The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Most cats don’t even like going near open water but a cat named Unsinkable Sam survived three warships sinking in WWII, one on the German side and two on the English side.

Serapio, they could never make me hate you 😭❤️ #audiobooksky #booksky #librofm

No amount of better messaging, being nicer on social media, or having modest political goals was ever going to work to stop this backlash because the world's richest and most powerful people have all decided they don't want us to exist. How do you even fight blatant lies like this?

Love how my car auto-plays whatever I have currently going on @libro.fm because it’s like “no choice between music and book. You’re listening to book idc what you were in the mood for.” #audiobooksky

Political violence also includes stripping trans people of their rights, killing innocent people in Palestine, rounding up and deporting people with no due process, systemicized racism. So if there’s no room for political violence you better be talking about ALL political violence.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

Read this on an Amtrak on my way to NYC to see Hadestown last week and it was SO MUCH FUN!! Will post a full review soon on TikTok but highly recommend if you love books with messy chaos sapphics #booksky #bookrecommendation

Please help by sharing Mahmoud’s crowdfund to raise money for his daughter who’s in severe condition. Donate if you can! gofund.me/8f6150929

I’m just a librarian, standing in front of some Brontë fans, telling them there will always be terrible book to movie adaptations and you don’t have to watch them.

Pro tip! If you mask on an Amtrak train with no assigned seating, no one will sit next to you bc they’ll think you’re sick. Instead they’ll sit across the aisle next to the poor girl who is literally hacking up a lung and looks like she has a fever 😷

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. He's throwing the trans community under the bus.

I keep seeing @kateforrest.bsky.social post about her book Once Upon A Punk Show so I finally bit the bullet! Planning on reading this on my train trip to NYC in a few weeks ☺️ #booksky

Do book pirates realise that when they post a book to a pirating site, Kindle Unlimited books often get pulled as their system views that as a breach of exclusivity? Then the authors are banned? So not only did you not pay the author, you facilitated the loss of their livelihood.

The military and federal law enforcement are occupying our nations capital in a brazen display of petty authoritarianism and no one is doing anything about it. There are no protests, there are no politicians or institutions speaking up. We're cooked. There's nothing stopping this fascism.

Can’t stop thinking about You Weren’t Meant to Be Human. It was a 5-star read for me and I will be recommending it like crazy BUT it’s not for everyone. As someone who would probably have a meltdown if life was growing inside of me, it RESONATED. Just check those content warnings! #booksky

Just sayin’

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is hiding what's happening here.

5 years ago I made a lil tweet and now I’m dropping the second book in my Black fantasy series. Happy release day to Bones at the Crossroads! You can purchase it now! #booksky

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard. These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

being alive right now is completely incompatible with sanity on every level and every day i feel more and more crazy

It was never going to stop at trans people. They want to control everyone's Healthcare and dictate what you can take and when.

Nothing quite like digging into a book by an author you adore, knowing you’re also gonna love their new release ☺️ #booksky

The bar is already so low and yet the cis men continue to fuck up 🤨

No cheating, post your current lock screen!!!

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together. Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act. bookriot.com/we-can-still...

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

1. In a serious escalation, the state of Ohio has now banned medicaid and other funding for any mental health services that affirm or promote social transition. This is for youth AND adults too. The latest from our writer, S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people. It would make virtually any law permissible.

The world is bleak but at least I still have @bodegacats.bsky.social to get me through each day

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Every time I check the news lately it’s like someone hit me with a sledgehammer but there’s no time to recover between blows and I’d like to go to the hospital but I can’t afford the ride in the ambulance

This is one of my favorite reads of the last year and I can’t say enough good things about it!!

The FBI has launched politically motivated criminal investigations into 3 children's hospitals over providing gender affirming care to trans youth by absurdly citing an inapplicable female genital mutilation statute. archive.ph/FqpS0

People might not realize this, but a lot of trans folks crowdfunding to survive are doing so because they’ve been excluded from the workforce due to transphobia or can only get jobs that pay too little to survive (also due to transphobia). If that’s not you, please consider donating if you can. 🫶

www.keshetonline.org/resources/ho... How your Jewish Community can be a safe haven for trans people, resource sheet. Alt: protesters with signs: God loves trans kids; Trans Jews belong here.

The federal government imposing a stop work order on Trevor project for the national 988 suicide hotline on the same day that the Supreme Court greenlit a ban on care despite the risk of suicide sends a clear message: The United States government officially wants trans youth to kill themselves.

In case you somehow needed more reason to hate the NYT, here they are blaming trans people for their own oppression just a day after the Supreme Court stripped away the ability for trans kids to get life saving health care.

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

Books to buy featuring Black kids in fantasy worlds where they come out on top! You can buy from a Black owned bookstore here: bookshop.org/shop/bravean... Brave + Kind Bookshop Bookshop #booksky #juneteenth

Wondering how to celebrate this Pride the Fifteenth? Peruse this thread of incredible trans authors! With a couple of hundred authors writing across all genres, including some we've arguably invented, you're sure to find your new favorite #PrideBookFair 🌈📚

I GOT THE ARC IVE BEEN DESPERATELY WANTING HOLY CRAP

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Elder Millennial a Little Jealous That Today’s Teenage Punks Have Real Fascists to Rise up Against thehardtimes.net/culture/elde...

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

"I'm being bullied for my beliefs!" They scream. Your beliefs are shitty. Fix your hearts or die.

Mask up y'all, word is this one's painful as fuck (plus all the other shit that comes with COVID)