Those that back the fuck away from Omelas.

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools. Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in. Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right. Subscribe to support our journalism.

At Graphic Novel Festival at @dreamersbmore.bsky.social till 5pm! Come say hi Baltimore friends 🧡

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

just saw a cottage cheese commercial that shows two teens eating cottage cheese while gaming. it’s possible that i’m out of touch with today’s youth but i don’t know about that one

There should be more love songs for, like, libraries. And cheese. And people who stay calm when bad things happen.

At the Brooklyn Book Festival and hey, there’s a picture book about our next mayor.

I know it sounds oversimplified but everything really does come down to the link between money and power and who gets to control who. this is why we say to not comply in advance. don't just hand it over, and don't just keep running. they don't care which of these you do, so long as you don't fight.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

I'm on the PEN American call encouraging people to submit public comment on the TERRIBLE new visa rule for int'l journalists and students that sure seems like it would place people's jobs and educations at the mercy of Marco Rubio's social media goon squad.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Hi, I’m Dana, I was the first out trans person in syndicated comics, and I draw unicorns and kids really seem to like them. Grownups too sometimes. bookshop.org/p/books/phoe...

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

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Abolish ICE. Abolish "A.i." No arms for genocide. Protect trans kids. Shut down the concentration camps. Abolish tariffs. Fire RFK, Jr. Boycott Avelo & Tesla. Delete Twitter. No crypto. Care over punishment. Vote Mamdani. Primary every do-nothing D. Protect vaccines and SSRIs. No fascism. #NoKings

In any other context, hearing a disembodied call to prayer coming from thin air would be grounds for a miracle and conversion. In the context of public service, it was just somebody's phone stuck UNDER a table and INTO one of those sunken outlet things blaring a tinny version of said call.

NEW EPISODE! President and Publisher of @oni-press.bsky.social Hunter Gorinson is on Comics For You! And amazing interview and Hunter discusses the generational moment comic books are in right now. #comics #interview #podcast

A laminator, a laminator! My kingdom for a laminator! Unfortunately, short of spending a good chunk of change, I'll have to improvise or refresh signage at my current branch for the time being.

Reeling Walz in was spectacular political malpractice.

"We're going to lay off 10% of the company to eliminate redundancies." Four months later... "What do you mean we can't do this critical task because the only person who knows how to do it is on annual leave? How is it possible that no else in the company knows how to handle it?"

Big list is big! Gonna look through all this and find some new faves!

Performer at the library I'm stationed in started playing "Time Wrap" and it was a genuine struggle not to do the callbacks in front of children.

I've been asked a non-zero number of times for crime fiction for the YA crowd, so this might fit the bill perfectly!

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.

And not just the physical materials! Borrow eBooks, eAudiobooks and peruse the databases! Libraries have digital collections that are being greatly stripped down because of cost! (There's another argument here about publishers shafting libraries because monopolies, but that's for another day.)

I've said it often, but libraries are, without hyperbole, one of the greatest things humans have ever done. Like ever.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

We're in relatively safe harbors in MD, but that does NOT mean we're any less affected in library-land. As more and more social services fall in the big picture, we're expecting to get stretched thinner and thinner.

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

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The rich have been threatening to leave New York because of taxes all my life. Some of them do go to Florida or Texas, but then they discover that Florida and Texas are Florida and Texas.

New York has entered the chat 💬

Kind of a quieter month, reading-wise. Usually I'd be adding more to the pile, but I guess not! As usual, massive thanks to @thestorygraph.com for this service!

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.

FDR's first inaugural address had so many Biblical references in it the National Bible Reporter printed up an annotated version to track them all.

Sometimes, I get to have fun at work LOL Gonna stick some fun prizes and stickers in this thing for the youngin's when they get back here from summer break.

The work never ends, but at least there are resources for those who help and who need the help.

Author of the 'Banned Book Club' graphic novel has some great tips on how to advocate for libraries and librarians! Lord knows it's unfortunate how necessary these steps are right now.

I find activism always works best when playing dumb and kind. When I speak at city council meetings about banned books, I pretend to assume everyone is on my side, even if I've done enough research to write a book, and act the part.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them