Devi Bhaduri

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

Attn Chicago area horror fans. You can now sign up to see me and @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social talking about why we love horror for free in La Grange. Book sales and a book signing as well.

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How To Be A Resilient Writer First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it’s about a witch named Jamie who decides to...

Excellent words of wisdom from @charliejane.bsky.social today.

"Writing an unpredictable story can help you deal with randomness in the real world, where you never know what publishers or readers might throw at you. Don’t be thrown off course by change — be mercurial and ever-changing."

Cyberattacks target email accounts of senior journalists Publishers have been warned after cyberattacks took over the email accounts of senior staff at British publishers.

Publishers of all sizes have been warned after cyberattacks took over the email accounts of senior staff at British publishers.

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Love’s Undead Gaze in “One Yellow Eye” - Chicago Review of Books One Yellow Eye is the genre-bending debut novel of Leigh Radford, a documentary and arts and entertainment producer for BBC Radio, British commercial radio, and The Times. The novel’s heroine, Dr. Kes...

"Radford has grounded her high concept novel with well-researched scientific content."

@devibhaduri.bsky.social's review of "One Yellow Eye" by Leigh Radford (Gallery Books) is out now.
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Congrats! 👏 So true and so important! I reward the big stuff, and make sure I consciously acknowledge and celebrate every smaller victory along the way. Helps me build momentum toward the finish line. 🏁

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Meet Julie K Brown, the woman who brought down Jeffrey Epstein It was by focusing on his silenced victims, says the dogged Miami Herald reporter, that she was able to help bring the billionaire sex offender to justice

‪Never forget that the real hero in all this is the Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown.

It was Brown's three-part investigative report that led to Epstein's arrest.

Without her dogged work, Epstein might still be raping children.

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

I’m glad you made it home safe. ❤️ And to be fair, 2025 is a year that’d made it easier than normal to over-mimosa!

AOC: "when politicians leave government, they go and work for lobbyists and that tells you everything about the coordinated interests that are in cahoots all over regardless of party."

#BookSky

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Lilly Wachowski’s Anarchists United Foundation Reveals Grant Recipients, Writers Discovery Fellows The list of lucky recipients includes Stanley Kalu, Jennifer Reeder, Marco Bermudez, K. Broch, Quincy Cho, Jacy Duan, Sydney Laws, Amir Mo and Sule Murray.

Grateful and proud to be supporting and fighting for artists and diversity in our industry!

This makes my 🖤 sing! Thank you, @horrornonna.com! I'll have my popcorn ready. 🍿 🍷 #womeninhorror #horror #horrorfilms

"Breast in Show" 2025 Raffle Call! We’re back! Ramona Mourir and Greta von Tapp are proud to announce that “Breast in Show” is returning for its SEVENTH incarnation for "Breast in Show 7: Killer Breasts from Outer Space"! Ramona and G...

Hey guess what? Ramona Mourir and I are doing our annual "Breast in Show" fundraiser event again, and we're looking for raffle donations! Mark your calendars for Monday, 10/20, at the Newport Theater for "Breast in Show 7: Killer Breasts from Outer Space".

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#scriptsky

Really glad to see this.
If you haven't already, obviously give them a follow!

South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled 4-3 on Wednesday that the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictions superseded it.

BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

Sen. Patty Murray: The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

You heard Patty. For the sake of women's health and so much more, kill this bill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.

I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.

Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

Edna Ferber: “I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice — they all make fine fuel.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-7... #writing

2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

When you arrive home 2 hours late..

The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year. A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.

Abortion restrictions have had disastrous health consequences for pregnant women & infants

But a new report published ahead of tomorrow's 3-year anniversary of the overruling of Roe shows they're also expensive, leading to $133 billion in annual estimated economic losses

Exclusive @motherjones.com

States move to keep doctors’ names off of abortion pill prescription labels Doctors are pushing for laws that would make it harder to detect who prescribed abortion pills. They say it would protect them from out-of-state prosecutions.

In states like Texas & Louisiana, lawmakers are increasing their efforts to go after abortion providers, including those who mail pills from out-of-state — a key source of abortion.

Now, blue states are responding, pushing new legislation that could make it harder to prosecute those doctors.

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