Andrew Karre
@andrewkarre.bsky.social
Midwesterner. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth.
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I appreciate @andrewkarre.bsky.social for discussing this aspect of book bans so well. Teenagers think about sex and sometimes even have sex, and to pretend otherwise is both harmful and ridiculous.
Book bans often target YA titles with sexual content. In a new interview, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social editor Andrew Karre explains that these books offer teens a safe, ethical way to learn about their desires and experiences — and merit their place on library shelves. pen.org/andrew-karre...
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I appreciate @andrewkarre.bsky.social for discussing this aspect of book bans so well. Teenagers think about sex and sometimes even have sex, and to pretend otherwise is both harmful and ridiculous.
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Book bans often target YA titles with sexual content. In a new interview, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social editor Andrew Karre explains that these books offer teens a safe, ethical way to learn about their desires and experiences — and merit their place on library shelves. pen.org/andrew-karre...
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Book bans often target YA titles with sexual content. In a new interview, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social editor Andrew Karre explains that these books offer teens a safe, ethical way to learn about their desires and experiences — and merit their place on library shelves. pen.org/andrew-karre...
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This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop
#KavanaughStop
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop
#KavanaughStop
Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to people actually involved in the creation of young adult literature about this issue. It’s been a difficult few years, and we’re grateful to be heard.
Book bans often target YA titles with sexual content. In a new interview, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social editor Andrew Karre explains that these books offer teens a safe, ethical way to learn about their desires and experiences — and merit their place on library shelves. pen.org/andrew-karre...
November 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to people actually involved in the creation of young adult literature about this issue. It’s been a difficult few years, and we’re grateful to be heard.
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
"The protests I have attended have felt much more like church than a violent insurrection. There is plenty of prayer, a lot of singing and some sermons. Most of all, there is a real sense of community."—Rev. Michael Woolf.
Whatever violence occurs at protests, almost always starts with the police.
Whatever violence occurs at protests, almost always starts with the police.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The protests I have attended have felt much more like church than a violent insurrection. There is plenty of prayer, a lot of singing and some sermons. Most of all, there is a real sense of community."—Rev. Michael Woolf.
Whatever violence occurs at protests, almost always starts with the police.
Whatever violence occurs at protests, almost always starts with the police.
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Abortion, Every Day has a video of the shooting at a South Carolina Planned Parenthood. Here's what it shows. jessica.substack.com/p/shooting-p...
Breaking: Shooting at a South Carolina Planned Parenthood
An anti-abortion protester has been detained
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November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Abortion, Every Day has a video of the shooting at a South Carolina Planned Parenthood. Here's what it shows. jessica.substack.com/p/shooting-p...
"Ended up."
The ceaseless contempt for the victims of powerful, lawless men is sickening.
The ceaseless contempt for the victims of powerful, lawless men is sickening.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Ended up."
The ceaseless contempt for the victims of powerful, lawless men is sickening.
The ceaseless contempt for the victims of powerful, lawless men is sickening.
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Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
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Why Sexual Content Matters in Young Adult Literature
This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
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This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
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Why Editor Andrew Karre Can’t Imagine YA Literature Without Sexual Content
'If it became impossible to publish YA novels with sex in them, I think it would effectively become impossible to publish YA novels.'
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November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Why Sexual Content Matters in Young Adult Literature
This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
pen.org/andrew-karre...
This is such an important article from @penamerica.bsky.social. It includes a terrific interview with editor @andrewkarre.bsky.social.
Definitely worth a few minutes of your day.
pen.org/andrew-karre...
I'm grateful to PEN and to Julia Goldberg for the chance to talk about the work I get to do with authors.
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Why Editor Andrew Karre Can’t Imagine YA Literature Without Sexual Content
'If it became impossible to publish YA novels with sex in them, I think it would effectively become impossible to publish YA novels.'
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November 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I'm grateful to PEN and to Julia Goldberg for the chance to talk about the work I get to do with authors.
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Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
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This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Absolute banger of a speech from Zadie Smith that applies at least as much to America (where we treat our libraries and librarians with even more contempt).
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
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November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Absolute banger of a speech from Zadie Smith that applies at least as much to America (where we treat our libraries and librarians with even more contempt).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Negotiating" your own health insurance. 15-year car loans. 50-year mortgages.
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Negotiating" your own health insurance. 15-year car loans. 50-year mortgages.
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
Every affordability "plan" from Republicans is indistinguishable from the fever-dreams of bankruptcy law firms and the pay-day loan industry. We're about three news cycles from "who really needs two kidneys?"
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This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
Were these Dem senators in a coma last Tuesday?
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Were these Dem senators in a coma last Tuesday?
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
The government is shut down, but it’s 1986 in the White House (or whatever year Strawberry was on The Apprentice). Imagine being worried that Joe Biden was the senile one.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
Darryl Strawberry, the baseball slugger who won the World Series while with the New York Mets and Yankees, but whose career was tainted by drug use and other legal problems, received a pardon from President Trump for his three-decade-old tax evasion conviction.
Trump Pardons Darryl Strawberry, Former Mets and Yankees Slugger
The eight-time All-Star baseball player pleaded guilty in 1995 to one count of tax evasion. He was sentenced to six months of home confinement.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The government is shut down, but it’s 1986 in the White House (or whatever year Strawberry was on The Apprentice). Imagine being worried that Joe Biden was the senile one.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.
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Are we invading Poland
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Are we invading Poland
An absolutely brutal read.
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
An absolutely brutal read.
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...