Book People appreciates teachers this week and every week! Be sure to claim your 20% discount on all of your purchases - for your classroom or just for you! Stop by, get your passport stamped, and get yourself a treat. You deserve it! #TeacherAppreciationWeek #WeLoveTeachers

The fun continues! To celebrate the Greater RVA Indie Bookstore Tour, Book People is having a sale on all of our Young Adult titles. Come by and stock up!

Now that we have had a minute to recover from Saturday - and OH MY what a day!!! - here's your gentle reminder that you have three weeks to collect all 11 stamps on your passport. Enter to win the GRAND PRIZE of a $50 gift card from each of the 11 stores. You have until May 16th.

Republicans in the states are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump. The response by Dems in Virginia, California, and elsewhere to counter-balance is being triggered only by a blatant plot to steal the midterms. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

It's National Library Workers Day, our favorite day of #NationalLibraryWeek where we celebrate the hardworking, dedicated professionals who power possibility in our neighborhoods, our schools, and our places of higher learning. Thank you, library workers - libraries work because YOU do! #NLWD26

Some of the books requested by our Guest Booksellers for Independent Bookstore Day - April 25. We have authors, community leaders, bookstagrammers, and other bookish friends coming to help us. And WOW did they choose some amazing books to share!

ONE WEEK TO GO! We can't wait to see everyone on Saturday, April 25, for Independent Bookstore Day and the kick-off to the Greater RVA Indie Bookstore Tour. Please share this widely with your fellow Richmond-area book lovers. And stay tuned to see who is going to be hanging out in the shop that day!

Join us on Saturday at 1:00!

Thanks, all who attended, for the great conversations on politics, data, and more! Trusted Source is next up in my queue.

Tomorrow evening, VPAP's David Poole talks Trusted Source with @bookpeoplerva.bsky.social. Join us for free. www.bookpeoplerichmond.com/event/2026-0...

"ICC can prosecute crimes against humanity, which are serious violations committed as part of a large-scale attack against any civilian population." www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-th...

Look, honey, The Crusades are back.

Today is #TransDayOfVisibility, & I wanted to share this great reading list that @slj.com put together last year. It features 14 books for middle grade & teen readers by trans creators or about trans characters. Add some to your list or your library! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

It's already illegal to vote if you're not a citizen. They're trying to convince us there are droves of people who are willing to risk deportation and the abuse that we are seeing from ICE to vote illegally. It defies credulity and it's simply not true.

That is a lot of small empty shoes, RVA.

Tomorrow could be the largest protest in U.S. history, with millions expected to take to the streets against the rise of fascism in our White House. As a human rights lawyer, I made this video with 13 rules you need to protect yourself while protesting.

Rather than help our Nation get better, House Republicans intentionally chose to extend their chaos.

Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare – in many audits, less than one hundreth of one percent of all votes cast. The SAVE Act is a total sham, cracking down on a problem that isn’t real.

excited to share our first three OFFICIAL CHANNELS for Nationals.TV (with more to come soon) 👀⚾️ learn more + keep track at nationals.com/watch

Honored to receive this special donation and help carry forward Lucia’s legacy of love, light and care for others. A heartfelt thank you to Canterbury Recreation for hosting the 5th annual food drive in her honor. https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/lucia-bremer-feed-more-food-drive-march-22-2026

In a sane, functional country, literally EVERY Democrat, EVERY Republican, and EVERY media outlet would be condeming Trump for this language and calling for his impeachment. But...nope, we don't live in such a country. bluevirginia.us/2026/03/sund... h/t @phillipspobrien.bsky.social

The SAVE Act isn't about securing elections or stopping fraud. Trump has made it clear he wants it passed to protect Republican majorities in Congress in 2026 and beyond — making it harder for Americans to vote. That's not how things are supposed to work in America.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.

On the flipside, @mlb.com & @nationals.com are making it easier for me to care (and spend) even less.

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

Just an update that we will be closing at 5:30 today. Hope everyone stays safe & dry! #mothernatureisdrunk #tomorrowwefreeze

It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.

Incredible catch here. Fox used footage from December 17, 2025, where Trump was not dressed in garish campaign swag. youtu.be/FxfiAuFfMas?...

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

We need to rein in this President. That starts with the Senate passing Tim Kaine’s War Powers Resolution immediately. It should have been brought to the floor before this President sent troops into harm’s way with no explanation or plan.

Emancipation Oak at Hampton, Virginia.

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up, reassert its power, and represent the American people. We do not want another forever war.

Remember when Congressional Republicans last valued the nation over partisanship? The year was 1974. ☹

Old Town Books on St. Patrick's Day? Don't forget your green!

Thanks for sharing and yes, "It’s frustrating to have to wait until the last minute."

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature - www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

If we actively deport folks already here and restrict new entries, why do we need more retention centers except as new profit centers?

An average resting heart rate of 38bpm!

Trump’s DOJ tried to charge me with a crime simply for saying something they didn’t like. Think about that. This is after DOD already censured and threatened to demote me. He wants to make an example out of me and scare Americans from speaking out against him. Don’t let it work.

Prosecuting lawmakers for their speech is a clear assault on the most basic of American freedoms. Fortunately the grand jury stopped this in its tracks, but it should never have gotten this far.

The second adventure in a series of stories about Marco, a rough-around-the-edge former street cat turned sailboat captain, whose love of cheese gets him in deep water! @bookpeoplerva.bsky.social

Good luck with your venture! I hope the 2026 Nats make your site worth following past March.

"At best, these latest horrors are failures of qualification .... At worst, they are collective failures of morality by our leadership ...." www.salvationsouth.com/comply-or-di...

Thank you for including Petersburg.

We need to recognize garbage for what it is and treat it accordingly.

For anyone who's ever felt the pull of home even when it's the last place they want to go, Do Not Follow is a story about navigating the highways of life and discovering that sometimes the road to healing begins where the past and present collide. #bookpeoplerva #shoplocal #donotfollow

This is racist, plain and simple. Trump's behavior is beneath the Office of the President. Is there anyone around him who will tell him when he’s wrong? www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

the president is psychotic. in reality, his numbers are near all-time lows.