Thank you to Sameer Pandya, Cynthia Weiner, and Jenna Lanzarose for sharing your work—and your presence—with us. Here’s a snapshot of Thursday night’s reading: so much warmth and laughter and talent in one room 💕

Books read in March. No ratings or reviews. Just fun covers. A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner. #booksky 📚💙

The Trump administration is now allowed to proceed with the federal employee buyout program after a federal judge denied a request to halt the program entirely. Judge George A. O’Toole Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in the District of Massachusetts, did not rule on the program’s legality.

Legislators restricting academic programs – using “Return on Investment” as a smokescreen for ideological censorship – is “paternalistic overreach at best, intentional political censorship at worst.” Read more from PEN America’s Clare Carter here: pen.org/cuts-to-acad...

Inaccurate IDs can expose transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people to harassment and discrimination. We're taking the Trump administration to court to defend our freedom to be ourselves.

And if you call for an Uber or Lyft and get a Tesla, cancel it and tell them why.