As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

I know we’re all subject to the whims of the nostalgia cycle and recycled franchises, but did we really have to reboot the freaking Taney Court?

If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.

I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Happy Pride to queer people who are just damned tired.

The whole "the curtain is blue!" discourse has convinced half the population that artists have no themes or questions their work explores. People, this is not an English teacher conspiracy. Artists do include symbolism and subtext!

DC has enough to deal with this week (and I’m not ignoring it) and also FYI: www.popville.com/2025/06/brea...

Huge news! The Oregon House just voted to pass SB 1098, our state's Freedom to Read bill!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 The bill is now off to the governor's desk for a signature. Thank you to everyone who testified, contacted reps, and helped to spread the word about the bill! We did it! @authorsabb.bsky.social

Friendly reminder! If you want to support the right to read by purchasing a banned book or taking it out from the library your impact will be much greater if you choose a living author. Orwell is great and all, but he's not doing much with your money.

there are powers that will do everything they can to convince you otherwise, but it should be said loudly that protest proves love. community is a conduit for love and oppression seeks to crush community. standing up to say no is an act of love

Teacher who takes public transit here. I WANT MY COVID BOOSTER. You just want mass death.

Please join NOPE (Neighbors Defending Democracy) Democracy Online and love ❤️, share and comment on this post! We all need to do our part, raise our voices and amplify these messages.

We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Huge news out of Nebraska: Democrat John Ewing just flipped the mayor's office in Omaha, the state's biggest city. He successfully tied the GOP incumbent to Trump. She responded by claiming Ewing "stands with radicals" on "boys in girls' bathrooms and sports." It didn't work. Our full writeup -->

Selah is BACK! So excited for you to get to hang out with Selah at writer's camp next summer, and even getting to see a new side to Ezra from Pebblecreek... :)

Authors talk about their experiences having their books banned. www.theheadlightreview.com/highbeams/ba...

Just having a good time with this while we can.

I had a school visit cancelled. Read on to learn why, and what I did about it. 🐌

The ~700k people of DC: —Pay more fed tax per capita than people of any state; —Are more numerous than pop of WY or VT; —Have zero votes in US House or Senate; —Now being told by House GOP that we can't spend *OUR OWN* tax money, which we've already paid Cut the BS Thanks @vanhollen.senate.gov

House Republicans created a disaster for D.C. with the CR — restricting the District's ability to use its OWN money to fund its OWN schools, public safety and more. My bill with Senator Collins to fix this passed unanimously in the Senate. House Republicans need to pass it NOW.

This is the (windstruck) face of a woman who just stood behind the Governor of Colorado as he signed into law a Freedom to Read bill that places stronger protections against book bans for public schools within her state.

it's May Day in Baltimore

Wish I had an old photograph of my great-grandfather, an immigrant who was active in the Labor Movement, so I could post it on May Day.

If you’re in the DC area and have an opportunity to see Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round at the Avalon next week, go see it! I loved it.

Scientists have done the research. Federal agencies are mandated to use that research—much of which was taxpayer funded!—to make evidence-based policies. This is an all-out assault on expertise, and as Dr. Tran notes, it’s all about grift. People talk about Big Pharma but ignore Big Supplement.

Is this the next prequel to The Hunger Games???

To add to this; Roald Dahl is dead, so even if he were inclined to activism it doesn’t matter because he can’t do it. Rowling can and does, and as long as that remains the case, there is no ethical way to engage with her works. Any support of her is helping her transphobic agenda.

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

Just want to give a Friday shoutout to all the booksellers, librarians, and teachers out there on the front lines fighting for kids' right to read books that reflect their experiences and/or expand the boundaries of their empathy. #kidlit

may we all have the temerity to reject the false urgency that modern society attempts to foist upon us.

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

Sometimes I think about christofascist notions of “headship” where they’d put my father in charge of my life in every way. And I think about how much my own father, as a person and a personality, Does Not Want To Be In Charge Of My Life And Finances.

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Read the replies below this thread, too; people are sharing awesome stories!

Mutual Aid campaign update! I challenged myself to tell at least ten people I know and pass on the flyer. How will you spread the word?

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Wow. Imagine not embracing the reality that autistic people are a wonderfully diverse population with varying strengths and support needs. Imagine not believing that we all deserve dignity and good lives.

What the.

Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚

Oh my god it is LITERALLY OUR TAX MONEY CAN WE JUST HAVE IT TO FUND OUR OWN SOCIAL SERVICES.