I got to talk 100 Notable Small Press Books on the Lit Hub podcast this week! We're trying hard to make 2026 happen, but we need a handful more reviewers. If you want to celebrate small presses & their authors, sign up here: tinyurl.com/100smallpress lithub.com/its-best-of-... #100smallpress

Outrageous. 60 days to comment—fill that mailbox! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every so often, I come across an essay by Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social and keep a tab open until I have time to read it with care. Here, a writer‘s thoughts on libraries, community, generosity, time… lithub.com/on-the-infin...

Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him: we applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same! Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Our editors share some of the books that captured our attention this year. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...

#MAGAstan: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #womensrights #voting

Working families don’t have time to "relax." They have to choose health care coverage NOW, they have to pay their bills NOW, they need to bring food to the table NOW.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Data centers want to gobble up all our electricity and water, to power A.I.s gobbling up all our ideas. Enough!

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."

It's December, which means that it's time for reading trans books! The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷

Nice to see a number of our past contributors included here

Trump has literally tried to cancel World AIDS Day. Don't let him. Watch CASHING OUT an amazing New Yorker doc short by Matt Nadel. I'm a proud EP. www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.

The #100smallpress list is live on LitHub today! Thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for launching this project! It's been a pleasure to be part of it. Do check out the whole list.

Do pay attention to the submission guidelines for this — we're open to surprises, but this call is particular in what we're looking for.

It's alive! Issue 33 has frighteningly good new poetry from: Debra Allbery Ashley Oakes Amanda Chiado Zachary Lorico Hertz Jamie Kim Jasmina Kuenzli Laura Mills Janice Northerns Abiodun Salako Moudi Sbeity Susan Trofimow Dana Tenille Weekes Kenton K. Yee leonliteraryreview.com

This is completely insane and abhorrent. People will suffer. People will die.

"The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy."

BURN IT TO THE GROUND

I’ve been recommending Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? to everyone. Now I see there’s a local measure along the same lines. Time to get to work. #climate #watershed #lanecounty www.klcc.org/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Yes, real people can still make a difference.

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

Thanks @tr. review of translations at @blacklawrence.bsky.social for publishing this bone-chilling story from Angélica Gorodischer's collection "Las nenas" [Girls]. This translation is the fruit of a collaboration between me and the fabulous @amaliag.bsky.social. Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Hey Dems, look who won in NYC and elsewhere (VA, GA). ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!

Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.

The GOP vile anti-trans campaign failed miserably. Earle-Sears made it her dominant issue - and lost hugely Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)

Breaking: Jubilation in Richmond, Virginia where Abigail Spanberger was just elected the new governor. Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state. www.advocate.com/politics/abi...

My fellow CAers: Do the thing today. VOTE. www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...

NYC friends? Cheering for you today. Bring it home. vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡 Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025! We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!

www.theguardian.com/football/202... Trans rights are human rights

Nice write-up from Joe Campbell at the Wine Bulletin winebulletin.net/family-patie...

Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”. No we do not agree! Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health. It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling. Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!

Fall of Freedom events, part of “a nationwide wave of creative resistance,” begin in November.

(money that Congress has already allocated for emergency use) if the shutdown continues into November. A reminder to the Trump administration: withholding funds already allocated by Congress is illegal, though they continue to act as if they are above the law.

The Trump admin’s USDA issued new guidance stating it will not use existing funds to cover SNAP benefits if the government shutdown extends beyond October 31. This move effectively threatens to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding

In a letter before the shutdown, the agency reported that SNAP had a “multi-year contingency fund,” but it’s unclear if this meant that its was 12+ months vs. spanning fiscal year (Sept-Oct). In any event, this is a choice to let these funds lapse and hold poor Americans hostage

I’m resharing this again because it’s so good that it made it into my dreams last night. I dreamed some needed project was being cancelled bc its directors thought fascism had already won & I was pleading with them. “There’s always a next right thing to do! Don’t give up! We need you!”

Not surprised, Trump lied. The entirety of the East Wing will be torn down. And yes, we should be disgusted about this.

Trump has taken a torch to essential federal programs, our public lands, and the rule of law. And now he’s literally bulldozing the People’s House to build a lavish ballroom funded by billionaire donors. Share this to make sure every American knows what he has taken away.

Is anyone else a teensy bit concerned that they didn’t fully clean out the East Wing before they started demolishing it? I don’t trust that they put much thought into preservation because [gestures wildly].

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, is about to cross 20 hours of continuously holding the Senate floor and speaking to "ring the alarm bells" about authoritarianism.

Bettles, AK (pop 23) might have won the protest game www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMac9XfT/