Please tell the young people in your life that Victor Wembanyama loves to read. Please tell the young people in your life that Victor Wembanyama loves to read books. Read like Wemby. Books save lives.

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker was perhaps most well-known for the graphic memoir, and subsequent film, about her life during the Iranian revolution in 1979. n.pr/4e4ODBQ

Newly released Fox News poll shows Sherrod Brown (D) leading Sen. Jon Husted (R) by 8 points in the red state of Ohio.

How is this real

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

Cover Reveal: How To Build a Miracle by @lyndamh.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-... Illustration Credit: Martin Haake

BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇

Hacks finale. <3 <3 <3 Love that show. Love those women. Love their unabashed takedowns of AI this season.

60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

TLDR: call your house reps to demand they vote NO on 8705 and 7661 Call your senators to demand they vote NO on 2616 All three seek to ban books nationally. All three are the fever dream of bigots. All three must be stopped.

Happy book birthday to KESTREL TAKES FLIGHT!!! Kestrel is my 7th MG novel but my 1st MG in verse! I hope you'll check it out! It's a JLG Gold Standard Selection w/a star from @thehornbook.bsky.social. And yes, I AM wearing both a sweater and dress I made to match the book!

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

$2.5 trillion well spent.

The thing about AI is that it’s that episode of the office where Michael listens to every step his GPS tells him even as he sees that he’s driving into a lake except the gps is AI bros and Michael is every ceo of every industry for some reason

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

::GROANS FOREVER:: Are we going to lose the entire month of May? Asking for a friend.

Ok. We all had our day to talk shit and be angry. But it's Wednesday now and I'd love to encourage the kidlit community to focus on our real fight. There are now 2 book banning bills introduced on the federal level. 7661, which we largely know about but now 2616, too. It's call your reps o'clock!

My hero, Amanda Jones (@librarianjones.com) and I chat on the podcast Always Authors—about Judy Blume, dogs, social media, the terrors of public speaking, and why kids aren’t reading these days.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...

sighhhh

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

10+ home runs and 8+ SB before team’s 30th game of season, since modern SB rule adopted (1898): 2026 Elly De La Cruz 2002 Vladimir Guerrero 1997 Larry Walker 1996 Barry Bonds 1995 Mo Vaughn 1987 Eric Davis 1922 Ken Williams

Happy cathartic crying to the new Noah Kahan album day to those who celebrate.

Is it just me, or do Sal Stewart and Spencer Steer sound like a pair of private eyes in a film noir?

Just remember, whatever stats ALA drops, the reality is even worse. A not insignificant number of schools don't report to ALA, and ALA doesn't have the staff in OIF to go out and track down this information. This looks bad, but it's likely worse. www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

As the editor of a book on this list, allow me to say again that book banning is a catastrophe for freedom of speech in America. There is no silver lining. It's all harm. You can fight back by calling your reps to demand they vote against HR 7661, which is effectively a national book banning bill.

When The Wire was on, I used to blog all the time about the things I was learning about writing. Today is The Pitt's turn. saraharonson.substack.com/p/writing-le...

New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!) Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now. Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's a result of book censorship, and it impacts you wherever you live. bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

so, he should still be removed from office as soon as humanly possible

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

when someone says "a whole civilization will die tonight" usually you lock them up in some facility. anyway, great job, media.

Just to be clear: the President of the United States is threatening genocide. It is unambiguous. What can we do? How can we put a stop to this madness once and for all?

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

"What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things...Nothing is adequate to the situation except the truth. There is no way to watch the new Harry Potter show subversively"

A favorite NCAA Tournament pastime for players? Reading | The New York Times buff.ly/8AJfTSX

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

It looks like it was made in a Sims expansion pack.

Just like how it's never to late to start your book, it's never too late to join Authors Against Book Bans. The more of us there are, the more we win and we're adding new members every day. So be a part of something bigger & join AABB today

I love how I can hear the Reds fireworks from my house. Clearly the TV feed lags about 30 seconds behind reality. GENO!!!

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

The uncomfortable truth about immigration. Charles Barkley had the guts to say what everybody's thinking, on live TV. If he can do that in front of millions, you can absolutely have that conversation with your family and friends.

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form