school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

I sent a cute Instagram reel to my kids (teens), they told me it was AI. 😩 I didn’t know, I didn’t recognize that it was fake! This is so disturbing to me. #IHateThatAIisEverywhere

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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Don’t let this make you quieter. Get louder.

The way people are losing their jobs over this is frightening. 😢

Know what creates empathy? Books. Reading about people unlike ourselves and experiences we'll never have. Which is why some people want to remove those books and discourage reading. Kids and adults should read widely. Most spend their spare time online, which is where indoctrination often begins.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

I used to love learning from Lisa Lucas’s posts and missed that when I left Twitter. What a great interview, and now I can follow her on Bluesky. 😊

These are the posts I love to find on social media. A recommended episode of a new-to-me podcast about books? Thank you!

Including Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic” in the last episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty was such a stellar choice. Now I’m hoping it turns up on my daughter’s Spotify playlist. 🤞😊

YA author Sarah Dessen returns with her first novel in seven years, ‘Change of Plans,’ part of a three-book deal with S&S | Cosmopolitan

I have a Craft Webinar with The Writing Barn coming up on August 22! This is webinar features my own personal tips, tricks, and creative exercises to develop and deepen the young characters in your novels. If you can’t attend live, not to worry—you can still register to watch a replay.

My kids are teenagers so it’s been awhile since I could hold them in my lap and read to them but I was able to do just that with my almost 3 yr old great-nephew last weekend. The connection and conversation he and I were able to have while reading was pure magic. 💕📚

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‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔

Sure would be cool if our system of government included some form of checks and/or balances

It's not a race or a competition; you can read books at your own pace. #BookSky

This looks like it may be a page-turner, especially after Hurricane Helene. “When a super-storm hits Addy's remote mountain town, knocking out the bridge and cutting her home off from the main road…” (from Google Books)

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

The Library of Congress is a research library. You have to be 16 to access it. Leavitt is lying.

😬 This observation is spot on.

Coming-of-age stories are my favorite. This is a great collection recommended by author Emily Everett, whose book, ALL THAT LIFE CAN AFFORD, I will now be looking for. lithub.com/five-novels-...

This is insane. Also this brazen grift must be challenged.

This is terrifying. This administration is complete chaos.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.

Just brainstorming here- with the tech & data we have, if you want to verify someone is a U.S. Citizen to vote, I think the states could do a quick check on their end instead of me providing a current passport (I don’t have one) or paying for a copy of my birth certificate and marriage certificate.

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

Congratulations @corybooker.com @booker.senate.gov for your historic achievement. This is your moment. You have moved a nation.

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

I’m in WI and cannot believe that this is allowed/legal/accepted by anyone, no matter who you’re voting for. 😡

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

In honor of Obama’s presence here, a throwback photo from 2008. “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” – James Herriot

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😳 This is both ridiculous and terrifying.

Bookstores!!! ❤️📚 Please read the attached thread, I felt like I was in the bookstore with a flurry of activity around me. I love it.

I could’ve just read a book last night and had a good night’s sleep but no. I doomscrolled here and learned that there apparently is NO LAW and ORDER and couldn’t sleep and eventually had nightmares. 😣

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

PEN America said today it is “blatantly unconstitutional” for Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner to propose that O Cinema’s lease be terminated over the screening of a documentary film about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, No Other Land, to which Meiner objects. pen.org/press-releas...

I’d like for people to wear whatever they want, but there really is no occasion that calls for a suit, tie, and trucker hat. Make it stop.

Thank you @slj.com for highlighting these amazing school library leaders! www.slj.com/story/in-the...

Honest question: Why do newspapers report details of homicides? Does the public need this? Do the family members and friends of the deceased want this? A truly disturbing murder (and they are all disturbing) took place in my friend’s neighborhood. The details are horrific. Trauma-inducing for all.

I do not want a President who's responding to another world leader via social media.

Today I got to sub as a Library Assistant. I read two already-selected books, learned about Mary Anning and Wilma Rudolph. I could just feel the power of each story because the students were engaged. It’s been a while since I’ve read to a group. (1/2) bookshop.org/p/books/dino...

it’s funny how some people don’t think authoritarianism can happen here when for black people it already did

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When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

I am honored to be part of SPINNING TOWARD THE SUN: ESSAYS ON WRITING, RESILIENCE, & THE CREATIVE LIFE, curated by Nora Carpenter and forthcoming from Burlwood. Proceeds benefit continued hurricane recovery. Link in bio for reminder to buy. . S/O to beloved Nora, who I am happy to know.