gun, so the hero-patriot officer had no choice but to neutralize the terrorist."—a White House spokesperson in 2027.
It’s true that if you don’t count 2/3 of its population, Minnesota would be a red state
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTom Emmer: "Minnesota doesn't necessarily lean Democrat. In fact, if you look at the 2024 presidential heat map, it is overwhelmingly red. There is a blue dot essentially in the Twin Cities."
Mob shit, but the Supreme Court says it’s ok so we live like we own gas stations in Brooklyn in 1950 and wait for the next unimaginable violation
Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2w agoA shakedown www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
On my first day in Major British Writers I at Lawrence University in 1998, Prof. Bertrand Goldgar, cold-opened with a recital of Larkin’s “This Be the Verse.” I can still hear it in his voice now—a treasured memory of college. I took every class he taught. I am so sorry for students in Florida.
Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says (Gift Article)
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.
nytimes.com
In 1998, my roommate and I ceased to have a CD player. Instead we had an American Water player.
Mike Chen@mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 3w agoPost a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains
In Sept., it’ll have been 10 years since I received BLOOD WATER PAINT by @joymccullough.bsky.social as a sub. Sometime that month, Joy and I had our first call. I believe I was in the upstairs dining area of a Whole Foods in Manhattan. I don’t remember why, but the call went well. 1/4
“Trump is our first postliterate president. It is difficult to imagine him being elected leader of a country where information is primarily spread through text. Ahead of the 2024 election, an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters found that Joe Biden had a 49-pt lead among respondents who read newspapers.”
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
theatlantic.com
“The AP scoured hundreds of court documents and immigration records to reveal several cases of children being permanently, legally taken from their families after initial separations.”
AP: Migrant children may be adopted after parents are deported
Holes in immigration laws are allowing state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families without notifying their deported parents, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.T…
thehill.com
Whoever’s holding a cute bath picture of baby Pau Cubarsí, now’s the time.
Turning on the Telemundo World Cup broadcast and encountering Tom Cruise… What a world.
“The state of our city budget is not great; the police department is, in fact, bankrupting our city, so I don’t know how much money we have to contribute to a mounted patrol unit.”
Minneapolis city leaders reckon with projected $33 million budget gap
City leaders, like those in neighboring St. Paul, will have to make tough choices if they want to plug the expected budget hole without raising taxes.
startribune.com
New Episode: Sex in YA Literature Feat. Editorial Genius @andrewkarre.bsky.social, as well as a discussion of This One Summer by @dirtbagg.bsky.social & Mariko Tamaki and our aspirational adventure to @redemmas.org spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/5Z8jvB3Wr4b
Another Word update, another version where auto-correct is broken in comments—among other things. We'll tell our grandkids about the pre-AI, pre-corporate enshitification years, when occasionally big software companies cared about improving apps for their most skilled users. No one will believe us.
i kinda love this answer, it’s very illuminating. it’s not about female athletes at all, it’s about the fragile egos of delusional psychopathic parents who want returns on their perceived investments
Malik Tillman was born in Germany. JD is still sad and confused.
Three cheers for Bosnia’s gaffer. I hope he has a yacht to go with that blazer.
The moment where Jude Bellingham hugs the DR Congo keeper after his wonder save is genuinely lovely. Lionel Mpasi was amazing.
I don’t think the US will win the World Cup, but it is delicious to imagine someone explaining to Trump that the source of nearly all of the US’s offense is a poster child for birthright citizenship.
Every Flo Balogun goal is a goal for birthright citizenship.
"Kids with full-ride sports scholarships" is up there with "kids at boarding schools" in the rankings of things that are vastly over represented in books and movies.
Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.
Well it’s a dissent in part and a concurrence in part. (See also: me not being a lawyer.)
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2mo agoOkay, I know I’m late to this — there’s been a lot of soccer to watch — but this bit from Kavanaugh’s dissent in Barbara? Gun control would like a word… (No, I’m not a lawyer, but the whole textualist/originalist thing has never made sense to me.)
thinking about Dred Scott today in advance of the birthright citizenship decision. the 14th amendment it isn’t just about status or paperwork—it’s about humanity. that all people born here are citizens.* Scott died after being free for just 16 months. he had fought for his daughters, not himself.
Don’t miss the release of @sunyungshin.bsky.social ‘s new memoir, HEART EATER! It’s groundbreaking, I assure you.
The Midwest Black Book Fair is happening in Minneapolis on August 22! ✊🏽✊🏽🤩 Lots of panels, workshops, readings, discussions are in the works. I’m excited, and hope to see you there. @mnbipockidlit.bsky.social is thrilled to be a Black Literary Partner.
Midwest Black Book Fair
midwestblackbookfair.com
even the head quack wants these places to quit lying about diagnosing ectopic pregnancies please DO continue lying about offering support for people who continue their pregnancies, they advise, but they don't want to land on Letitia James' enemies list
Why are crisis pregnancy centers saying they can 'rule out' ectopic pregnancy?
Under President Trump, more federal attention and support has gone towards anti-abortion Christian centers. A watchdog group says many of them mislead patients with promises to "rule out" ectopic preg...
npr.org
Here’s the promo image and details on adoptee-centered events I mentioned in an earlier post, the weekend of September 11!
