Y'all keep boycotting Starbucks! I hope y'all never stopped. Fuck Starbucks! More power to the workers! More power to the unions!

Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power. n.pr/485sLnd

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Can anybody in book world help these Houston friends out? 👇🏻

A non-profit has built a massive internet database—and served training data to AI firms despite pleas from publishers to stop, Alex Reisner reports:

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

Domestic There’s nothing domestic about it. No home in the house, no safety in the shelter. It’s dishes smashed like punctuation, doors slammed into silence. It’s the smell of dinner gone cold while apologies simmer on low. #vss365 #domestic

but Congress still gets paid www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/p...

Today in stress-baking: smittenkitchen.com/2012/10/roas...

A round of cheese and chive scones straight from the oven. That's lunch sorted. #baking #HomeBaking #Scotland #Scones

Such a great read.

If you're looking to build a school collection of graphic novels, @scholasticuk.bsky.social have just launched a great new deal. Their Graphic Novel Book Box is updated every term with ten new graphic novels and loads of bonus posters and bookmarks. Link here: shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/160...

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

One of the best outlets covering politics is being gutted and replacing their politics coverage with.....lies about the future young people will never see.

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

Join us Wednesday @ 4pm ET / 1pm PT! We're teaming up with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's @uabookbans.bsky.social to discuss how faith communities and librarians can come together to advocate for the right to read. Register here: support.interfaithalliance.org/a/how-faith-...

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

Teen Vogue rising after the 2016 election and dying after the 2024 election doesn't even feel like a metaphor as much as a microcosm of what is happening all over places that were once strong areas of resistance.

So many reminders that unfettered, unchecked capitalism has directly led us to fascism.

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/

Remember when the book banners said it was "only" school libraries? That kids could get the book at the public library or buy it? We knew they were fucking liars and moving the goal post again and again. Not the first bookstore that caved to their bigotry and it won't be the last. America.

From the union statement in the story below:

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IU to Resume Printing Student Paper After Censorship Controversy https://bit.ly/4hDdHkS #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today. It's resegregation in real time.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I'm writing a piece on extremism and the military and I have never run into so many people wanting to be off the record before. This plus thr fact that so many of us have been pushed to the margins is bad bad bad.

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

🍂November is Native American Heritage Month. This month and every month, it's important to recognize that Indigenous stories aren't just in history—they're happening right now. With that in mind, we encourage you to share and uplift Indigenous Peoples and Native American stories all year round.

We had a dead smoke detector! Our security system monitors smoke and carbon monoxide alarms throughout the house, wherever they are needed, except in the kitchen. It is my cooking season through January 1st, so I need to be safe😉Again, check your smoke alarms today💫

Evil bastard

Stores should instead grant those targeted by GOP blockage of SNAP payments an amount of credit equal to the discounts they meant to give, and then forgive that credit at checkout.

please keep sharing local food resources. Even if by some miracle SNAP is restored, there are A LOT of people in need. So, share information on where ppl can go for food where you live, then donate ur time or money to support these agencies. #terrehaute #vote terrehaute.in.gov/news_detail_...

What have you started hoarding?

Save the Date! Our IG live with @jamesbirdbooks.bsky.social is Thursday, 11/6/25, 2 pm ET! James, who is of Ojibwe descent, is the author of middle-grade novels The Brave, The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls, and No PLace Like Home. www.instagram.com/readyourworl... #ReadYourWorld #kidlit

Audiobooks allow for a more enjoyable and accessible reading experience for people with dyslexia and can improve comprehension and fluency.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

There’s at least 5,200 people missing from ICE custody 1200 from the Everglades facility and 3000 from Chicago That’s to say nothing of the people who’ve died. More have died in 9 months than the entire Biden admin A “shadow deportation network” sounds like a way to expedite disappearing people

"Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction" via @literaryhub.bsky.social

Opinion | 4 Weeks Into the Shutdown, Colleges and Students Are Running Out of Options Students are becoming more food insecure and colleges are limiting operations to conserve cash. The longer the shutdown lasts, the harder it will be for higher ed to bounce back. https://bit.ly/4oixdpq

OPPORTUNITY: After rollbacks to #ERate funding for Wi-Fi hotspots, many libraries have new gaps in their budgets. @missiontelecom.bsky.social is offering to help bridge the gaps for libraries & schools that received approval only to see it taken away. Learn more: www.route-fifty.com/digital-gove...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's request to pause ICE operations in and around Chicago during the Halloween weekend, calling his ask "shameful."

I think 'carnegie' is Scottish for 'libraries' www.thegazette.com/news/iowa-li...