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Book Advent #20: Y/N by Esther Yi is an insightful profile into obsession featuring a young woman adrift in life until she finds herself obsessed with a K-pop idol. I delighted in the prose and the unexpected plot turns. This book kept me on my toes.
Y/N: A Novel
A Novel
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December 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Book Advent #20: Y/N by Esther Yi is an insightful profile into obsession featuring a young woman adrift in life until she finds herself obsessed with a K-pop idol. I delighted in the prose and the unexpected plot turns. This book kept me on my toes.
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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
Book Advent #19: "I Want to Burn This Place Down" by @maris.bsky.social is an essay collection about personal political journey that deeply resonated with me. I think it's important to identify the social forces that shape how we perceive the world -- both the propaganda and the reality.
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
Essays
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December 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Book Advent #19: "I Want to Burn This Place Down" by @maris.bsky.social is an essay collection about personal political journey that deeply resonated with me. I think it's important to identify the social forces that shape how we perceive the world -- both the propaganda and the reality.
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oh look a real unemployment problem
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
oh look a real unemployment problem
Book Advent #18: "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" by @jessicacalarco.com is a bracing, impassioned look at the broken safety net in the United States and how it dramatically increases the burden on women.
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
How Women Became America's Safety Net
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December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Book Advent #18: "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" by @jessicacalarco.com is a bracing, impassioned look at the broken safety net in the United States and how it dramatically increases the burden on women.
Book Advent #17: "The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred" by @chanda.blacksky.app is a brilliant book not just about physics and astronomy but about the social/human context of those fields. I wish all science books were like this!
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Book Advent #17: "The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred" by @chanda.blacksky.app is a brilliant book not just about physics and astronomy but about the social/human context of those fields. I wish all science books were like this!
Book Advent #16: Homeseeking by @karissachen.bsky.social is a wonderful exploration of identity and how the vicissitudes of life shape it. The book plays with dialect and temporal POV in subtle and interesting ways.
Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick
Check out Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick - <b>A <i>GOOD MORNING AMERICA</i> BOOK CLUB PICK<br><br>“<i>Homeseeking</i> is about the love of home and family, even against unimaginable circumsta...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Book Advent #16: Homeseeking by @karissachen.bsky.social is a wonderful exploration of identity and how the vicissitudes of life shape it. The book plays with dialect and temporal POV in subtle and interesting ways.
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Love to see an institution protect the vulnerable rather than grovel before this vile president.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
December 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Love to see an institution protect the vulnerable rather than grovel before this vile president.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
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In her upcoming book, The Edge of Space-Time, 2022 award winner @chanda.blacksky.app embraces cosmic wonder and draws on poetry and pop culture to take readers on a mind-altering journey to the boundaries of the universe. 🌌
Available for preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... #scicomm
Available for preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... #scicomm
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In her upcoming book, The Edge of Space-Time, 2022 award winner @chanda.blacksky.app embraces cosmic wonder and draws on poetry and pop culture to take readers on a mind-altering journey to the boundaries of the universe. 🌌
Available for preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... #scicomm
Available for preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... #scicomm
Book Advent #15: "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover" by Prof. Lerone A Martin is a fascinating and disturbing exploration of the way Hoover's FBI promoted White Christian Nationalism. I found it compelling and eye-opening.
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
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December 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Book Advent #15: "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover" by Prof. Lerone A Martin is a fascinating and disturbing exploration of the way Hoover's FBI promoted White Christian Nationalism. I found it compelling and eye-opening.
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NEW! The Shakedown: How Trump's DOJ pressured lawyers to 'find' evidence that UCLA had illegally tolerated antisemitism. by me and @KatherineMangan w/ @chronicle.com
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
NEW! The Shakedown: How Trump's DOJ pressured lawyers to 'find' evidence that UCLA had illegally tolerated antisemitism. by me and @KatherineMangan w/ @chronicle.com
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
Book Advent Day 15: "The President and the Frog" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social is an elegant novel exploring the power of stories and how to hold on to humanity. I found it tender, poignant, and ruminative.
The President and the Frog
Check out The President and the Frog - <b>A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, <i>New ...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Book Advent Day 15: "The President and the Frog" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social is an elegant novel exploring the power of stories and how to hold on to humanity. I found it tender, poignant, and ruminative.
Book Advent Day 14: "They Were Her Property" by Prof. Stephanie Jones-Rogers is brilliant in both exploring/exposing the role of White women in US slavery but also the use of methods for teasing out the difference between the law on paper vs in practice.
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Book Advent Day 14: "They Were Her Property" by Prof. Stephanie Jones-Rogers is brilliant in both exploring/exposing the role of White women in US slavery but also the use of methods for teasing out the difference between the law on paper vs in practice.
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"The watchlist is not a little sunglasses icon. It is a scope with someone’s sight that you would think of on a gun for precision. That to me is terrifying. It is threatening. You don’t have to be very far between the lines, between figuring out what a watchlist might mean."
A conversation with Wellesley’s only professor on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist
Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist” drew a surge of attention following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, on Sept. 10, prompting professors on the list to brac...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"The watchlist is not a little sunglasses icon. It is a scope with someone’s sight that you would think of on a gun for precision. That to me is terrifying. It is threatening. You don’t have to be very far between the lines, between figuring out what a watchlist might mean."
Book Advent #13: "Freedom's Laboratory" by @audrajwolfe.bsky.social confronts how "scientific freedom" was a deliberate Cold War strategy by the US government. I found it nuanced and challenging but ultimately highly valuable.
Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
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December 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Book Advent #13: "Freedom's Laboratory" by @audrajwolfe.bsky.social confronts how "scientific freedom" was a deliberate Cold War strategy by the US government. I found it nuanced and challenging but ultimately highly valuable.
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Here is a great list of some of the best books about Black history published in 2025. 🗃️ www.aaihs.org/the-best-bla...
The Best Black History Books of 2025 - AAIHS
We are pleased to release this year’s AAIHS list of the best books published in 2025! Check out this extraordinary list of great books from 2025 that offer varied historical perspectives on the Black ...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Here is a great list of some of the best books about Black history published in 2025. 🗃️ www.aaihs.org/the-best-bla...
Book Advent #12: "American by Birth" by @cnacken1.bsky.social and @jnovkov.bsky.social is both essential history and depressingly relevant at this moment. It traces the history of the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark which established automatic birthright citizenship in the United States.
American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship
Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship
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December 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Book Advent #12: "American by Birth" by @cnacken1.bsky.social and @jnovkov.bsky.social is both essential history and depressingly relevant at this moment. It traces the history of the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark which established automatic birthright citizenship in the United States.
Book Advent #11: "The Rock Eaters" by @brendapeynado.bsky.social is a delightful collection of mostly speculative stories. I have a new addition to my list of favorite short stories ever in "Kite Maker" but there are so many other weird and wonderful gems here to savor.
The Rock Eaters: Stories
Stories
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December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Book Advent #11: "The Rock Eaters" by @brendapeynado.bsky.social is a delightful collection of mostly speculative stories. I have a new addition to my list of favorite short stories ever in "Kite Maker" but there are so many other weird and wonderful gems here to savor.
Book Advent #10: "Some of My Best Friends" by @tajjaisen.bsky.social is a sharp essay collection exploring law, art, and more while navigating racism and nationalism.
Some of My Best Friends: And Other White Lies I've Been Told
And Other White Lies I've Been Told
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December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Book Advent #10: "Some of My Best Friends" by @tajjaisen.bsky.social is a sharp essay collection exploring law, art, and more while navigating racism and nationalism.
Book Advent #9: "Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea" by @rchetypes.bsky.social is about the real life pirate Shek Yeung with speculative/weird elements. Featuring gorgeous writing, this novel meditates on the effects of power and the efforts to cling to it. And another cover from @yukoart.bsky.social!
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
Check out Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea - <p><b>A Good Morning America Buzz Pick<br></b><br><b>The dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from ...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Book Advent #9: "Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea" by @rchetypes.bsky.social is about the real life pirate Shek Yeung with speculative/weird elements. Featuring gorgeous writing, this novel meditates on the effects of power and the efforts to cling to it. And another cover from @yukoart.bsky.social!
Book Advent #8: Bog Queen by @annanorth.bsky.social is a lovely story told in parallel about two women who live akimbo to the norms placed on them. There's also a third POV which scratches my itch for the mysterious and profound.
Bog Queen: A Novel
A Novel
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December 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Book Advent #8: Bog Queen by @annanorth.bsky.social is a lovely story told in parallel about two women who live akimbo to the norms placed on them. There's also a third POV which scratches my itch for the mysterious and profound.
Book Advent #7: "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning" by @cathyparkhong.bsky.social is a captivating blend of lyrical prose and sharp social insights.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
An Asian American Reckoning
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December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Book Advent #7: "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning" by @cathyparkhong.bsky.social is a captivating blend of lyrical prose and sharp social insights.
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
Book Advent #5: "Exhibit" by @rokwon.bsky.social is one of those books that just burrows its way into your skin through the power of its language. I loved just letting it take me over.
Exhibit: A Novel
A Novel
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December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Book Advent #5: "Exhibit" by @rokwon.bsky.social is one of those books that just burrows its way into your skin through the power of its language. I loved just letting it take me over.