Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

“A free country does not only protect the right to speak. It protects the right to seek … That is the American bargain: we trade the comfort of control for the liberty of choice.”

No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.

Yesterday it was blown-over *trains*, now this 😳

HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Bluesky about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!

Countering cruelty with compassion ❤️ (and courage)

🧵, up and down

Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?

Juuuust in case you haven’t gotten all the things already for your peeps, or if you’re new to my work, a wee gift-giving guide thread o’ my books, starting with the Iron Druid Chronicles: bookshop.org/a/107403/978... 1/

in case any artists, calligraphers, medievalists, spell-casters or pen & ink-lovers want to know! I make oak gall/ iron gall inks from galls I forage here in the Carpathians! @nightforest.bsky.social

If you're hunting about for gifts for the knitters in your life, including yourself, I wish humbly to suggest that they and/or you might enjoy becoming part of my Patreon group. Memberships start at $3/month (which gets you almost everything), and there are discounts for subscribing for the year...

Psst! If you'd like a gift idea for an SFF fan -- or if you'd like to read a scifantasy that's basically THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian folklore & Caribbean mythology -- there's a $1.99 Ebook sale now for my book, THE NIGHTWARD! www.harpercollins.com/products/the... www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN

Flashmob at the supermarket this morning -- approx 50 kindergartners, wearing various Santa hats, antlers, etc., popped in and sang Christmas songs. ALL the verses, with great enthusiasm. I was lucky enough to be at the checkout. 🎄

I had a great time talking to Allison! We covered myths, monsters, and the liberation of writing a man who refuses violence as an answer to pain.

In leaving the 5th Circuit ruling in place, SCOTUS effectively granted state and local governments in LA, MS, and TX the authority to determine what materials you can & cannot read. This means people in these states do not have the same 1A rights as the rest of the country. time.com/7341120/book...

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Steven Moore and I agree on at least one thing: we want Ukraine to win. But what divides us is that Steven thinks Trump is critical to Ukraine winning, while I think we need to abandon the illusion he will help Ukraine.

🎶 Fast away the old year passes 🎶 Waning moon, shortly before dawn.

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

"He's an artist, a one-man band, a profound philosopher, a high-stepping showman and spreader of charm." — Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke is 100 today. #FilmSky

A Federal Right to Read Act has been reintroduced by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and U.S. Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ). We’re thankful for this legislation. Our freedom to read and learn should not be a state’s rights issue! www.everylibrary.org/applaud_rein...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Hey, it's Cozy Up with Fantasy! TODAY ONLY (December 12, 2025), you can get more than 70 (!) cozy fantasy books, from all different authors, for only 99 cents. It includes my yarn shop/witchy sapphic romance Spellcasting On. You can find all the books at: www.cozyupwithfantasy.com

Hello fellow migraineurs who are also readers! A friend who teaches at Portland State is doing a survey about our reading experiences and it would be great if you were interested in taking it. Survey and more info here: portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📚

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

***IMPORTANT THREAD***** If you are anywhere near York County, South Carolina, PLEASE show up to their board meeting tomorrow. It is, of course and intentionally, at NOON tomorrow at For Mill Library. Here's York County Library's background, yes, still ongoing: bookriot.com/whats-happen...

Republicans have had over a decade and a half to come up with a health care plan, and Americans have yet to see a single thing.

Never too late for a great book-rec thread!

“Leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in place erodes the most elemental principles of free speech and allows state and local governments to exert ideological control over the people with impunity. The government has no place telling people what they can and cannot read.” pen.org/press-releas...

Bingo

Millennial Gray replaced by Fragile Whiteness www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/s...

Morning all! FYI: all of my books are in stock if anyone wants signed copies for Christmas gifts this year. A Dark History of Sugar (25% off) £15 Before Mrs Beeton £20 Knead to Know £12.99 The Philosophy of Puddings £10 +postage DM or email [email protected] Xxx

After gathering input from many, Mary Robinette is sharing a great list of works featuring / focusing on people who use wheelchairs. The list starts here, but scroll down for more works and up for the original request (and the replies thereto).

hey GUESS WHAT my short story "Auguries," which first appeared in Gamut last year, has been reprinted at @podcastle.org and you can listen to it now! podcastle.org/2025/12/02/p...

Hello! Apparently it is now awards season (??!) so I hope I have done this correctly:

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Eng. translation (mine): Sending love to the student who softly shared with me after class that he hadn't gotten an Advent calendar because his grades were too bad. And to everyone else as well -- you are enough!! Lots of rEVOLutionary love to you all!

Found on eBay, sold by someone flipping random tat. The only extant miniature spinning wheel by Hardys of York, 1824 - 1843, now fully restored. Knew it was good when I saw it but didn't realise it was so important to wheel history. Restoration write-up in 'The Spinning Wheel Sleuth', October, 2025.

🎁 For this holiday season, consider gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s a great primer for people of all ages with little to no experience cooking. If you have some neurodivergent friends and family, or parents of littles, they might love this! It’s not just a cookbook, it’s a new approach to food. 🎁

Guten Morgen ❤️ 🎄 Mimikama Adventskalender 2025 🎄* Jeden Tag ein Türchen. Jeden Tag ein Mediencheck. Und an 5 Tagen könnt ihr etwas gewinnen! Lernen, klicken, mitspielen. Wir machen Weihnachten ein bisschen faktenfester. Los geht’s: www.mimikama.org/adventskalen...

The Indigenous Journalists Association released a reporting guide to help reporters cover Indigenous identity responsibly and ethically. It offers tools and context for navigating heritage, identity fraud, community verification, and more. indigenousjournalists.org/2025/11/ija-...

Der Comic war schon länger in meinem Kopf und er macht mir wieder etwas Mut. Vielleicht hilft er euch auch 💜. We can fight the fight!

Disturbing and discouraging thread -- but important.

On sale in Germany, too (for €3.99).

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. (Nibbled to death by ducks, apparently.)

If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers

"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?" "A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-" "Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?" "About as intelligent as a border collie." "So, intelligent. Why?" "You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."

Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.

As 2025 wraps up, I'm looking back at what I did in publishing. I had a couple of really tough years so the fact that I have this much stuff out in the world feels mildly miraculous. For your reading pleasure and consideration for award nominations: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/mrks...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.