@cosmokramerpup.bsky.social
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"The bans show a clear pattern of targeting authors of color, women and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Books that educate about racism, gender and history are most often the recipient of relentless censorship attempts." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"The bans show a clear pattern of targeting authors of color, women and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Books that educate about racism, gender and history are most often the recipient of relentless censorship attempts." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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By & large, most books are superior to human beings.
February 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
By & large, most books are superior to human beings.
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I’m pleased that this piece about strong objections to RFK Jr. as head of HHS was published in the Arizona Daily Star. I want to specifically thank Dr. Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social, who wrote this piece with me. They would only permit one author. He insisted it be me. tucson.com/opinion/colu...
Local opinion: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dangerous for the health and economy of Arizona
Trump’s nomination of Mr. Kennedy for secretary of HHS is a blow to science. Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist, science denialist and conspiracy theorist whose fringe beliefs and lies have
tucson.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’m pleased that this piece about strong objections to RFK Jr. as head of HHS was published in the Arizona Daily Star. I want to specifically thank Dr. Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social, who wrote this piece with me. They would only permit one author. He insisted it be me. tucson.com/opinion/colu...
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The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school.
Trump should stop him.
Trump should stop him.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school.
Trump should stop him.
Trump should stop him.
This is SO beautiful.
February 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is SO beautiful.
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RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences.
When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.
When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.
February 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences.
When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.
When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.
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You can contact your State's Attorney General and demand they file a lawsuit against musk for accessing your protected information. See the below link to find out who your State's Attorney General is and then take 5 minutes and make the call and demand action.
www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
Find my AG - National Association of Attorneys General
All 50 U.S. states, D.C., and the U.S. territories have an attorney general who serves as the chief legal officer in their jurisdiction. Find your AG.
www.naag.org
February 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
You can contact your State's Attorney General and demand they file a lawsuit against musk for accessing your protected information. See the below link to find out who your State's Attorney General is and then take 5 minutes and make the call and demand action.
www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
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THIS is how you do it Dems. 🙏
Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
February 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
THIS is how you do it Dems. 🙏
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The county library system just put out a hell of a statement about the EOs, telling us they're bullshit and the libraries are here for the whole community no matter what.
I am so proud of them. Goddamn I love librarians.
I am so proud of them. Goddamn I love librarians.
February 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The county library system just put out a hell of a statement about the EOs, telling us they're bullshit and the libraries are here for the whole community no matter what.
I am so proud of them. Goddamn I love librarians.
I am so proud of them. Goddamn I love librarians.
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This is good
People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.
(Photos shared with me)
(Photos shared with me)
February 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is good
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I really wish my writing routine wasn’t 2 hours of TV, followed by 1 hour of doomscrolling, followed by 1 hour of guzzling caffeine and staring at my MS while thinking “what even IS this?” and then like… 30 mins of frenzied panic-writing before my writing session time is up.
February 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I really wish my writing routine wasn’t 2 hours of TV, followed by 1 hour of doomscrolling, followed by 1 hour of guzzling caffeine and staring at my MS while thinking “what even IS this?” and then like… 30 mins of frenzied panic-writing before my writing session time is up.
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#BannedBookSkyClub
We're discussing #TheFireNextTime by James Baldwin in February 2025. I'll start sharing talking points Tuesday, Feb 4th, and continue to share throughout the month.
Please join us #BookSky
March 2025's book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Link to feed in replies.
We're discussing #TheFireNextTime by James Baldwin in February 2025. I'll start sharing talking points Tuesday, Feb 4th, and continue to share throughout the month.
Please join us #BookSky
March 2025's book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Link to feed in replies.
February 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
#BannedBookSkyClub
We're discussing #TheFireNextTime by James Baldwin in February 2025. I'll start sharing talking points Tuesday, Feb 4th, and continue to share throughout the month.
Please join us #BookSky
March 2025's book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Link to feed in replies.
We're discussing #TheFireNextTime by James Baldwin in February 2025. I'll start sharing talking points Tuesday, Feb 4th, and continue to share throughout the month.
Please join us #BookSky
March 2025's book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Link to feed in replies.
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If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth
February 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth
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If, for various reasons, you find yourself with a tighter budget in the coming months/years (or just want to save/invest as much as possible), remember to take full advantage of your local library — and not just for books.
February 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If, for various reasons, you find yourself with a tighter budget in the coming months/years (or just want to save/invest as much as possible), remember to take full advantage of your local library — and not just for books.
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Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
CDC purges STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump gender order
Health experts say the website purge could result in deaths.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
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Why do books matter so much? Because books can open eyes & hearts & minds. They can show us the world in a different light, helping us imagine other lives. Books can connect us, bringing us together, building bridges in a world of walls. They are the greatest empathy engines ever invented. #BookSky
January 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Why do books matter so much? Because books can open eyes & hearts & minds. They can show us the world in a different light, helping us imagine other lives. Books can connect us, bringing us together, building bridges in a world of walls. They are the greatest empathy engines ever invented. #BookSky
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Now is a time to stay informed. To create a small space in this world of sanity. That you can go to in these times of utter insanity.
Do what is right for you. Do it safely to take care of you. Do what you can do. Concentrate on what YOU can only control.
Protect your corner.
Do what is right for you. Do it safely to take care of you. Do what you can do. Concentrate on what YOU can only control.
Protect your corner.
January 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Now is a time to stay informed. To create a small space in this world of sanity. That you can go to in these times of utter insanity.
Do what is right for you. Do it safely to take care of you. Do what you can do. Concentrate on what YOU can only control.
Protect your corner.
Do what is right for you. Do it safely to take care of you. Do what you can do. Concentrate on what YOU can only control.
Protect your corner.
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Writers, you might be struggling rn.
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Writers, you might be struggling rn.
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
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@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
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This time of year authors find out how many times their books have been borrowed from public libraries. Thank you to everyone who has borrowed my books this year. I hope you enjoyed them. Authors do get a small payment for each book borrowed, so by using a library you are helping authors.
#Booksky
#Booksky
January 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This time of year authors find out how many times their books have been borrowed from public libraries. Thank you to everyone who has borrowed my books this year. I hope you enjoyed them. Authors do get a small payment for each book borrowed, so by using a library you are helping authors.
#Booksky
#Booksky
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We’re all angry and worried and maybe some don’t feel like creating or no longer feel like it matters, but keep writing, painting, dancing, making music, making art. Not doing the things that bring you joy—not making art—doesn’t help. Do what you love harder than ever.
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
We’re all angry and worried and maybe some don’t feel like creating or no longer feel like it matters, but keep writing, painting, dancing, making music, making art. Not doing the things that bring you joy—not making art—doesn’t help. Do what you love harder than ever.