Jenny L Howe

Excellent advice. And if you can't get through there, fax them (free online, see bsky.app/profile/jacl...). Then write an angry letter! You literally pay them to listen to you, so make your voice heard!!

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Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.

Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.

On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

i got my netgalley arcs onto my kobo! i (mostly) followed instructions in the reddit thread i replied with (except i took them off my old kindle device, not the kindle pc app because i don't have that)

also, love at full tilt is SUPER CUTE and i love it, but i may be biased @jennylhowe.bsky.social

Ahhh!!! I hope you continue to enjoy it! Thank you for reading!

I really thought the bad guy's name in the Daredevil show was Wilson Phillips. 🤣

Listen I am a big TJ ALEXANDER FAN.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans BLOCK simple resolution to support the rule of law and say the executive branch MUST abide by court rulings.

NYT v. Sullivan: Will the Landmark Defamation Ruling Survive? (Gift Article) New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.

Looks like Trump & co are positioning to sue a lot more journalists/authors/publishers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...

Seems bad

Donate to Help a Beloved Kidlit Author Recover, organized by Jessica Burkhart Friends, a beloved member of the kidlit community needs our help. This author is… Jessica Burkhart needs your support for Help a Beloved Kidlit Author Recover

You may have seen this elsewhere, but I'm also sharing it and acting as verification: I know who this is for. I know their current situation. For their safety, please don't speculate... but they do so much for ALL writing communities. So if you can help... 💓

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It's a great day to keep calling your representatives! And if you haven't started yet, now is a great time!

The number of non-citizens on Social Security is 0. The cost of printing out this stupid Executive Order is greater than the money received by non-citizens on Social Security—which again is $0.

He's distracting his MAGA base to steal $800B in Medicaid & give billionaires trillions in tax cuts.

Tired: "Claimed by a Billionaire"
Desired: "Seduced by a Union Organizer"

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

RFK is a lunatic and will kill many. He and others promised under oath it would not come to this. They said they did not want to take away vaccines. They lied. In this coming anti-science era, the only thing you can do to protect yourself and loved ones is to wear a well-fitting mask.

Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds Study counteracts claims by conservative lawmakers that books being removed from classrooms are sexually explicit The majority of banned books in US public schools last year dealt with people of color, LGBTQ+ people and other demographics, according to a…

Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

There is a fascinating correlation between billionaires and shameless stupidity. Who is going to read this when the WSJ exists?

Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns | CNN Business The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...

I mean, no kidding it's a conflict of interest.

Listen. I know it feels futile calling your reps right now, but I promise it's moving the needle. KEEP. CALLING.

Librarians reading 30,000 books in Livingston Parish to check for explicit material Livingston Parish libraries have found a solution for the community's concerns about the possibility of sexually explicit material in children's books: read every single book on the shelf.

A school board in Louisiana has stripped the shelves of books over a panic that "material harmful to minors" — in other words, descriptions of sex or sexuality — might be present in one of the 30,000 (!) books aimed at young adults.

www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

The CDC has indefinitely shuttered the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), a data collection program (started in 1988) that identifies women and infants at high risk for health problems, monitors health status, and measures progress toward improving the health of mothers and babies.

The selection of right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino for a senior FBI role hammers home that President Donald Trump is eliminating the guardrails that prevented right-wing conspiracy theories becoming criminal prosecutions during his first term.

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Morning Joe bent the knee to Trump fascism & Joy Reid demanded justice against Trump fascism.

Morning Joe whitewashed Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians & Joy Reid called out Netanyahu’s genocide.

MSNBC protected Morning Joe & fired Joy Reid.

I’m just not qwhite sure why.🤔

Gift link.

A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone.

And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration.

If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.