When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come. Readers resist #BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

The Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops in more than half a dozen American cities that it says are crime ridden.

bookriot.com/new-host-of-... YAY, #ReadingRainbow is back AND with @mychal3ts.bsky.social as host!!! #ReadingRainbow #KidLit #Books #Librarian #Readers

Trump is laying the groundwork to come after your Social Security if he shuts the government down

My latest newsletter is now a available: sabrinafedel.substack.com/p/september-...

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Getting boxes of client books never gets old! @emilysoderberg.bsky.social

Agent Elizabeth Harding has acquired the Curtis Brown literary agency from its co-owners, Timothy and Ginger Knowlton

Let’s be clear: what Trump is calling "unserious and ridiculous" is our proposal to prevent a 75% HIKE in health care premiums for millions and stop him from illegally withholding funds for national priorities.  He would rather shut down the government. A Mad King.

The Dragon Bravo fire continues to burn in remote pockets of the park. Federal officials have not yet provided details on their response to lawmakers.

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

We have just one week left until a Republican government shutdown. Democrats are ready to pass a bill that keeps millions of Americans from getting kicked off their health care. Trump and Republicans won’t even come to the table to negotiate.

In other news, Chief Justice Roberts's "administrative" stay from 9/9 — allowing the Trump admin hold off spending nearly $5 billion in foreign aid that Congress said is to be spent by 9/30 — remains in effect tonight, one week and one hour from the spending deadline. www.lawdork.com/i/173230405/...

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of that human impact is expected to double by 2050, according to a new study. www.wired.com/story/human-...

This, unfortunately, fits well with my Law Dork newsletter earlier today. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-toss...

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Maine and Oregon Tuesday, escalating its campaign to obtain sensitive voter registration data from states across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is why they’re deleting studies

The thing about lying is that it snowballs quickly. So, when you’re trying to lie to an entire nation, there’s infinite ground you have to cover. It is simply not possible to not get caught. The Trump regime is wrapped in its own web of lies, one it will keep tripping over until it’s stuck for good.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

“What we can see is that [Jane Austen] is calling for questioning, for examining, for vigilance and even, in the words of Anne Elliot to come, for ‘equity and justice.’ She’s also calling for connection, unification, understanding, where we can find it…” open.substack.com/pub/austenco...

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.

It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on NOT understanding it.   Well, the Republican Party depends on fossil fuel money.

UPDATE: DOJ is more than an hour late for its filing, a declaration about what the Trump administration has done to address whether people it sent to Ghana earlier this month are being sent to countries where they fear persecution or torture.

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

You’re kidding right, Lutnick? You let him fire all those people - act like a maniac with people’s lives the ability of our government to function - and just months later say, “that was wrong.” Unreal. wapo.st/462dsvz

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Watch one thing today: THIS. “Despair is not an option. Giving up is not acceptable.”

NEW: A federal court in DC ruled that Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights, may return to work at the Library of Congress after her attempted firing by the Administration. ALA welcomes this ruling & celebrates Perlmutter's return to the US Copyright Office: www.politico.com/live-updates...

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4

This is how Kent State happened. It started as a war protest but soon became a protest against campus occupation by the National Guard.

Another view of the thousands calling for an end to the militarization of DC. Chants of “Free DC! Down to Trump!” (🎥 WashingtonianProbs)

Just because someone participates in their own worst interest, that doesn’t absolve those who enable them.

I’m happy we will get some small percentage of our works being used, but the reality is that AI is not a human brain that learns and interprets and creates. It’s algorithms that can copy, paste, and predict at a plagiaristic level that will evade technical Plagiarism .

California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday they’ve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.” New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.

Oh?

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million propaganda contract with Netanyahu’s office and was described as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging. jackpoulson.substack.com/p/googles-45...

RFK Jr has taken a chainsaw to American public health and undermined the mission of HHS. It's no surprise the patriots who still believe in that mission are calling on him to resign. He is a danger to Americans' health. He should be fired immediately.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.