Scott was running for reelection

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Only true psychopaths are terrified that *TEEN* birth rates are down. Isn’t this one of the greatest successes of modern times?!

Also notable: How the Trump admin is only making it HARDER to have kids as parents, not easier.

Book Output Topped Four Million in 2025 The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 jumped 32.5% over 2024, according to statistics compiled by Bowker, led by a boom in self-published titles. The number of traditionally publishe...

That's more than one book for every 100 Americans published last year. The median American read two books each year. If we up production a little more, say x200, totally manageable with AI, we can have enough for each of us to read two no one else reads www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

STRANGE BUILDINGS is a New York Times bestseller! #11 on the Paperback Fiction list 🎉

When Persistence Pays Off: On Translating and Publishing the Work of Kanako Nishi This is one of those publishing stories where the author—and in this case the translator too—waited for years, certain that their work deserved a wider audience, and was forced to stand patiently b…

Allison Markin Powell recounts the experience of translating and publishing the work of Kanako Nishi.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN

This is horrible. The WaPo's Books section has a brilliant band of critics and editors and has developed a genuine identity in the book world. I'm heartbroken for a staff that has done such consistently great and dedicated work.

A screenshot from Publishers Weekly’s Job Moves with text saying: Alison Cerri has been promoted to senior publicist at HarperOne Group.

now that it’s Publishers Weekly official: I’ve been promoted to Senior Publicist at the HarperOne Group! ✨

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

We have to impeach him.

2025 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.

Violet and I chose these 48 books as our top feminist reads of the year for @msmagazine.com!

Feat @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @annanorth.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social & more

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a woman smiling in a restaurant sitting at a table with a big slice of tiramisu in front of her, with a lit candle in it

a small dog in a jacket looking up. she has little black boots on paws, which she hates wearing but she hates getting her paws cold and wet more

in an ideal world I wouldn’t be starting the last year of my 20s with a fractured foot, but of course that would happen in this timeline. despite it all I had a very nice birthday yesterday 🙂‍↕️ (ft. my dog wearing her booties for the first time this season)

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

In 2025, we recommend 1,069 books. These are the 10 that rose to the very top. @berkleypub.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @delreybooks.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social @randomhouse.bsky.social bookpage.com/best-books

Happy ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME day! Let's stay here forever 💙

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Zohran Mamdani will become the next mayor of New York City. (NBC News)

A hand holding a on the right a sticker on saying “Halloween Voter 2025” with a pigeon wearing a witch hat and holding a jack-o-lantern candy bucket, and on the left a smaller temporary tattoo version of the sticker.

went to vote early for the Halloween sticker. Got it AND a temporary tattoo version of the sticker. I love New York City

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!