another reminder that Trump v. US is an abomination and very easily the worst Supreme Court decision since at least Plessy.

Jack Smith Exposed the Insanity of the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling

His latest brief in the January 6 case inadvertently suggests how a future President Trump could cling to power through “official” acts.

If you want to write novels for children or young adults, my book THE MAGIC WORDS is a download of (almost) everything I can tell you as an editor, with both useful theoretical frameworks & an emphasis on practical tools. It also has some good booklists & jokes! Thanks for checking it out.

It's day two of my new novel, The City in Glass, being out in the world, and I think I'm getting better at this. I have a book out in the world! People are reading it, and that's the win condition! I'm not flipping out about it! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The City in Glass

In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.A Publ...

More Gen Z women than Gen Z men have left the church. That’s big news! Here’s why I think it’s also the wave of the future: www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/the-remark...

The Remarkable Religious Disaffiliation of Young American Women and What it Means for the Future

Underneath all the buzz about the (allegedly) extremely corrupt and definitely just plain weird NYC mayor Eric Adams, the devastation of hurricane Helene, Israel’s operations in Lebanon, and the other...

I’m seeking a couple of authenticity readers for very specific experiences: 1) Terminal illness (unnamed/invented, so flexible on exact illness) 2) Limb difference (both congenital amelia & amputation) Recommendations, anyone?

Oh hey, my love song to Wyoming, Baba Yaga, and the perils of growing up is on sale today--1.99 in ebook, in USD, CAD, and GBP! openroadmedia.com/ebook/rattle...

Carnegie Mellon University Press, a small but mighty publisher with a Pulitzer Prize-winning roster, has an open submission period this month. We welcome original poetry volumes, collections of short fiction, and completed novels. We look forward to reading your work! 📚 www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

"One such woman, Nelly Weeton, explained in her journal that, when the people at home learned that she was heading out to work on her own, “the world will perhaps stare and wonder—Let them.”" daily.jstor.org/the-...

The Governess, in Her Own Written Words - JSTOR Daily

Although few women were employed as governesses in Victorian Britain, their potential for social and class transgression left Britons awash with worry.

IMPORTANT: If you don't have insurance, or your insurance does not fully cover the COVID vaccine, it's a good idea to get your updated COVID vaccine NOW. The CDC Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free, stops at the end of August.

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We are finally getting updated COVID vaccines. But the CDC's Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free to people who are underinsured, is ending this month. What is the point of having public health tools if the people who need them most can't access them?

Project 2025 advocates for “a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would become a “Department of Life” that would explicitly reject abortion and promote the heterosexual nuclear family structure as “ideal.”

Project 2025 Plan for Trump Presidency Has Far-Reaching Threats to Science

Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence