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“It's not a science issue. It really is a political science issue.”

If it feels like plastics are everywhere lately, that’s because they are. But Judith Enck, author and former EPA official, says there are solutions to our growing plastics problem.
A world without plastic
In her new book “The Problem with Plastic,” a former EPA official looks at the costs of plastic overproduction and how we can move beyond it
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December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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MY BOOK IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY!

Here’s a press release, but you can also DM me if you want copies, interviews, etc. www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Today, THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC — a book I helped write last year with @beyondplastics.bsky.social — is finally out in the world.

You can find an excerpt on THE COST of CONVENIENCE in Capital B today. @thenewpress.bsky.social capitalbnews.org/plastic-polu...
Plastics and The Cost of Convenience on Black Communities
How Louisiana’s Black communities are fighting to survive in a battle where every breath, every drop of water, and every patch of land is at stake.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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✨ MotL 85 is live! ✨

We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall U., to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (@thenewpress.bsky.social, 2025).

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Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I'll be talking about our new book, "The Problem with Plastic" in Woodstock, NY this Sun, 12/7 at 5PM with @woodstockland.bsky.social Citizens Concerned About Plastic Pollution & The Golden Notebook. Join us! www.beyondplastics.org/book-events/... @thenewpress.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Historian Chris Moffat updates *Disrupted City* by thinking about the shifting landscapes of Lahore since the 2000s.
Walking Lahore, Watching the World - Public Books
The new mosque's central dome dominates the town's skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
An exhilarating tale examining the intersection of our world and the next.

Read a starred review 🌟 of DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social in Kirkus Reviews ow.ly/VWkE50WvEfx
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You won't want to miss this!
Join us this Wednesday at the Schomburg Center at 6:30 for a conversation on MLK in NYC and his critique of nothern liberalism: “If our direct action talk alienates so-called friends…they never were really our friends.” www.law.columbia.edu/events/king-...
"King of the North": A Conversation with Jeanne Theoharis
Please join Frank A. Guridy (Dr.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I think that a lot of people on here need to read @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's King of the North because a lot of you on here are ABSOLUTELY historically illiterate. I'm sorry but it has to be said: thenewpress.org/books/king-o...
King of the North - The New Press
A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. “Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights.." - Read a review of Sim Butler's AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ow.ly/KsAz50X4Go2
November 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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We are SO looking forward to hosting Sim Butler Author Talk & Book Signing here at Bigfoot Books & Brews on Friday, December 12!
www.bigfootbooksnc.com/events/sim-b...

#SimButler #AndTheDragonsDoCome #LGBTQ @thenewpress.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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THIS WEEK!

TUESDAY: @biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

WEDNESDAY: Ray D. Madoff, author of, "The Second Estate: How US Code Made American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).

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November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This Thursday November 6!! Join us online at 6:30 EST for an urgent conversation on the Fight for Black History and Black Education with @jessehagopian.bsky.social, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @barrygoldenberg.bsky.social, and Crystal Sanders. www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-the-f...
CBFS: The Fight for Black Education and Black History
Scholars, organizers, and teachers discuss teaching and documenting Black History in this online program.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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NEW FREE HELL!

Our guest is @philipkadish.bsky.social, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

Support our work -- and get daily bonus content -- before we're labelled criminals under Trump's NSPM-7.

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NEW EP! The Great White Hoaxes of Racial Inferiority and White Supremacy | This Is Hell!
Get more from This Is Hell! on Patreon
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October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Butler debuts with a poignant memoir of raising his transgender daughter in the rural South." - Read a review of newly published AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ow.ly/KsAz50X4Go2
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling" is an antidote to silence in textbooks about U.S. prison-industrial complex.
In graphic novel format, facts & history of criminal injustice system are made accessible for grades 7 to adult. @thenewpress.bsky.social
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Book — Non-fiction. By Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones. 2013. 128 pages. Based on the popular book Race to Incarcerate, this graphic adaptation is a key resource to introduce a study of U.S. prison syste...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Looking forward to this! Please join us.
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This week in Hell!

TUESDAY:

Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness" (@plutopress.bsky.social).

WEDNESDAY:

Philip Kadish, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).
This Is Hell!
Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Mabanckou writes with equal doses of whimsy and descriptiveness, creating a hero’s journey told backward." - Kirkus Reviews 🌟 on @mabanckou.bsky.social's DEALING WITH THE DEAD ow.ly/VWkE50WvEfx
October 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH:

October 16 @ 6pm

Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.

RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...

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Book Launch | Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Join Emile DeWeaver, author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights." - Read a review of the forthcoming AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in this week's @publisherswkly.bsky.social ow.ly/cCNH50X4FPR
October 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Shortlisted for our adult social justice book prize: Copaganda, by @equalityalec.bsky.social for @thenewpress.bsky.social! Copaganda exposes the cozy relationship between law enforcement agencies and media outlets, revealing how public perception is shaped to favor the police. #GoddardBookPrizes
September 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Pay the People! is shortlisted for our adult social justice book prize! Congrats to John Driscoll, Morris Pearl, @patrioticmillionaires.org and @thenewpress.bsky.social. Pay the People! argues that fair wages are beneficial to both the economy and societal well-being. #GoddardBookPrizes
September 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM