Maggie Tokuda-Hall
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. President of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her)
blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽
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blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽
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Tomorrow’s gtfo day at city hall.
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Tomorrow’s gtfo day at city hall.
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.
I have been arguing via email about this with city councilman and his arguments for are just. Not good. It basically boils down to "an alternative might take more time" which. Ok??? That's all you've got???
Anyway if you live in Oakland please feel free to yell about this. It sucks.
Anyway if you live in Oakland please feel free to yell about this. It sucks.
If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS.
Keep our neighbors safe.
FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...
Keep our neighbors safe.
FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...
Tell City Council: No FLOCK Surveillance for ICE in Oakland
The Oakland Police Department is looking to push through a $2.25M contract to expand its surveillance network under the privately-owned company FLOCK Safety — and we need you to show up and demand the...
actionnetwork.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I have been arguing via email about this with city councilman and his arguments for are just. Not good. It basically boils down to "an alternative might take more time" which. Ok??? That's all you've got???
Anyway if you live in Oakland please feel free to yell about this. It sucks.
Anyway if you live in Oakland please feel free to yell about this. It sucks.
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Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene
If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS.
Keep our neighbors safe.
FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...
Keep our neighbors safe.
FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...
Tell City Council: No FLOCK Surveillance for ICE in Oakland
The Oakland Police Department is looking to push through a $2.25M contract to expand its surveillance network under the privately-owned company FLOCK Safety — and we need you to show up and demand the...
actionnetwork.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS.
Keep our neighbors safe.
FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...
Keep our neighbors safe.
FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Would read this short story
Of course I was conflicted when I first realized my highly intelligent genius daughter was also a fiendishly cunning serial killer, but eventually I decided it is my responsibility as a parent to raise the best child I can and it is the responsibility of the FBI to capture her.
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Would read this short story
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“What the film reinforced for me is that these professionals—whose ethical framework compels them to defend intellectual freedom, resist censorship, and support the free flow of ideas—are now being targeted precisely because they uphold the values the First Amendment was written to protect.”
The Librarians: A Documentary That Refuses to Look Away
Why This Film Matters More Than Its Marketing Suggests
natecharles.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“What the film reinforced for me is that these professionals—whose ethical framework compels them to defend intellectual freedom, resist censorship, and support the free flow of ideas—are now being targeted precisely because they uphold the values the First Amendment was written to protect.”
if you have ever taken photos of pigeons that are unique looking would you be willing to share them with me?
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
if you have ever taken photos of pigeons that are unique looking would you be willing to share them with me?
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Finally got my Election Recap posted! The summary? Voters hate book banners. It’s an established pattern, even in red states like Texas.
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Election Recap: Another Bad Night for Book Bans
It’s becoming routine:
franklinstrong.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Finally got my Election Recap posted! The summary? Voters hate book banners. It’s an established pattern, even in red states like Texas.
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Top 5 film genres:
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
Top five film genres:
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
Top 5 film genres
-one director’s quixotic and extravagant labor of love
-something awful has happened and nobody will ever know precisely what or why
-cool monsters
-this Hays code embodiment of a transatlantic accent wants to fuck
-I Hate The Upper Class But Damn They Know How to Dress
-one director’s quixotic and extravagant labor of love
-something awful has happened and nobody will ever know precisely what or why
-cool monsters
-this Hays code embodiment of a transatlantic accent wants to fuck
-I Hate The Upper Class But Damn They Know How to Dress
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Top 5 film genres:
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
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“It’s not fascism until its control is total and fear of it is ruling your life” is a take designed to keep you from fighting until it’s too late.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“It’s not fascism until its control is total and fear of it is ruling your life” is a take designed to keep you from fighting until it’s too late.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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Today was Palestinian Independence Day.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Today was Palestinian Independence Day.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
Is there a German word for the thing when someone has added you to their close friends on IG and you're like. You shouldn't have actually
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Is there a German word for the thing when someone has added you to their close friends on IG and you're like. You shouldn't have actually
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I don't think she's using the metric you assume, I think she's speaking from experience as a First Lady & reacting to the sum total of how America reacts to the idea of women having agency over their own bodies, finances, and futures. The stats on sexual assault, domestic violence, & femicide.
Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I don't think she's using the metric you assume, I think she's speaking from experience as a First Lady & reacting to the sum total of how America reacts to the idea of women having agency over their own bodies, finances, and futures. The stats on sexual assault, domestic violence, & femicide.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
my daughter had an accident this am so my son made this to commemorate
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
my daughter had an accident this am so my son made this to commemorate
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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"What's happening here is evil."
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"What's happening here is evil."
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Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.
This is what "parents rights" looks like in TX: 1 mother decides what 8,292 students don't get access to read b/c she thinks boy unicorns shouldn't be pink or have eyelashes. *side note: the unicorn isn't pink, but he does have eyelashes. And to TX legislators: your bad laws are harming our kids.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.