How transparent policies can protect Florida school libraries amid efforts to ban books Well-designed school library policies make space for community feedback while preserving intellectual freedom.

Florida has ranked No. 1 in the United States when it comes to banning books for the past three years, with 2,300 books removed or restricted from public school libraries.

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Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.

Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship

The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.

Can't emphasize enough if The Librarians resonated, see the other.

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Great episode...my editor say can't sell any of my projects

Episode 184—The Hanger Games This week we talk about the shifting nature of the politics/culture nonfiction book market–who do publishers imagine their readers to be? How does the broader political horizon change which sorts of b

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We talked about working on the nonfiction politics book market, and working on those books when politics is now very concretely right in front of your face
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She was a truly amazing human being and the kind of journalist so rare today.

Always makes my day when someone discovers Katherine Leroy!

Thanks! @gwoltjer.bsky.social

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Hi Lynda, I see some signs are gone from Manassas National Battlefield Park, Acadia National Park in Maine & Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia. I'm hoping this does not spread to Philly. Will you be post here if you hear anything?

Thanks so much!

Hi Lynda, I'm writing an article on this, particularly the Philadelphia’s President’s House Site. The deadline has passed, has anything happened toward these memorials and images being removed. I'm trying to have the latest news when I publish tonight. Thanks so much.

[Image description: Cover of the middle grade book Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman’s Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights featuring an image of Fannie Sellins.]

May 1st • International Workers Day• Thanks @sojustbooks for this great review!
"Full of photos and primary documents, Fannie Never Flinched puts Sellins’ story in the context of the struggles of workers and the labor movement during the “Gilded Age.”
This book is so timely!

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Should Miriam Wattenberg be a household name?
#resistance #historysky #womenshistory

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner, Elon Musk, quickly replied, “I agree.”
#authorsky #yalit #writingcommunity #resist

Taking deep breaths. Finding joy. #resistance

I'm trying to learn Bluesky!

Last Night at the Telegraph Club Check out Last Night at the Telegraph Club - <b>Winner of the National Book Award<br>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br><br>"The queer romance we&rsquo;ve been waiting for.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Ms. Maga...

Insert meme of the dog with the world burning but also, my book Last Night at the Telegraph Club (which Kirkus thinks is one of the best 100 YA books of this century!) is on sale for $2.99 at all US ebook retailers including Bookshop.org! They have ebooks now! bookshop.org/p/books/last...

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Hi Anita, I love YA thrillers!

Beautiful day!

Yay Spokane WA.
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Photo of Rosa Luxemburg

Her dissertation: Crises in the Stock Market

Rosa Luxemburg is regarded as one of the greatest theoretical minds and activists of the European socialist movement. She was among the first women in the world to earn a doctorate in political economics. #politics #economics

If History Falls in the Forest, Does Anybody Hear it? March 21, 2025Hello, The last decade shines as a golden era for the stories of women formerly left out of the history books. Now, just when we've&hellip;

The deletions are overwhelming, but we can't get numb to them. This week in my newsletter, I highlight some that have been very personal to me. #nf #kidlit #history
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if the media covered stories like this one? Please share.

I would too, if I had that incredible bathtub!

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Uncovering Conflicts of Interest and Self-Dealing in the Executive Branch The new administration could use federal contracts, tariffs, regulations, taxes, and other levers of government to benefit campaign donors, high-level officials, and the president himself.

The concentration of private wealth and political power in so few hands with so few guardrails could pave the way for Trump’s campaign backers and allies to reap massive financial benefits on a scale not seen since the Gilded Age.

Black woman washing laundry in a wooden tub, 1881, Atlanta, Georgia. Clothes hung on line to dry and pot sitting on coals to boil water.

The washerwomen of Atlanta, were so low on the ladder they hung on the bottom rung by a clothespin.

𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧.

✔️𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿! ✔️𝗦𝗮𝘆 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝗽. #resist #unitedwewin