Andrew Karre
@andrewkarre.bsky.social
Midwesterner. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth.
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Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
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Why Sexual Content Matters in Young Adult Literature
This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
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This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
pen.org/andrew-karre...
Why Editor Andrew Karre Can’t Imagine YA Literature Without Sexual Content
'If it became impossible to publish YA novels with sex in them, I think it would effectively become impossible to publish YA novels.'
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November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Why Sexual Content Matters in Young Adult Literature
This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
pen.org/andrew-karre...
This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
pen.org/andrew-karre...
I'm grateful to PEN and to Julia Goldberg for the chance to talk about the work I get to do with authors.
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Why Editor Andrew Karre Can’t Imagine YA Literature Without Sexual Content
'If it became impossible to publish YA novels with sex in them, I think it would effectively become impossible to publish YA novels.'
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November 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I'm grateful to PEN and to Julia Goldberg for the chance to talk about the work I get to do with authors.
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Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
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This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Absolute banger of a speech from Zadie Smith that applies at least as much to America (where we treat our libraries and librarians with even more contempt).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Absolute banger of a speech from Zadie Smith that applies at least as much to America (where we treat our libraries and librarians with even more contempt).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Negotiating" your own health insurance. 15-year car loans. 50-year mortgages.
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Negotiating" your own health insurance. 15-year car loans. 50-year mortgages.
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
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This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
Were these Dem senators in a coma last Tuesday?
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Were these Dem senators in a coma last Tuesday?
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
The government is shut down, but it’s 1986 in the White House (or whatever year Strawberry was on The Apprentice). Imagine being worried that Joe Biden was the senile one.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
Darryl Strawberry, the baseball slugger who won the World Series while with the New York Mets and Yankees, but whose career was tainted by drug use and other legal problems, received a pardon from President Trump for his three-decade-old tax evasion conviction.
Trump Pardons Darryl Strawberry, Former Mets and Yankees Slugger
The eight-time All-Star baseball player pleaded guilty in 1995 to one count of tax evasion. He was sentenced to six months of home confinement.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The government is shut down, but it’s 1986 in the White House (or whatever year Strawberry was on The Apprentice). Imagine being worried that Joe Biden was the senile one.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
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Are we invading Poland
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Are we invading Poland
An absolutely brutal read.
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
An absolutely brutal read.
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
If you're reading this now, the odds that you'll one day in the future find yourself explaining what libraries *were* to a child are getting better by the minute.
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Bill would let Ohio taxing authorities keep library levies off ballots
Republicans say allowing local taxing authorities in Ohio to block library levies would increase transparency, but libraries say it will hurt them and voters.
www.statenews.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you're reading this now, the odds that you'll one day in the future find yourself explaining what libraries *were* to a child are getting better by the minute.
www.statenews.org/government-p...
www.statenews.org/government-p...
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Ohio, until recent memory, had some of the most consistently funded libraries in the country.
Republicans seem determined to destroy them at all costs.
Republicans seem determined to destroy them at all costs.
WTF IS THIS? Blocking the will of the people? The Ohio House will soon vote on a Republican-backed bill that would allow counties, cities and other local governments to block library levies from the ballot.
Bill would let Ohio taxing authorities keep library levies off ballots
Republicans say allowing local taxing authorities in Ohio to block library levies would increase transparency, but libraries say it will hurt them and voters.
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ohio, until recent memory, had some of the most consistently funded libraries in the country.
Republicans seem determined to destroy them at all costs.
Republicans seem determined to destroy them at all costs.
Any future America worth a damn will insist ICE be taught extensively in schools. Old people will tell kids how close we came to a societal precipice when we tolerated masked secret police invading schools to detain teachers. We'll remember what we saw—or else. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
Child care worker detained by ICE inside a Chicago day care as children watched
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Any future America worth a damn will insist ICE be taught extensively in schools. Old people will tell kids how close we came to a societal precipice when we tolerated masked secret police invading schools to detain teachers. We'll remember what we saw—or else. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
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Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
Think of this story when you read that Dems are somehow out of touch and too focused on gender and LGBTQIA+ issues and thus they lose elections. In truth, the GOP is so obsessed with these issues that they're harming straight, cis men in their zeal to torment queer folks.
The VA is making It harder for male veterans With breast cancer to get coverage. The agency cites no new science but relies on a Trump executive order about “restoring biological truth." 🤔🤔 @ericumansky.bsky.social
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Think of this story when you read that Dems are somehow out of touch and too focused on gender and LGBTQIA+ issues and thus they lose elections. In truth, the GOP is so obsessed with these issues that they're harming straight, cis men in their zeal to torment queer folks.
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Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn partnered with Greenlight Bookstore to host Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (r.) to celebrate the launch of her YA book, We Can Be Brave: How We Learn to Be Brave in Life’s Decisive Moments, adapted by Rev. Bryan Bliss. Joining Budde was Cornelius Minor.
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn partnered with Greenlight Bookstore to host Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (r.) to celebrate the launch of her YA book, We Can Be Brave: How We Learn to Be Brave in Life’s Decisive Moments, adapted by Rev. Bryan Bliss. Joining Budde was Cornelius Minor.