Got this out of my system! Maybe it's in yours, too. open.substack.com/pub/deborahu...

What do picture book writers do all day? Read all about it! deborahunderwood.substack.com

Finished just in time! Stay safe tomorrow, everyone.

A terrifying escalation:

A #bookrec for those who want to do good deeds and Read Happily Ever After! Reading Beauty hilariously written by @underwoodwriter.bsky.social & fabulously illus'd by @meghunt.bsky.social is not only a delightful read, but an empowering one. A spellbindingly wonderful Sleeping Beauty retelling. 📚👍

Seems like a good day to share my AI revenge poem.

“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Just understand that similar acts of cowardice, cruelty, and bigotry are happening quietly everywhere right now. So many institutions and corporations are scrambling to lick the boots of the bigots in the White House. It won't save them but it will do enormous damage along the way.

LOVE this #ValentinesDay comic. 😂 #BirdSky

Great job, Senate. Waiting for us to all get government-funded cases of apple cider vinegar to cure our polio, measles, and H5N1.

Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not youtube.com/@americanmed...

🚨 My book just got banned! 🚨 Support Ogilvy by Deborah Underwood & T.L. McBeth 📚 Grab your copy at your local bookstore (they’ll order it for you if it’s out of stock!) or shop online at Amazon, Books-A-Million, and Barnes & Noble. FREE Ogilvy "Read Banned Books!" poster at www.TLMcBeth.com

Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...

Have a Republican member of Congress who has pretended to care about free speech over the past few years? Give them a call and ask them what the hell they have to say about this. www.kqed.org/news/1202597...

This makes me happy.

All terms being used to flagged in NSF research. Notably “women” but not “men”, “disability”, and “trauma”. Stalin would approve. Mao would approve. Our founding fathers would not.

@padilla.senate.gov Not okay for your outgoing messages to be garbled and your voicemail to be full all day right now.

could not put it better 👇

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

friendly reminder that the best case scenario over the coming years is that a lot of people say "I supported Trump but this isn't what I wanted at all" and when they do that it's gonna be really, really important that we say "welcome in," not "fuck you, we told you so"

Leah and Ezra explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

In case you would like to read about something being created rather than everything being destroyed, I wrote a piece about my garden for the Golden Gate Bird Alliance. goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/a...

Christmas Comes Early open.substack.com/pub/deborahu...