One day after two conservatives were voted onto the Mesa County Library Board (CO), a white woman vandalized a pile of books related to transgender people. annelandmanblog.com/2025/12/libr...

Ten thousand fucking percent. Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness. In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.

Please comment on this study linking use of ChatGPT to cognitive decline. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

And yeah, these are absolutes, so long-term numbers say less. But the absolute decline *just since 2022* has been the biggest in modern history—even compared to the 2000s, which has a comparable baserate. And crickets on that too. So it’s not a rates-vs-absolutes issue—it’s a deeper problem.

I don’t care about the economic logic of it. Absolutely do not care. This sort of coverage is completely toxic to healthy democratic governance.

I am, quite honestly, absolutely OUTRAGED at what a collective media failure this is. Sensationalized it-bleeds-it-leads fearmongering combined w who-cares-if-the-bleeding-stops indifference weaponizes crime in ways Trump has repeatedly exploited.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Found my kid a box of Spidey and His Amazing Friends puzzles at the thrift, so she's doing that and listening to a CD on the CD player I got myself for the holidays. It's like the 90s in here, and I hope to keep this kind of joy going.

Getting to see friends during the holiday season has been the best gift of all! @heykellyjensen.bsky.social @noethematt.bsky.social @sassylibrarian.bsky.social @edrabinski.bsky.social

You need to have a process and/or you need to do it everyday to be a writer. Bullshit on both. Write when you can. Your process changes every single time you sit down, as your circumstances are different every time you sit down.

Please don’t take your eyes away from the damage book banning laws are doing in Texas. In Boerne ISD, a kindergarten class was forced to cancel its planned holiday party book exchange due to HB900 and SB13.

My grandmother died six years ago today, and every year, this season gets a little wonky thinking about how she never got to meet her great granddaughter–I'd lost a pregnancy two months prior–and how this forever changed how I engage with gift giving.

20 state attorneys general filed an Amicus Brief, appealing to the 11th Circuit Court that they hear the state of Florida's appeal in a case about book bans. That sounds complicated, but it's not. 21 states *want to gleefully take away your First Amendment Rights*. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Here’s the thing, Florida isn’t leaving it up to our locally elected boards. Appointed state officials stepped in over the summer and demanded the removal of books that local Boards through their committees decided to retain for certain grades. www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...

I don't mind if you don't wanna be friends but at least don't like me for legitimate reasons, not weird conspiracy bullshit because of my profession lol

20 state attorneys general filed an Amicus Brief, appealing to the 11th Circuit Court that they hear the state of Florida's appeal in a case about book bans. That sounds complicated, but it's not. 21 states *want to gleefully take away your First Amendment Rights*. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Facebook full of folks excited to not have fresh water in the future and to give their likeness to the robots all in exchange for extremely fake looking candy cane photos. I want your bad photos or your professional ones or your fun ones. But I want YOUR photos, not a plagiarism machine's.

Bought this little gem for myself today, too, published in 1955.

My child, who asks for nothing, suddenly asked for a stuffed nutcracker for Christmas....today.

“Half of the states in this country want to dismantle your rights. It’s not a “Florida” thing. It’s not a “Texas” thing. It’s a 21 states out of 50 thing. The government wants to dictate to half of this country's states what they can read and what they can think.”

Some GREAT news!!!!!

If you live in one of the TWENTY-ONE (WTAF) states who want to tell you what you can and cannot read by banning library books, call your attorney general. Talking points for calling are in this post. This is disturbing. Get mad. Get loud. Don't let up.

2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year. Five organizations invested in the freedom to read highlight what's happened in the world of book censorship in 2025. bookriot.com/book-censors...

A Silver Lining From Comic Book Burnings and Censorship in Postwar America: bookriot.com/post-ww2-com...

York County Library (SC) Bans “Gender Identity” Books for Minors, Strips Citizens of First Amendment Rights bookriot.com/york-county-...

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

21 states made it official this week that they want to steal your First Amendment Rights of free speech away from you. No one is coming to save us, y'all. WE need to save ourselves. The story + concrete action steps here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

I only trust people who outsource their thinking and work to idiotic computer systems that make shit up. Why can’t you people just build AI for what we need: cleaning our houses and doing menial chores?

21 states made it official this week that they want to steal your First Amendment Rights of free speech away from you. No one is coming to save us, y'all. WE need to save ourselves. The story + concrete action steps here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

This week, we learned 21 states are eager to dismantle your First Amendment Rights. It should be bigger news. Here's the story, and here's what you can be doing about it. These are YOUR RIGHTS that the states want to steal from you. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year. Five organizations invested in the freedom to read highlight what's happened in the world of book censorship in 2025. bookriot.com/book-censors...

A Silver Lining From Comic Book Burnings and Censorship in Postwar America: bookriot.com/post-ww2-com...

York County Library (SC) Bans “Gender Identity” Books for Minors, Strips Citizens of First Amendment Rights bookriot.com/york-county-...

“It’s not a “Florida” thing. It’s not a “Texas” thing. It’s a 21 states out of 50 thing. The government wants to dictate to half of this country's states what they can read & what they can think. They want public institutions of democracy & civic engagement to be mouthpieces of government beliefs.”

This week, we learned 21 states are eager to dismantle your First Amendment Rights. It should be bigger news. Here's the story, and here's what you can be doing about it. These are YOUR RIGHTS that the states want to steal from you. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Did you know that Publishers Weekly killed off Chuck Klosterman today? The very same week they started shilling for their "AI for publishing," it appears they're simply using AI for their social posts now. Even if not AI, why didn't they FACT CHECK like journs? www.instagram.com/p/DSbrpfRjEZ...

And for any other people with small humans who need to know this: the first official K-Pop Demon Hunters book will hit on December 29. It's a Little Golden Book, and I preordered it from my indie for, like, $7. You're welcome.

I apparently bought a roll of wrapping paper that did not have the grid lines on the back and what the fuck year is this? We're past this era of no cutting lines!

Here were the most popular fiction and nonfiction books–as well as the most popular authors–in US public libraries this year: bookriot.com/the-most-pop...

If you haven't yet, do spend some time with this one. What a powerful collaboration.

61% of U.S. libraries have at least one building system or feature that poses a potential health or safety concern, per a new report from the Government Accountability Office: bookriot.com/gao-report-o...

A silver lining from comic book burnings and censorship in post World War II America. Honored again to share an excellent guest post from scholar Brian Puaca on comic book censorship. This one? A little more optimistic. It's the second of three in a series on comics. bookriot.com/post-ww2-com...

61% of U.S. libraries have at least one building system or feature that poses a potential health or safety concern, per a new report from the Government Accountability Office: bookriot.com/gao-report-o...

Excellent overview of everything that happened this year!

Here were the most popular fiction and nonfiction books–as well as the most popular authors–in US public libraries this year: bookriot.com/the-most-pop...

A silver lining from comic book burnings and censorship in post World War II America. Honored again to share an excellent guest post from scholar Brian Puaca on comic book censorship. This one? A little more optimistic. It's the second of three in a series on comics. bookriot.com/post-ww2-com...

You may remember that in August, the Middle District Court of Florida ruled in favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit over book bans in the state. He said none of the books were obscene: bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

It's early, but I'm going to post a deeply concerning thread.

I don't get why the news about Trump's Hunger Games is being billed as new or a fresh announcement. Shit was announced in JULY. He's just got no memory of his own garbage. www.newsweek.com/patriot-game...