Emily Keyes

I feel like EVERYONE should have told me they'd be out of work this week.

Love

I love Pearls Before Swine. There were some snou rat working at a bookstore that were posted all over the info center at my bookstore.

‘We have to clear our names’: Venezuelan makeup artist who survived Ice detention tries to rebuild his life Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 251 men flown from Texas to the Cecot prison in El Salvador. Now he’s seeking justice

‘We have to clear our names’: Venezuelan makeup artist who survived Ice detention tries to rebuild his life | Venezuela | The Guardian share.google/Butrdm2iiMCw...

a woman reading to kids and parents

a woman on the steps of a stone library

Thank you to the Gettysburg Library for hosting me yesterday, and to the caregivers and families who brought 21 young readers for storytime and craft! Everyone who came received a copy of ENOUGH IS... thanks to a generous grant from the Helen K. Martin Endowment.

YouTube video by Times Radio The life and death of Virginia Giuffre | The Story

Times Radio had a profile of her after her death, if you want to know about her as an actual fucking person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFc...

I'm really sickened by the use of Virginia Giuffre as a prop here. (Guiffre is the victim that settled her lawsuit against Prince Andrew if he would give millions to anti-sex trafficking organizations.) She died in April and she can't speak for herself now. Keep her name out of your mouth.

Honestly we just want to live our lives.

Yes

PSA:

Your period should not
🩸last > 7 days
🩸interfere with your life
🩸happen consistently > than monthly
🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours
🩸have clots larger than a quarter
🩸cause debilitating pain
🩸require double product coverage
🩸make you anemic

You don’t have to suffer.

This tweet would have been very helpful when I was 14.

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.

“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

♥️

I was sorry to read this. Best of luck.

Storytime + Craft at the Gettysburg Library on July 30th!

ICE Agents Confronted Manhattan Little League Players at Practice, Then Their Black Coach Did This... | The Root "I just said to myself, 'I'm willing to die to make sure you get home,'" coach Youman Wilder said.

www.theroot.com/ice-agents-c... why are officers approaching 11-year-olds if they are just playing baseball?

I hope she's got that cool cowrie shell dissent necklace that she wore to the state of the union with her, because she can pull it off on the beach.

Trump unveils AI Action Plan that aims to clamp down regulations and 'bias' The White House says the action plan will boost US innovation and promote American AI technology globally.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Didn't love reading this. The court situation with AI seems quite delicate right now. So this is just what we need...

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I learned that Alex Ross' mother, Lynette Ross, was also a commercial illustrator so I looked up her work and what the helllllllll!!!

I think everyone i emailed today was out of the office. i am jealous.

A woman in a brown dress and pink neckscarf reading Enough Is..., a picture book.

exterior of a brick library with two trees and two cars in front of it.

Thank you to Elizabethtown Public Library for hosting me for Storytime + Craft today :)

The rise of masked officers is controversial new ground in American life Democrats and others have pushed back, saying the use of face masks generates public fear and should be halted.

Does anyone remember the Watchmen HBO series where all the cops wore masks and the boss turned out to be KKK. Not sure why this made me think of that...
brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...

Good interview with Julie K. Brown about the fundamentals of the Epstein case and our unequal justice system.

*me

Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

"Disabled people who become pregnant face a greater risk of complications—including far greater risks of death—at roughly equal rates across very different disabilities, a finding suggestive of underlying medical failures and biases." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

‘There is no political power without power over the archive’ Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, ...

observer.co.uk/news/interna...

When you meet your book's illustrator!

@painternik.bsky.social !