Morning gorgeous babies. Share some kindness this day if you're able. Good mischief. Love you all 🍂🧡🍂

My second book is up on Netgalley! I’m so excited (and anxious but that’s the norm) for this cast of characters to meet the world. I am really proud of this book! Check it out if you love a cozy-but-complicated coming of age queer romance. Mal’s story is for you!

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD

As a consolation to our Canadian friends, Los Angeles will now embark on one of our greatest traditions: burning down the entire city with illegal fireworks

DODGERS WIN THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT WORLD SERIES ON A DOUBLE PLAY!!!

To anyone not into baseball I’m sorry but also get into baseball

"...this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear... "

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Feast your eyes, my friends!!! 😍😍 And get ready to fall in love with these two hotties!

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward. "We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

the truth you can’t run from 🪶 happy indigenous peoples day, every day

A reminder that your US public library card likely gives you free access to Libby, an app that has ebooks & audiobooks galore! It likely gets you other cool stuff, too. Mine gets me museum passes, language learning via Mango app, movies & TV via Kanopy app, &c. Using the library keeps it open! 💙📚

We should all follow Mike's great example: Step 1: do something, literally anything, to help Step 2: find something that brings you joy and go do that next

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?" lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth 📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Are you dreaming of a weekend to focus on your writing? Come join us at a gorgeous writers' retreat in Georgia in January! drive.google.com/file/d/1G_Sz...

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now. For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours. Please share your joys with us.

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow: bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

hi can people roll on this and tell me about the ordinary people they create

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

They are literally canceling culture

One year ago today, @keiralekseii.bsky.social sent my little pirate book out on submission. Just 7 hours later, @featherfully.bsky.social replied to that email to let us know she was offering on it. And in just 9 months, A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES will be on shelves! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Here, fixed it.

From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”

Adding: Everyone deserves medical care, food, shelter, education. (Abortions, vaccines, gender-affirming care, etc are all medical care.)

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

an actual expert's advice on managing burnout:

HEY SOMETIMES THERE IS UNCOMPLICATED GOOD NEWS It's rare but it happens!!! If you think this is a big and great deal (it is) please consider donating directly to the Florida Freedom to Read Project www.fftrp.org/donate

For the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's my angry story about accessibility. Come for the punny superhero lols, stay for the much-needed catharsis at the end. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

“Are you okay?” No? Yes? In a manner of speaking? Amid The Horrors, we’re all just doing the best we can.

American adults have such a pervasive culture of demanding obedience from children, and that will always be antithetical to art.

Happy 85th birthday to a trans icon

Hello it's Bagel #DailyDoggo

I wrote about the role of literature (as an author and a lit prof) in these hard times. #writingcommunity substack.com/home/post/p-...

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

Tell @npr.org what books you do want students to be reading and what books impacted you! www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...

"The reason people of evil try to smother any point of light is because they know that in a field of darkness, light becomes something undeniable and unignorable; a point of reference and a point of distinction. Dark needs perfect darkness to be perfectly dark. So I ask myself: what light can I be?"