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I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

I’m raising $ for The Trevor Project, an org serving LGBTQ+ youth. For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1. Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏 bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...

I couldn't NOT do this.

The students who've sent me kind end-of-year notes have boosted me more than they could possibly know. This goes beyond education, of course. If you appreciate someone, let them know!

So many of our loudest First Amendment enthusiasts have no idea that freedom of assembly is right there in it, on equal footing with freedom of the press or freedom of religion

Tiny wildlife crossings can have big results. These 5-feet tall, 5-feet wide tunnels have reduced salamander and toad deaths by up to 94%. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well... - AI companies are scraping your data - Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes - And yeah, a new era of government surveillance... A starter guide to protecting you online life:

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

From fall 2001, now a classic

President Declines Gift (1925)

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I'm not saying the news wire photographers kept intentionally lining Trump's head up with the Easter Bunny's ears, but they were absolutely doing that

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Bonus, it's weirdly satisfying to suggest your library system purchase a book and then see it appear in the catalog (and then in your hands).

just observed an author crowing about driving their publisher crazy because they just kept making changes in pass after pass all the way to the printer deadline and I'm thinking not in my g.d. house on my g.d. watch you didn't

It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis" It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.

Just a reminder that anyone can nominate books for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Only a week left to do so -- nominations close at midnight Pacific on March 31.

Sickening. How small-minded and unimaginative to think that accomplishments by people who are not white males cannot be true accomplishments and need to be reviewed. wapo.st/4iv3aIe

Why hyphens matter. As written, this means the dog trainers sniff out disease. Should read "disease-sniffing-dog trainers." A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes Pink skinned baby.

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

"I only hurt people from a distance. How does that make me a bad person?" 🙄

Last time I checked there are exactly zero measles vaccine-related hospitalizations or deaths in 2025, but there are 223 of measles cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths in Texas alone www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

Look out your window, my dude. They're already shutting down the government.

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

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Some of these I get (I don't agree, but I get)....but Colorado friends, you'd better be jumping on those phones and visiting those offices, because W.T.F.

Government spending is not simply spending. It's investment, and that's what we should call it. Government Investments yield all kinds of positive returns, financial and otherwise—with returns often yielding multiple times the initial outlay.

One way to think about this administration is: Trump's last full year in office was a global pandemic with no known cure that filled hospitals with dying patients and shut down the entire in-person economy. And firms think the current business environment has *more* uncertainty.

Or to, uh, support the media that's already here and not just kowtowing to the new regimes. There are a bunch of small, independent media properties that could do absolute wonders with a tiny amount of the money that billionaires threw at politics last year.

Go read this. It's important. "The NIH funds more than 60,000 proposals annually. It supported 99 percent of drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010-2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades” " 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger than a billion.

Trump and Musk claim they’re saving billions through DOGE’s mass purge of federal bureaucracy. Instead, the administration has spent $710 billion in its first month, nearly a billion more than Joe Biden.

Genuinely incredible piece of reporting here that makes the story completely unimpeachable. They sat in the back of an immigration courtroom and watched the guy pull out his personal phone and post to his racist account DURING the hearing!

The political juggernaut that members of Congress from both parties are cowering in fear of

People aren't "addicted" to antidepressants. People *take* antidepressants to stay alive.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

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For 500 years people have been coming up with technology after technology to replace, alter or disrupt books and they have all failed because business geniuses are somehow incapable of understanding that people really like reading

This includes politicians who are doing the right thing. Don't just call the wrong'uns (but do call them too!).