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Trump Administration Abruptly Cut Off Highly Effective Support for Disabled People Experiencing Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize...

The MAGA republicans are nothing short of cruel. Making the most vulnerable struggle and suffer is inhumane. These people are fellow human beings. 😔

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
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This, THIS is what it means to be "pro-life" - to not be afraid of ICE to fight for the lives of their victims. To be at the front of the crowd, fighting for the real people that ICE seeks to destroy.

In a world of fascist jackbooted thugs, be a frog.

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Is it in-person only, or can people attend virtually?

Happy Tuesday of World Space Week. To celebrate I launched (dad joke) my new thriller on ABC News. In stores & downloadable today!
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The trick I learned with the $20 rice cookers is that they're not sealed and insulated, so you can't keep rice in them for very long after they've finished. The more expensive ones are much better at keeping rice for hours or days.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

In the Annex and Crescent Town, Two Sides to a Density Dilemma | The Local The Annex had fewer residents in 2021 than 1971. The towers of Crescent Town had far more. How the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto.

From the #LocalArchives: The Annex is shrinking. The towers of Crescent Town are exploding. @simonlewsen.bsky.social on a tale of two cities, and how the uneven, illogical densification pattern of the last 50 years created today’s Toronto. thelocal.to/density-the-...

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White supremacy is a helluva drug.

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

The thread broke so here's more books by living marginalized authors that are banned!

Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok

Of course we ban the books about Chinese-American sweatshop workers!

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It happened. Bookshop.org has acquired the NEW EDITION of THE HIDDEN FACE. Get the paperback format here:

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Also available on Barnes&Noble, EBay, Left Bank Books, Powell's Books, Amazon, Thriftbooks, Scifier, Rakuten Kobo, and more.

#booksky #fantasy #books

sign up for our VERSeFest/VERSe Ottawa email list! hey! did you know that VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival now has an email list you can sign up for? You can do all of that ...

don't forget : you can sign up for our mailing list! once a month or so, updates on events, our poets laureate and our upcoming spring festival;
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FLESH Zine For this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be included for free with Samir Sirk Morató’s Gore Poetics, a Cursed Morsels 2026 release. For context, this book is weird, erotic, grotesque, queer, transgressive, literary, and intense if that gives you a sense for the kinds of work Samir and I (Eric Raglin) are looking for. Your submission can be fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. Pay is 10 cents per word. We’re asking for first worldwide print and digital publishing rights but no exclusivity period. Contributors will receive five free physical copies of the zine.

Looking to submit to a zine that welcomes horror for all its nastiness and also pays 10 cents per word? Look no further.

Open for subs through October 7th: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement? You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

More often than not, the people who've screamed "think for yourself!" at me are the same people who follow exactly what Conservatives tell them to think.

All 31 of my stolen novels and novellas are left out of this class. Loud and clear, 'Merica. Intellectual property owned by non-US creators is fair game for theft in your country. Not sure you can spare the reputation to burn right now, but OK.

I think about how so many literary and queer events and spaces have left chronically ill and disabled people behind. If you want to see the health of a community or society, witness how it treats the most marginalized among them.

An improvised box fan filter with a box fan and four HEPA filters. The seams are sealed with duct tape.

A picture of an event hall with artist vendors at their tables, talking to attendees. A large white air purifier is on the closest table.

Had a chance to quickly hang out with @jamiequinn-m.bsky.social at the Toronto Aros and Aces makers market at the 519. Thanks so much to TA&A and the 519 for holding one of the best COVID safe community events I've been to in recent memory. This is how it's done!

#COVIDIsNotOver

meme of a guy in a red shirt and sunglasses reading make out? no thanks. I'm saving these lips for the sweet kiss of death

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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

This observation is quite fitting considering how Japan's new PM is a hardline right-winger hailed as the "Japanese Margaret Thatcher".