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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 8h
Alex this has been such a useful framework for kidlit and they’re gonna do that whole right-wing de-wording tap dance over it, I am livid
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 9h
Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another inspiring piece by @sulliview.bsky.social “All of these developments makes it even more important that legitimate news organizations do their job as well as possible, with our democracy hanging in the balance. Let’s keep pushing for it.” margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...
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How you can demand better media coverage as the midterms loom
Examples of what is working and what must stop. Plus: some great reporting and two scary developments
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Red Sox @redsox.com · 11h
What a day to be a Boston sports fan!
TEXT: Good Luck Boston Bruins
IMAGE: Photo of Morgan Geekie throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park with teammates standing in the infield behind him.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h
I may be coming off as a party pooper, but is there any fear that these polls are herding or might be getting overheated? Because the results will either show a total massacre for Republicans or an embarrassment for polling
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Jon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 14h
Questions: is there a political deal between City Hall & community leaders, or is the mayor's vague reference this summer to "legal issues with reinstallation" real? City Hall still seems to lack the imagination to see how terrible the Mayor will look if someone is killed or badly hurt here
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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So much this! We increasingly talk about college as workforce readiness, and not an opportunity to learn, and that's the only scenario in which getting credits "out of the way" early makes sense. But a lot of us actually want to learn! Why would you "reward" learners by taking away learning?
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026
ok the $5 bills are fun but that drop in GOP who strongly approve of Trump is the one I am like 👀 because I doubt most will vote dem but HOW MANY JUST WON'T VOTE no one knows but oh boy
the % of republicans who strongly approve of Trump has gone from 71% to 47% and also Harry is waving around a fist full of $5s
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
but seriously you can’t really study history without studying science and engineering because. even if you just stick to military history; the history of war is a history of logistics and guess what that involves. boats and roads.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026
Despite the tension between President Trump and the media outlets he’s trying to ban, including CNN, a network camera crew is filming his public events. A judge temporarily restored CNN’s access, but the White House has not allowed it in the TV pool.
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Are the TV networks still covering Trump? It’s complicated.
A judge has temporarily restored CNN’s access, but the White House has not allowed the network to serve in its rotational spot as TV pooler.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
George W. Bush had plenty of opportunities to speak up. January 6th. The January 6th Committee. Trump’s return to power. Mostly silence. But now he’s stepping back into politics to help Republican senators get reelected? Yeah. I have some thoughts.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Who Polishes the Brass at Grand Central?” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Who Polishes the Brass at Grand Central?
The station has more than 7,000 linear feet of brass surfaces. The job of keeping them shiny never ends.
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Julie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The entire point of the exercise is to antagonise people. To have another good scratch at the old wounds before they heal for good. It must not be allowed to succeed. The Orange Order need to see they are a diminishing minority who have no friends even in the communities they claim as their own.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The thought of being able to get to Chicago on a train in ~6 hours is absolutely fucking unfathomable and would be life-changing
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who is paying for this? How is that money filtering down in such a way that CNN / Variety etc keep doing stories on it? That would be a very interesting story!
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"i live in new york and i will never get rid of my car because i need to be able to go directly from my house to wherever i want, whenever i want" go live literally anywhere else that caters to your specific brain disease
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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌊 The Odyssey craze continues! THE ODYSSEY: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds is a national Indie Bestseller for another week!! Congratulations, Gareth! 🎉 @garethhinds.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social
THE ODYSSEY is still a national indie bestseller!
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Burnside Gooch @burnsidegooch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I’m an Old (my birth year starts with a 19), but I miss when recordings were released and not dropped.
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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The tri-state region has its eyes on this season’s first nor'easter. John Davitt, chief meteorologist for @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social, tells us about the conditions to expect, what makes it a "nor’easter," and how to prepare. Listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
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How to Prepare for the Nor’easter | WNYC
The tri-state region has its eyes on this season’s first nor'easter.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Utah Valley Univ “repeatedly tried to raise security concerns ahead of Charlie Kirk’s appearance on campus last year. “But Kirk’s team brushed those warnings off.” His organization “insisted on having it in the open campus courtyard” despite the school’s warnings. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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New report: Utah Valley University tried to warn Charlie Kirk’s staff of risks, but team ignored concerns
UVU’s police chief had texted Charlie Kirk’s private security adviser to meet about final safety measures for the event. That meeting “did not occur,” according to the independent review.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026
They can go fuck themselves
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026
People perennially underestimate the romance genre.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Frost || 3D Models & Reviews @3dfrost.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Kaitensatsuma @kaitensatsuma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dare I fucking ask whatever the fresh hell "Asking a lady to wear pantyhose" is supposed to mean?
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have notes. (1) Why dress up a PR release as an interview? Why take any of this at face value when there’s so much to dig into? (2) Related: “WHY AREN’T THERE MORE GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS” should immediately disqualify you from conducting any kind of comics-related “interview.”
Screencap from “Novvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI Assistance” by Ed Nawotka for Publishers Weekly, accessed 9/23/2026. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/101260-novvel-co-pioneers-producing-graphic-novels-with-ai-assistance.html


We came together around the question of how to make reading exciting again in a world of declining attention spans. We spent a lot of time talking to teachers and parents, and looked at literacy data, which shows the biggest drop in reading tends to happen right around the grade level when kids are also getting their first phones, typically middle school.

We landed on the hypothesis that a graphic novel is the ideal format to bring people back to reading, not just reluctant readers.

[Question] Why isn't there more graphic-novel content already, if the format works so well?

[Answer] Production is expensive and slow. The average production cost of a graphic novel runs somewhere between $20,000 and $50,000, and it typically takes 12 to 18 months. Most small publishers and authors don't have that kind of capital to spend on a bet, and even large publishers that do have it have to be very selective about what they commit it to.

[Question] Walk me through what the platform actually does.

[Answer] You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60-70% of a finished product.

Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely Al-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans wrecked the free market with tariffs and another stupid war and are now looking for government intervention and bailouts to fix the problem but the Democrats are communists.
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ at 25: A Conversation with Author Ann Brashares and Editor Wendy Loggia buff.ly/DMsBAeO
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 25/09/2026
Why is a car with New Jersey plates and a New York State-issued parking placard parked in a “Judges only” parking space in Lower Manhattan when only New York State residents can be judges? It’s a mystery for sure — but don’t expect any actual officials to care enough to solve it. buff.ly/m860opJ
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Corruption In Plain Sight: Why Does This New Jersey Resident Have A New York Judge's Placard? - Streetsblog New York City
It's a mystery for sure — but don't expect any actual officials to care enough to solve it for you. We tried.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A story about a Nashville charter school removing numerous books from the library made the rounds a couple of weeks ago. There has yet to be a single source confirming this. Here's a piece about checking your sources and how mis- and dis- info flourish in this era. bookriot.com/how-to-check...
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How to Check Your Sources: Book Censorship News, September 25, 2026
The work that goes into a censorship link roundup isn't just collecting links. It's checking sources–here's how to do it, too.
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Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The graphic novel adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak is powerful. My wife and I created the official teacher guide on how to use it in your classroom. www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/teachers-gui...
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just want these guys to fix the search engines they ruined. Is that too much to ask?
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GHWubsNet @ghwubs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TV costs too DAMN MUCH NOW. #GH Maybe going back to stupid cable and fk streaming
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Spongebob Drops Diving Helmet
ALT: Spongebob Drops Diving Helmet
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Jon Campbell @joncampbellny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In an interview with @brigidbergin.bsky.social, Gov. Hochul came to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's defense, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "not telling the truth" about his stance on Hamas. gothamist.com/news/ny-gov-...
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NY Gov. Hochul: Benjamin Netanyahu 'not telling the truth' about Zohran Mamdani
Hochul made the comments on the new WNYC pop-up politics show, "Who's Running This Place?"
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over the past months, I've seen a lot of headlines/news coverage written like this: "WH does [fill in the blank] *despite* court order." No! It is *in violation* of the court order. "Despite" makes it seem like their choice. It is not!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Washington Sun: Sen. Maggie Hassan is asking the U.S. Secret Service how the reported diversion of more than $350 million dollars from its budget to Trump's ballroom has impacted the service's operations.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This guy!!!!!!!!!!!
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not the kind to say it all points back to a single historical episode, but so much of what Trump is doing with ballroom & Kennedy Center—the wanton destruction, the callous indifference to the past—was evident when he destroyed Bonwit Teller's irreplaceable sculptures nearly a half-century ago
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026
Just ban these evil companies already.
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Senator Andrew Zwicker @andrewzwicker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to The Librarians on a well-deserved Emmy win! This film wouldn’t have been possible without the powerful story of North Hunterdon High School librarian Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2026
Jim Acosta has already been through a White House press-pass fight. Now, three news organizations are barred, and he says the press is showing solidarity that should have come sooner. n.pr/3TepIpi
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A journalist once barred from the White House says this media ban is different
Jim Acosta has already been through a White House press-pass fight. Now, three news organizations are barred, and he says the press is showing solidarity that should have come sooner.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And yet here we are 6 years into this same tired discussion, forgetting the whole DEMOCRACY piece of this.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.
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