Elisa Stone Leahy
@elisastoneleahy.com
Peruvian-American author of middle grade books (TETHERED and MALLORY📚), library event specialist, mom to the coolest kids, vacuumer supreme for my scruffy dog 🏳️🌈🇵🇪
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U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
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Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt
Once an older white customer at the library told me how the “youngest woman” to ever give birth was six years old and he asked if I knew why that happen so I looked him straight in the eye and said “r*pe” and the man looked shocked, said well I don’t know, then told me about hormones in milk.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Once an older white customer at the library told me how the “youngest woman” to ever give birth was six years old and he asked if I knew why that happen so I looked him straight in the eye and said “r*pe” and the man looked shocked, said well I don’t know, then told me about hormones in milk.
None of my trans friends are saying that r*ping children is ok if they are slightly older children.
None of those banned queer picture bks have illustrations of teen girls perched on pedo’s knees.
None of the drag queens in storytimes are asking for sex traffickers to get luxury prison treatments.
None of those banned queer picture bks have illustrations of teen girls perched on pedo’s knees.
None of the drag queens in storytimes are asking for sex traffickers to get luxury prison treatments.
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
None of my trans friends are saying that r*ping children is ok if they are slightly older children.
None of those banned queer picture bks have illustrations of teen girls perched on pedo’s knees.
None of the drag queens in storytimes are asking for sex traffickers to get luxury prison treatments.
None of those banned queer picture bks have illustrations of teen girls perched on pedo’s knees.
None of the drag queens in storytimes are asking for sex traffickers to get luxury prison treatments.
Negotiating with terrorists who gleefully starve children seems like a bad precedent.
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Negotiating with terrorists who gleefully starve children seems like a bad precedent.
Seeing a whole lot of Dem senators rushing to get their heartfelt, “I voted no” posts up. Remember that those 8 yes votes were carefully selected bc they aren’t up for reelection. The caucus picked who would take the fall so the rest could claim to be on our side. I don’t trust any of them rn.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Seeing a whole lot of Dem senators rushing to get their heartfelt, “I voted no” posts up. Remember that those 8 yes votes were carefully selected bc they aren’t up for reelection. The caucus picked who would take the fall so the rest could claim to be on our side. I don’t trust any of them rn.
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NOT ONE CENT.
Also, and I say this with my whole chest: do not give establishment Dems a dime of your money. Not a CENT. Give that money to mutual aid, to food pantries, to your library, to the guy on your street corner. All of them will put that money to better use.
Do not give politicians your money.
Do not give politicians your money.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
NOT ONE CENT.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this plot line…
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I’ve got a bad feeling about this plot line…
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berkeley and raleigh are sold out, but: come hang out with me in these other cities!! us.macmillan.com/tours/alix-e...
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
berkeley and raleigh are sold out, but: come hang out with me in these other cities!! us.macmillan.com/tours/alix-e...
This is so disturbing. Every American should be asking why. This is so far outside of anyone’s ability to defend as reasonable. Even people who think ICE is somehow doing good work (???) can’t possibly believe they need to stockpile war weapons.
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is so disturbing. Every American should be asking why. This is so far outside of anyone’s ability to defend as reasonable. Even people who think ICE is somehow doing good work (???) can’t possibly believe they need to stockpile war weapons.
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
If you are looking for a fun read this Indigenous People’s Day, try an alternate history where Atahualpa discovers Europe. My nerdy little Peruvian heart was continuously delighted reading Civilizations, then I got mad when it ended. 
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you are looking for a fun read this Indigenous People’s Day, try an alternate history where Atahualpa discovers Europe. My nerdy little Peruvian heart was continuously delighted reading Civilizations, then I got mad when it ended. 
I am so delighted and honored and humbled and flabbergasted 😭🥰🤩
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy! @elisastoneleahy.com🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I am so delighted and honored and humbled and flabbergasted 😭🥰🤩
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The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
October 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
Come listen to @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social and I talk about this fabulous anthology, Banned Together, during Banned Books Week @columbuslibrary.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Come listen to @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social and I talk about this fabulous anthology, Banned Together, during Banned Books Week @columbuslibrary.bsky.social
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A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:
I just unlocked a new level of rage.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
I just unlocked a new level of rage.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out
Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."
www.npr.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:
I just unlocked a new level of rage.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
I just unlocked a new level of rage.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Lately, instead of counting 25 seconds for my daily plank and V sit I’ve been reciting Snyder’s lessons on Tyranny. Trying to get to where I can do 10 in the morning at 10 at night.
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Lately, instead of counting 25 seconds for my daily plank and V sit I’ve been reciting Snyder’s lessons on Tyranny. Trying to get to where I can do 10 in the morning at 10 at night.
I want more Maria Ressa content! Listening to those who have lived through this (and the worse that follows) feels like sanity. I’m glad I’m not the only one, even if I have to wait!
September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I want more Maria Ressa content! Listening to those who have lived through this (and the worse that follows) feels like sanity. I’m glad I’m not the only one, even if I have to wait!
If my tax dollars are funding funerals for the victims of gun violence, might I make a friendly suggestion that it go to the children murdered at school rather than the millionaire? Seems more practical…
September 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If my tax dollars are funding funerals for the victims of gun violence, might I make a friendly suggestion that it go to the children murdered at school rather than the millionaire? Seems more practical…
I use squarespace and I emailed their help center reporting this doxxing website as a security risk. See more in this thread. People WILL be targeted by this website.
We need your help. There is a new doxxing site circulating. A domain just registered through Namecheap (on Sept 10, 2025) and hosted on Squarespace is being used to publish private personal information.
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I use squarespace and I emailed their help center reporting this doxxing website as a security risk. See more in this thread. People WILL be targeted by this website.
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These are very easy things to say:
I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator.
I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
Please let's choose love over fear.
I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator.
I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
Please let's choose love over fear.
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
These are very easy things to say:
I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator.
I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
Please let's choose love over fear.
I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator.
I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
Please let's choose love over fear.
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My new approach to spam texts.
September 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My new approach to spam texts.