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A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement

submitted 6 days ago • 93 comments

President signs Exec Order to raise temperatures and sea levels, burn down homes, raise the price of food, make insurance unaffordable, make Earth unlivable. Oh, and poison your kid’s tuna fish sandwiches with mercury. #climatecrisis

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Author Charles Hecker joined @marketplace.org y'day to talk about economic ties--real & desired--between Russia & the U.S. (as well as his new book ZERO SUM: The Arc of International Business in Russia) www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

submitted 8 days ago • 1253 comments

Felony charge for loving your child and being a responsible caretaker who wants your child to live... everyone involved in this should be shamed off the planet

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 8 days ago • 253 comments

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

submitted 13 days ago • 256 comments

🚨 Librarians: for a time-sensitive story, I'd love to speak to you about your current work conditions, the Trump admin's impact, and what you're seeing on the ground. Shares appreciated. Email [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Since many of us basically write emails for a living now, here's a primer on how to write a cold email to ask for something you want. When you're promoting a book, you might do this A LOT.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

It's not just the biggest peacetime tax increase in US history. It's also the most regressive tax increase in US history.

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

Must-read by M. Gessen: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

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Ironically, considering things on the national level, it's Library Giving Day today. If you can afford to send a donation to your local or favorite public library, they could use it now more than ever. They are one of our best public resources. 😍

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Just making you all aware of my local indie bookstore, which you should be following on here for delightful book content (and more--seriously, try the peanut butter cookies): @katonahreadingroom.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

beyond disturbing. pay attention people.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

If you are an American conservative, there is nothing anyone can say or think about you that can possibly be worse than what you actually are.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

not great: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

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Bravo to author Charles Hecker, whose book ZERO SUM (out today from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social) gets a great review in the @nytimes.com! This timely book shows what happened the last time Capitalism went to Russia--& how it all fell apart www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

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The October '25 book I'm working on abt how the ultra wealthy avoid paying any taxes AT ALL has a whole section explaining how the U.S. used to finance everything w/ tariffs...& why that was abolished due to fear of literal class warfare. Anyway, thought that was interesting.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The section I edit has been cut from three Sunday pages to two. It’s incredibly sad. If folks want to support our coverage, please subscribe, read & comment on our reviews. This is true for any journalism you want to support. Digital engagement is super important.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

The work of @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social is key to understanding the voucher issue:

submitted 54 days ago • 31 comments

Smart (no surprise there!) interview w/ superstar book publicist @wpeeling.bsky.social on what authors should think about when thinking about hiring a freelancer:

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Next, they'll claim that all of this (Trump's "LONG LIVE THE KING!" post and its echoing) is a joke, a transparent trick they use repeatedly. As w/ Musk’s Nazi salute, they'll pretend for out-group audiences to be kidding or misunderstood, while the in-group recognizes that they are deadly serious.

submitted 55 days ago • 42 comments

Gov. Hochul's office is answering the phones now, and taking down opinions--don't hesitate to share yours on saving congestion pricing (& throwing out Mayor Adams while we're at it!)

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I now have a litany

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Except he’s threatening states with school funding loss if they don’t comply with federal rule changes, and backing a federal tax shelter voucher scheme that would force vouchers into states that don’t want them. fox11online.com/news/nation-...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

My city doing the right thing. Are you out there fighting for yours to do the same?

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

We have to do this differently this time around, and one of the ways I hope that we do that is by collectively understanding that people can care about two things at once (or even, gasp, MORE than two things) especially while people are out there banning books: TALK ABOUT BOOKS!

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 70 days ago • 96 comments

i'm the person who types "thanks!" to the AI chatbot helper online. sigh.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Great feature on @joan-c-williams.bsky.social in @us.theguardian.com abt her book (out May 20 @stmartinspress.bsky.social ) "OUTCLASSED: How the Left Lost the Working Class--and How to Win Them Back." TLDR; the Dems are doing it wrong, here's how to fix it www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Boggles my mind that FETTERMAN has said he's voting against RFK Jr. while GILLIBRAND hasn't. Please consider calling Gillibrand today about this if you have a minute, fellow New Yorkers. www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

submitted 64 days ago • 33 comments

Can't hurt:

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I'd signed out months ago but finally deactivated my tw****r account and it feels SO GOOD

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

so, are we just going to watch all this happen, then? honest question. phone calls don't really feel sufficient given gestures around

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Just re-upping for media covering #school #vouchers and #Trump : you must talk to @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social, author of THE PRIVATEERS (out fall 2024). He knows everything about how they became "a thing" & why the Right desperately wants them to become the norm...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Fully in support of authors & editors not having to spend time & energy pursuing the blurbs media continually tell us they don't care about & don't need or want: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

WIC. They are pausing WIC. That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings in the same fiscal year. For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.

submitted 78 days ago • 148 comments

This isn't good for anyone

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Just doom-posting is so unhelpful to everyone (and yourself!). Go help the people close to you. I joined my city's Human Rights Commission and set up some reoccurring donations to a few places to start. Find something that works for you!

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

BroadsidePR's Advice for Authors: A Survival Kit for Dark Times is a little dusty since we first published it NINE years ago on @literaryhub.bsky.social, but we hope still useful.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: what a week, right Lemon? We cover the NC SCT race; the SCOTUS arg that presages TikTok’s demise; the Trump-Alito phone call; the embarrassing 5-4 split on whether Trump is, as pre-president, King; Aileen Cannon’s latest; AND: Michelle Adams’s book THE CONTAINMENT! crooked.com/podcast/is-t...

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments