Winter Institute booksellers i can only assume

I have often felt extremely cynical about the idea that "food brings people together." this dinner felt like a very informational stress test of it.

BREAKING: DHS waives dozens of laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend State Park. They want to rob this iconic western landscape from all of us, locking away our fishing holes & campsites behind concrete and steel. It's a grotesque act of political vandalism.

“Somehow there’s this unspoken agreement that if we acknowledge that anyone who is an immigrant has also been impacted by the criminal legal system, somehow we’re ceding ground to the right,” says an immigration attorney in Massachusetts.

This is what it is in LA. We still have between 1-2 dozen kidnapping attempts a day across the county, every single day. It's just a resonant low-din hum of cruelty. The content factory is gone but the underlying fear remains.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Inbox: Union workers with ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and the Austin American-Statesman picketing downtown today:

Today’s the day! Thanks to @jewishlibraries.bsky.social, I got to talk to @bookishlyjewish.bsky.social about all things D.J. ROSENBLUM. Go to BookishlyJewish.com to read about my inspirations, some behind-the-scenes thinking, and maybe even a curly hair tip! #sydneytaylor #blog #jewishbooks

Who benefits from the malleability of identity and nationality in international competition is very different sport by sport and it is fascinating who benefits with each!!!

I for one welcome my paisana @dirtbagqueer.rocks

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

Thank God

Screwston Antifascist Committee, I should note, mostly hands out food and zines at local anarchist fairs and shows up at protests + counter protests in the Houston area. They table at DIY shows. A paramilitary group this is not.

My first publishing job was in 2020 and I remembering spinning out when I learned that my dream imprint was one of many at a publishing house putting out some truly abhorrent shit. And that’s why, despite the various cons, i will probably always work at an independent publishing house

I sell prints, canvases and posters of my work at rhenyard.darkroom.com and use proceeds to further my practice and support local mutual aid efforts. I'm keenly aware as a Black wildlife photographer how few of us are in this space, and I'm hoping my work sparks wonder & further interest 🪶📸🎨

Rip to the pitch i sent the WaPo books team about 16 hours ago

Reminder that we have job listings posted on our website! Check out this offering for a hybrid editorial assistant position from UC Press latinxinpublishing.com/joblistings/...

Please find here some resources for aid and ways you can make a difference today: Red Balloon Bookshop: Red Balloon is soliciting donations of books for kids 0-11 (preference for Spanish books) to be delivered to families affected by ICE tactics. Books can be purchased through their website.

if you’re one of these writers (let’s be honest, if you’re doing this, odds are you follow me on here) i just wanna say - you’re doing very important work and i’m proud of you

NEW: I spoke to women's sports bar owners about how they are showing up as sites of resistance—including on the frontlines in Minnesota. "Sport becomes the shared language—bringing people together and fueling social change, just as it has throughout history.”

diego pavia and i are roughly the exact same height. unlike him tho i took home some hardware

*chanting* DJ! DJ! DJ!

THEY JUST GOT SCORED ON BY VICTORIA ZELLER

It’s an honor just to be transgender 🏳️‍⚧️

victoria zeller won a stonewall book award before josh allen won a super bowl smfh

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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

The good folks Moon Palace have always been real ones! Helped us send dozens of copies of ONE OF THE BOYS to a great org working with trans kids in the Twin Cities

The other thing that happens tho is that a large number of white people from the neighborhood show up to observe. Literally the only thing that gives ICE goons pause is white people from the community watching them. That’s why every school has parent patrols and vulnerable places ask for observers.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Louisiana excellence ⚜️

KEON.

Notable YA Covers of 2025 - this really is a post for fans of illustrated book covers: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/01... #books #illustration #YA

My first announcement as head coach: We made Aaron Rodgers watch "The Pitt" for 72 hours straight clockwork orange style and now he loves vaccines. Can't get enough of them. He's going to play for another 10 years.

I'm listening to Supreme Court arguments on laws banning trans girls from playing sports in two states, and one note: One of the justices (I think Kavanaugh) said the NCAA, Olympics etc. — people who "study this," he said — have said it's unfair for trans women to compete with women. 1/

Hey y'all, the @texasobserver.org is hiring for our David McHam Fellowship for Investigative Reporting, a 1- to 2-year full-time job that's an essential part of our newsroom. The preferred applicant for this round will focus on border and immigration. Apply by 2/6! www.texasobserver.org/jobs/

all-time allen performance given the circumstances

Cam Little shanked that because he heard me calling him swagless from my apartment in NYC

the most powerful Ball Don’t Lie moment i have ever seen in my life

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what i believe they are doing is putting the line at prater's career-long (64 yards) and ignoring that he is 41 years old and he did that in 2013, which is extremely funny

i have zero expectations for this bills team. if they lost today i’d shrug and say well that’s probably right. if they won the super bowl i’d shrug and say well that’s probably right. we are living in an eternal present, a twilight that won’t end til we decide it’s time to go. so let’s be great

Every day of my silly little life the hatred i felt for Wesley Hunt when he spoke at our shared alma mater the day after the 2016 election grows both more justified at stronger

OK here is another important part of the process – if you live in a state represented by any of these dummies, call them TODAY and tell them you appreciate them doing the right thing. Be nice. For a minute.

the people crave a transsexual kicker @buffalo-bills.bsky.social