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submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

submitted 18 hours ago • 48 comments

Hi hello are we promoting our queer poly anticapitalist fantasy books on here?

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

basically everything american christians accuse muslims of is projection. it has nothing to do with any of the muslim people that exist or any religious teachings or principles they have at all. it is completely fucked that muslim people have to deal with it

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

My used copy of Macho Sluts by Pat Califia was, I think, 50 dollars :/

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

submitted 19 hours ago • 64 comments

What you have to understand is that book bans are a classic case of survivorship bias. Some survive, yes. But only if they're lucky OR prepared. If all of the copies of a book are destroyed, it. is. gone. And you won't know what you've lost. It'll be absent.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

"theocracy" his mother isn't even muslim the guy is literally from a more multifaith background than like 90% of Americans what are we even doing here anymore

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 18 hours ago • 218 comments

she should resign straightforwardly, she did not "misspeak", she went on a racist rant about how a Muslim mayoral candidate is a terrorist, under an administration that is floating words like "denaturalization" and she's a Democrat? absolute dereliction of duty resign

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

if mamdani has to answer every conceivable question about everything ever said at a pro-palestine demonstration, journalists are obligated to ask every christian politician if they think jews and muslims are going to hell

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW VIDEO ALERT & GIVEAWAY! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A NECESSARY CHAOS by @brentclambert.bsky.social. Guy on guy magical spy vs. spy, this novella is smart, sexy, powerful & political, an absolute fave this year. Our drink, Azul & Crown, is a highball for any night, out or in.

submitted 570 days ago • 1 comment

if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

Supremes say parents can opt out of letting their kids listen to LGBTQ stories. Can parents similarly opt out of kids listening to stories that DON'T have LGBTQ themes or incidents? 🤣

submitted 19 hours ago • 355 comments

There isn't an opposition party at the Federal level to address what needs to happen with the Fed and Supreme Courts. I think folks should be honest about that. But we have A LOT MORE SWAY at the state and local levels. That's where I am putting my emphasis.

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

Love to see a Pride sweepstakes without any MM books. Really makes me optimistic about selling books in SFF space. Love it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards or of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

One weekend of Pride month left; the perfect time for a novella! Here's a stack of some of my faves from recent years, from sapphic mysteries on Jupiter, to wild wests of dragons and Devil hounds, from the hollers of Kentucky to the ends of time and space. The realm of the fantastic belongs to US!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

white woman who read EAT, PRAY, LOVE six times: we need stronger borders

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

let this sink in: the insider trading corpses, epstein flight log entries, and legally dead used car salesmen who “lead” the “democratic” “party” prefer the scandal ridden incumbent with 10% approval to the dynamic, handsome, coalition-building dynamo who mobilized and inspired and won THEIR primary

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A much better ten year retrospective on obergefell, with the man himself

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Best discovery of the last week: there’s finally, all these years later, an audiobook option for the much-beloved Doctrine of Labyrinths series

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

this book rocks!!! YA but make it polyamorous class warfare against the robber baron class <3

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yahoo 24 Jun 25 -- Weaponized FBI launches "genital mutilation" investigations into Children's Hospitals of Boston, Colorado, & LA despite the fact that none have provided bottom surgery to minors & they have only provided a handful of top surgeries. Boston CH originated US pediatric care in 2007.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

I know that this is going to be lost in the roar of big players but there are other clinics with a majority of patients who are Medicaid recipients - and this ruling opens up the avenue for states to refuse to allow us to be approved providers of care. And we have far fewer resources to weather it.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

We are delighted to reveal the gorgeous cover for A Wild Radiance by Maria Ingrande Mora! A new romantic fantasy from Peachtree Teen, A Wild Radiance follows a girl who dares to expose the corruption resting in the heart of her magic ⚡ reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

genuinely fascinating how the extremely rich are willing to pay 200 million in political donations to not pay 10m on taxes

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Brianna Wu is starting to feel less and less like a person and more a debilitating condition that happens to a person

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is insane. There is a madman in Washington creating fiscal policy that will bankrupt America, stifle innovation, and is just morally reprehensible. But a “socialist” who wants to be mayor of NYC is what causes Wall St to panic? Just clowning on themselves.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

don't say we weren't warned www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments