berkeley and raleigh are sold out, but: come hang out with me in these other cities!! us.macmillan.com/tours/alix-e...

This is so disturbing. Every American should be asking why. This is so far outside of anyone’s ability to defend as reasonable. Even people who think ICE is somehow doing good work (???) can’t possibly believe they need to stockpile war weapons.

cc: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

If you are looking for a fun read this Indigenous People’s Day, try an alternate history where Atahualpa discovers Europe. My nerdy little Peruvian heart was continuously delighted reading Civilizations, then I got mad when it ended. 

I am so delighted and honored and humbled and flabbergasted 😭🥰🤩

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

Come listen to @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social and I talk about this fabulous anthology, Banned Together, during Banned Books Week @columbuslibrary.bsky.social

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Lately, instead of counting 25 seconds for my daily plank and V sit I’ve been reciting Snyder’s lessons on Tyranny. Trying to get to where I can do 10 in the morning at 10 at night.

I want more Maria Ressa content! Listening to those who have lived through this (and the worse that follows) feels like sanity. I’m glad I’m not the only one, even if I have to wait!

If my tax dollars are funding funerals for the victims of gun violence, might I make a friendly suggestion that it go to the children murdered at school rather than the millionaire? Seems more practical…

I use squarespace and I emailed their help center reporting this doxxing website as a security risk. See more in this thread. People WILL be targeted by this website.

These are very easy things to say: I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator. I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. Please let's choose love over fear.

My new approach to spam texts.

Wow, Columbus, you all sure love RL Stine. 800+ tickets sold out in 2 minutes!

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

A number of years ago I was asked if I wanted to be part of the NYC Columbus Day parade, and I said sure, as long as they were okay with me noting that Columbus was a genocidal fuckface to anyone who asked. It was then decided I should not be part of the parade.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Exactly this. Pretty excited to see anyone stand up to the bully in chief.

It’s hard to think about anything else while an entire population is being intentionally starved to death. The food is there. Right there. Waiting for someone with the power to stop this. Our government has that power, but instead does nothing. This is Israel. This is the United States.

Excellent article, very useful tip. ⬇️ therevelator.org/how-to-get-a...

Two different people at #ColumbusBookFestival stopped me to say they love my books and ask if they could bring them for me to sign! 🥹🥰 I’ll never get to be a featured author at the best book fest ever (it’s ok, I really love my job!), so it was really special to be seen as my author self for a sec!

The Columbus Book Festival was a blast - well run, with an enthusiastic and supportive audience. I met so many readers and fellow authors, and they sold out of both my books. I sent quite a few folks to @bookshop.org as an alternative. Thanks for having me Columbus!

columbus book festival was so fun, book people are the best people 🥹

Had an absolutely wonderful time this weekend at the Columbus Book Festival! This was an unfolding delight: beautiful space, lovely people, fantastic programming, plus a sprinkle of meteorological drama just to add spice. Kudos to everyone involved in planning and orchestrating!

My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/

Many of these cuts don’t happen until after the midterms. We need a giant online countdown to when every cut takes effect (medicaid, Medicare, state-specific terms that people don’t realize are part of it, etc). People think in the now, not the future. They need to know what their reps did.

This is a concentration camp. Alligator Auschwitz will haunt us and our descendants.

Last night, librarians, educators, parents, trans/queer folx and those who love them, and many more waited across Ohio to see which of these staggeringly damaging policies DeWine would veto. Here is the list of what he shut down.

I remember the days when I didn’t stay up scrolling to see if the governor would maybe use his veto power to put the brakes on at least some of the train cars that are about to careen off the track in our state budget.

Oh my fucking god I’m so furious all the time

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

My teen asked Governor DeWine this question 2 months ago, and he gave a non answer about how he couldn’t know what would be in the final budget. Well it passed today, with these discriminatory line items. We are about to find out if he will stand up for trans and queer kids in Ohio.

Quick question, do we still have a Congress?

This country rn is the white girl at the top of the stairs who already has like a broken collarbone and bloody scratches and she’s peering down into the dark just as the lights flicker out and some pipes in the wall make a weird noise and she just grabs her flashlight harder and goes down anyway

Everyone I know just wants to work, feed their kids and get reasonable healthcare without randos asking invasive questions about where they were born or their genitals. We could make that happen. But instead we are BOMBING IRAN??!!

They can’t police trans people’s bodies without policing cis people’s bodies, and they can’t police immigrants without policing citizens.

This was an intentional, targeted shot at a foreign journalist. @laurentomasi.bsky.social I hope you recover quickly and I hope you report the hell out of this.

What a weekend. LA communities are rising up to protect their neighbors from our own government, the crew of the Madleen was illegally boarded in international waters and then kidnapped, two of the most toxic men in the world are fighting, and Ed the zebra got to fly.

I think about the people of Gaza every day. When I eat a meal, filling my belly as much as I want. When I hug my family who are alive and whole. When my children smile in their safe, warm home. All day long, I think about the people of Gaza. How does this world go on.

What a beautiful afternoon with authors @triciaspringstubb.bsky.social, @elisastoneleahy.com, and Natalie Richards! Thank you everyone who attended and to Upper Arlington Public Library for hosting!

Absolutely delighted to get a shout out from Katherine Applegate herself! Thanks, Katherine! You are a delightful human as well as an incredible author and it was so fun to meet you. I love how joyful you are with young readers while still holding space for all the heavy things in this world.

This June two of the biggest books being published (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid) are about queer female characters and are written by queer women. I think that's pretty amazing. There was a time not too long ago this was impossible.

People tend to think of the Library of Congress as an idealogical nicety. But it’s crucial to the functioning of our democracy. It handles copyright law and aids congress in their critical work. So why is it being targeted? 🤔 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

Ok honest question because I really don’t know. Do anti-vaxers vaccinate their pets or no?

love when people get caught using LLMs for some important analytical task "to save time" and then they're like "don't worry we rigorously vetted the results." man....you either saved time OR rigorously vetted the results, but i promise you didn't do both