Fellow KidLit writers: I’m begging you to stop with the twins separated at birth who miraculously run into each other later in life stories. 🕳️🕳️🕳️ It is a played out trope that perpetuates harmful stereotypes about orphans, adoptees, and fosterees. It is also lazy writing.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

My 80th anniversary tribute to Vannevar Bush's July 1945 manifesto: No winner can take all in #AI and we must keep it that way. 🙏 @cartercenter.bsky.social uscnpm.substack.com/p/winners-ca...

Are we great yet?

The Republicans timed the Medicaid cuts to hit right after the 2026 midterms so that the idiot masses will blame the Democrats after they take back the House.

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Rebellions are built on hope.

We Need Diverse Books and over 25 critically acclaimed authors have launched a virtual panel series, “Magic Stories Are For Everyone,” to raise money in support of trans and nonbinary youth and creators. With Holly Black, Dhonielle Clayton, Marieke Nijkamp, Mark Oshiro & more. (Fuse 8)

Hard to argue with that.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

I know for a fact that citizens would not be getting tear gassed by ICE and DHS in Los Angeles in June 2025 if we elected the other viable candidate for president.

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif!

BeautiFULL!!! I LOVE YOU!! Congratulations!!

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

Me when someone complains about Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP are choosing to do this.

HUGE CONGRATS TO MY ACADEMIC BFF ON EARNING FULL PROFESSOR!!! You are magic, and I am so, so, so proud of you!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

Published today: Research on Diversity in Youth Literature (RDYL) 6.2! Check out our peer-reviewed articles + book reviews + art. Many thanks to our writers, artist, co-editors, reviewers! iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/rdyl #RDYL #iSchoolUI #iSchoolCCB #YouthLit #ChildLit #YALit #OpenAccess

Happy Star Wars Day!! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWars

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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Historian here posting for no reason at all. U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

THIS. #HandsOff

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

I’m super grateful to the attorneys general from these 20 states 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 #saveIMLS #LibraryLife #ILoveLibraries #lawsuit

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#NationalPoetryMonth THOUSAND STAR HOTEL by Bao Phi

THOUSAND STAR HOTEL by Bao Phi is one of my favorite poetry collections 🌟

Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.

😀 I love this! Korea has not been a democracy for very long, but look what Korea did today!!

SENDING SO MUCH LOVE TO OUR MOTHERLAND!!!

The bloodbaths at IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) show that Musk's DOGE has NOTHING TO DO WITH SAVING $. IMLS budget: $295M NEH budget: $211M These are tiny drops in the federal spending bucket. This is about ideological control.

Those who voted for this are clear. They're saying all over the Internet exactly whom they wanted to suffer. They're only upset now because they're suffering too. Leopards Eating Faces Party voters don't get that leopards only see tasty humans, NOT identities and differences that only matter to us.

😡 I benefited from IMLS during my own phd program and I currently support phd students through an IMLS program. Many of my colleagues have received grant termination letters. I AM SO ANGRY.

Apropos of nothing: Kamala Harris predicted this exact moment happening: “Understand that part of Trump’s plan is to put in place a national sales tax of at least 20% on everyday goods and necessities.” She warned us over & over again & she was so right.

It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.

This is what happens when people speak up.

We could have had the brilliant woman with the economics degree.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.