We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.

Please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/up...

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back. Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

We've just hit 350 subscribers on Black & White & Read All Over!!! @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are very grateful for the support of our work and space to build resources and connections for public humanities scholars. Leaving Substack and rebuilding on our own site was hard but so worth it.

NEW: For @theguardian.com, I spoke to people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s whose parents were deported under the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations about the long-term impacts of family separation:

ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad). People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for featuring @pubprosabb.bsky.social — I hope you'll join us in the fight! 📚❤️‍🔥

"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination." - Saidiya Hartman

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

I had a daydream that Mackenzie Scott started a media company and opened 30 local newspapers in midsized cities and 10,000 people got jobs and it cost exactly the amount Bezos should have paid in taxes on purpose.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

Thanks to The Spokesman-Review for including A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE (@uwapress.uw.edu) on their spring list of “Upcoming books we’re excited to read”! www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

This weekend drones and missiles were launched at my city. This is another American war of choice. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

Seattle, come celebrate the release of Adrian De Leon's new book, BALIKBAYAN: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland. Joined by Moon-Ho Jung, De Leon will discuss what it means to go back home when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing. 📅Saturday, March 7 at 12 pm 📍Mam's Books

Grateful for a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE!

Trump administration tries to deprive poor Minnesotans of health care because brave Minnesotans stood up to them.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Thank you!

Another DOR event at the NW ICE Processing Center today. Big turnout despite freezing rain.

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Thanks to the NW Asian Weekly for this conversation: nwasianweekly.com/2026/02/tami...

Message for today's commemoration of Day of Remembrance from our compas at Tsuru for Solidarity network

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities. Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve investinlibraries.org

Yes, can we please change the clichéd language we use to describe books and authors?

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

It's at over a million in the 2 hours since I skeeted this.

CBS again bent the knee to Trump and blocked Stephen Colbert from hosting Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.

*rushes to read*

Today at 5PM, community members will gather to express our outrage at the Trump National Parks Department's erasure of OUR history and OUR flag from OUR park!

Wear a mask! Ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95. Covid is not over. The government pushed a “back to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe. They told us “only the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn. Erasure. Just like the Nazis. gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

What a moment.

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Take the money from your cancelled WaPo subscriptions and put it here instead: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

"They are building a massive concentration camp apparatus, and they will not abandon the objective of filling those camps." Always essential @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on the situation and how to fight it. organizingmythoughts.org/when-the-hea...

I’m doing a community preview of my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE on 2/21, 10-12 at the WA state fairgrounds in Puyallup. Honored to be a featured speaker at this event organized by Puyallup Valley JACL.

The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday

So many writers are on this platform. I understand that. I’m on MailPoet. Join me?

The Hiroshima Library—an itinerant reading room of 200+ books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—is coming this spring to Seay Music Library at Colorado College. I'm seeking/accepting donations of books, magazines, etc. no matter their condition. Message me if you're interested.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

The real reason to not use AI to make art is because I love the people that make art too much. The ones I know and the ones I feel kinship to even though we've never met. It's straightforward.

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

The SAVE Act is the GOP’s dangerous attempt to make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to register and vote. Urge your Members of Congress to protect our voting rights by rejecting the SAVE Act: win.newmode.net/declarationf...

Can now confirm that the warehouse in Social Circle, GA is in escrow and nearing final sale. The transaction will remove an estimated $30K from the Georgia and Walton County tax stream. The sale also gives ICE another 8,500 beds. The selling owner is the PNK S1, LLC of Atlanta, GA.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”