For #OneBattleAfterAnother, Jojo emulates Willa and Horatio channels her father Bob in what he considers a "disguise." 3/3
#Caturday #HoratioTheCat #JojoThePirateCat #Oscars
Hey Wisconsin! A pretty bad bill passed the House and is now being considered in the Senate. WI-AB961 would require bookselling websites to put warning labels on books whose content is considered to meet certain arbitrary criteria. The American Booksellers Association has created a resource to help
GEORGIA: a quick thing you can do to oppose this horrible book banning bill!! h/t @laurelsnyder.bsky.social & @authorsabb.bsky.social
www.allianceforgeorgialibraries.org/oppose_sb74
A new bill in Congress would punish schools for letting students read about gender identity — or even “lascivious dancing.”
Somewhere, Kevin Bacon is very nervous.
roncharles.substack.com/p/now-congre...
‘Same Ingredients, Different Recipe’ in Proposed U.S. Book Ban buff.ly/QboQ5NI
I called the office of my rep, Glenn Thompson, who is on the education committee. Took two minutes. Easy peasy
Central Pennsylvanians: Rep. Glenn Thompson is on this committee. DC phone 202 225 5121. He needs to hear from us now.
Christ, this is bleak
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Just a reminder as we look forward to this weekend...
We're going to win. There's a ton of hard work ahead of us & a lot more really bad days, but we've won before, with less resources & more capable foes. So we will win again.
Every reader of every age will have access to the books they need.
I usually hate my photos, but I’m not mad at this promo for THE LIBRARIANS & the BookRiot podcast. This pic was taken in Berlin @ the Empty Library, site of the 1933 Nazi book burning. That moment will stay w me forever. It’s a reminder of the stakes of censorship.
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..."
www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...
The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
Are you planning on donating banned books to a little free library? You can use these inserts to increase the impact your donation has on the community:
Angelou Heirs Join Utah Book Removal Suit buff.ly/m95YxhZ
A young doctor at a checkup asked me what the circular scar on my shoulder was. Felt a million years old telling him it was a smallpox vaccine scar
The “jail the librarians” bill is back and we need everyone to AGAIN call their representatives to get this bill to either on the vine.
Contact Speaker of the House Jon Burns to tell him that book bans are off the table.
mailto:jon.burns@house.ga.gov
capitol-beat.org/2026/02/book...
He did send me some nice ( non sleazy) typed postcards. I still have them.
I edited some illustrated anthologies of his in the 70s and he flirted intensely even over the phone. Told me I could stay at his place next time I was in NY. Uh huh I said.
Very much the case with anything climate related. Sometimes can find the material via wayback machine. Horrifying.
Giving a new meaning to "couch surfing." Snowstorm hijinks in State College, PA. Photo by Esteban Marenco, Centre Daily Times.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
I know, soooo annoying. Make sure you have deselected "dynamic email" and "smart reply", and all "smart" features. Scroll all the way down in settings.
My favorite example of closed captions, from Westworld: "I've got something you haven't" [pants]
Hoppin' John: a black-eye peas and rice dish. Also, the "first-footer"--the first person to cross your threshold on New Year's Day--must be a dark-haired man.
Yesterday we delivered a stocking full of coal to GT Thompson, Pa Rep. for District 15, for his naughty behavior. This Centre Daily Times article explains why: eedition.centredaily.com/shortcode/LM...
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Denise Mina's The Good Liar is an excellent mystery. She's great at writing messy characters.
I could always tell when I was nearing D.C. in the 70s because I could see a huge yellow-brown dome in the sky ahead of me.
