When I worked at a restaurant as a teen, my boss would say it was time to 86 something when it had gone bad and we couldn’t use it. Like, for example, a moldy orange.

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

BIG MOTHER JONES SCOOP: There are lots of unresolved health and environmental concerns with glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup), yet the government keeps letting farmers, companies, and public agencies spray it all over—including, as we recently learned, in America’s forests.

Celebrating resistance poetry in Vermont with my pals. So many great readings. So many Carhartts 😅

WELL WELL WELL

AI stole from thousands of authors to learn how to write. Now, agents are telling authors not to write like AI. Traditional publishing is gasping for breath. AI ruins all it touches, one way or another. It has no soul. It certainly does not care about yours. www.instagram.com/reel/DWmXtzO...

Today in the NYT, by Sam Sifton:

Yup.

Just got back from a retreat with the R&S crew to discuss plans for the 2026 Residency. What should we keep the same? What should we change? Should we add... karaoke night??? Register for a mini MFA-style residency for fun times, inspiration, and community. www.revise-and-shine.com/writing-retr...

TOMORROW Virginia can STOP TRUMP from rigging the November Midterms! #VoteYesVirginia for free and fair elections and STOP THE STEAL! 🇺🇸💙🌊

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Take a look at this opportunity. I can't wait!! #kidlit #vtwriter

More on the R&S Residency. Just 8 spots left! #kidlit open.substack.com/pub/revisean...

Left a comment on a post I thought was in Bluesky but I was on FB and... yeah, that place still sucks and is full of MAGA devotees. Sad.

This Freedom to Read Panel is happening April 15 at 6 pm at the St J Athenaeum. Panelists: • Christine Owens & Caitlin Wallingford —St. Johnsbury School Librarians • Merlin Heima — Tunnel Books • Jo Knowles— Vermont Author • Moderator: Loralee Tester • Youth Moderators: Donley & Florie Johnson

“I just heard about it, and I said how did they come up with that? It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better and I do make people better.” Other than enriching his friends, who has this guy made better? [I also don't think wealth makes people better, as we've witnessed repeatedly.]

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

More please

Just to be clear, every YA author and publishing professional worth their salt hates this condescending bullshit.

Seed potatoes ready. #gardenersofbluesky

The damage we are doing to our kids by keeping them in the dark is absolutely unforgivable. I never read to escape, though of course that’s fine. I read to be found, and to find my way. Real life isn’t “clean.” Pretending it is? That’s what really endangers children, in countless ways.

We can automatically sign young men up to be forced to die for a deranged president but we can't automatically register them to vote? thehill.com/policy/defen...

Arrived yesterday 😅

My husband and I have replaced stress drinking with stress gardening. Local friends: be prepared to benefit from this madness. #gardenersofbluesky

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

There are no words I can put into a social media post to properly condemn how evil and deranged this is. Trump is threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” That’s a war crime. Full stop. [1/3]

Wiping out a "whole civilization" for some oil is something Jesus would get behind, according to Hegseth I guess.

Annnnnd the hits keep coming. This is bad, friends. Kids need love and support and these jerks continue to fail them at every turn. #kidlit

My mom doesn’t recognize AI videos and sends me these outlandish garden projects with notes like, “They make it look so easy.” And I just don’t have the heart.

I don’t know, but I tried. 🤣😱🫣

Hi loves, Thank you for showing me that there is more love somewhere, and when you send it, it can come back tenfold. I deeply appreciated the comments you gave these last couple of days. I just got off the phone with my nurse: Benign. I am so, so grateful and relieved. Thank you again. 💓

Two memoirs in verse for children and young adults. Come listen to the authors share how these books came to be. #kidlit #memoirwriters open.substack.com/pub/revisean...

If you want a children’s book that talks about what birthright citizenship means, why it matters, etc, try this one: I AM AN AMERICAN: THE WONG KIM ARK STORY, by @marthabee.bsky.social @authorgracelin.bsky.social, illus by Julia Kuo. bookshop.org/p/books/i-am...

I had to have a breast biopsy today and my nurse kept calling me, "my love" when she explained things, like, "alright my love, now we're going to..." Why do these simple moments of humanity make me cry? Why have they become so rare? My loves, I just don't know. But we can always do better.

Two memoirs in verse for children and young adults. Come listen to the authors share how these books came to be. #kidlit #memoirwriters open.substack.com/pub/revisean...

This was really great.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.” RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸‍♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

The news is terrible, but the dogs are still doing what they do, making us cry with gratitude for their delightful dogginess.

Oh no. The hits keeping coming and coming.

If you're in Rutherford County, TN send an email to their library board to show your support for Director Luanne James! Contact info here: rclstn.org/libraryboard...

Hi Friends! CCS needs some help! I know there's a lot of requests going on, but this sure is a special place that has done some incredible, life-changing work for artists. Thanks for considering! #comics www.justgiving.com/page/jarad-g...

Looked up and this was ON OUR DECK!!! He’s so cute but no. I’ve seen what his ancestors can do to my tomatoes.

His thirst for praise cannot be quenched because deep down he knows he’s a grotesque monster. No matter how much praise is heaped on him his awfulness is so overwhelming, no amount of false praise can cover it up for long.

This is ridiculous. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial"-Bessent

www.instagram.com/reel/DWUCzug.... Feeling fancy #rollerderby

"Today’s book banning phenomenon,” explained PEN America's Sabrina Baeta, “is the result of a well-funded campaign to dismantle public education, backed by a coordinated network of groups that largely espouse white supremacist and Christian nationalist ideology" womensmediacenter.com/news-feature...

I am one of the people who helped edit the last three books in the series, and I agree with this. JKR has shown that she enjoys her cruelty, and no matter how much I loved the books back then, I can't watch this.