"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Beyond honored that Salvación was included in Kirkus’s Best Teen & YA Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2025 list among so many other greats 🥰 Kirkus has supported Salvación so much this past year and I am forever grateful.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis. Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

I'M WRITING MORE BOOKS! LOST AND DARLING THINGS is my next YA fantasy with @WednesdayBooks and is a retelling of Peter Pan following an immortal teen bruja! P.S. It's also already on Goodreads! bit.ly/GoodreadsLos...

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.* The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.

“Siri, play 'A New Day has Come' by Celine Dion.”

A big part of the reason Mamdani is doing so well is because he acts like the kind of Mayor we saw in films and read about in books. It makes NYC feel like the best of itself.

Democrat Billie Butler has won a special election for the NH House by a 55-45 margin, very close to Harris' 55-44 margin in 2024. Butler, a trans woman, was the target of vicious anti-trans attacks by Republicans. Background on the race: www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/p...

Young New Yorkers of every class, race and gender. This is truly your time. Come out tomorrow like you never have before and you'll have a much better shot of a future in this city if it's not run by Cuomo. You are needed to counter what Gen X and older are going to do.

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

To me, arguing online lacks benefit, so I don’t. And if I’m honest, I’ve been so sickened for so long at the rampant cowardice I have to constantly see displayed, that the version of me that WOULD argue with strangers online is kinda toxic. At least more toxic than I am comfortable being in public.

The actors and stage managers of The Second City are bargaining for a new contract, but the private equity firm that bought the company won’t agree to a livable wage. Will you stand with them if they have to strike? actionnetwork.org/petitions/se...

This is for my fellow plus-size book girlies

This is what I want to see.

✨B&N 3-Day Sale is ON!✨ Preordering from B&N helps get more of that book into actual B&N stores, so it’s a great way to support! Use code: PREORDER25 SAL’s a Zorro retelling with salt magic, a slow burn enemies to lovers romance, action and adventure, and takes on colonialism! bit.ly/bnsalvacion

✨SAL Launch Events!✨ Save the date and come see me if you can!! I’ll also have a virtual launch on 5/20! Registration links on my website: writesandrawrite.com 🥰

Now that it’s PW official! I’m so excited to announce that I’ve joined @jenazantian.bsky.social’s wonderful agency as an associate agent 🥰 And yes, I’m open to queries! Please check out my MSWL and submit to me via QueryTracker! www.azantianlitagency.com/about-us/she...

the dedication vs the book

On top of the Senator Booker of it all, one of my favorite authors called my book a “viciously dazzling debut” today, so this really has been the most hope I’ve felt in MONTHS.

Happy book birthday to I Know the Whale by @robinyardi.bsky.social and @mattschu.bsky.social, published by Little Bee! I love this book about the wonder and beauty in nature, in death, in all of us so so much ❤️🐋

Listen. I believe ardently in criticizing our leaders for their failures and inaction but if you refuse to acknowledge their efforts when they do make them and if you refuse to recognize a step in the right direction, you don’t really want change. You just want to complain.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Call me whatever, but I’m simply not interested in bridging the divide if the bridge is going to be built on top of the bodies of marginalized people.

People keep telling me they didn’t know I have a book coming out this fall, so if that’s you: surprise! It’s a dark YA reimagining of Hansel and Gretel called WITCHKILLER and it comes out on my birthday (October 7)!

To the castle 🗡️

My beloved friend @alnl.bsky.social revealed the amazing FAT GIRL cover for WITCHKILLER their upcoming fierce, fat, feminist HANSEL AND GRETEL retelling out in October from Scholastic and have you ever seen anything better? You can pre-order!! www.instagram.com/p/DHLqzFcRSr...

Those working at Sesame Workshop are dedicated to our work and mission. Despite this, some employees with over 10 years at the org were laid off and denied severance. Luckily, we are also dedicated to each other. Help us stand for what's right by signing here: actionnetwork.org/letters/soli...

@theferocity.bsky.social In the vein of your little bowls, I felt you’d appreciate this

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream ✨

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

The items you get at Trader Joe’s are either surprisingly good or “what the hell”…there’s no in-between

Y’all Zakiya N. Jamal has revealed the cover for SPARKS FLY, her adult debut and I am swooning! It’s the hand on the neck and jaw for me. Cover art: Alex Caball (acaballz on IG) Cover design: Lila Selle (lilaselle on IG)

“Can’t you see: My people can be truly safe if Basel’s people are truly free.” - Yuval Abraham during his acceptance speech for No Other Land #TheOscars #Oscars

I’ve been thinking about Toni Cade Bambara a lot lately, for many reasons. She said “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” That’s my mission and vibe. And great many of you are forging repellant, lonely revolutions. Good luck with that.

“Hope, like evil, has to be cultivated.” - @theferocity.bsky.social on today’s episode of Vibe Check A reminder I’ll be meditating on today. If they’re going to keep cultivating evil, we must continue cultivating hope.

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. —James Baldwin

25% of kids in the US are Latinx, so here’s your Latinx KidLit starter pack and make sure to read, boost, and support Latinx stories all year long! go.bsky.app/CGXLiaz

I just watched a video of people dancing to the halftime show on a cruise ship, screaming “A MINOOOORRRRRRRRR” at the tops of their lungs, and one of the comments said, “Damn! Even at sea???” 😭😭😭😭

This is one of the best speeches ever given by Democrat Jasmine Crockett.🔥 “Some of all have been saying: Where are the Democrats? Where are the leaders? I'm here to tell you we ain't never left.” Speech is broken into three parts due to video restrictions on this platform. Please share. 1/3

Apple Podcasts told me to tell y’all that they said they love #VibeCheck and y’all better love us too. They even flew me to LA to do a cute photoshoot with @samsanders.bsky.social and @zachstafford.bsky.social.

My first review for SAL and it’s a Kirkus star!!! 🥳 “…Proudman’s debut novel is an homage to folk hero stories told through a feminist lens. The work, which is rooted in ecological justice, effectively critiques colonialism and jingoistic nationalism. A heartfelt, swashbuckling, standout novel.”

If you don’t have an inner Karen to tap into for resistance purposes, an inner Uncle Colm from Derry Girls will do just fine

Too many of y’all’s teachers let you think you fooled them into believing you read the book and it shows.

I get it, but let's not rename the gesture, which only gives more people cover to use it. This is a Nazi salute, or, if you prefer, a Hitlergruß.