Week 48: Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever) by Noah Kahan

Let's talk turkey: After months of targeting incarcerated people who received commutations from Biden, Pres. Trump pardoned 2 turkeys today. Sparing a turkey while supporting the death penalty and punishing people for no longer being on death row is no act of festive goodwill.

Week 47: Signed, Sealed & Delivered by Stevie Wonder

Books change lives. ❤️

Week 46: MUNA by MUNA

And with that, this thread has been updated! When you are tempted to ask "what can I do," the answer is probably in here. When you are tempted to ask me what *I* am doing, the answer is in here. This is nearly five years of work. It's all free to you.

Week 45: Virgin by Lorde

Week 44: Everybody Scream by Florence + The Machine

A *LOT* of folks have elections on Tuesday. Here's how to prepare and be a pro-library, pro-public education voter this year (& every year): bookriot.com/library-elec...

Please don’t wear a “prisoner” or “inmate” costume this Halloween. It’s dehumanizing.

Week 43: Essex Honey by Blood Orange

Week 42: Black Messiah by D’Angelo

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”—Mary Shelley

Week 41: Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams

Ana and I had THE BEST TIME seeing Djo and Post Animal in KC. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. ✨

At APBP, we’re dedicated to fighting censorship and book bans in prisons and jails across Appalachia and making sure people behind bars have access to the books. 📚 This #BannedBooksWeek, you can support our mission by donating a book from one of our indie bookstore wish lists.

Week 40: Outrage! Is Now by Death From Above 1979

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

Week 39: Promises by Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur

also stopped by The Dalí Museum

It’s the first day of fall. What better time to finally share photos of the trip I took to visit my friend Nat in Florida earlier this summer?

Week 38: Vitamins and Apprehension by Della Zyr

There are over a 1000 copies of Love in a F*cked-Up World available for people inside prisons and jails! Request a book for someone through this link: airtable.com/app87WhX08mp... Prisoners can request a book by writing to: 1977 Books 1468 Woodley Road Montgomery, Alabama 36106

Week 37: The Crux Deluxe by Djo

Week 36: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek

Begging people to stop saying "served" time in prison. Who or what is it serving?

Week 35: I Found Myself on Jamboree Road by Ethan Gander

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Week 34: SABLE, fABLE by Bon Iver

Week 33: Permanent Repeat by Macseal open.spotify.com/album/3q7K3R...

I’m reading “Absolution” by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social (finally) (it’s phenomenal). Last night, I got to the centipede part. This morning, I get out of bed, and what do I find on the floor? Inches away from where I’ve stepped? That I’ve never seen in my house before?! A BIG FAT LONG ASS CENTIPEDE.

Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline? From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.

Week 32: Rumors by Fleetwood Mac open.spotify.com/album/0BwWUs...

Week 31: Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? by Kara Jackson open.spotify.com/album/2itoip...

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

Week 30: Iron by Post Animal open.spotify.com/album/1I37eo...

Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.

Week 29: You Don’t Mess Around with Jim by Jim Croce open.spotify.com/album/0dZaHQ...

Week 28: The Good Life by Sammy Rae & The Friends

Week 27: JOHNNYSWIM by Johnnyswim

Week 26: The Search by NF

They’re banning the cats! They’re banning the dogs! I wrote about the new m.o. of book-ban enthusiasts and why we should never have stopped calling them out as the weirdos they are www.salon.com/2025/06/26/b...

I enjoyed this conversation a lot. I hope you'll enjoy reading this short (but sweet!) glimpse about what we do over at @appalachianpbp.bsky.social just as much.

Week 25: The Magazine by Zinadelphia

Week 24: Long Lost by Lord Huron open.spotify.com/album/6yEdJA...

Week 23: When I Think of You in a Castle by Post Animal

Week 22: the record by boygenius

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.