Deborah Underwood
@underwoodwriter.bsky.social
Writer of picture books and kisser of cats. DeborahUnderwoodBooks.com
Got this out of my system! Maybe it's in yours, too.
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July 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Got this out of my system! Maybe it's in yours, too.
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What do picture book writers do all day? Read all about it! deborahunderwood.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What do picture book writers do all day? Read all about it! deborahunderwood.substack.com
Finished just in time! Stay safe tomorrow, everyone.
June 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Finished just in time! Stay safe tomorrow, everyone.
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A terrifying escalation:
June 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A terrifying escalation:
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A #bookrec for those who want to do good deeds and Read Happily Ever After! Reading Beauty hilariously written by @underwoodwriter.bsky.social & fabulously illus'd by @meghunt.bsky.social is not only a delightful read, but an empowering one. A spellbindingly wonderful Sleeping Beauty retelling. 📚👍
April 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A #bookrec for those who want to do good deeds and Read Happily Ever After! Reading Beauty hilariously written by @underwoodwriter.bsky.social & fabulously illus'd by @meghunt.bsky.social is not only a delightful read, but an empowering one. A spellbindingly wonderful Sleeping Beauty retelling. 📚👍
Seems like a good day to share my AI revenge poem.
Christmas Comes Early
A Holiday Revenge Poem
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March 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Seems like a good day to share my AI revenge poem.
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“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
March 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Just understand that similar acts of cowardice, cruelty, and bigotry are happening quietly everywhere right now. So many institutions and corporations are scrambling to lick the boots of the bigots in the White House. It won't save them but it will do enormous damage along the way.
NPR told All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro not to attend a Pride event, then publicly reversed course after an initial media report about the email.
Read more: www.them.us/story/ari-sh...
Read more: www.them.us/story/ari-sh...
NPR Told ‘All Things Considered’ Host Ari Shapiro Not to Attend a Pride Event
The broadcasting organization publicly reversed course after an initial media report about the email to Shapiro.
www.them.us
March 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just understand that similar acts of cowardice, cruelty, and bigotry are happening quietly everywhere right now. So many institutions and corporations are scrambling to lick the boots of the bigots in the White House. It won't save them but it will do enormous damage along the way.
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LOVE this #ValentinesDay comic. 😂 #BirdSky
My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.
February 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
LOVE this #ValentinesDay comic. 😂 #BirdSky
Great job, Senate. Waiting for us to all get government-funded cases of apple cider vinegar to cure our polio, measles, and H5N1.
February 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Great job, Senate. Waiting for us to all get government-funded cases of apple cider vinegar to cure our polio, measles, and H5N1.
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Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not
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February 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not
youtube.com/@americanmed...
youtube.com/@americanmed...
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🚨 My book just got banned! 🚨
Support Ogilvy by Deborah Underwood & T.L. McBeth 📚
Grab your copy at your local bookstore (they’ll order it for you if it’s out of stock!) or shop online at Amazon, Books-A-Million, and Barnes & Noble.
FREE Ogilvy "Read Banned Books!" poster at www.TLMcBeth.com
Support Ogilvy by Deborah Underwood & T.L. McBeth 📚
Grab your copy at your local bookstore (they’ll order it for you if it’s out of stock!) or shop online at Amazon, Books-A-Million, and Barnes & Noble.
FREE Ogilvy "Read Banned Books!" poster at www.TLMcBeth.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🚨 My book just got banned! 🚨
Support Ogilvy by Deborah Underwood & T.L. McBeth 📚
Grab your copy at your local bookstore (they’ll order it for you if it’s out of stock!) or shop online at Amazon, Books-A-Million, and Barnes & Noble.
FREE Ogilvy "Read Banned Books!" poster at www.TLMcBeth.com
Support Ogilvy by Deborah Underwood & T.L. McBeth 📚
Grab your copy at your local bookstore (they’ll order it for you if it’s out of stock!) or shop online at Amazon, Books-A-Million, and Barnes & Noble.
FREE Ogilvy "Read Banned Books!" poster at www.TLMcBeth.com
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Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓
www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...
www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...
Middle Grade Book Landscape 2024 | Sam Subity
A first look at the middle grade books published so far in 2024 with stats on publisher share, genre popularity, point of view, and gender.
www.samsubity.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓
www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...
www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...
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Have a Republican member of Congress who has pretended to care about free speech over the past few years? Give them a call and ask them what the hell they have to say about this. www.kqed.org/news/1202597...
FCC Investigates SF Radio Station for ICE Reporting, Sparking Press Freedom Fears | KQED
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José.
www.kqed.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Have a Republican member of Congress who has pretended to care about free speech over the past few years? Give them a call and ask them what the hell they have to say about this. www.kqed.org/news/1202597...
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This makes me happy.
Literary Organizations Release Joint Statement Decrying Anti-Trans Executive Order
The American Booksellers Association, Audio Publishers Association, Independent Book Publishers Association, PEN America, and dozens of other orgs issued a letter addressing President Donald Trump's e...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This makes me happy.
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All terms being used to flagged in NSF research. Notably “women” but not “men”, “disability”, and “trauma”.
Stalin would approve.
Mao would approve.
Our founding fathers would not.
Stalin would approve.
Mao would approve.
Our founding fathers would not.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
All terms being used to flagged in NSF research. Notably “women” but not “men”, “disability”, and “trauma”.
Stalin would approve.
Mao would approve.
Our founding fathers would not.
Stalin would approve.
Mao would approve.
Our founding fathers would not.
@padilla.senate.gov Not okay for your outgoing messages to be garbled and your voicemail to be full all day right now.
February 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
@padilla.senate.gov Not okay for your outgoing messages to be garbled and your voicemail to be full all day right now.
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could not put it better 👇
You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
could not put it better 👇
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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friendly reminder that the best case scenario over the coming years is that a lot of people say "I supported Trump but this isn't what I wanted at all" and when they do that it's gonna be really, really important that we say "welcome in," not "fuck you, we told you so"
February 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
friendly reminder that the best case scenario over the coming years is that a lot of people say "I supported Trump but this isn't what I wanted at all" and when they do that it's gonna be really, really important that we say "welcome in," not "fuck you, we told you so"
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Leah and Ezra explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Vote NO on Vought
YouTube video by Indivisible
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February 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Leah and Ezra explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
In case you would like to read about something being created rather than everything being destroyed, I wrote a piece about my garden for the Golden Gate Bird Alliance.
goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/a...
goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/a...
A Renter’s Mostly-Native Garden - Golden Gate Bird Alliance
By Deborah Underwood Why on earth would a renter plant a garden? Why would anyone spend time, energy, and money to improve someone else’s property? Five years ago, I had no idea. But now I do. Flashba...
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January 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In case you would like to read about something being created rather than everything being destroyed, I wrote a piece about my garden for the Golden Gate Bird Alliance.
goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/a...
goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/a...