This, also, as economic conditions worsen and poverty conditions will grow.

Reminder that Romancing the Vote is about to pop off!

"Because if you want your kid to grow up into the kind of adult who doesn’t ban books? Then they can’t be scared of them. And neither can you."

I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

So I just wrapped up an online panel about having a long career in children's literature and want to share some of the resources I talked about. The secret to picture books? It's about practice and play. katemessner.com/picture-book...

"Without reducing and controlling the power of the super rich, we will never be able to cure the underlying disease afflicting the United States." Andrea is back from book break. And this week's episode talks about our sick society and how we treat it.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

If you're a book creator and you're mad about our latest scandal du jour I encourage you to channel that energy into: 1. Calling your reps (house) and demanding they vote no on HRs 7661 and 2616 2. Volunteering with AABB. We NEED more people. We NEED this energy. TLDR: Touch grass, call your reps

It's weird to watch people to post and enthusiastically endorse the national ambassador's comment that nearly 95% of kidlit is crud (lol so true!), and then when people get upset, say that the quote was taken out of context.

this would fix us

We told you this was going to happen but at least trump got that ballroom

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

Strongly suspect this will go the way of all "FINALLY, something WHOLESOME for FAMILIES and TEENS!"-forward media.

"And here’s the bigger problem: You’re not supposed to know what you or your loved ones qualify for. Otherwise, you might get what you are actually owed."

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

In case we needed another reminder that book bans and K-12 education gag orders were never about "parents' rights":

On ALA's new Censorship Portal, the most banned book in the US being about child sex trafficking, and the launch of PragerU's new book fair.

Missed this three months ago. Don't let the Jake Tappers of the world try to deactivate you from participating in #MayDayStrong. We're practicing on May Day, y'all. No work, no school, no shopping for ONE DAY... to build strength for when we need to really shut it all down!

“The seemingly inevitable entry of AI into K-12 education strikes me as, potentially, another form of cognitive surrender. If we’re going to slow or reverse this trend, now is the time.”🧪🛟

AI is best understood as a cyberattack against a functioning society and should be treated as such

NEVER COMPLY IN ADVANCE

i guess i am not his “own people,” since he stole from me to make his “A.i.”

My team just launched The Beam, a new media outlet for Arizona. I’m particularly excited about something we built for parents: School Board chatbots. thebeam.org/arizona-scho...

Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone. Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

This marketing is really insulting to the rest of us out here who’ve been writing for teens for a while. We’ve got censors on one side, colonization by adult Romantacy on the other and now these condescending “saviors” right in the middle telling us we’re dirty. This sucks.

If this is shared outside of my bubble, nice to meet you, and feel free to check out my earlier work. Like the story below of this other VERY strange nest! ⬇️

AI 'mirages' mean tools used to analyze medical scans could fabricate their findings MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding 🧪 arxiv.org/html/2603.21... Exposes fundamental vulnerabilities in how visual–language models reason and are evaluated, pointing to urgent need for private benchmarks.

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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

Love and acceptance: helping trans children live happy lives This Transgender Day of Visibility, parents reveal the simple formula that can make all the difference to trans children in difficult times | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social

Nonprofits have real power to support voter participation. Know what’s allowed: bit.ly/40RK33Y #Democracy #NonprofitImpact

One of the greatest public health achievements of the last 60 years? Fewer than 10% of American adults smoke! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

“Sycophancy was present across all the chatbots they tested, & the bots frequently told users that their actions or beliefs were justified in cases where the user was acting deceptively, doing something illegal, or engaging in otherwise harmful or abusive behavior.”🧪

We don't need to fight over fossil fuels. BloombergNEF reports grid-scale batteries are as cheap as coal per MWh. Offshore wind is comparable in price to combined cycle gas turbine power, & onshore wind & PVs (fixed & tracking) are both significantly cheaper than fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Louder for the people in the back. www.theverge.com/report/90181...

Scenes from today’s “No Kings” anti-Trump rally in Sydney, Australia

Beautiful day for a protest. #NoKings #Geneva #Switzerland

Zürich #nokings

"Hey guys we have a school run by robots" "Wow you eliminated the biggest single ongoing cost of literally any institution: staffing! Will it cost less?" "HAAHAHHHAHAHHAHHAHAHA HA HAHA ha hoo boy tee hee No."

#nokings #munich

No Kings Paris @indivisible.org @indivisibleparis.org

Americans in Thessaloniki say : NO to Trump! #NoKings #NoKingsGreece

#NoKings #NoKings3 #NoKingsIII Good morning from Amsterdam, and happy 'No Kings Day' Note for Republicans: Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and is a country in Europe.

#NoTyrants Madrid with @democrats.org Abroad

No tyrants, Barcelona #notyrants #democratsabroad #barcelona

Posted this and a friend texted to say they were on the fence about going and this tipped them into going. Let your friends know you're going! Invite them along! They're mad too and doing something always feels better than doing nothing. We're in this together. ❤️👊