Mallory Hardesty

I live in Chicago. There’s been a lot more helicopters lately. (Jan 2026)

Hey Bluesky! What methods are people using to fight ICE? I am making a directory and i would love to include direct action in smaller communities!

Washington, DC Sept 8 | 7PM with Ari Shapiro! Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater at GW University in partnership with Politics & Prose Columbus | Sept 9 | 6PM Columbus Metropolitan Library in partnership with Prologue Bookshop NYC | Sept 10 | 7:30PM reading & discussion! St. Joseph's University in partnership with Greenlight Bookstore with Hala Alyan, Aubrey Hirsch, Mira Jacob, and ACLU's LGBTQ Rights Project Co-Director Chase Strangio Cambridge | Sept 11 | 7PM reading & discussion! Marran Theater in partnership with Porter Square Books with Tiana Clark, Koritha Mitchell, Imani Perry, & Jason Silverstein Burlington I Sept 13 | 7PM with Alexander Chee! First Unitarian Universalist Society in partnership with Phoenix Books Decatur | Oct 3 | 7PM 2025 Decatur Book Festival Keynote with Saeed Jones with Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, & Aruni Kashyap Books sold by Charis Books & More San Francisco | Oct 21 | 7:30PM Litquake Literary Festival in partnership with Green Apple Books Looking Forward Panel with Jill Damatic, Randall Mann, Abi Maxwell, & sam sax

I’m excited to announce that I’m hitting the road with @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social next month to celebrate our new book THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT! Come on out and join us! Pre-order your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I just did this, and you can too!

Trump threatens to withhold his endorsement from any Republican who doesn’t support his $9.4 billion rescission package. It’s headed for the Senate floor next week and needs a simple majority.

For my chicago audience.

The New Words Without Borders The Whiting Award-winning digital literary magazine Words Without Borders is the premier publication for international literature in English. Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Fernanda Melchor, Jokha Alharthi...

ChatGPT may be down, but you know what's not down? Over 4,000 pieces of literature from 147 countries and translated from 141 languages by actual people and not LLMs—and every single piece is free to read.

Just saying!

wordswithoutborders.org

Book buying is a hobby entirely unrelated to book reading

No truer words #booksky

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

I have just found out that I can view the search terms people have used to find my papers. Why has ChatGPT (and other AI) looked at my paper? Why can’t I opt out of that?

this is a formal note, do not train AI on my research. 💜

For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.

im an INFLUENCER
today in stream we came up with a list of things that I'm actively influencing ppl to do -- here it is:
- get a library card
- read Braiding Sweetgrass
- play weird indie ttrpgs
- trans your gender
- get off the internet
- buy your DM a pizza
- don’t fear mushrooms

Attention History Bluesky! I am writing a paper about representation of teenage girls in John Hughes movies and its relation to feminism. Any article/book recommendations??

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

Kids putting on socks and me perhaps panicking?

Kids feet with a whole lot of socks on them (one had fifteen one had 16)

The game!! The griz are up 38 to 33.

Good.Store sponsored the Lady Griz game tonight and we did a half-time game where middle schoolers had to put on as many socks as they could in 2 minutes.

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

This energy.

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

Cat in a library.

Do not obey in advance. Resist. Do not offer an oppressive government what it wants. Do not anticipate its needs and offer up what you think it wants. To do so teaches power what it can do.

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The fact that Mitch McConnell decided to retire (as leader) rather than endorse trump and what that indicates about the kind of fundamental ramshackle dishevelment is at play in today's Republican party *should* be getting a major share of the US political analysis, this week