if you are a bigot or support bigotry or act in a movie built on the profits of hate, people are allowed to not like you 1. because bigotry is bad and 2. because people generally DONT LIKE THINGS THAT HURT THEM. like this is so obvious. it is not 'canceling' it is an exercise in basic human autonomy

Just watched Illinois move one step closer to a consumer protection bill that would put a stop to the price gouging of libraries for digital materials. Someone said they didn't know why they didn't do this sooner, and I agree. Enough is more than enough. ilga.gov/Legislation/...

If your books are in the Anthropic copyright settlement...don't be this guy. Yes, a crappy gift card is the expectation in many class action settlements, but not this time: per work payout is at least $3,000, & may be higher. If you don't file, you get nothing. Deadline is 3/30. File today.

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

a preliminary survey for the next component of my research: if you're willing to tell me about your connection to the movie/musical 1776... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WE MADE A TELEVISION SHOW. @victorlavalle.bsky.social & I adapted his incredible book The Devil in Silver into a new season of THE TERROR alongside Karyn Kusama & Ridley Scott. Dan Stevens will blow you away this. So will Judith Light. CCH Pounder. Stephen Root. The cast is stacked. May 7th. 😈 🚪🔒

Illinois residents, take a few minutes to learn about House Bill 5236, which aims to protect libraries from price gouging and unfair practices related to digital materials. Read this handy guide from ILA, then submit a witness slip as a proponent of the legislation. www.ila.org/advocacy/rea...

Relevant to the moment. The farmworker movement is not Cesar Chavez. It was (and is) a whole community of people doing the work.

why are men

Just devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.

Calling all pianists and piano enthusiasts—there is a new, perfectly tuned piano for playing in Lincoln Square Mall, complete with a bench full of sheet music. We have Leslie Kimble to thank for both pianos, through her Piano Project.

Here are the April 2026 LibraryReads Top 10 picks! These forthcoming adult books received the most votes of approval from public library workers across the USA. Librarians, booksellers, and readers are bound to find good reads on this list every month.

Next on our Top 10 (in alpha order by author's surname) is JAPANESE GOTHIC by Kylie Lee Baker! @librarylovefest.bsky.social

In 20 years, ‘Sinners’ will still mean something. That’s my opinion

10/10 take. no notes

Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history. THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

Currently reading THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES by Sunyi Dean. All I had to hear was "Gothic ghost story set in historical Hong Kong" to want to pick it up, and the characters captured my interest right away! #ewgc 💙📚

WIFE SHAPED BODIES by Laura Cranehill was one of the most viscerally unsettling books I've read in a long time and honestly I still feel a little shudder of "ick" when I think about it...but if you like feminist body horror it's absolutely a Can't Miss title. #ewgc 💙📚

I also loved, loved, loved LAND by Maggie O'Farrell. So gorgeous that I'm already tempted to re-read it! Hamnet's many fans will find something even richer here. #ewgc 💙📚

I absolutely loved BORING ASIAN FEMALE by Canwen Xu, one of those books where the main character is making just spectacularly bad decisions but you can't look away. #ewgc 💙📚

Historian here yes on the 250th the uber patriotic White House does not know when the American Revolution began. The shot heard around the world? Not an by unAmerican regime hell bent on destroying the American republic!

THE HORRIFIC BOOK BANNING BILL IN WYOMING WAS KILLED. IT'S DEAD!!!!!! If your knee-jerk right now is "yeah but so many other ones," cool. *Not right here or right now.* Celebrating advocacy and hard work matters. www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/state/w...

"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

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

Another day, another presentation about AI at a library conference that totally ignores its environmental impacts. Sigh.

Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past

Pendragon is a delightful Arthurian strategy game with stained glass window art and also I voice a lot of the character laughs and oofs! It deserved a lot more attention on launch, but it got tanked by an early negative steam review. You can currently grab it for 60% off!

Pickens Public Library (SC) "is indefinitely cancelling many youth programs in order to allow library staff to review more than 80,000 books for themes or other content deemed inappropriate by the library board of trustees." Staff time is being used to ban books. www.wspa.com/news/upstate...

Dear Readers' Advisory Librarians--Here are new forthcoming books to love and share with your patrons in March '26: the LibraryReads Top 10! An easy to print list can be found at libraryreads.org. #BookSky

Next on the March 2026 LibraryReads Top 10 is THIS STORY MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE by Tiffany Crum! @macmillanlib.bsky.social

How to end an interview: In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud." Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

You don’t have to share trumps racist posts. Not about the superbowl. Not about anything. We could join truth social if we wanted. We’re here though.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

at least we’re all united in our horror. none of us had to experience the Dunkin ad alone.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

added a few dozen books to the 2026 list this week (lots of sept/oct books have been announced in the last month), take a look!

Just watched the new #MuppetShow with my daughter and really enjoyed it! We want more Muppets, Disney!

I canceled my Post subscription a while ago thanks to Bezos, but Ron Charles’s book reviews would have been one of my most compelling reasons to keep it. Sad news about the Books section today.

Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.

Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson & Demeanor briefly performed on the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

A bystander took a heart-wrenching picture of Liam Ramos in his hat and Spiderman backpack, and there was pressure, and he and his father are free. We must not forget all the prisoners still in the camps whose names and faces are known only to their loved ones. We must make miracles for them, too.

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Nice panorama of a No ICE protest, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com