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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23d

OUT TODAY! You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder! RIGHT NOW! You can buy it! They'll let you have it!

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The Creeping Hand Murder - Maureen Johnson

This is not a novel. This is a casefile. Have you ever thought you could solve a murder if you were given all the evidence? Well, this is your chance. YOU are the detective.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 9h

GO SEE THIS.

The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 9h

THE LIBRARIANS opens today in LA (at Laemmle Royal) and is now playing in NY (at Film Forum) and in select theaters nationwide!

Support the freedom to read and get tickets now!

TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

The Librarians Film | Official Site

Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

Sarah...I am gripping the desk on this one.

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

It's a busy time with lots going wrong, but I can always find the time to tell JKR and Neil Gaiman to go fuck themselves.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

Very much not your fault. You loved it. You wanted the art. You do not and cannot control what she has become.

Bru @itsjustbru.bsky.social · 14h

there’s nothing i’m more embarrassed of than my HP tattoo i got 15 years ago and i am so so pissed at her for that

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

Not your fault.

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

I have English family and when I try to explain America they always look--understandably--wildly confused. Like I am exaggerating for effect. I would look the same way. Living here is a constant exercise in bending your concept of reality. Or attempting to resist that bend.

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 14h

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14h

Killing Klan members is "too controversial for the moment"

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

How do we speed buses up? There are plenty of tools already in the city's toolbox.

Just look at the 14th St busway.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

It's not even clickbait, I truly do hate them.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

“I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS” is the greatest clickbait book title ever (it’s not about what you think, although the history is highly relevant)

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

Does Dolty Parton want one of my kidneys? I don’t even care if she needs it. She can just have it if she wants.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

YES! Congratulations!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 3d

Get out there and be the main character in a cozy murder mystery: the body.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 3d

My daughter is on a junket to New York with her online peeps. She sent me this poster from the Ripped Bodice:

A poster on a wall among bookshelves. It's in glorious color with pink peonies along the bottom. The text reads 'Unattended children will be given an enthusiastic explanation of intersectional feminism.'

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

I studied German and French, but Spanish is the thing I wish I knew on the daily.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

Genuinely into Bad Bunny's four month Spanish challenge.

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 3d

I was playing 10cc’s I’m Not In Love on my phone and swaying in my supervisor’s office when she asked me to leave.

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 3d

Dreamt @maureenjohnsonbooks.com ran a gas station in the Midwest. I won’t say which brand, but it rhymes with Speedway. She hated this. The only good part was the fact that she could give people free gas and chips and rollers as retaliation against management. Then the place burned down suspiciously

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 3d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

hey buddy