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Dahlia Adler 📚

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YA and Romance Author/Anthologist. LGBTQReads founder. Choices writer. Macaron aficionado. Next up: SOON BY YOU (5/19/26). Rep: Patricia Nelson. She/her. Update your website.

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · Feb 24

New pinned post to celebrate the (very busy) coming year! (For more info on my books, check out my always-updated website, dahliaadler.com)

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 2d

Remember: For October, The I HUNT KILLERS ebook is on sale! For a mere $1.99, you can delight to the horrors and the bloodshed from the comfort of your own screen! Bodies? Slashed! Prices? Slashed!

Here are links:
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

#BannedBooksWeek is the perfect time to add a challenged book (or two) to your shelf. We’re partnering with @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social to offer you 20% off select challenged titles from now until October 19: bookshop.org/info/banned-...

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future.

Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them.

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Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 1d

I wish I'd read it earlier so I could read discussions about it because I could see it being received so many different ways, but I always ignore as much as I can until I get to read it myself

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 1d

I had such a delightful reading holiday - HERE FOR A GOOD TIME by Pyae Moe Thet War, YELLOWFACE by RF Kuang, and I MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE by Daniel Aleman. I don't usually read on a theme but I kinda love that I did.

Currently reading WOODWORKING by Emily St. James, which I'm absolutely loving.

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · Aug 13

Reminder that it is always a good time to support both queer books and indie bookstores, and you can do both at the same time while finding exactly the queer book you're looking for in the highly organized LGBTQReads Bookshop! bookshop.org/shop/LGBTQRe...

LGBTQReads Bookshop

Queering up your shelf, one rec at a time!

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 1d

I'm running a giveaway on IG for all three of my reimagining anthologies in paperback! If you know an educator who could use these in their classroom library (or just an interested reader!), please spread the word! www.instagram.com/p/DPcQF3okrD1/

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 5d

Love this for you!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

TLDR: Judge Immergut GRANTS a 2nd TRO blocking the Trump admin from sending ANY federalized troops from ANY state into Oregon/Portland. (Full hearing thread below)

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

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CNN @cnn.com · 7d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Jaymie Heilman @jaymieh.bsky.social · 7d

Dahlia Adler's Come As You Are is FABULOUS! It's easily the best YA rom-com I've read this year. Smart, funny, sassy, and romantic. My favourite of Adler's many terrific books. 📚👍👍 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 6d

Thank you so much!

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 8d

Trying to figure out how many ways we can flash the red lights here. This was NEVER EVER ABOUT BOOKS. Books were the tool.

THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.

THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 8d

Reporters, here’s the assignment:

Next time an elected or appointed official responds with, “it’s not banned because you can still buy it,” the mandatory followup question is, “Do you believe Americans have a First Amendment right to access and share speech in our publicly-funded libraries?”

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 8d

In order for Judge Winsor to get to the conclusion that access elsewhere was an acceptable solution for a school to remove a book based on viewpoint, he had to deny patrons and authors their First Amendment rights in the library.

Let that sink in.

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 7d

See I actually like that because I feel like she’s been sitting on some of them a long time and this album to me reads like “I finally feel safe to air all these things that’ve wrecked me for years.”

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 9d

Says author @malindalo.bsky.social: "Book banners want you to think that innocent eight-year-olds are being assaulted by sexually explicit material — which is just false..." Read more: pen.org/press-releas...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 9d

And THAT'S how you sell a dictionary.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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NPR @npr.org · 10d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 11d

AT MIDNIGHT is out in paperback today from @flatironbooks.bsky.social! This is such a beautiful anthology, and while I am absolutely biased, the publications quoted here are not, so trust them even if you don't trust me! www.dahliaadler.com/at-midnight

On the left is a paperback copy of At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined and on the right, these quotes: "Simultaneously whimsical, adventurous, and bone-chilling." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Each story has a unique twist and writing style that makes it hard for readers to put down this compilation... extremely refreshing and inclusive with wonderful writing. " ―School Library Journal, starred review, “Timely and timeless.” ―Kirkus, and "This anthology does not shy away from uniqueness, boldness, or diversity—elements embraced by each of these stellar writers in their own beautiful way.” —Booklist. Across the bottom, a line reads "Out now in paperback from Flatiron Books!" The cover of At Midnight is also navy, covered in sprawling branches and white dots that could be either snow or stars, with a centrally placed stone path up to a cottage behind which rises a large moon. The title is above the moon, the subtitle and "edited by Dahlia Adler" are below the path.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 10d

The @nytimes.com asked me to write about the 20th anniversary (??!) of Twilight, and to recommend some books that have published since then that Twilight folks might love.

Oh, this was SO FUN.

‘Twilight’ Is 20. These Books Will Remind You Why You Loved It So Much.

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