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Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project The creator of WNYC's Public Song Project on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.

A Q&A with the creator of @wnyc.org's Public Song Project (this year in partnership with @archive.org) on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.

gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.

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Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: The "Secondary Crisis" is Here When neighbors are detained or deported, the loss of income creates an immediate threat of eviction. THE REALITY: Families can't afford to leave, but they also can no longer afford to stay. NeighborReliefFund.org

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: 2-3 Families Every Day. That is the average number of requests for aid we receive. THE RISK: We are fulfilling most needs, but delays put neighbors in a precarious position. We need to move faster to prevent evictions. NeighborReliefFund.org

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: IMPACT TO DATE: $297,767 distributed to 173 families. Community generosity has been life-changing, but the work isn't done. THE DATA: ⚠️$41,000+ in unmet requests right now. ⚠️ The long-term effects of Operation Metro Surge will be felt for years. NeighborReliefFund.org

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: HELP US REACH $375,000 We are increasing our goal to ensure no neighbor faces a crisis alone. Please give if you're able and, also just as powerful, spread the word. Let's keep our community safe. NeighborReliefFund.org

💸🏘️ UPDATE: Goal 🆙 to $375K

Donate: NeighborReliefFund.org

Many families in Minnesota are in crisis and need help now. Our local #MutualAid fund alone has $41,000 in requests for rent relief that are overdue. Please share widely!

Thank you to everyone who is helping us keep our neighbors housed. ✊🏻

Just finished reading Here Where We Live Is Our Country by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.

It's a beautifully written, thoughtful, emotionally intense exploration of an important part of Jewish radical history that too few people know about.

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Relatedly: I have a lot of thoughts about how Ashkenazi Jews, on the whole, assimilated into whiteness,* and how important it is to learn from our radical histories and return to our radical roots.

*Note that not all Ashkenazi Jews are white, as some have one Jewish parent and one BIPOC parent, or are interracially adopted

And there's the question of: how can American Jews reclaim the Bund's value of doikayt (hereness) on stolen Indigenous land?

Our position relative to the land, and to racialized systems of power, is so different in the US than it was in the Pale of Settlement.

How do we uphold diasporism, our sense of rootedness wherever we find ourselves, our opposition to a romanticized "homeland" that is actually an ethnonationalist nightmare, and also fight for Indigenous sovereignty, for Land Back?

A Statement In Opposition to HR 7661 The freedom to speak and to read is a fundamental principle of the United States of America. That is why we have joined together — parents, students, educators, library workers, authors, free expression advocates, booksellers, and publishers — to stand in support of our nation’s school-aged children and teens and in opposition to H.R. 7661. H.R. 7661, if passed, will compel nationwide book censorship. It confuses obscenity with identity and stigmatizes vulnerable young people, particularly trans children and teens, based on who they are. It will continue to drain funding from our already underfunded schools and libraries. And it will threaten the creativity and critical thinking that are vital to education in the U.S.

Authors Against Book Bans has joined dozens of other organizations, nonprofits, publishers, & stores to issue this joint statement opposing HR7661

A core principle of democracy, freedom, and liberty is that the government does not choose what people get to read and who they get to be. This country has a long history of protecting our freedoms. H.R. 7661 goes against this. Together, we say that this bill goes against the U.S. Constitution, local self-determination, access to books, and a society that is welcoming for everyone, no matter who they are. Our schools deserve better than this. Our children and teens — all of them, without exception — deserve better than this. We urge the U.S. House of Representatives to vote NO on H.R. 7661 or, better yet, to not take it up for a vote at all.

ALL INITIAL SIGNERS: Abrams Aevitas Creative Management Air and Nothingness Press All4Ed American Booksellers Association American Library Association Andrews McMeel Publishing Annie’s Foundation Association for Rural & Small Libraries Association of University Presses Astra Publishing House Atlas Books Atthis Arts Au Literary Management Authors Against Book Bans Azantian Literary Agency Banned Books Box Barefoot Books The Bookdragon’s Lair Book Ferret Book Manufacturers’ Institute Book Moon Books on Main Boston Comic Arts Foundation Bradford Literary Agency Bubba’s Books California Independent Booksellers Alliance California Public Library Advocates Candlewick Press Chapter2 Books Charlesbridge Children’s Book Council Coffee House Press Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Dog Eared Rights and Licensing, LLC Duck’s Cottage Coffee & Books Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC Eerdmans Books for Young Readers E. Shaver, Bookseller

EveryLibrary Fact & Fiction Books Fiction Bookshop Florida Freedom to Read Project Folklore Publishing Foofaraw Press Frances Goldin Literary Agency Freedom to Read Project Freedom to Read SC Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency GLAAD Holiday House Publishing The Horn Book Independent Book Publishers Association Just Us Books, Inc. Kidsbuzz Kirkus Reviews KT Literary, LLC. lala books Latinx Kidlit Book Festival Laura Gross Literary Agency Lee & Low Books Levine Querido Library Journal Libro.fm Little Bee Books Live Oak Media Livingston Parish Library Alliance Longfellow Books Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship MacGregor & Luedeke Collaborative Macmillan Publishers Marsal Lyon Literary Agency Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Military Families for Free Expression Moonstone & Mist Bookshop Morgan Hill Bookstore Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association National Coalition Against Censorship National Council of Teachers of English New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association The New Press

New England Independent Booksellers Association New Leaf Literary & Media Newtonville Books Nordlyset Literary Agency Nosy Crow Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC Onyx Gifts and Books Open Book Literary Orca Book Publishers Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Peachtree Publishing PEN America Penguin Random House PFLAG Porter Square Books Postcard Bookshop Publishers Spotlight Publishers Weekly Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans Rainy Day Paperback Exchange Read Freely Alabama READERS to EATERS RED COMET PRESS, LLC River & Hill Books Rutherford County Library Alliance School Board Integrity Project School Library Journal Shelf Life Books Simon & Schuster Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Sourcebooks Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Spoke & Word Books Students Engaged in Advancing Texas Texas Freedom to Read Project The Authors Guild The Book Shop of Beverly Farms The CAT Agency The Lynx Books Texas FReadom Fighters Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore United States Board on Books for Young People University Press of Colorado Vagabond Books, LLC Water Street Bookstore, Inc. We Need Diverse Books Weller Book Works Whitelam Books

Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill! We made it easy to take these four actions to fight against HR 7661 and stand up for your right to read!

If you would like to join us in opposing this dangerous legislation you can use this tool created by @everylibrary.bsky.social

New, state-of-the-art Hamline Midway Library on track for summer 2026 opening Saint Paul Public Library (SPPL) today announced the Hamline Midway Library is on track to open by the end of summer 2026.

HELLO, big news for Midway!!!! 📚📚📚

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When listing Target Corp‘s many failures over the last 2 years, please don’t forget that here in Minnesota, home to their effin’ HQ, they allowed 🧊 to hunt their own employees in their stores and stage their terror attacks on the surrounding neighborhoods from Target parking lots.😡

Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…

Please share as widely as possible.

This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not.

Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Today is day 132 of the ICE occupation of MN.

Zeteo just released a short documentary about the current moment- we love to see media return for a follow up now that Minnesota isn’t in the headlines.

“Hey There Fellow Masker” is a COVID-conscious song about the continuous grief of being left by the wayside, and finding another stuck in this episode of The Twilight Zone

You can find more of my work at: saarkeshet.beehiiv.com

I need a two-hour movie of Christina & Wilhelmina in BACK TO THE DARK AGES expeditiously!

It is THAT good and films featuring COVID/Long-COVID are just as vital now in 2026!

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

Two Long COVID short films premiere at the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge - The Sick Times The 13th annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge features two new short films about Long COVID. For the competition, filmmaking teams were tasked with creating a one to five minute film to promot...

And also today @thesicktimes.org: @heatherhogan.bsky.social describes two new short films about Long COVID, produced as part of the 2026 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge!
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Somehow, I think it’s the 400+ years of colonizing, genocide, and racism.

You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.

YOU: Hi my name is [name]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: Today, President Trump said that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That rhetoric is extreme, dangerous, and disqualifying. 
FOR THOSE W/ DEM ELECTEDS: I’m asking [ELECTED OFFICIAL] to publicly condemn this rhetoric and use every available procedural tool to stop further escalation, including support for impeachment and urgent public pressure on congressional leadership. FOR THOSE W/ GOP ELECTEDS: I’m asking [ELECTED OFFICIAL] to publicly condemn this rhetoric, press the administration and cabinet to treat this as disqualifying conduct. YOU: Calling this what it is matters. Even if removal is difficult, elected officials should treat rhetoric like this as unfit and dangerous. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENTS]

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Georgia lawmakers passed a bill that would lead to more arrests of homeless people and spur pointless lawsuits paid for by taxpayers. We need housing, not handcuffs.

We can still take action. Contact Gov. Kemp at 404-656-1776 and demand he vetoes HB 295. buff.ly/1B8mOZ4

Thoughts are with the Iranian people living in the shadow of the bombs that our country's leaders are threatening to free them with. This is not liberation. This is not humanity. We are a country ruled by morally bankrupt villains.

Donald Trump is one of the most evil men in history and if you think "a whole civilization will die tonight" is in any way defensible I hope you have the life you deserve.

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

A poem for you today, to kick off the…uh Kickstarter.

A broad flat basket like a platter
Covered in heaps of silken threads.
Little hands play in the softness,
Tangle the colours into love knots.
An inheritance from Bethlehem.

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