Becky and Carolyn do great work in one of the least hospitable states to fight against book bans within, so if you want to donate somewhere meaningful and grassroots this #BannedBooksWeek TX FReadom Fighters are a great choice!

TX FReadom Fighters@freadomfighters.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just spent 8 hours testifying at Tx Senate Ed committee about the freedom to read and impacts of new Tx laws. If that work means something to you, please consider supporting our GoFundMe. We have given countless hours the last few years and could use the support. www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

Love love loving this docu series. Dont tempt me to go back to school to get my MLIS. 🙈 roadtripnation.com/roadtrip/bey...

All three of these guys are me, being a Gen X old, watching Backrooms. #gowatchBlairWitchProjectyall #sweetsummerbabyRTFMFAs #atleastitsnotaMarvelmovie

Jimmy and Kayla sharing an office building with (nearly almost) Green Lantern. 🫪 #hbomax #hacks #lanterns

Let's do this

PSA: watch Stath Let’s Flats. I promise you. Britbox 4eva.

Love to see someone booed lustily. Lustily: the only way to boo.

And the worst thing he has on Talarico is that he might have been a vegan once and also the president thinks he looks like Alfred E Nueman. 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 (PS. the latest polls in TX have Talarico at 47% and the indicted pedo protector “getting divorced for biblical reasons” turd in a human suit at 44%)

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Searches for Adam Hoffman are skyrocketing as reports go viral of Ken Paxton’s office offering the admitted child molester a one-day jail sentence after serially abusing a young boy.

My book has been selected as part of the Word Nerd First Chapter Friday Summer Challenge! Teachers are discovering new books and building recommendation skills all summer long. Use this link to join the challenge: wordnerd.myflodesk.com/fcf-challeng...

And YOU get a ballroom! And YOU get a ballroom! Who needs climate information and safety when you, too, can get A BALLROOM* 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 *bunker

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our long national nightmare of monitoring coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate is coming to an end.

It took 100 years for me to be cool with me. And you know what? That’s totally ok! We all have a journey, and every journey is valid. When you’re ready, you’re ready. High-five if you’re all set, and *secret high-five if you’re not quite there*. Happy Pride, y’all. You’ll figure it out. Love you.

Dropping by after a million years to ask a v v important question: watching lots of movies and shows recently filmed in the SW (Albuquerque in particular). Pluribus, The Boroughs, I Love You I Miss You, etc. Is this because Hollywood hates GA and FL and TX now?? Even with the tax breaks?? Or nah? 🧐

Get a Grip,Vivy Cohen @sarahkapit.bsky.social Honestly Elliot @gillianmcd.bsky.social BenBee series @kaholt.bsky.social The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by @stacymcanulty.bsky.social How to Make Friends with the Sea @tanyaguerrero.bsky.social Good Different @medenkuyatt.bsky.social

Looking for great middle grade books featuring neurodiverse characters? I've started making book recommendation bookmarks for my 5th graders. #BeAnAmbassador #5thgradebooks What would you add? Read the article and download the bookmarks here: www.thelogonauts.com/2026/05/neur...

Favorite Neurodiverse Middle Grade Stories

A resource for diverse and global books for middle to upper elementary.

thelogonauts.com

Just watched the first episode of My So Called Life with my 19yo daughter. I was her age when I watched that show in my freshman dorm common room. Too real then, still real now. Wild to realize how much one show has influenced so much of my creative work.

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.

Nicole Foy@nicolefoy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.

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Running numbers with my CPA so she can prep my taxes and WOOF Y’ALL. My author visit income is down 92% from last year and 87% from the year before. In case you’re wondering how the book banning era is going.

Obergfell stands. Thank you, SCOTUS. Love is love is legal is love. (Even in Texas)

Celebrate Indigenous storytelling this #IndigenousPeoplesDay — and every day! — with these new and upcoming releases from Heartdrum! Here’s every Heartdrum title that’s been published in 2025 — as well as a look ahead at forthcoming 2026 Heartdrum titles that you can pre-order today!

My favorite time of the week is when my wife and I are on the couch and the light is dimmed and we’re watching #gbbo and we both simultaneously go “oh nooooooo” very quietly under our breath.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

yahoo.com

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Mark Ruffalo as Tina Belcher in the (inevitable?) Bob’s Burgers Broadway show. Yeah? FUCK yeah.

While we’re suing AI companies, can authors also, as a class, start suing the organized groups behind book banning? We have literal receipts proving the tremendous personal, professional, and financial damage incurred because of their malevolent libel and slander. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training

Technology giant Apple was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era.

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Last night’s dream: Me, on a spacewalk, “Guys, shouldn’t we be wearing spacesuits? Or at least helmets?” Also me: *accidentally breaks space telescope in half, watches it float off into oblivion* “It’ll still work tho, right guys?” Exciting addition to my (robust) collection of anxiety dreams!

Watching Alien:Earth and realllllly wondering if Noah Hawley pitched it as “what if Flight of the Navigator went horribly wrong?”

At last, it’s Javier’s turn to tell his story. Available in May! Pre-order from your favorite bookstore now! 🐦‍⬛🌀💛