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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Literature takes both writers and readers to create meaning. And anyone watching Superman today knows what country Boravia stands for in this moment. Yes, there is good and evil in the world: occupation and genocide are evil. It's that simple

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?

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Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos) Woody Guthrie

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My middle child, who has worked for four years in the University of Oregon library, is ON STRIKE with thousands of other student workers, and I'm so proud! U of O isn't bargaining in good faith--hasn't even agreed to arbitration for harassment & discrimination. Tell the university what you think!

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm not a Catholic, but I married one & attended mass for 10 yrs. Today, we've lost a great & humble leader who understood Jesus' radical message: love for all, 'including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands'. Pope Francis--¡Presente!

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If you love books and are in Delhi, you don't want to miss this... Annie Zaidi is an important writer, and she's launching her book at @tclp.bsky.social because she loves libraries! Register: forms.gle/7FYXoBYYhqnH...

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This fundraiser is focused on making sure seniors have the space, access & resources they need to be full participants in TCLP libraries... ...and when young people see seniors in libraries, they learn to expect a lifetime of reading--please help! www.thecommunitylibraryproject.org/donate-to-us/

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

There's so much bad news in the world, and then there are these three free libraries in Delhi where everyone & all ideas are welcome. We're not great at raising money, but we really do need your help, and we promise we'll put it to good use! Please donate today!

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If the current economic order runs up against the limits it seems to be approaching (i.e., over-production; falling rate of profit; environmental catastrophe; rising world unemployment) rich liberals will have to choose: wealth and power or freedom & justice. Jeff Bezos made his choice clear today

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Let's forget the theory and political analysis for a moment and look on the bright side: DOGE's 'What did you do last week' email just reminded American workers that Elon Musk is the kind of boss we all snicker at bc they are such colossal, clueless *jerks*.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Starlink should be owned by the U.S. public as a government agency vital for national security. Expropriate it now.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Musk/Trump/NYT is going to call firing IRS agents savings, but the lost revenue will be many times their salaries: this all about making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

'Stated otherwise, for every hour of work at a given skill level, Northern workers are able to consume 8–19x more of the global product than Southern workers...' Yep, rich countries rip off the Global South, but tourists from the North still love to complain about how Delhi auto walas 'cheat'.

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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Sunday L💙VE for Libraries is real! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @tashanmehta.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

The image is a poster with several elements.
On a blue background, there are several elements of a flyer.
There is a photograph of a person looking at camera.
Below that, the person’s name, and a description:
Tashan Mehta
Author
Next to it is this text:
For a donation of ₹5000 to the Free Libraries Network, I am offering a one-on-one chat with me. We can discuss my work / your work / writing in general – you pick!
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.

We can talk about my work and writing practice, or any potential issues you're currently facing in your writing practice, or writing in general – it's up to you. I will not be able to read your work (before or after the session) or give you feedback, but I can chat with you artist to artist. I am best versed with novels.

Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical. Her second novel, Mad Sisters of Esi, won the 2024 AutHer Award for Best Novel as well as the 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Award for Best Fantasy, and was on the 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her first novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Kaitan’s Woman’s Voice Award. She can be found at tashanmehta.com.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all.
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Library Love (14–28 February)
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.

The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.

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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A new week for library L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Shabnam Minwalla is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

I am on the verge of submitting a big young adult book and starting a new middle-grade book. I can name a character after anyone that the donor requests (in either of these books) and also sign a copy and write a message to that person.

Shabnam Minwalla is a Mumbaiholic, an ardent saree shopper, a murder-mystery buff and an occasionally frazzled mother of three. She’s spent all her life with words – working as a journalist with The Times of India, writing non-fiction about Mumbai and fiction for children and young adults. Her popular books include Zen, Saira Zariwala is Afraid, Murder at Daisy Apartments and When Jiya Met Urmila. She has won numerous awards, including the AutHer Award, the Neev Book Award, the Valley of Words Award, the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize and the Binod Kanoria Award.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Important read: We all want to believe that a social democracy could heal the world. Hickel explains why that's likely not possible. (Anyone watching the underemployment in S. Asia must suspect the problem's bigger than corruption or mismanagement. But there are signs of this in the US as well.)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

No longer hiding exploitation behind the mask of 'free trade', US is getting back to the basics w/ old school Imperialism. (It's an extension of Biden's Palestine policy. US elites understand current economic order is failing; economic nationalism is a desperate, short-term fix.) wapo.st/40ZiEwv

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Ukraine rejects initial Trump request for half its mineral wealth

Ukraine is hoping to reach a deal on a counter-offer, but the opening proposal rippled through European diplomatic circles not only for its audacity but because the war-ravaged country appears ready t...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This baby screaming on the Q train speaks for us all.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Two thought's about Trump's press conference with Modi: 1) Trump says US will sell India “many billions of dollars” of military hardware: once again, US state capitalism pushing bombs when what we need is libraries, parks, rural hospitals, renewable energy infrastructure...

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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The absolutely fabulous @freelibsnet.bsky.social and a host of storyteller stars are coming up with some really cool offers, starting tomorrow. Follow them, and please share this post. 👇

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Jamie Merchant’s ‘Endgame, Economic Nationalism & Global Decline' (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social) was a gift from my eldest daughter, so I knew it'd be good. It’s changed my understanding of the world in a way few books do. No easy answers, but we have to understand what we're up against. #left #books

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Just had a super creepy AI moment. I was chatting with GTP4 about economic ideas emerging from Jamie Merchant's 'Endgame' (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social)-a little classic economic theory; Marx's concepts of the falling rate of profit and surplus value; Universal Basic Income; etc. 1/

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There’s not enough progressive thinking about big tech’s use of AI tools to replace human workers. Elon Musk’s attack on the federal workforce reminds us this is an urgent problem. (And no, copyright lawsuits won't fix it) 1/8

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I think Trump's on the right track, going the wrong way when it comes to this 'make Canada the 51st state' thing. Given how much most folks in the US hate our healthcare system, I think we'd all be happier if we could convince #Canada to make us their 11th province.

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Nilesh @nileshb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It is #LifttoSky Monday and I’m revisiting New Delhi Love Songs by @mocreighton.bsky.social :) As someone who grew up with Gujarati and Hindi poetry, English poems had never worked for me until I came across this a few years ago. So gentle, beautiful, simple. Do give it a try, if you haven’t!

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Proud to be part of the free library movement in India. I think @edrabinski.bsky.social says it best: Win the Library, Win the World!

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Best book of my reading year, so far

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Nilesh @nileshb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@mocreighton.bsky.social feels a nice coincidence that just yesterday I took out your book to read again, and today I saw the notification that you followed me :)

Photo of a hardcover poetry book New Delhi Love Songs, by Michael Creighton.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

There'll be time for outrage against Trump. But for now, all I can feel is outrage against Biden. He could have had a cease-fire a year ago when South Africa presented its case for genocide. Instead, he kept shipping baby killing bombs. #Shame on you, #GenocideJoe. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Trump's Mideast envoy forced Netanyahu to accept a Gaza plan he repeatedly rejected

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I kept waiting for words like 'genocide', 'war crimes', 'ICC', 'apartheid'... @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social what happened? If this is the 'age of monsters', and you have a monster on your show, aren't you obliged to at least *ask* about the monstrous things?

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It was cold and rainy in Corvallis, Oregon this winter when I visited home, but the weekly protest against the genocide in Palestine is still going strong... 1/2

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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 13/01/2025

I vehemently disagree with most of this, especially the bit about the Laken Riley Act. That is the most moderate thing I can say about this post.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Until the Voting Rights Act at least I don't think US can claim to have been any kind of real democracy. This 'oldest democracy' line is cliched American exceptionalism propaganda. We get it from right and left and it makes me sick.

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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

For this still(-kinda)-shiny-new-year, I suggest you follow the amazing @freelibsnet.bsky.social and two of its members who are here too, @tclp.bsky.social & @bansalibrary.bsky.social, and three of the people steering it, @purnima.bsky.social, @mridulakoshy.bsky.social, & @mocreighton.bsky.social.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Extraordinary interview on transformative power of libraries and reading. We need an international, internationalist movement for free libraries!

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

WaPo devoted page 1 space to tell us what a great guy Brian Thompson was & how much he cared. Maybe so, but UnitedHealth earned $22 BILLION in profit last year by denying claims & over-charging customers. That's a 'capitalism' problem not an 'image' one: Profit in healthcare is bad for our health.

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Mridula Koshy (she/her) @mridulakoshy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I interviewed @edrabinski.bsky.social for Scroll.

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Bansa Community Library @bansalibrary.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Stories read together are special. Pictured here are a majority of girls who frequent our library. We promote peer learning apart from structured studies so as to make well rounded individuals who can think for themselves. #ReadingIsThinking #RightToRead

A group of children, predominantly girls, sit closely together on simple green metal benches with open books spread out before them. They are engrossed in reading and discussing, fostering a sense of peer learning. The setting is outdoors, with a lush, blooming garden of pink periwinkle flowers lining the ground in the foreground. A weathered brick wall runs along the left side, while a bright yellow building with a blue doorway stands in the background, adding warmth and vibrancy to the scene. The overall ambiance reflects an engaging and inclusive learning environment, encouraging collaboration and exploration through reading.

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Michael Creighton @mocreighton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

If there were as many corporate shootings as school shootings in the US, just imagine what gun control laws would look like. #UnitedHealthcare #LuigiMangione

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The Community Library Project @tclp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Books are not locked behind glass shelves in our libraries. For the youngest of our members. We are building. #PalacesForThePeople. DK says YES to #PalacesForThePeople. You should too. DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ youtu.be/_fVh2q6Ac4c

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DK : Palaces For The People

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Class war didn’t start with us.

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The Community Library Project @tclp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

When the jester speaks, all shall listen. All around the world the commons are shrinking. We are building. #PalacesForThePeople. Varun says YES to #PalacesForThePeople. You should too. DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ @varungrover.bsky.social youtu.be/xpQ19Zd8JLs?...

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Varun Grover : Palaces For The People

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