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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.

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The United States of America is child trafficking.

submitted 17 hours ago • 80 comments

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

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On its 4th anniv, I'm reposting for bsky my most popular Twitter thread: a defense of the "inactive protagonist," which birthed the essay below, in exactly the way it was written. But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written. psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu... +

submitted 97 days ago • 23 comments

Hi Everyone! If you’re in need of a query critique, AMA call, bookmarks or social banners, 50-page critiques, Canva website, or a date-with-a-book, I’m continuing to fundraise here: www.32auctions.com/KL4CAuction <3 Sandra

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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

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By the way this isn't an obscure act; it was the one used to justify the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the one never overturned by the Supreme Court or US District Court, even when Fred Korematsu's case was appealed in the 1980s.

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I miss the DEI planes, which held themselves together

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one of the many things missed by the people who complain about “woke” for a living is that the spread of wokeness is as much of a function of demand as supply

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NEW: FBI releases photo showing the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan at the Milwaukee County Courthouse this morning

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oh my next book is up for preorder us.macmillan.com/books/978125... ✨ "this book destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee ✨ "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke ✨ "truly ambitious science fiction" - Marie Brennan ✨ "beautiful, brilliant, heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei ✨ "I inhaled it all in one sitting" - Wole Talabi

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Hmmmm. Looks like the auto comment is off on this bill now, perhaps because it's status was changed to pending. Full text & info here. Contact your reps instead. legiscan.com/TX/text/HB13...

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New York mask ban update: Our advocacy efforts are working! Gov Hochul is failing at convincing lawmakers to include a proposal that criminalizes masking in the budget, and some legislative officials predict it will be dropped from budget talks as negotiations drag on. Keep calling your electeds!

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My new Genre Grapevine report focuses on tech bros trying to change intellectual property (IP) laws so they can keep stealing copyright works to train generative AI models. I also believe they want to rebrand how we see creativity itself to fit their needs. www.patreon.com/posts/127367...

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Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Covid causes car crashes, Persistent immune dysregulation, Devastates healthcare workers, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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“Grandma, why did they bring back measles?” “We thought we’d basically cured it, but people thought that was boring.”

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they’re shook. every day they back down from more of this shit

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We've been asked this a few times & now have an answer! If you're in publishing, but not author you can join Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans! The group is still in development but you can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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It's almost #IndieBookstoreDay! I'm starting a thread to yell about some of my favorite indies where you can, just for example 😉, pre-order your copy of HIGHER MAGIC whilst book hauling this weekend. Please rec your favorite indies in comments! 📚 #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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I would recommend that anyone convinced by this ad, and certainly anyone who wrote it, instead of cheating on their finals, drop out of college, quit their job, give away all of their possessions, and walk contentedly into the sea, free at last of the nuisance of human interests or connections

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Oh, hey! For the next few days, you can snag HIGHER MAGIC at 25% off through B&N! Come for the magic grad school, stay for the ND & disabled found family, first-gen MC, queer-norm cast, & Jane-Austen-spouting skull. 💀 @barnesandnoble.com @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social #BNPreOrder

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I keep thinking about asterisks today. The U.S. started out putting an asterisk on "person", slowly fought to get away from that, to have definitions that made both moral and common sense, and here we are, putting those little things back in again.

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bruh this admin has forced me to compartmentalize emotions to such a degree that i 1. need therapy again and 2. am struggling to connect to my story and characters, what do people mean we're about to have art

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It's Narnes and Bobles preorder time again, which - yes, thread incoming about why I am posting about it. Essentially, Brans & Norbles uses preorder numbers to determine what books to support in-store. As in a couple hundred preorders through Barnés y Noblés could determine if a book gets stocked.

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Good news/bad news. She’s dropping the creation of a new crime for wearing a mask. She’s now pushing for creating a penalty if you wear a mask while committing a crime. And she’s hinting a further legislation in the future. (I love all the media trolling her with masked pics on all these articles.)

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One of the things I think about often is a post I read probably twenty years ago from a math professor who was out walking on his beach with this dog, throwing a ball and watching the dog run out and catch it before it landed.

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We're potentially* still open for donations til Friday for the charity auction. If you're in genre in any way, (we're inclusive: SFF, horror, crime & romance) and have something you think people would like to bid on, ping me or @ngjeannette.bsky.social here or the contact link: bit.ly/genrefortrans

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oh no you guys, not the robots

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Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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queer kids deserve to see themselves in their classroom and books kids from queer families deserve to have their lives reflected kids everywhere deserve an eduction based on reality and not the bigotry of the few what of their rights?

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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

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This sentence is the best A Memory Called Empire fanfic I've ever read.

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If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

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Today, SCOTUS hears a case on whether hearing a story read about a child who has a gay uncle constitutes a violation of freedom of religion. Why should we care? Because public education belongs to all of us, and all means all. Kids with LGBTQ+ families are part of the all.

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they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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I have always been opposed to Senator Kelly's Mutant Registry Program.

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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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This is unconscionable. I’m a product of the Head Start program. It helped get me and my parents acclimated into the community when they spoke no English. My parents could work and afford an apartment while they got settled after being refugees. Head Start actually saved us.

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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