New Review & Interview. V.P. Anderson is the author of "Blood City Rollers", a fun middle grade graphic novel where vampires play roller derby. Check out my full #bookreview and #literaryhypepodcast interview with the author here. #booksky

Some of my recent book purchases by trans authors. Don’t forget to keep supporting trans authors despite whatever fresh hell is occupying the news cycle today.

Yay the 2025 ALA Rainbow List is up!! Huge congrats to Top Ten (!) title Ariel Crashes a Train, and to Blood City Rollers, School for Unusual Monsters, & Alex Wise Vs the End of the World, among so many great books on the list. Labyrinth Road is here for queer publishing, always. 🌈

February Reads! March reads will be way less since I got an edit letter yesterday. One of my fav reads this month was the unpublished journal of a man who walked the Camino and shared with me by his daughter, a librarian who sponsored me for a school visit. Happy reading! #readingwrapup

We had our Pride Center Library (The Audre Lorde Pride Library) Grand Reopening which I’ve been working towards for nearly a year today. It was a huge success, we gave out MANY queer books. And I even won 1 of the raffle baskets! I never win! + my Blind Date w/ a Book! #lgbtq #BookSky

Instructive insights in this piece on Turkey's slide into fascism.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

This continuing resolution was already a bad bill, but now it’s worse. Republicans slipped in a provision to give hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to some GOP Senators connected to Jan 6, but they still do nothing to improve health care. 🧵

A new State Dept. policy lets consular officers reject visa applications over common health issues like diabetes or obesity, expanding on past rules used to target immigrants with xenophobic “illness” claims.

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

Hemp-based THC products, including delta-8 gummies, are hugely popular in states that don't have legal weed. The spending bill would effectively ban all of them: www.wired.com/story/propos...

Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra... #Palestine #Israel

The Senate’s spending bill eliminates or delays food safety rules aimed at preventing foodborne illnesses and contamination. Not only did 8 Senate Democrats fail to protect millions of Americans’ healthcare, but they’re also making our food less safe. Hello?

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

Venezuela has mobilized its military, deploying about 200,000 troops, in response to a US aircraft carrier and 15,000 US personnel near its coast. Tensions have soared since US strikes on boats began in September.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

You should know the details of this historic and horrible Supreme Court case, written by famously evil justice Scalia. They spelled it out. The police have NO obligation to protect anyone's life or health. Why should the institution of policing continue to exist?

This is a VERY interesting read, now that I've had time to sit down with it, and it has me thinking about the interactions of learning abilities, especially dyslexia, with how we teach reading.

More Epstein files could, in theory, be coming soon. That’s because, at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will finally swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva, who will provide the 218th vote to release the Epstein files.

$300,000 That's it. Nine tsunami-tracking stations going offline over a $300,000 funding cut. That's like 1.5 ICE agents/year. Probably less than it cost just to fix potholes caused by Trump's birthday parade. What are we doing here?

Chile's presidential race pits Communist Jeannette Jara Román against far-right José Antonio Kast, son of a Nazi. Voters head to polls on November 16 to decide between sharply opposing visions for the country.

Scarleteen is people-powered, NOT AI! We’re raising $40,000 for staff and volunteer health care and today, we’d like to celebrate some amazing volunteers who make inclusive, joyful sex, health, and relationships education possible. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...

There's something there and a competent opposition party would press this.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

The White House is now saying that October jobs and inflation data will "likely never be released" — blaming the government shutdown.

*in chicago* alone

Today I lift up survivors of sexual violence. I am centering your pain, your need to see justice, your healing. I am so sorry for what happened and I am so sorry this country and world protect wealthy men who rape and abuse children and women. May they start to fear the truth.

Private equity drove a nursing home chain into the ground. Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients. Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it. @blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.

Here's a massive scoop from Ed showing OpenAI has been lying about their revenue for years

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Big Tech billionaires are counting on AI to make them even richer -- and they can’t have any regulatory protections getting in the way of that. That's alarming news for the rest of us. Watch.vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

The ability to be "objective" or "neutral" about secret police disappearing kids would, in any rational system, be disqualifying. That the opposite is true is an indictment of journalism, and one reason that the mainstream media is distrusted.

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

The children’s picture book, “Strega Nona, An OldTale,” celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola penned the book about the Italian “grandmother witch.” (via @mprnews.org)

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Epstein assaulted Maria Farmer and her sister Annie. Kidnapped her. Threatened her life (via Ghislaine Maxwell). Maria reported this to the FBI, which did nothing, to Vanity Fair magazine, which didn’t print the information as a favor to Epstein. Now she has contacted writer Ellie Leonard:

“the DMV is bad” is almost entirely anti-government conservative propaganda gleefully repeated by decades of hack writers

The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.

that’s their only “idea.” gut all the public programs to free up budget headroom for tax cuts for the rich, and everyone gets fake insurance that doesn’t cost much up front but doesn’t cover anything

As a bookstore that sells pamphlets and magazines, the criminalization of such materials feels pretty close to home. So let's take a closer look at the materials the federal government is claiming tie readers to "antifa terrorism." We can pick out six titles in these grainy photos. 1/

Your Public Library can Change it All… Just ask @anidifrancomusic.bsky.social, David Boreanaz, Yuki Numata Resnick & Donny Kutzbach! Swipe through to check out a few of the works that served as the catalyst for stories of transformation with these influential Buffalonians.

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.

After 232 years, the U.S. Mint has produced its last-ever penny

This future imagining is sobering and important

Under the Big Ugly Bill, Alphabet gets $17.9B in tax breaks. That could pay for SNAP benefits for 7.5 million Americans. Amazon gets $15.7B. That could lower ACA premiums for 2.4 million people. Microsoft gets $12.5B. That could cover Medicaid for 3.8 million children.

Yes, everyone who is fighting fascism needs to be united in fighting fascism. But the need to be united to fight fascism is the opposite of being united with people folding to fascism.

Unaffordable electricity is fast becoming a major source of insecurity in the U.S. AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.