If you want a break from the news, I highly recommend reading through all the Hugo short story nominees - y’all, they’re SO GOOD #booksky

Today is Independent Bookstore Day. Honoring our longstanding tradition, our booksellers are getting commission bonuses this weekend for purchases of all their staff picks! We have shelftalker cards throughout the store and a handy webpage here! ebbooksellers.com/staff-recomm...

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone. Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths. COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread. Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff. 1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

I think RFK Jr. read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix when he was a kid and mistook Miles Clifton for the protagonist

A new study predicts that Long Covid will cost OECD economies $135 billion a year, due to people leaving the workforce, lower productivity, and healthcare costs. COVID is not over.

Labor force growth could be near-zero starting this year…unprecedented in recent US history…making negative job growth almost as likely as positive job growth + any growth in potential GDP will need to come entirely from productivity growth…a significant shift www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...

March reads! The Raven Scholar was my favorite fiction read this month - strong world building, some twists I saw coming and some I didn’t. First Freedom was the best nonfiction, gorgeous graphic novel about the life of Opal Lee #booksky

"Clue" is the closest you can ever get to making a Muppet movie with no Muppets.

I am going to use this utter dumbfuckery to share that, because we grew up in south Louisiana which is not technically above sea level, my sister did not believe that basements were real until she was a teenager.

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

This is gorgeous, @angeliqueroche.bsky.social!

For #LongCovid Awareness Day, we’re releasing the 2026 Long Covid Fact Sheet! This is a list of key statistics about LC, using recent data to reflect contemporary risks. We hope this will be useful for journalists, policymakers, patients, & others! /1

Real talk: Progressives have completely failed to adequately address the significant impacts of Long COVID, and this has left an opening for the far right to exploit vulnerable patients and deceitfully blame vaccines for all chronic illnesses.

6 good books in February + 1 bad one (not shown, because I DNFed) Into the Woods was my favorite. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a charming romance where each MC can stand on their own! #booksky

There's been discourse on Long Covid on this site the past few days. I think some people are thoroughly underestimating how hellish chronic illness can make you feel, even if you aren't at an immediate risk of dying.

Four of the ten largest hospital systems in the U.S. are Catholic-affiliated

Pssst - did you see the news that if you donate to your public library this week, you'll get a free audiobook credit from us? 👀⁠⏬

I was a Paramount intern when Last Holiday came out. I did 8 pre-release screenings in two weeks and still loved this movie at the end of it.

Great morning for doing taxes! 💪🏻💃🏻 US folks, if you made under $69k last year, you are probably eligible for free tax prep assistance. Check this IRS site for a location near you www.irs.gov/individuals/...

Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

If you don’t think you know anyone with long covid what you really mean is that people are uncomfortable sharing their health status with you or there are people who have dropped out of your life (due to illness) that you haven’t checked up on.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

To give context for what this area is like, my cousin owns a crawfish farm here This is also the district where Nottoway Plantation was, before it burned down

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Good reading month! Tourist Season was my favorite, and A Gentleman in Moscow was the most beautifully written, but I’d honestly recommend any of these #booksky

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

They are suing because they want to be able to institutionalize disabled people instead of allowing them to live in their communities

Tons of industry pros (agents, editors, artists) are donating items, so spread the word to writers and illustrators who want professional help on their project. Opportunities like this come very rarely to get feedback from this caliber of professionals. Plus it supports worthy organizations.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

I will give you a personalized romance recommendation if you purchase it TOMORROW from either Tropes & Trifles, a romance only bookstore in Minneapolis. (This is a brilliant idea I am copying from Maris Kreizman) www.tropesandtrifles.com

CVS has been jerking me around for the past month trying to fill a scrip my doc sent them. They kept saying it was ordered and would arrive on x date and nothing would ever arrive. Finally, this week they said the issue was that my insurance doesn’t cover the med. CVS IS MY INSURER.

Spending the day getting ready for the tax season! If you are in the US and made less than $69k last year, check here to find a free tax prep program near you. www.irs.gov/individuals/...

For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations. www.standwithminnesota.com Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

Hey y’all! REMINDER: I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

First 5-star read of the year! Two serial killers fall in love. Funny, sexy, gory, murdery. Note: First book in a trilogy, several plot threads still open at the end of book one. #booksky

Well, if Merriam-Webster says so…

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

New paper - this is the largest long COVID estimate I've seen yet 😳 Link 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39842946/

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

yesterday, the Tournament of Books* dropped the 2026 long list. I will now tell you what these books would be about, based on cover and title, if they were romance novels instead of LitFic.

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!