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Congress: Save Medicaid Now Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

Congress is feeling the heat and we must keep up the pressure before Medicaid cuts wreak havoc on our communities.

Contact your representative now and tell them: NO cuts to Medicaid.

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Worth remembering that libro.fm exists -- human narrators, independent experience, supports indie bookstores.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

trope graphic for Hammajang Luck. the cover in the center shows a person with brown skin and brown hair in a red hoodie sitting on a pile of junk. behind them is a futuristic cityscape with gold clouds. the background of the graphic is the same cityscape with a teal sky and gold clouds. the tropes read “found family,” “crimes and heists,” “Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner,” “childhood friends to enemies to lovers,” “nonbinary MC,” and “lesbian cast.”

another intro post! I’m Makana, a hapa haole māhū lesbian from Maui! I write sci-fi about AAPI lesbians being messy in space. my adult cyberpunk lesbian space heist debut HAMMAJANG LUCK is out NOW in the UK and North America!!! shoots! 🤙

Me: *working at an indie bookstore and telling customers that we can order books we don’t have in stock for no extra fee and that orders will arrive in 3-5 days, if not earlier*

Them: “that’s alright, I think I’ll just get it from Am*zon” 🫤

Me: *screams into the void*

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day AND Independent Bookstore Day 🧡🤍🩷 #booksky 📖 1/4

i'm lamby👋 the pkmn world will inspire me forever !! i'll never forget those memories & always want to share that magic ^_^

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

If you are a marginalized author writing books about characters from marginalized groups. I need you to know that it may look hopeless right now, but your books are needed now more than ever.

CREATOR: ‘my art is worthless. there’s no point in finishing this work in progress because nobody will care about it. i quit.’ THE SAME CREATOR AFTER RECOGNIZING THEY WIELD THE GRAND POWER OF THEIR OWN UNFATHOMABLE COSMIC UNIQUENESS:(picture of walter white) we're done when i say we're done'

creation as an act of love. love as an act of creation

Do not post photos of protesters' faces.

Do not post photos of protesters' faces.

Do not post photos of protesters' faces.

This EPA employee asked me not to show his face for fear he’d be targeted, a sad statement in itself that testifies to who we’ve become as a nation:

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

We see you all! Incredible turnout so far across the country — current estimates put participation at around 750,000 and counting! More accurate numbers are still coming in, with many events yet to begin.

Erasing books, libraries, museums is but a step in the erasure of people.

Protect these institutions at all costs to protect people.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

cover of cinderella is dead by kalynn bayron

cover of sleep like death by kalynn bayron

cover of this poison heart by kalynn bayron

cover of you're not supposed to die tonight by kalynn bayron

i love @kalynnbayron.bsky.social as a person, but her books are also unmatched. the way they elevate and celebrate black women! the covers ALONE!!!

anyway, do yourself a favor and buy a kalynn bayron book today: bookshop.org/contributors...

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

So being late to my appointment saved me from having to evacuate a building with a gas leak while in the middle of a pap smear. Truly a horrible possibility I had never faced until today

Guess who took the very first opportunity I had while working at the bookstore today to make a banned book display 🤭

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

Octavia Butler was a black female science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

Great list of arospec books here! ⬇️
Full list in alt-text. #booksky #queerbooksky

"well as long as it's age appropriate" no fuck you guys actually, i read adult books when i was 12 and now i'm weird as hell, as i SHOULD be

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta. A teenage Black mixed heritage boy sits with black feather boa, surrounded by pink flamingos

Black queer book rec of the day

A gay British mixed heritage boy grows up questioning his identity. When he discovers drag however, he learns to truly love himself

This is a beautiful illustrated novel told in verse. The last chapter made me happy cry!
#booksky #queerbooksky #blackbooksky

Remember, fighting the good fight is exhausting. Take tips from marginalised folks who’ve been doing it all along. Breaks need to happen to prevent burnout. Pacing is important. Community is important. Community means sharing the load so you DO get rests. Don’t feel bad for resting & finding joy.