BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

8 years ago today, we opened our doors for the first time! After months of buildout, ordering (and shelving!) inventory, and hiring, we took the paper off the windows and opened the doors. It was such a special day and we took photos! If you stop by today, please wish a happy birthday!

Tomorrow night is our monthly book club on zoom! If you'd like to join, please email to register and receive bookclub materials. “This exquisitely imagined family saga spans cultures and continents.” —New York Times “A highly readable and poignant tale of dislocation, refuge and resilience.” —NPR

TONIGHT! Please join us for an evening with @kenneth.oppel and @cl_herman as they discuss Kenneth's newest YA, BEST OF ALL WORLDS. An utterly unique book, this is sure to be one conversation you won't want to miss! 7pm at Belmont Books!

Our new Sunday music program starts today (6/1) at 4:30! Come check it out!

An Ohio man checked out 100 Black, Jewish, and LGBTQ books—then burned them. And bragged. Rep. Shontel Brown exposed it on the House floor. This is erasure in real time. 📚ERASED exists because of this exact hate. They want our history gone. Read it. Share it. Defend it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

Public pressure works! Keep it going.

Sharing (again) this Massachusetts KidLit starter pack - including recently added bookstores @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @belmontbooks.bsky.social @odysseybks.bsky.social & @anunlikelystory.bsky.social Follow to keep up with kidlit folks and goings-on in Mass! go.bsky.app/HLF9f5R

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Join us on Saturday for the One Stop Bookstore Crawl! #independentbookstoreday

Are you a huge fan of indie bookstores, but find the idea of doing a whole bookstore crawl daunting? Or maybe you have a busy day and want to make your one bookstore stop count? WELL. Belmont Books has the answer for you! A ONE STOP BOOKSTORE CRAWL!

And we have lots of signed copies of her books—especially her new picture book, LITTLE BIRD LAILA! #booksky

Where is our humanity?

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

Keep posting

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Roll up of the massive protests across the country today! We had 2,000 on our stretch of road in west St. Louis county. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

1/ Commerce Secretary Lutnick is saying stupid things about tariffs, including that tariffs do not cause prices of domestically-produced products to rise. He is wrong. Tariffs cause all prices to rise, including domestically-produced products. Let me explain (using Economics 101).

Those of us whose grants have been terminated wondering what this means for us

There were more than 100,000 people at the rally in Boston! The crowd stretched from City Hall all the way to Boston common. Inspiring speakers plus the Dropkick Murphys! #HandsOff

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

BREAKING: Top vaccine regulator ousted by RFK Jr. says the new health secretary’s team sought nonexistent data to justify antivaccine narratives and pushed to weaken regulation of unproven treatments. “What they are trying to do is potentially dangerous.”

“I can never give allegiance to anyone else other than to follow the science as we see it."

🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸

Amazing. Even the Trump administration's own lawyer can't explain the legal basis for deporting the Salvadoran man who was removed in "error." Is JD Vance going to do some snide little tweets about this DOJ lawyer now? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

‘The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.‘ #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

"we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features & recognize it as a political artifact through & through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority & autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power" i finally read this & it's 🔥🔥🔥

The video claims Trump Is taking from the rich to give to the middle class because it will lower interest rates and thus prices. And yes there are people who are very susceptible to this messaging.

Hello, I’m a craftsperson, I make things with my hands. Today I’ll be in my studio, Unit 315, from 12-4 at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, Massachusetts for First Saturdays Open Studios. It’s a cool, old, textile mill now full of artists with a cafe & food truck! westernavenuestudios.com

"A video recording, discovered on the cellphone of one of the paramedics who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave...clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire."

Energy Transfer has received requests to power 70 new data centers. Good piece by @andy-rowell.bsky.social + @ninalakhani.bsky.social on the gas pipeline companies poised to cash in on Trump's support for AI data centers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you haven't figured out where you're protesting tomorrow, here's the place to find out. #handsoff thanks to all my colleagues @thirdactorg.bsky.social and everywhere else across this vast movement. handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=t...

In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."

Most Accurate Headline of the Day 🏆 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Not one of these EOs listed in this letter is valid. Notably, no statutory language is listed. The President’s agenda is not a statutory reason for termination. It really is just straight up lying and people should start just suing the government in the Court of Claims.

We’re shipping off to #Boston!! 🤘Don’t miss the acoustic set by #DropkickMurphys at our April 5th event in Boston, MA. FIND a local April 5 event: FiftyFifty.one Washington D.C.: SeeYouInTheStreets.com #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #massachusetts @polrev.bsky.social

Let's join Hands Off on April 5th for starters www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

What’s your plan for April 5th?

SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH BE THERE! State Capitol Concord NH

Chief justice really thoroughly reading the finding that Yoon undermined democracy and ignored the constitution, and that the lawmakers were only able to overturn his decree because members of the public stood up for democracy

I'm not surprised this is true, but a stunning amount of work to prove it. 🧪💉🦠

South Korea did it. We can do it too. ❤️💪👊

Reading this now - great work as usual by Allen and Parnes. Pretty damning when it comes to just how much folks knew about Biden's ability to mount a reelection campaign and when. bookshop.org/p/books/figh...

So weird how this keeps happening. www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...