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E.B. Hutchins @ebhutchins.bsky.social · 5h

I am so happy to be a part of this.

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 4h

HELL YEAH 🔥

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8h

AHHHHHHHHHHH

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you to the Ignyte Awards voters!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, hello

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 2d

Spanish "How to Report ICE" zines now available:

#Chicago
#Florida
#LosAngeles
#Marin County, CA
#Massachusetts
#NewYork
#Philadelphia
#Portland
#Sacramento, CA
#SanFrancisco
#SanDiego

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Zines en Español - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoy this interpretation and I also think it's probably true that TKAM isn't the kind of book that Moms 4 Liberty target, making this an easy book for them to defend. It's part of the problem of highlighting the books of banned book fame, instead of the books that most are attacked NOW.

Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

Mom's 4 Liberty finally realizes they are on the losing end of a 75-25 issue seeing @rweingarten.bsky.social celebrating banned books and just decide to go with, no, no, the liberals are the book banners.

moms 4 liberty tweet attacking "the left" for being the real book banners because Randi Weingarten is celebrating banned book week.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Our enemies are cowards, and we are going to defeat them.

Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

Mom's 4 Liberty finally realizes they are on the losing end of a 75-25 issue seeing @rweingarten.bsky.social celebrating banned books and just decide to go with, no, no, the liberals are the book banners.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2d

Black people - Do you have any members of your family who joined ICE? If so, what drove them to make such a horrible decision, and what is your family dynamic like?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Abo jameel @engabojameel37.bsky.social · 1d

The war is over, but we still live as if it never ended...
Tents are our only refuge, and the cold is our companion.
Today is my daughter Joan's birthday—a reminder that joy has been banished from our lives. Don't break Joan's heart🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😥😥😥
Im verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hcCSb

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

I just feel like if you get to the point where a parade of orphans doesn't rip your soul right out of your body, it's possible you are incapable of morality.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Oh great! Just a heads up Ronin has stuff in it that's definitely more mature. I wrote it for high schoolers, though I definitely know lots of younger kids (usually 4/5th grade and up) read it!

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Omg thank you! Where are you lecturing? Why Ronin?

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

That's the sound I make EVERY OCTOBER when I'm reminded that book exists

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot express the way I want this book. I lack the vocabulary.

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 2d

Jamie Raskin & Chris Houlihan have introduced a bill to require the DoD to restore books removed from military schools by the Trump Administration. It also protects DoD Education Activity schools from political interference. Tell your electeds to support it! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

www.congress.gov

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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