LAST DAY to sign up for my brand new class Writing the Perfect Ending tomorrow at 10am CST! Great holiday gift. Writers will leave this class with a clear plan for their book's perfect ending. Sign up here: writersleague.org/calendar/wri... @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social #writing #writers

In Texas, many censorship challenges are brewing. Please keep showing up for your public and school libraries! We need community in Victoria, Salado, Hays, New Braunfels, Abilene, Seguin and more! Contact us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social to help!

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life by coming to the U.S. on a farmworker visa. She ended up in a trap. “Not all of us get to be smiled upon by the United States,” she said. By @maxblau.bsky.social

I’m thankful for modern medicine. A stem cell transplant saved my husband almost 3 years ago. And diabetes medication has restored my cat to his usual sweet and feisty self.

Went to our church yesterday and had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat.

(cartoon from the archives)

Pre-order volume 2 (THE BITE OF HER AX) today, and pick up your copy of volume 1 (A WIND THAT KILLS) when you do. A timely graphic novel full of social commentary through a feminist slasher tale rooted in Czech and Mexican culture in the Texas Hill Country. 2/

I have a cat lying on my stomach and another one lying next to to me and I don’t think I can move any time soon.

Austin Powwow! Grand Entry.

Last show of 2025! We’ll swap songs with @claudiagibson.bsky.social and @roblytle.bsky.social this Sunday afternoon at an intimate listening room just outside of Austin. Info and RSVP at arhaven.org.

Aren’t there like 40 of these cars

BREAKING: We just won a court order to block the unlawful National Guard deployment to Memphis. President Trump’s attempt to militarize our cities and communities is unlawful. We’re grateful that the court upheld the rule of law and protected the American people in Tennessee.

Release the Epstein Files. Everyone who played a part in these horrors should be held accountable. youtu.be/LNLQmpT4oQ0?...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

We’re playing Saturday 11/15 at 7 pm at the New World Deli in Austin TX.come join us for great food and songs made by hand.

As Texas welcomes water-thirsty data centers powered by water-thirsty gas, remember that the state's water law follows the "rule of capture," which means that residents "can’t prevent someone next door with a bigger pump and a deeper well from sucking groundwater from underneath their property.”

If you missed the Librarians Film at Tribfest, it is showing at the Alamo South Lamar Sat-Wed! #texastribfest

This thread is a MUST READ. Nothing I have read since 2021 better captures the complete insanity of the “parents rights” book-banning movement than the need to protect kids from unicorn eyelashes.

Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? Jeffery Epstein: Though I'd like to answer that question, I'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights.

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Houston! We are playing an acoustic concert series this Saturday evening. Can’t wait!

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Gee. If only someone had predicted this.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

It’s sweatshirt weather in Austin!

My 91 year old mother has a book coming out next summer about the Women’s Movement in New Mexico in the 1970s. She was part of it and has got the stories to prove it. You can pre-order now!

Two incredible talents. youtu.be/0Fm70g7EuXA?...

Check out the real-time updates on President Trump's corrupt earnings, gifts, and crypto gains. www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...

Just called my Senators and Representative to voice my outrage over Trump bulldozing the entire East Wing of the White House.

Trump’s new Epstein Ballroom will soon be the venue for many sweet 16 parties and quinceñeras.

Commander in Thief anntelnaes.substack.com/p/commander-...

Can’t wait for this book. ⚾️ + 🐕 + Ohtani.

Shohei Ohtani has written a picture book, coming out in February. With another author but still - what can’t this guy do?

The East Wing was first added in 1942, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily to provide office space for the First Lady’s staff and to conceal a newly built underground bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during World War II.

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

Went to No Kings gathering in Marble Falls, TX, a county which voted 80% for Trump, and more than 500 folks gathered on bridge over Lake. Wow. So Amazing.

Representing Authors Against Book Bans with Gloria Amescua. #aabb #nokings #austintx

At the Austin #nokings rally. Saw some great signs, sang protest songs with the Raging Grannies.

No kings Americans!!! Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!! #nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

My Fours students enjoyed this book so much! Just the right mix of spooky and sweet. Perfect preschool read for the lead up to Halloween. @marianallanos.bsky.social

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million. Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals. Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected. n.pr/48scGty