This kinda reiterates why physical media is so important. Because if all our history books become digital, they can change records of the truth on a whim.

Reminder: there is no excuse for smearing women who come forward about sexual assault. It doesn’t make you righteous because you agree politically with the abuser.

The Twin Cities grassroots response to the police murders of Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, Dolal Idd, Daunte Wright, and Amir Locke were a huge part of the reason we were prepared to fight back against the ICE occupation this winter. We've spent over a decade building solidarity.

Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.

If you’re looking to round up, you have to click the bit that says “customize amount”.

Everybody always tells me you can’t do activism by posting but yesterday I participated in raising more then $230,000 to fight voter suppression and we did it all by posting so, like, what the fuck are y’all even talking about.

Prisons and police as we know them today did not exist when the country was founded.

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

One of the things that really brought a smile to my elderly mother-in-law was hearing what her visitor counts were to her quilting website. Now she's in hospice, so I'm going to try to drive some visitation numbers up quiltsbymarlene.com This is just a fraction of her 50 years of quilting.

I'd like to sell some small art. 3.5" x 5" (8.9 x 12.7 cm). Pen on paper, $30, domestic postage included. Will take requests. Examples below:

No one wants to admit this, but it's TRUE. If you want to actually have savings and go on vacation once a year (NOT on a credit card), and have no debt, and an emergency fund ready for a job layoff, yes: this is what it takes.

DHS murdered two of my neighbors and covered it up.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them

THIS.

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

Just saw a post about Patriot Front having "emerged from their mothers' basements" to march today, and as a disabled person, I'm here to remind you that if you think adults who aren't financially independent/don't live on their own are by definition losers, you are being ableist.

Minneapolis Police didn’t intervene in any ICE murders or kidnappings during Operation Metro Surge. And now Mayor Frey announced he’s ordering Minneapolis Police to intervene and arrest people who are homeless or using drugs, giving ICE another pretext to kidnap them under the Laken Riley Act.

A pilot program has been proposed to send drones from a military contractor for surveillance over N MPLS & later expand across the city. This will cost $30mil & expose us to major risks to privacy& civil liberties Please sign a petition against this & speak against it July 8 @city hall, 1:30pm

I'm disappointed that IngramSpark has decided to use AI in its marketing tools. From what I understand from this article, they're not (currently) using book covers or interiors to train AI, so it could be worse. But we don't need AI, and it causes so much harm! www.ingramspark.com/blog/ingrams...

Well ok, if you hear a siren, it's not because it's the First Wednesday.

Do you like queer YA novels? Do you hate voter suppression? You're in luck! Bid on a signed copy of my queer YA novel, The Girls Will Be Okay, in @romancingthevote.com, an auction that raises money to fight voter suppression!

This one hurts. I used to live and worship in Phillips, and Karen visited my congregation multiple times to talk about environmental justice and the ways we could resist the environmental racism the city and private industry were enacting on us and our neighbors. She was a real one.

I love singing resistance so much. Having space to gather with movement people, as movement people, but doing something that we actually enjoy instead of just being angry together about injustice? I've needed that for a long time. And then we build relationships that let us do the work!

I sold my 100th copy of my book tonight! As a self-published author of a queer YA novel, I had no idea what to expect in terms of sales. 100 wasn't my end goal, but it feels like a big milestone! If you want to buy the 101st copy, here you go: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

#SpoonieAuthChat This was on my fanfiction, which I keep fairly separate from my real-name writing, but I once got a comment saying that a fic I'd written about neurodivergent characters was the catalyst for this commenter seeking and receiving an ADHD diagnosis.

This is the nut of it. If trans women don't have access to equal protection under the law, then they essentially are a second-class citizen who cannot depend on the protection or rights afforded cisgender counterparts. Trans men likewise just don't exist under the law.

I’m just gonna note that the current head of public health policy in the US government has decided this technology should not be researched anymore.

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

I'm donating a signed copy of my nerdy, interfaith sapphic YA novel, The Girls Will Be Okay, to the @romancingthevote.com auction! Bidding starts July 1, but you can see the auction site now: www.32auctions.com/organization...

I've got a short story in the general imprint bundle! It's called "Sonic Boom of My Heart," and it's an M/M superhero/nemesis romance. Get my story + 24 other queer short stories for $25 and support queer nonprofits!

When I think about the countless pieces over things like “racism being frowned up on campus is a free speech issue” and now I watch the literal US government go after individuals everywhere for their speech I get completely furious and will never forgive these Harper’s assholes.

This whole thread.

North American book publishing people 👋🏻 If you've got five minutes, this survey on AI use is worth filling out. (I was expecting to get pissed off while doing it, but it actually allowed acknowledgement of how problematic AI is.) www.surveymonkey.com/r/MWGQV9W #AmEditing #xl8 #WriterSky #BookSky

I really liked this book!

HEY GUYS THROW THESE FOLKS A DOLLAR QLL helps anyone in the US who can download a free library app access queer literature! It's a really great and discreet way for people to read queer lit as our government tries to suppress it, including youth who may not feel safe bringing physical books home.

If you're going to ALA this weekend, remember that Chicago still has unionized taxis and an app you can call them with (Curb) so there's no need to be a scrub with Uber or Lyft

This is just my warning: if you have not already talked to one of us about a submission, this is the moment to go fill out the form because it may be closed by the end of the day, and will probably be closed by tomorrow! (it's fine to fill out now, send pics by Sunday) form.romancingthevote.com

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

Oh, so you don’t approve of FDR? You don’t approve of going after the trusts and obscenely wealthy? You don’t approve of Social Security, and building a nation that works? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CALLING YOURSELVES DEMOCRATS YOU TWATWAFFLES

The systematic hiding of discipline problems under “coaching” has been criticized for years. Over a decade? It’s not a revelation, it’s smoking gun evidence that the people who lead MPD do not want accountability. A global crisis didn’t make them do it. “Reform” is a public relations project.

You've walked your last moon

Fellow writers and editors, there's still time to donate your books/services to @romancingthevote.com! Donations close 6/28. Help preserve the right for every person to have their vote counted.

While The Girls Will Be Okay is my first published novel, I've got a short story in the anthology A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from @duckprintspress.com. duckprintspress.com/product/a-tr...

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

Bookshop.org is the main place I've linked to when asking people to buy my book, and right now they're offering free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Me: I feel like I haven't written in FOREVER. My partner: Your first book came out literally two weeks ago. Me: Oh yeah, that is recent. Anyway, if you want my recently published book, here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

When I started high school, part of our orientation was watching a documentary about how high school students in China spent several hours per day on homework and that we American students should do the same. I did, and it was miserable. People might cheat less with a reasonable workload.