I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

The great @willbunch.bsky.social of the @inquirer.com with a strong, angry response to the ridiculous, extreme sentences handed down to the Prairieland Nine, and an indictmet of this lawless regime that is quashing the Bill of Rights. -GIFT ARTICLE- share.inquirer.com/SoeJzW

This really isn’t hard

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

Silly thing is, a fun and cool nonpartisan event big crowds could enjoy would tend to support the power of the leading party—but they just can’t do it. They can’t bread or circus

Yes! This whole speech is a breath of fresh air. And the response to it demonstrates how desperate we are for such oxygen. Every moment Dems demonstrate a commitment to freedom over fascism, we are so ready to receive it.

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed…  Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

#Uplift -- Be sure to watch to the end, when you see how many kids they have protecting the goal 🩷😂

AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.

Lord, I wish there really were as many highly engaged readers in book clubs as these AI scams keep promising me. Thousands upon thousands of people out there, in the most unlikely places, all dying to discuss my book! How lovely if they weren’t weren’t imaginary!

Why NOT to use AI to help you find your voice: janefriedman.com/finding-your...

Why NOT to use AI to help you find your voice: janefriedman.com/finding-your...

I don't have a problem with having both moderates and progressive Democrats in Congress. I do have a problem when people collapse into a pile of wet noodles around fascism, and yet suddenly know how to pull every trick in the book to stop progressives.

Was chatting with a production editor about the difficulty of hiring senior-level kids' book designers (three big companies are currently hiring, including us), & she noted it's hard to find that level of PEs too. & then we realized those ppl all would have started just before or during COVID...

This is the way. It's the last day of school--not too late to protect our kids from showing up in September to a classroom full of AI slop.

I just realized that if you added a romantic/seduction element, this could basically be DANGEROUS LIAISONS: THE VIDEO GAME, and someone should make this and take my money.

"If you can’t tell me what your book is about, then a reader can’t tell their friends why they should read it." --> that's just one of the things I've learned in my twenty years being a literary agent. The other 19 are here: www.agentsandbooks.com/20-things-i-...

It’s 1932 and Weimar’s Social Democrats are very concerned by the threat of the Communist Party

This is what they said about Jews. This is what they said about Italians. This is what they said about the Irish. He is definitely done being careful; the House Majority Whip has decided to go back to 1920s nativism, full stop.

The Brave of US never give up, never shut up, never back down. Thank you Rise and Resist.

@cmalexaaviles.bsky.social and I had a few words to share in City and State today. @cityandstateny.bsky.social

I really enjoyed and was thought-provoked by this interview with Yahdon Israel, former editor at S&S (adult), about what publishing does and doesn't do and how it can do that better: lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/06/ask-...

Friday night, the Jane Addams Book Awards are happening! If you don't know what we do, take a look: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/24/j...

I so appreciate her for this. Call a thing a thing.

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Makes me wonder what NY and CA are doing.

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

Very proud to have been asked to rep @comixaction.com and speak at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally today calling for a moratorium on "A.i." in the NYC public schools! And huge high five to all the @comixaction.com members who came through! www.amny.com/education/ny...

Under appreciated about NY winners is that they ran better campaigns. They talked to voters & got voters to talk to each other about them. Magnetism 101: if you want people to come to your cause, be attractive. Pollingists can't comprehend or recreate this: donors are their audience.

T-minus 2 days until 2-K applications close. Secure your spot at myschools.nyc before 11:59 PM on June 26th. @bigellieliberty.bsky.social

In the reality based world: Congressional Democrats are going to have to patch things up with the mayor, following entirely foreseen primary upsets.

Amidst a housing crisis and skyrocketing costs, we are creating the first City-backed program to reduce insurance costs for affordable and rent-stabilized housing. Housing providers will get support to improve housing while maintaining affordability. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/24/p...

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Aside from redistricting cases, two incumbent Dems have lost to primary challengers. Maybe another one or two or three yet to come. This is considered a shocking bloodbath from an enraged base in our system: a ~2% rate of losing renomination, about the same number who've died in office this Congress

M/J #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @rajanilarocca.bsky.social (Quill Tree/ @harperkids.bsky.social ): "I’ve always wanted to ­understand the true meaning of Sita’s story [wife of Rama from the great Hindu epic the ­RAMAYANA], + SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS is my attempt to do so" www.hbook.com/story/publis...

Mad? You should be. We’re rallying today in City Hall Park and then testifying at City Council hearings. Come make your voice heard. Our own @gregpak.net will be speaking! actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

My friend, they ARE Democrats. YOUR version of Democrats are being eclipsed. The Dem socialists aren’t like MAGA or Tea Party in any set of beliefs but the idea of pushing harder away from trying to please the centrists is very compelling to people and can win elections.

⭐ #Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek CHASING ERUPTIONS by Curtis Manley; illus. by Katherine Roy ( @clarionbooks.bsky.social / @harperkids.bsky.social ): "This true story in verse is chock-full of info about their lives + relationship; their tools + processes; + volcanoes" www.hbook.com/story/review...

Great thread by EMB, and a lot of the common moves that we come across when people defend systems sold as "AI". I would add another which is the deployment of the term "guardrails", which is a meaningless term, especially in the labor policy space.

It’s so rare these days for the parties to come together to do anything at all in Congress. The housing bill won’t fix everything, but it represents a step forward for Americans. And Trump is refusing to sign till he gets his voter suppression bill. (1/4) www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Despite what the DOE tells you, the kids do not want AI.

More on the Story Spine from the guy who invented it: www.npr.org/2026/06/23/n...

This is a great technique.

This is a great technique.

Brilliant analysis on how adherence to what I've argued ought to be called Pollingism (i.e. survey issue preference and repeat back what's "popular" and eschew what isn't) felled Starmer in UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

Today on Kidlit Survival Guide (the Substack I write with @christinenevans.bsky.social), I'm talking about revision and crisp story beats! Is every beat in your story really necessary? kidlitsurvivalguide.substack.com/p/revision-c...