Julia McCarthy
@thejumbles.bsky.social
Senior Editor at S&S Atheneum by day, purveyor of dad jokes by night, eternal sea hag. My tweets are my own. she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Avatar by the wonderful Tanya J. Scott
http://bit.ly/juliambooks
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They are testing boundaries. We cannot let them get away with it.
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
They are testing boundaries. We cannot let them get away with it.
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NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
![The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreicwqv4vszkknu4dvsdfhmrzzmtscjx5eg64gykfmrgynrnhup6sai@jpeg)
May 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Conclave is done again
All things go, all things go
Pope from Chicago
All things know, all things know
All things go, all things go
Pope from Chicago
All things know, all things know
May 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Conclave is done again
All things go, all things go
Pope from Chicago
All things know, all things know
All things go, all things go
Pope from Chicago
All things know, all things know
A pope? Named Leo?
a woman is sitting in front of a wall of pictures and says groundbreaking .
ALT: a woman is sitting in front of a wall of pictures and says groundbreaking .
media.tenor.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A pope? Named Leo?
Okay but what if I got a full back tattoo of Mon Mothma??
May 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Okay but what if I got a full back tattoo of Mon Mothma??
It’s a good day to fight the Empire.
May 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It’s a good day to fight the Empire.
If you hear someone weeping in the Hall of Biodiversity at the AMNH, that’s just me having a mini breakdown because we are killing our one and only beautiful, miraculous planet
May 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If you hear someone weeping in the Hall of Biodiversity at the AMNH, that’s just me having a mini breakdown because we are killing our one and only beautiful, miraculous planet
Feeling very spiritually aligned with this gif today
April 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Feeling very spiritually aligned with this gif today
Important: There is a man on the subway with a toy dragon draped over his shoulder and there’s still a little magic in this world
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Important: There is a man on the subway with a toy dragon draped over his shoulder and there’s still a little magic in this world
My review of Sinners:
- Let Ryan Coogler do whatever the hell he wants always and forever
- Wunmi Mosaku is the most beautiful human being on the planet???
Transcendent.
- Let Ryan Coogler do whatever the hell he wants always and forever
- Wunmi Mosaku is the most beautiful human being on the planet???
Transcendent.
April 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My review of Sinners:
- Let Ryan Coogler do whatever the hell he wants always and forever
- Wunmi Mosaku is the most beautiful human being on the planet???
Transcendent.
- Let Ryan Coogler do whatever the hell he wants always and forever
- Wunmi Mosaku is the most beautiful human being on the planet???
Transcendent.
After decades of dealing with migraines, I have come to a very important conclusion. I hope this advice reaches those in need:
Don’t get migraines.
Don’t get migraines.
April 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
After decades of dealing with migraines, I have come to a very important conclusion. I hope this advice reaches those in need:
Don’t get migraines.
Don’t get migraines.
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There are so many people earnestly doing good and beautiful things in this country—artists, teachers, scientists, public servants. Sometimes I feel like my heart is exploding to see all their efforts so carelessly dismantled and stripped for parts
April 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There are so many people earnestly doing good and beautiful things in this country—artists, teachers, scientists, public servants. Sometimes I feel like my heart is exploding to see all their efforts so carelessly dismantled and stripped for parts
Just putting it out there that I love pigeons and would love to acquire a picture book about them!
April 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just putting it out there that I love pigeons and would love to acquire a picture book about them!
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Happy paperback book birthday to @devafagan.bsky.social's fabulous MG fantasy novel A Game of Noctis! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
I love everything Deva writes in both the MG and adult fantasy genres.
I love everything Deva writes in both the MG and adult fantasy genres.
A Game of Noctis
A thrilling middle grade fantasy about a girl who must …
www.goodreads.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Happy paperback book birthday to @devafagan.bsky.social's fabulous MG fantasy novel A Game of Noctis! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
I love everything Deva writes in both the MG and adult fantasy genres.
I love everything Deva writes in both the MG and adult fantasy genres.
I don’t want to dignify anything that worm-brained quack says, but boy howdy he can fully fuck right off.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I don’t want to dignify anything that worm-brained quack says, but boy howdy he can fully fuck right off.
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Disappearing humans without any form of due process is fascism and authoritarianism.
Trafficking humans without any form of due process is fascism and authoritarianism.
MAGA supports this.
MAGA craves this.
We are not going to change hearts and minds.
We. Are. Not.
Resist this regime.
Trafficking humans without any form of due process is fascism and authoritarianism.
MAGA supports this.
MAGA craves this.
We are not going to change hearts and minds.
We. Are. Not.
Resist this regime.
April 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Disappearing humans without any form of due process is fascism and authoritarianism.
Trafficking humans without any form of due process is fascism and authoritarianism.
MAGA supports this.
MAGA craves this.
We are not going to change hearts and minds.
We. Are. Not.
Resist this regime.
Trafficking humans without any form of due process is fascism and authoritarianism.
MAGA supports this.
MAGA craves this.
We are not going to change hearts and minds.
We. Are. Not.
Resist this regime.
Cool cool cool Mike Flanagan and Stephen King have got me tearing up over a dang trailer—I am fully seated and ready to get punched in the heart by The Life of Chuck!
April 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Cool cool cool Mike Flanagan and Stephen King have got me tearing up over a dang trailer—I am fully seated and ready to get punched in the heart by The Life of Chuck!
It just makes so much sense for April to be Poetry Month—everything is blossoming
April 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It just makes so much sense for April to be Poetry Month—everything is blossoming
I think my favorite name for any business ever is Tiger Schulmann's Martial Arts.
March 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I think my favorite name for any business ever is Tiger Schulmann's Martial Arts.
Look, I love every single book that I work on, but what Deva’s got coming up next is EXCEPTIONAL—I’d recommend it for every single kind of reader at any age. It’s brave, insightful, gorgeously imaginative, and utterly necessary ✨
This morning I'm working on line edits for The Delta Codex (my next MG book, coming in spring 2026) and feeling enormously grateful for my beloved MG editor @thejumbles.bsky.social who is wise, brave, insightful, and always pushes me to dig deep and make my stories the best they can be!
March 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Look, I love every single book that I work on, but what Deva’s got coming up next is EXCEPTIONAL—I’d recommend it for every single kind of reader at any age. It’s brave, insightful, gorgeously imaginative, and utterly necessary ✨
Every single person on this planet should be watching Adolescence. We have a severe male loneliness/incel epidemic and we need to figure this shit out.
March 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Every single person on this planet should be watching Adolescence. We have a severe male loneliness/incel epidemic and we need to figure this shit out.
Sundays are for editing and Tangerine Dream, and when I tell you that @devafagan.bsky.social has something delicious up her sleeve, boyyyyy howdy is it GOOD!!! Today’s vibes are immaculate ✨
March 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Sundays are for editing and Tangerine Dream, and when I tell you that @devafagan.bsky.social has something delicious up her sleeve, boyyyyy howdy is it GOOD!!! Today’s vibes are immaculate ✨
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This is so wonderful!! 😭💖🦇
#KidLitUK #AmaraAndTheBats
@simonkids.bsky.social @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @thejumbles.bsky.social
#KidLitUK #AmaraAndTheBats
@simonkids.bsky.social @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @thejumbles.bsky.social
This morning our 5yo said we were doing “art club”. So we’re copying the covers of her favourite books, including #AmaraAndTheBats by @emmaillustrate.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is so wonderful!! 😭💖🦇
#KidLitUK #AmaraAndTheBats
@simonkids.bsky.social @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @thejumbles.bsky.social
#KidLitUK #AmaraAndTheBats
@simonkids.bsky.social @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @thejumbles.bsky.social
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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions