If you didn't get Raptured today, you should celebrate by buying trans books

Got a cool new shirt from a local coffee shop, and I was going to get a coffee while wearing it at the same shop, but that felt very cringy, so I decided to go to the other shop where I just felt like a traitor for wearing a competing coffee shop's shirt 😂

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

So many shitty businesses/celebrities/authors have been revealed over the past few years that it's hard to keep track of who did what or whether I'm mad at them for an actual reason or just bad vibes.

Recently at my bookshop we were charged $300 because someone threw a trash bag in our recycling dumpster, which was caught on camera. Did you know garbage pick up were doing this? policing your trash? That's wild. I'm sure the increase in prices doesn't have anything to do with surveiling trash 🫠

People using that man as an example of a "good Christian" is exactly why so many people have left the church in the last decade. They know Jesus would be big mad to be represented that way.

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

i think everyone needs to get a lot less religious

Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

In case you're wondering how it's going, I was just told that taking off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is discriminating against Christian opposing counsel.

Tonight, RIFHT NOW, is a good time to go buy a few books or comics or films by trans people. Physically. And keep them safe for the next few years. And send a little support to trans folk if you can.

I have several friends who teach sociology, which seems like an impossible task at this current political (fascist) moment. So, we're saying a little prayer for the truth tellers today.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

pardon me, just busy emailing my alma mater because they fired someone for saying the mildest shit about a racist. we don't support racist fascists in this house.

Often the past few years, the US has felt like two completely different worlds on top of each other with completely different logic and truth, and this past week has felt that way even more so. In what universe are people being fired for QUOTING a person?

My friend who is supposed to be in conversation at a bookstore event tonight is sick, I have had cramps all morning, and now I had to rush from one store to the other because a bookseller's cat is sick. it's been a day.

Not me talking loudly about how we should eat the rich next to the fast pass queue at Kings Island. 🤪

Just a heads up for folks who love amusement parks. Six Flags (which includes Cedar Fair parks as well) extended their 2026 season pass sale, and it's SUCH a deal. Prices vary on your home park, but you can use your pass the rest of '25 & it's good for free entry AND parking at all their parks.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you think trans rights are separable from LGB/queer rights, reproductive rights, bodily autonomy for all... If you think these rights can be separated like Lego blocks, and aren't a mesh of interwoven principles... You don't know enough recent history to be worth listening to on any of the above

Was mostly offline the last couple days, but I guess now I'm waiting to see what the hell is gonna happen at 2 PM 🫠

My teenage nephew wants help with his math homework and I want to cry because it's so boring.

This "day off" has been a complete shitshow of putting out fires. SIGH.

I feel like every author in a 20 mile radius of my bookstore has a book coming out in September. There's gonna be so many release parties! woo!

Politics can be complex, but every so often it’s pretty easy to tell which side of history you’re on. For example, if you require the police to arrest elderly ladies for peacefully protesting against genocide, that’ll probably be the wrong side.

The U.S. has an immense prison industrial complex, and in some ways the huge expansions to ICE is the next step of that.

I had a spot on my nose I was planning to get checked out by a dermatologist, but I think the dog that bit me might have torn it off my nose. Not 100 because things are still healing, but that would be one positive bit of news if so. 🤷‍♀️

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.

my geriatric beagle mix doesn't deserve being terrorized for an entire week every July.

Well, I guess they just declared war on us, but it was either that or having a Black character in Star Wars

what always kills me about this stuff is that most people won’t even know. they don’t know what happened today, and the direct line between it and their loss of healthcare or what have you. That the misery encroaching on their lives was intentional, and done by people staring them in the eye

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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we are the shithole country.

Why did they have a fireworks factory in California of all places?

What's the largest number of books you'be "been reading" at the same time? because I keep starting things and then having to read something else, and I reckon I have like 20+ books I'm like halfway through right now 🤦‍♀️

ICE and their concentration camps are 1000x more dangerous than these pretend Iranian sleeper cells that you have imagined. Stay focused.

With over a dozen stitches in my nose, every time I feel like I might sneeze I freeze in terror.

yeah, I'm making muffins in 90 degree heat because my black raspberries are going to go bad 🤷‍♀️

it should be illegal to give my store a 3 star review when I'm at home with a face full of stitches.

Stay alive. Keep fucking living. As the old song goes it’s always darkest just before the dawn, so stay awake with me let’s prove them wrong. We are going to see the sun rise together. I have seen it. And I can tell you it is going to be more beautiful than you can Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Finished copies!

Got A LOT of stitches put in this a.m. and all of that cleaning and pulling made things hurt a lot worse than before, and took twice al long as expected because everything was so deep. Do not recommend getting bitten by a dog. 😢

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop

So, this morning I was attacked by a dog, and now I need to get my face fixed by a plastic surgeon. fun times.

Rahul Kohli is gonna be in the new Carrie! 😍🩸🪣

TIL that Greenland Sharks can live hundreds of years. Does that vampire guy who stole his son's blood to stay young know this?