Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes when the cover art for a book gets designed? @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social tells @debutiful.bsky.social how the cover art for her upcoming anthology, LIVING, TOGETHER, came together.

If you have ever interviewed or commiserated with other artists and creative people to justify your choices as an artist, you’re not alone! @sgriest.bsky.social did that over the course of 10 years and turned those conversations into a book.

Every administration since the start of SNAP has ensured funds kept flowing despite a government shutdown — the Trump admin, even if forced by a judge, is trying to weasel their way out. Because the cruelty IS the point. TAKE ACTION, Keep America Fed ➡️ www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-drive

Just in time for Black History Month next year, @crileysnorton.bsky.social and Darius Bost’s A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is an “illuminating account.” Watch this space on January 20, 2026! ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

During our authoritarian timeline, the focus shouldn’t be on how to change people’s minds. @lewispants.bsky.social says it should be on what conditions make it possible to let go of long held beliefs and ideologies and how to create them. @prismreports.org

Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Persian is Atash Yaghmaian’s first language. But she wrote MY NAME MEANS FIRE in English because English was a buffer, a soft curtain between herself and the memories that threatened to undo her. @literaryhub.bsky.social

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

We need others to help reflect our light back—through the lens of love. This love is sturdy and unsentimental. This is the kind of love James Baldwin writes about in NOTHING PERSONAL.

the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...

40+ years after Eleanor Bumpurs’ death, the public continues to remember her. Her daughter, Mary, says the legacy of her case is to keep her spirit moving. To let people know what happened to her. @madameclair08.bsky.social

Damn right!! 🤌🏾🏳️‍⚧️💞✨🫶🏾🎯

Costumes are a way of fighting the 47th president’s absurdity with absurdity. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall points out how the civil rights movement protesters used similar nonviolent tactics.

Get the BTS info about the cover for LIVING, TOGETHER - an essay anthology edited by @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social coming out from @beaconpress.bsky.social on July 14, 2026! debutiful.net/2025/11/06/s...

A former white nationalist becomes a trans anti-racist activist. A former IDF soldier becomes committed to anti-Zionist organizing. Personal unlearning is core to this kind of radical change. @lewispants.bsky.social

Chaos and lies: Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony

Digital literacy and civics education are not just academic skills but now essential tools for preserving democratic participation in this era defined by disinformation and surveillance capitalism. @heidsky.bsky.social

As we begin Native American Heritage Month, we look back on the celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 📚 Check out our blog: ndnco.cc/ipdblog

Since choosing to be an art monk committed to writing, @sgriest.bsky.social needed a congregation. She wants all other art monks of all artistic practices to know they’re not alone.

The sky is blue The grass is green If you confuse people with nonsense They won’t get vaccines

The precondition to the mini revolutions Ilan Pappé lays out in ISRAEL ON THE BRINK is that Palestinians need to be in the driver seat in all the conversations. They need to conceive the ideas for the future of decolonization and coexistence. #FreePalestine

In RACIAL INNOCENCE, @professortkh.bsky.social writes about how Latinos like Enrique Tarrio join white supremacist movements. Nick Fuentes is another one. ➡️ www.beacon.org/Racial-Innoc...

While writing Eleanor Bumpurs’s biography, @madameclair08.bsky.social was influenced by memoirs from survivors. Like Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s memoir of Trayvon Martin. What happens to families of police brutality victims? @crooked.com

Think back to how you felt a year ago when Trump was reelected. Now think about how you feel after last night's election. You volunteered. You went to protests. You didn't check out. You put in the work required for our democracy — and it's paying off. Remember this.

As @lewispants.bsky.social writes in RADICAL UNLEARNING, in order to fight fascism and racism and to create just, global societies, we must embrace unlearning as a collective practice available to all of us. @interdependentstudy.com gets into it.

#OTD 41 years ago, Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black woman with mental health challenges, was killed by the NYPD. Her death still drives calls for police accountability. Historian Ashley Farmer, Bumpurs’ former neighbor, explores why people continue to #SayHerName. buff.ly/j8S3oQP

#NoKings could represent the best chance for the true Left to fill a void of principled politics and collective power building made more capacious due to the failure of the Democrat party to provide a clear alternative to Trump and MAGA.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

🗣️THIS SATURDAY! The Free Black Women’s Library is hosting @madameclair08.bsky.social’s in-person chat about her book, TELL HER STORY, from 3-4:30PM EST. There’s still time to reserve your spot. Come through, Brooklyn!

#OTD, the Civil Rights Memorial was dedicated in Montgomery, Alabama. Designed by Maya Lin, it honors 40 civil rights martyrs. During the dedication, Julian Bond urged us to rededicate ourselves to the fight for freedom. #TheMarchContinues

And above all, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE is an intimate exploration of anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility in the 21st century. This is the poetry collection to read this fall! 😉📖🍂

Congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and NYC!!

Undoing the deeply internalized individualism that lives in most of us who grow up in capitalism is a massive undertaking of unlearning. @lewispants.bsky.social explains that this undertaking is indivisible from our efforts to build movements. @truthout.org

One of @melodyglenn.bsky.social’s major hopes for her book MOTHER OF METHADONE is that it leads to policy change that increases access to methadone and #HarmReduction and prioritizes treatment over incarceration. @muthamagazine.bsky.social

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

The concept of sex ed goes all the way back to start of the last century. Controversial from the beginning, it’s remained so ever since. And @margaretgmyers.bsky.social traced its history in THE FIGHT FOR SEX ED. @mainepublic.org

Ernesto learned many cuisines when he left Mexico to become a chef in NYC. His grandmother’s cooking and the simple way she prepared never left him. In this way, his home stayed with him.

Can Donald Trump run again? No. But, as @elienyc.bsky.social writes, he and his ghoulish sidekicks have every reason for wanting us to think he will find a way to run in 2028. Here’s why we can’t fall for it.

People who protest, who go against the status quo, are always seen as outsiders and troublemakers. But as Gloria J. Browne-Marshall points out, those same troublemakers have given us the rights that we have every day. #ProtestIsPatriotic

FAR more ironic - and tragic - than "Murphy Brown's daughter" (Chloe Malle) knifing @teenvogue.com in the back is that she's also the daughter of Louis Malle, director of Au Revoir Les Enfants, a great film about children being disappeared from classrooms by a fascist state. "Never forget", Chloe.

Not one process by itself creates change in history. Ilan Pappé tells @peterbeinart.bsky.social that there are discreet processes that are slow to begin with and then suddenly accelerate. This is how change will happen in the Israeli state. buff.ly/L6H30SK

Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:

Since Dobbs, online censorship creates more obstacles for the abortion care community networks operating locally on the ground. They need to find news way of accessing the people who need help. @rebeccakelliher.bsky.social

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

During the rest of 2025, @sgriest.bsky.social l has been on a 28-city book tour with ART ABOVE EVERYTHING and hopes to see you all on the road! voyageraleigh.com/interview/me...

It’s not *going* to happen. It’s already happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. trib.al/7imoDs5 Everyone, but especially liberals (and those of the multimillionaire and billionaire variety), needs to pay close attention to this phenomenon.

7 million Americans took to the streets for the nationwide #NoKings protests in October. According to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, this peaceful protest is one of many ways the people can express their concern about the path the government is on.