Kacey Musgraves my norteña sister. Welcome.

Funniest part of this endeavor from this morning, when I called a family friend to figure out the closest rescue. This is how he had them saved in his phone.

UPDATE: WE FOUND SOMEONE! Shout out to the fullcast community. Y’all are the best in times of need.

FULL CAST BAT SIGNAL: i need to transport a nestling baby bird from Monroeville, AL to Orange Beach, AL. Can anyone make the drive? I’d do it myself but i am in town to bury my grandmother today. @dirtbagqueer.rocks @hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social

we're still looking for readers' questions to help our coverage around this week's catastrophic blow to the VRA also here's some helpful bg on how Black communities fighting for fair representation in the south have been bracing for this boltsmag.org/mississippi-... boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Fuck Liberty, go Bearkats, special shout out to the Huntsville Whataburger @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Stoked to have a story in this issue in part so I can hang onto this great cover!

Day one in the books, let’s review the film

Nonprofits ostensibly focused on ensuring First Amendment protections also turned their backs. (To this day, the ACLU of Texas has yet to comment.) “The reputation of these cases, and the way that the federal government described them, made people run from them.”

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

All of our personal data is increasingly tracked & surveilled. A new book (“Your Data Will Be Used Against You”) breaks it down. We asked its author, @profferguson.bsky.social, if he'd answer your questions on the risks & what it means for politics & liberties. He agreed. So ask him anything!

Wow Trump really threw Riley overboard, but at least she can swi— ah, well

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

using today’s queer hallmark holiday to bully u into buying ONE OF THE BOYS, my NYT best-selling stonewall award-winning debut novel about early transition and the epic highs and lows of high school football pick up hardcover, digital (still on sale for $1.99 thru bookshop!), or preorder paperback

News dropping while I’m in Houston we love to see it 🇨🇱

One of our books, DESERT QUEEN, is on the list of titles the board asked the library director to remove. It’s one of the most beautiful picture books we’ve published (and one of the most critically acclaimed!). If you want to work with me to get this book to kiddos in middle Tennessee, hit my line.

i appear to have received a package 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 paperbacks for ONE OF THE BOYS are out on 4/21 🥰

🏳️‍⚧️ High School Bundle 🏳️‍⚧️ 📖 bit.ly/TransBookBundle

ONE OF THE BOYS is part of this sale, as are most of my favorite books of all time. get your damn audiobooks! GO!

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

GRAND OPENING THIS WEEKEND!!! Saturday, March 14th! Free cookies and patches until we run out! Storytime for kids, button-making, tarot readings, a teach-in! Many other things! We can't wait to see you! We forgot to post this earlier!

Big Bend border wall protest this morning in Terlingua, Texas, population 138. Rural Texas is not going to let this administration come lock their river behind a wall of steel.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

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