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Amazing line up of authors and terrific explanation of where we are right now with book bans.

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Absolutely thrilled to find THE 57 BUS on this list alongside so many books I adore and admire. www.kirkusreviews.com/young-adult/...

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At this point, no level of paranoia is actually paranoid

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First they came for people who weren’t citizens.

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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

submitted 21 days ago • 2774 comments

a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that

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Kidlit community member and PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk has been taken by ICE. Sharing this carousel from @/storysunbirds on IG with info and action items. Kidlit folks, please write to university presidents and call on your reps to protect students. 🔗 uscpr.org/protectstudents

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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

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🙌📚🙌📚

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If you missed it live, here’s a link to the interview!

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ALERT on a potential New Jersey public library closing.

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It was an honor and a pleasure to be on Ali Velshi’s show and have him highlight the part of my work I am most proud of: the shades of gray.

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A reminder that if you got your measles decade between 1963 & 1967, you may not have immunity. I got a booster just to be sure.

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I’m going to be talking about The 57 Bus with Ali Velshi on MSNBC this morning!

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The rumblings are getting louder.

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It’s time for these employees to stop complying.

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Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs. Here's a resource collection of non-US services to replace email, search, docs, music, video, backups, and more: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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I spoke to graphic novelist Maria van Lieshout about her beautiful new graphic novel, Song of a Blackbird, which tells the story of the Dutch resistance to Nazi occupation. That history rhymes with our present and offers some useful lessons. dashkaslater.substack.com/p/what-we-ca...

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Meta stole 7 of my books and used them to train its crappy AI. I don’t want them to pay me for something I would never have sold them, for any amount of money. I want them to erase the whole thing and start again, from scratch, without using any stolen IP. That’s the remedy I seek.

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Have you called your reps yet?

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If you haven’t called, call now!

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Seven of my books. Seven books that came from the inside of my heart. I feel sick.

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Whether it’s calling the world’s richest man a South African nepo baby, or sending anyone who looks foreign to an El Salvadorian prison, both sides can be mean to immigrants. This article reads like it was written by @nytpitchbot.bsky.social but unfortunately it was written by the actual NYT

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eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training. To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.

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I wrote about the challenge of making art, particularly art for children, under the current regime. dashkaslater391.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

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Everyone entering the US for any reason needs to practice good digital hygiene.

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This is where we are. Citizens reporting teachers to the feds for wrongthink.

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Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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This is why we’re suing the state of Idaho.

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Please make a call or send a letter to save libraries TODAY

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Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

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attended a panel yesterday where a moderator tried to tell media the talk would be "off the record" and I am begging folks to internalize that it does not work that way. off the record is agreed to, not just thrown out for blanket protection. companies like twitch and meta especially know this

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I say it when someone has asked me a great question, particularly when it’s one that I don’t usually get asked and that allows me to talk about something complicated or nuanced

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Saw Solas perform this beautiful song on Friday. Peggy Seeger’s 1967 anti-fascist ballad could have been written for Schumer and his ilk: “Close your eyes, stop your ears Close your mouth and take it slow Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear And later you can say you didn't know”

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If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre. Their phone number is 310-828-5582

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I knocked on doors for some of these cowards. I told people that their vote mattered, that going to the polls was worth their time. The betrayal I feel today is personal. I won’t forget.

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