Josh Cook
@joshthelibromancer.bsky.social
Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
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Josh Cook
@joshthelibromancer.bsky.social
· Oct 21
www.portersquarebooks.com
An intro post for the latest BlueSky wave! I'm a writer & bookseller w/ @portersqbooks.bsky.social where I mostly hype books from small presses written by marginalized voices or works in translation. If you're into the books on this list www.portersquarebooks.com/category/sta... you dig my taste
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Jim looks at camera.
Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Jim looks at camera.
Looks like they are still 117 books short of their goal. I bet #BookSky could take care of that. Supporting a book drive is a fantastic thing for out of towners to do, honestly, much better than buying gift cards
Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)
Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Looks like they are still 117 books short of their goal. I bet #BookSky could take care of that. Supporting a book drive is a fantastic thing for out of towners to do, honestly, much better than buying gift cards
Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)
Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
share.google
February 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)
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I'm old enough to remember when muskrat asked how much it would cost to end world hunger, got told $20bn, and then didn't do anything but fuck up USAid with his doge-holes.
Honestly, this drives me fucking bananas. It would be so EASY for, like, 6 people to basically end poverty in American and they, like, don't.
I'm still waiting for some billionaire to figure out they could become a beloved folk hero just by taking a day or 3 and funding every single GoFundMe for rent relief and legal aid in Minnesota for a couple months.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I'm old enough to remember when muskrat asked how much it would cost to end world hunger, got told $20bn, and then didn't do anything but fuck up USAid with his doge-holes.
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At the protests in Boston on Jan 10, a state police helicopter hovered low enough over the crowd that it was hard to hear the speakers. None of the usual news helicopters were overhead.
I filed a public records request with @massstatepolice.bsky.social asking why.
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I filed a public records request with @massstatepolice.bsky.social asking why.
bsky.app/profile/some...
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The loud helicopter is state police.
It’s oppressive. Intimidating. Making it hard to hear the speakers.
6/?
It’s oppressive. Intimidating. Making it hard to hear the speakers.
6/?
February 11, 2026 at 12:55 PM
At the protests in Boston on Jan 10, a state police helicopter hovered low enough over the crowd that it was hard to hear the speakers. None of the usual news helicopters were overhead.
I filed a public records request with @massstatepolice.bsky.social asking why.
bsky.app/profile/some...
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I filed a public records request with @massstatepolice.bsky.social asking why.
bsky.app/profile/some...
1/?
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hi folks! @sesmith.lol, @andreagrimes.com, @theflytrapmedia.com, @louisathelast.bsky.social, @tekla.bsky.social and I are hashing out plans for a FUN AS HELL mutual aid fundraiser event to stream during the State of the Union (to save you watching it). we are in search of a few intrepid volunteers!
February 11, 2026 at 4:47 AM
hi folks! @sesmith.lol, @andreagrimes.com, @theflytrapmedia.com, @louisathelast.bsky.social, @tekla.bsky.social and I are hashing out plans for a FUN AS HELL mutual aid fundraiser event to stream during the State of the Union (to save you watching it). we are in search of a few intrepid volunteers!
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For sure. My town just shot down an Amazon warehouse and prison after repeated pressure at zoning board meetings.
February 11, 2026 at 4:40 AM
For sure. My town just shot down an Amazon warehouse and prison after repeated pressure at zoning board meetings.
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If you're a book creator and people in your life don't understand why book bans are such a sore point for you then by god show them this film. It really gets people fired up.
THE LIBRARIANS is now streaming on @pbs.org’s YouTube channel and app. Watch now and get engaged in the Freedom to Read movement in your community!
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 AM
If you're a book creator and people in your life don't understand why book bans are such a sore point for you then by god show them this film. It really gets people fired up.
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Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
February 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
Honestly, this drives me fucking bananas. It would be so EASY for, like, 6 people to basically end poverty in American and they, like, don't.
I'm still waiting for some billionaire to figure out they could become a beloved folk hero just by taking a day or 3 and funding every single GoFundMe for rent relief and legal aid in Minnesota for a couple months.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
February 11, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Honestly, this drives me fucking bananas. It would be so EASY for, like, 6 people to basically end poverty in American and they, like, don't.
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I'm still waiting for some billionaire to figure out they could become a beloved folk hero just by taking a day or 3 and funding every single GoFundMe for rent relief and legal aid in Minnesota for a couple months.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
February 11, 2026 at 3:08 AM
I'm still waiting for some billionaire to figure out they could become a beloved folk hero just by taking a day or 3 and funding every single GoFundMe for rent relief and legal aid in Minnesota for a couple months.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
$30 Million would go A LONG way, and they'd barely notice.
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“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.
Meet it or get left behind.
Meet it or get left behind.
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.
Meet it or get left behind.
Meet it or get left behind.
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WHITE MEN: If you've ever wanted an excuse to act like a Karen and feel good about it, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE.
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
February 11, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WHITE MEN: If you've ever wanted an excuse to act like a Karen and feel good about it, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE.
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"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
Typing up a handwritten draft tonight, reminds of one of the things I really love about writing; a single project can require a ton of different levels of effort, thinking styles, time commitments, so you can kinda always make a least a little progress no matter your state of mind.
February 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Typing up a handwritten draft tonight, reminds of one of the things I really love about writing; a single project can require a ton of different levels of effort, thinking styles, time commitments, so you can kinda always make a least a little progress no matter your state of mind.
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As in Minneapolis and other cities, "ordinary citizens" are saving our country. They are what's remarkable:
"it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort"
"it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort"
Breaking News: Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against six Democrats who posted a video reminding members of the military to refuse illegal orders.
Prosecutors Fail to Bring Charges Against Democrats Involved in Illegal Orders Video
The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 2:18 AM
As in Minneapolis and other cities, "ordinary citizens" are saving our country. They are what's remarkable:
"it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort"
"it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort"
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just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
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JKR will never get another dime from the pockets of anyone in my family. You, too, can be part of making this deal a disaster for all parties!
(The revolution starts here
Where you work & where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do & what you say
The revolution starts now - S. Earle)
(The revolution starts here
Where you work & where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do & what you say
The revolution starts now - S. Earle)
Hasbro and Warner Bros. Discovery have signed a multi-year deal starting in 2027 to produce Harry Potter film and television series dolls, role play, action figures, collectibles, interactive plush, board games, and more to be revealed later this year - bwnews.pr/45UKdKL
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
JKR will never get another dime from the pockets of anyone in my family. You, too, can be part of making this deal a disaster for all parties!
(The revolution starts here
Where you work & where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do & what you say
The revolution starts now - S. Earle)
(The revolution starts here
Where you work & where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do & what you say
The revolution starts now - S. Earle)
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It is VERY important to get your electeds to publish state "abolish" as it moves the needle of what will be a midterm platform point. If you want Dems to abolish when they have legislative levers, it has to be publicly acceptable discourse RIGHT NOW.
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It is VERY important to get your electeds to publish state "abolish" as it moves the needle of what will be a midterm platform point. If you want Dems to abolish when they have legislative levers, it has to be publicly acceptable discourse RIGHT NOW.
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This is a bit random and yet quite specific: do I know any un- or under-employed (current or former) freelance book review assigning editors?? Do you??
If so, respond or tag someone.
I have a dream, an impossible dream maybe, but a dream no less.
If so, respond or tag someone.
I have a dream, an impossible dream maybe, but a dream no less.
February 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
This is a bit random and yet quite specific: do I know any un- or under-employed (current or former) freelance book review assigning editors?? Do you??
If so, respond or tag someone.
I have a dream, an impossible dream maybe, but a dream no less.
If so, respond or tag someone.
I have a dream, an impossible dream maybe, but a dream no less.
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The world is what it is but books continue! Agents + writers: looking for deeply researched and imaginative nonfiction manuscripts about the South, for publication in 2027/28. Literary nonfiction, personal/reportage & cultural criticism are highly welcomed. DMs open for pitches or meg@hubcity.org.
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The world is what it is but books continue! Agents + writers: looking for deeply researched and imaginative nonfiction manuscripts about the South, for publication in 2027/28. Literary nonfiction, personal/reportage & cultural criticism are highly welcomed. DMs open for pitches or meg@hubcity.org.
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Heyyyy #BookSky Are you following @authorsabb.bsky.social yet? If you want to help protect the right to read, you really should.
February 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Heyyyy #BookSky Are you following @authorsabb.bsky.social yet? If you want to help protect the right to read, you really should.
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Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
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In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists."
I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone.
This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."
I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone.
This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."
This whistle fights fascists
I print whistles now. You can too.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists."
I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone.
This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."
I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone.
This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."
It is kinda wild to me how we treat the American right as if it some kind of grassroots political movement that represents about half the country, when we know it always manufactured by corporate elites. See also The Teas Party
This is only tangentially connected to me, but stick with me.
In Leander TX, a suburb of Austin, a Dem candidate gets 57% of the vote in a special election for mayor, walloping 2 rightwing challengers. Great news!
Leander is arguably where the rightwing book banning took off. I was a target!
In Leander TX, a suburb of Austin, a Dem candidate gets 57% of the vote in a special election for mayor, walloping 2 rightwing challengers. Great news!
Leander is arguably where the rightwing book banning took off. I was a target!
Unofficial voting results show Na’Cole Thompson wins race for Leander mayor
Leander residents cast ballots in the Feb. 7 special election to determine who will be mayor for the rest of the current term, which expires in May 2027.
communityimpact.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
It is kinda wild to me how we treat the American right as if it some kind of grassroots political movement that represents about half the country, when we know it always manufactured by corporate elites. See also The Teas Party