.Teen Vogue your Eid piece has a glaring oversight by not interviewing any Black Muslim women for the story.

Black Muslims across the diaspora have impacted Muslim culture in America for centuries, and our style does too.

FWIW, the You're Wrong About... episodes about Nicole Brown Simpson are incredibly heartbreaking and @remember_sarah does a great job contextualizing the murder trial.

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I think the saddest thing about this is that the AI just generated a kid. A regular kid trying to go about their life and figure themselves out, and try and understand who they are and want to be. Very normal. And that’s what they’re vilifying. The monster in the closet is a kid.

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.”

- Kwame Ture

Climate plans from 51 of the world's biggest corporations are 'critically insufficient' to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C, according to an analysis from Carbon Market Watch & NewClimate Institute. My latest for grist. grist.org/accountability…

Black Twitter right now

#libraries

Legal restrictions in the UK prevent them from being permanently returned — girl what?!

Their “laws” are how they robbed and continue to rob across the planet.

factory farms are so violent it’s hard to wrap your mind around it. the way they treat their workers is downright abuse. & the way they treat the animals? they’re feeding them a mix of “bird excrement, feathers, and waste scraped from the floors.” the farm lobby is downright EVIL

As a high school librarian, I can assure publishers this has been true for a while now. Teens want variety in fiction, shocking as that may sound.

Kara Swisher styles herself as a thorn in the tech industry’s side. The reality is she’s one of its biggest boosters.

This week Edward Ongweso Jr joins Paris Marx to discuss Swisher’s true legacy and the deeper problems with tech journalism.

Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/kara-s…

More Alexis Henderson!

I'd love to do more talks about spec fic and YA collection development in libraries, particularly school libraries. If you're looking for speakers, please keep me in mind! Virtual is preferred.

these ghouls are willingly traveling to join a genocidal death force. every single one of them should be arrested upon return and immediately tried for war crimes.

Morning!

Any booksellers, librarians, reviewers on here fans of Olivia’s first book, Rise of the Red Hand?

I’ve got a few finished copies of the sequel (thank you Erewhon Books!) and would love to send them off to folks who are hyped. Let me know!

I don’t know what to say that this profile photo of Chaya Raichik doesn’t already say very loudly itself.

But, the pure glee in having terrorized others is truly unhinged.

The most divorced man in history

Historian here so this is what I learned from historians Mastodon: William Jones author of Arizona’s 1864 abortion law left his wife and family in Missouri, married a 12 year old Mexican girl and then left her and married a 15 year old in Hawaii. Trump’s states rights triumphs!