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Giveaway! This is sure to be a hit with the littles. Congrats to @evelynbookless.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read it.

Giveaway! Check our this sweet picture book from @laurasmetana.bsky.social.

An iconic self-portrait by Frida Kahlo is coming home to the Ransom Center Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird will be displayed at the Harry Ransom Center beginning Aug. 9.

I’m looking forward to visiting Frida. www.kut.org/austin/2025-...

SAD.

South Park is 🔥

‘South Park’ clip: Charlie Kirk masterdebates in bed

(“And also edit out all the ones that actually argue back well” 😬 )

This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Census is constitutionally mandated to take place every 10 years and count the "whole number of persons in each state"

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

📣 Day 7 of #31DaysofAction is here!

Today, tell RFK Jr. - do NOT cancel $500mil in mRNA vaccine development!

We’ve got the tools to make it easy 👇

📞 Enter your info in the link below & we’ll call you right after. Example script provided!

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Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful' The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

There is an MRNA vaccine in development that cuts melanoma patients’ recurrence rates by HALF. GONE. My cousin has stage 4 metatastic melanoma.

Trump is rewriting history.
He wants you to forget the truth.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-is-r...

His Name Is Jesus. He’s a Carpenter. ICE Arrested Him. Seriously.

"We're going to go after the welfare loafers and the criminal aliens" turned into "We're literally arresting a hardworking carpenter named Jesus"

Honor the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion with a U​.​S. Forever Stamp Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

These amazing women deserve a US Postage stamp in their honor. Sign the petition to hell make it happen. chng.it/JnyPDHDrgt

This is criminal.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."

The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project to modernize nuclear weapons, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."

We had so much fun last night playing our North Carolina debut. It was a joy to share music with a lovely audience in a very special place. The Center for Conscious Living and Dying in Swannanoa.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is handing more of his office’s work to costly private lawyers Despite having an office with hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton frequently opts to hire private lawyers. One cost taxpayers more than $24,000 in one day.

New: In the past five years, Ken Paxton has grown increasingly reliant on pricey private lawyers to argue cases on behalf of the state, rather than the hundreds of attorneys who work within his office, an investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found.

Texas AG claimed three homes as primary residence. Democrats are being probed for similar issue Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million home in a Dallas suburb. In 2015, they snapped up a second house in Austin.

apnews.com/article/paxt...

USDA reorg guts forest protection & science
* the timber industry's Forest Products Lab stays
* All 9 Forest Service Regional Offices: gone within a year
* All Research Stations: consolidated into one in Fort Collins
HR, contracting, FOIA, tribal relations, civil rights — all centralized

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers From Houston to the Hill Country, we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

New today: We Texans keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We are not going to change this narrative until we change our view of climate change and of living and developing in the floodplain.

Our climate is changing and our rainfall is proving it repeatedly.

Lunch with Katie Howerton in Jackson TN. Katie is illustrating my upcoming non fiction picture book COURAGEOUS COWGIRLS.

Donate to Richard Fought Through CECOT; Now Let’s Help Him Thrive, organized by Cecilia Mallard Fillebrown Help Richard Duarte Rodriguez Start Fresh After CECOT … Cecilia Mallard Fillebrown needs your support for Richard Fought Through CECOT; Now Let’s Help Him Thrive

I just donated to a Go Fund Me for one of the Venezuelans released from CECOT. Richard was here legally and has no criminal history. He needs some support to get back on his feet and heal from the trauma. gofund.me/9690e62c

Join us for our August bootcamp to find out all about graphic novels! This bootcamp is designed specifically for children's books authors and illustrators. Learn from four professionals with over 4 hours of curriculum and a live Q&A! www.scbwi.org/events...

The State Department guts its office combating human trafficking The cuts come as Trump reels from MAGA anger over sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

SCOOP: As Trump takes a beating from his own MAGA crowd for his handling of the case of Jeffrey Epstein, his State Department pulled a surprising move: It decimated its office combating human trafficking.

“Everyone was caught off guard."

The emergency food could feed every child in Gaza for a week. This is shameful. What a waste of my tax dollars. And unbelievably cruel.

Paid Professional Critiques The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug...

#kidlit creators, are you interested in getting professional feedback on your work? SCBWI #easternup is hosting a virtual critique event. You can choose a written critique ($45) or a written+zoom critique ($75). We have faculty for all categories. Register and submit by July 15th! bit.ly/4ltNiqW

At this point, the best dispassionate and objective assessment of the Texas floods I've seen, thanks to Texas Monthly. So many things went wrong...