What I'm reading today: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's post below. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Author of books for kids & teens, incl. MR. WATSON’S CHICKENS (NPR Best Book of ‘21) and upcoming graphic novel, WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE. Librarian. Drummer. Union Member. 🍉 | "Everything dope about America comes from Chicago." -Shermann 'Dilla' Thomas
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What I'm reading today: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's post below. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
What I'm reading today: www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-is-th...
#trumpisdead reminds me of The Death of Stalin. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend. Just imagine the pathetic, careerist, ass-wipes farcically engaging w Josef's corpse (Stalin doesn't die! To state otherwise is disloyalty!) are Vance, Miller, RFK et al. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
“It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it..." -DJT
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
I wrote this in May: "Here in Canada, we are not immune to the influence of our neighbors to the south... As we watch what is happening in the US, I hope we will continue to speak up for the freedom to read." As Alberta bans books, I'm glad to see people pushing back! macleans.ca/society/how-...
More what I'm reading today: jacobin.com/2025/08/cens...
My son didn't even have to wait three full days to see his dread realized. We don't care what you say, lock the fucking guns away. #minneapolis #anunciation
What I'm reading today: www.contrabandcamp.com/p/how-the-tr...
My son didn't even have to wait three full days to see his dread realized. We don't care what you say, lock the fucking guns away. #minneapolis #anunciation
Epstein and he called them enigmas instead of comfort women. So, yeah, he knows all about it.
Noem must resign. Now.
He must be impeached and removed. Noem must resign.
From @bookriot.bsky.social: "if the number of Americans who read for pleasure drops another forty percent by 2044, we’ll be looking at a nation where less than 10% of people read books, magazines, or newspapers in any format. Literacy matters." bookriot.com/today-in-boo...
My son the night before his first day of school: "Great, a new year. Can't wait to start hearing about all the school shootings again." America is deeply ill.
One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war. www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
WIRT: "That’s why the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exists—to teach these uncomfortable truths with the hope that the combination of discomfort and knowledge will motivate them to make America a more perfect union." www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-great-...
And did they comply? Let's fucking hope not.
Thank you for the shout-out.
This is going to be a must-read. Wake Now in the Fire by @jarrettdapier.bsky.social and AJ Dungo #libcomix 📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786824...
It's easy to sow panic over content in books when you're just lying about the books. This piece is a prelude to a longer one coming next week, but it's a look at the lies being spread via RatedBooks. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
This literature would deeply impact the psyche of youth by promoting a culture of grievance, victimhood and terrorist heroism." I expect it's the human rights violations & horrors these books investigate & expose are what will aggrieve readers, NOT the books themselves. indiawest.com/arundhati-ro...
"Any government which forbids freedom of expression and knowledge detracts from their credentials as a “democratic” country."
Banned books news and reporting I'm reading today: frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/k...
What I'm reading today: "Federal judge overturns large part of Florida’s book ban law" via @cfpublicmedia.bsky.social #censorship #bookbans #resistance www.cfpublic.org/education/20...
What I'm reading today: How a Group of Michigan Parents Defeated Anti-Trans MAGA Activists #censorship #bookbans newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com
One distinguishing feature shared by billionaires, right-wing politicians, and many world leaders in 2025 is a complete hatred and/or hateful disregard of children and their rights.
SURVIVORS RARELY LIE. Believe them. www.complex.com/life/a/backw...
We are the new North Korea.
Does the Moldy Orange Anus Ham's administration really think the public is going to believe a single word out of Maxwell's mouth? The woman who facilitated the sexual trafficking of children and will benefit enormously from lying about to protect the president? SHOW US THE LISTS.
Party of sick, sick men.
"As America enters another era of tyranny, people are beginning to wonder how we let a benign tumor like Donald Trump metastasize into stage-four fascism. How did an inept, corrupt, unabashedly racist criminal become an untouchable authoritarian? ...White people don’t take names." bit.ly/40UkC1Y
BREAKING: An Illinois county removed a massive Ten Commandments monument from government property after we sued. This is a victory for religious freedom.
Yeah, and if LLM's replace librarians, I pity anyone who cares about finding accurate and relevant information.
As we consume all the jokes & sensationalist coverage of the rat's day-to-day maneuvers to avoid accountability, remember the countless Epstein survivors who never received justice maybe also watching and likely struggling. They are why all this matters. And their experiences are not entertainment.
"Cahokia is a reminder from the past that complexity is not sacred. It is not inherently desirable. It can become a burden, a vulnerability. And when it does, the most intelligent response might not be to rebuild, but to walk away." collapsecurriculum.substack.com/p/forsaking-...
With Republicans banning books nationwide, I'm grateful for local bookstores preserving underrepresented voices in literature. The freedom to pursue boundless knowledge must remain just that: a freedom. Thank you to @allshewrotebks.bsky.social in Somerville for letting me drop by.
An update on the IMLS
The giant document outlining everything happening with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been updated. There's not a lot of news about the IMLS itself yet, but the impact of IMLS news has, well, continued to grow. Multiple tabs: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A few more days to share your thoughts/experiences/perceptions on the mental health realities of working in libraries. Survey below + more details are in the survey itself.
Yes, @rbreich.bsky.social! The corrupt, the powerful, and the criminal must be held appropriately accountable for the destruction and devastation they have caused and continue to cause. Morality starts there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"People" (I assume you mean you) might not want kids reading certain books, but because this is America where we aspire to be free and help others find freedom, "people" (you) don't get to decide what information everyone else can and can't have based on opinions.
The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home. action.everylibrary.org/dodschools via @everylibrary.bsky.social
If you've never seen a red panda sneeze, you’re welcome!
My cat, Mister Hayley, chilling with one of my favorite records ever.
Book bans, censorship, & attacks on libraries are increasing despite opposition from a 2/3+ majority of Americans. On 2/3/26 my graphic novel about teens fighting a book ban in Chicago Public Schools comes out. @fuse8.bsky.social interviews me about it here: afuse8production.slj.com/2025/06/26/b...
They hate children deeply.
Move over NYT Needle …
didtrumpdo.it
Reading this profile is deeply boring. This guy is a non-entity and basically a non-human.
Love that he's called silly in the headline. Just a little silly goose. A little silly toddler throwing water balloons.
This guy is ridiculous. Can we please dispense with the ridiculous idea of an alpha male? Turns out it's mostly humans who act like this is a thing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...
LOL.
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Mr. Watson's Chickens was removed from the children's rooms &is now hidden in the teen collections at several libraries in Alabama. It isn't an honor, nor is it awesome or cool. Now, parents and children are simply never going to find the book. And when circulation plummets, they will weed it.
Hear hear! I closed out my first podcast episode with similar thoughts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were a response to masked violent men who terrorized Black communities, violating their civil rights.The deployment of violent masked ICE ofcrs are tapping into this unique form of terror. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Someone told me the other day that as a kid they could never get into Superman because he doesn't really have a conflict. As in, nothing can stop him except Kryptonite, so there's little vulnerability and thus, little drama. Your thoughts?
I was going to say, Give the dude some private space in his head and his life when he walks among the Earthlings! Let him enjoy being a kind of anonymous human every once in a while. Let him work a job. Sure, he's got the fortress and all, but it sounds pretty lonely. Agree about Lois, though.
"Trump’s weaponization of DEI to justify massive cuts do not mask his real goal: the destruction of knowledge producing institutions, critical thinking, free intellectual inquiry which are threats to his authoritarian efforts to destroy the rule of law &the Constitution." lithub.com/what-a-1964-...
Well I'll be. Turns out courts can hold presidents accountable.
The 1st episode of my podcast, I'm With the Banned, featuring YA author Jessie Ann Foley, is now live. IWTB is devoted to examining American censorship thru conversations w/ authors, librarians, and other folks who have something to say about it. Enjoy. More soon. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
He never seems to be around when death and destruction visit the people of his state.
"As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal. When this happens, you must remember that normal is not the same as right, no more than law is the same as justice." - @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/guns-or-fi...
Assholes.
Guide the next generation of teen intellectual freedom & library advocates with the help of the Freedom to Read Teen Advocacy Toolkit, which I developed over the last year with the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned program. It's free! That + censorship news: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...
A great visionary who worked to realize a vision of this country that once seemed possible. An extraordinary human being & superb journalist who contributed to our shared understanding of our country and of one another. Rest in Peace Bill Moyers. @pbs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
This sounds utterly horrible.
And you don't have any self-respect to boot.
See the cover of my debut YA book - WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE, a graphic novel about censorship, action, love, & hope, illus. by AJ Dungo - and read an interview w me about it at Betsy Bird’s @slj.com blog, A Fuse #8 (find Betsy on Bsky here: @fuse8.bsky.social). afuse8production.slj.com/2025/06/26/b...
So honored and happy to reveal the cover of my next book on @fuse8.bsky.social. Thank you, Betsy!
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
Update to this post–now a manager has been fired over this. The library closed for a few days to handle the staff disruption. What an absolutely unnecessary mess, all facilitated by a handful of local bigots. www.theblacksheartimes.com/article/6692...
This is truly awful. A librarian was fired for displaying a (beautiful, award winning) picture book.
the lowest of the low.
This needs to be better known. People are getting fired over picture book displays.
128 despicable cowards.
My podcast, I'M WITH THE BANNED, debuts on 7/1 via Apple & Spotify. 1st ep. feat. Jessie Ann Foley, author of The Carnival at Bray, a book targeted &banned since 2021 for its brief, accurate depiction of sexual assault in 1 scene &safe, consensual sex in another. Tune in. jarrettdapier.substack.com
Too disgusted by Fetterman to even comment on him, but Casten? Casten is a bad-ass. So happy to have canvassed for him during his first election.
Senator John Fetterman was snidely dismissive of Dems who say Trump bombing Iran without congressional authorization is potentially an impeachable offense. Here's Rep @casten.house.gov responding to Fetterman on our pod with a very pointed challenge to him: newrepublic.com/article/1971...
Thank you! Can't wait for you to read it.
📚🔥 Cannot wait for this powerful YA graphic novel! Wake Now in the Fire is based on a true story of student activism—definitely pre-ordering!
It’s almost like they don’t want oversight as they loot our national treasury and pocket it all.
OK, real talk: Water slides are rarely, if ever, as fun as they look like they’re going to be.
It’s almost like they stand for nothing except greed and killing.
Sarah Kendzior. October 2023. We were warned. open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
Our current Director of National Intelligence:
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
“The most important thing about the election is not that Trump was proclaimed the winner, but that he was allowed to run.” -Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.
Writer asks AI for help, Chatbot revealed to be narcissistic, love-bombing, lying-ass Hollywood exec type. Just see how fast the Bot turns from slick, slavering fake to groveling boyfriend caught in lies... This piece by @guinz.bsky.social is WILD. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Michelle Williams can do no wrong.
I’d also refer them to collecting vinyl and vintage stereo equipment.
John Lewis, five years ago today. After this, he called Andrew and said, “you wouldn’t believe it— it looks just like the cover of March: Book Three.” And it does.
I’m flipping out over PUP, 1 of my favorite bands for over 10yrs. Their new record “Who Will Look After the Dogs?” is propulsive, controlled chaos full of crazy-catchy melodies and delicious thrash. How many bands put out 5 albums in a row that are all fantastic? There are like 3. Pup is 1 of them.
Allowing parents to opt kids out of encountering LGBTQ content is fundamentally discriminatory and betrays the promise of equal access. When a school offers this, they tell the whole community, "the belief that some among us are wrong, sinful, less-than is valid." No. www.salon.com/2025/04/23/t...
Daniele G. 