Isabel Millán

On left: National Library Week poster featuring an illustration of community members in front of a library with a banner that reads 'FIND YOUR JOY!'; bottom of the poster reads 'Celebrate National Library Week." On right, a photo of Mychal Threets wearing a shirt that reads "Library Joy!!" and giving two thumbs up.

We are OVERJOYED to announce that award-winning librarian and ‘Reading Rainbow’ host @mychal3ts.bsky.social will serve as our 2026 National Library Week honorary chair!

#NationalLibraryWeek will be held April 19-25 with the theme "Find Your Joy."

Read our full announcement: https://bit.ly/4rDSagx

In the Fight Against Fascism, Libraries Should Be Defended — Not Defunded Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders should fortify and defend at all costs, especially in this moment. Instead, libraries in Chicago are being hollowed out, while the police budget remains sacrosanct."

I realize I've been posting about my book a lot and want to share why 🧵
1. It's fucking hard to write a book and getting this one to the finish line with everything happening in my life has been a huge accomplishment for me. I'm excited.
2. Now is a hard time to get a book into circulation. Because

Graphic featuring a stack of colorful books with text stating "They want to tell your kids what books they can read," referencing 22,810 instances of book bans in U.S. public schools from 2021-2025. Visit pen.org/donate for more info.

Book banning may seem like the new normal. But at PEN America, we're fighting back—partnering with students, parents, teachers, librarians and like-minded organizations to protect the freedom to read. This #GivingTuesday, help us keep books where they belong: in the hands of students: pen.org/GT25BS

Yes exactly! Don't feel bad like you're not supporting authors if you use the library. You totally are & we're grateful!

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.

Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”

We ain’t buying it: Why we boycott Target For a long time, Target—that popular mega store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceri...

Target's diversity, equity and inclusion programs won customer loyalty among Black and Latino shoppers—until they abandoned those policies due to political pressure. This holiday season, AFT has joined a renewed Target boycott that is gaining momentum.
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...

A call to action ‘We Ain’t Buying It’

AFT is joining the "We Ain't Buying It" boycott of Amazon, Home Depot and Target for enabling the Trump administration’s attacks on working families.

@rweingarten.bsky.social talked to @jenrubin.bsky.social about using consumer power to preserve democracy ⬇️
contrarian.substack.com/p/a-call-to-...

Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.

They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."

abc7.com/post/ontario...

A quick sketch of Alice Wong, an extraordinary writer, editor, organizer and disability revolutionary. She's beautiful, middle aged, leaning against a power chair headrest, with a ventilator tube attached to a tracheotomy at her throat. wearing vivid purple and a bright red lip. I tried to capture the expression she often wore of joy mixed with an inner amusement and determination.

She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.

It's time for Trump & Republicans in Congress to fix healthcare, fund the government, and put working families first.

Food banks brace for 42 million without SNAP The gap will be impossible to fill, those working to feed the nation's neediest said.

The federal government shutdown will stop food aid Nov. 1 for some 42 million Americans, the latest blow for low-income families already struggling with rising costs and shrinking federal benefits.

Universities roundly reject Trump’s loyalty oath When the Trump administration invited nine elite universities to exchange blind loyalty for favoritism and federal funding, the AFT, the American Association of University Professors and academics acr...

When Trump invited 9 elite universities to exchange blind loyalty for favoritism and federal funding, the AFT, the @aaup.org and academics across the nation called it out for what it was: a blatant attempt to control higher education. @afthighered.bsky.social

Look up events in your cities: www.nokings.org#map

SANA SANA! My latest for CALÓ News! Please support my work at calonews.com/donate #portland

I Read This When Things Fell Apart and You Should, Too You don’t have to be an organizer or activist to read this book. It will have wisdom for you.

"The book is called, Read This When Things Fall Apart. I read it when things fell apart. It cradled me when I fell apart ... This book will have wisdom for you. May it hold you the way it held me."

YouTube video by Justice Connection Now is the Time to Speak up for Justice

worth 4 mins of your time to watch this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfD...

Save the date: The next Banned Books Week will be October 4-10, 2026! Thank you for fighting censorship with us! Censorship is so 1984. Read for Your Rights. BannedBooksWeek.org Bluesky and Facebook: @BannedBooksWeek Instagram: @banned_books_week

That’s a wrap. Thank you for fighting censorship with us! Let's keep this momentum going until we gather again October 4-10, 2026, because every week is #BannedBooksWeek and we are stronger TOGETHER!

#CensorshipIsSo1984

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

Banned Books Week® October 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ALA.ORG/BBOOKS. ALA American Library Association

We're just a month away from this year's Banned Books Week, October 5-11! Join us to remind the world that Censorship Is So 1984! www.ala.org/news/2025/09...

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Palestinian children who have lost parents were overcome with emotion as they graduated in a ceremony at Gaza's al-Wafaa Orphan Village.

The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Public media is under threat. Millions depend on the NPR Network every day. Silencing journalism is one way to silence truth and erode the power of the people.

Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis.

Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.

Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq

this is so fucking awful. we must mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living. not one more!