I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠

If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Our union members are proud of the work we do at Rewire, but we’re incredibly disappointed and jarred by the vast pay disparity between management and the unit.

By our calculations, mgmt gave themselves $942,817.55 for their 7 salaries, and allotted $464,373.70 for our 6. We deserve equitable pay.

I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠

The Trump administration is reportedly considering cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for Kentucky energy projects.

If enacted, the cuts could be a death blow to one of the state's largest ongoing economic development projects.
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The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet.

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

grist.org/global-indig...

#Youth #Climate #Law #Legal #Indigenous

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

A 9-year-old pepper sprayed in handcuffs, crying for her dad. A teenager wrestled to the ground, and another pepper sprayed while waiting for the bus.

All were Black girls hurt by police.

*public media reporters stare in disbelief*

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

An interviewer asked me about America's "cost of living crisis," and I was struck again by how casually we've let such profoundly nightmarish phrases slip into our everyday lexicon.

I sent handwritten notes around the time each book came out and it was honestly a delight to have an excuse to bust out some stationery. I so appreciate it any time anyone orders one of my books and LOVE independent bookstores and love snail mail so...just a good combo!

@bookshop.org is offering free shipping through today to support indie bookstores, so evergreen note: If you order either of my books, All the Gold Stars or An Ordinary Age, through Bookshop or an indie bookstore, DM me an address and I'll send whoever you ordered for a thank you note. 💛

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

If you're a student or early career journalist or writer in the region, please pitch! Would love to help support your work. There's info in the pitch guide & pitching via the form is the best way to go. (If you let me know you've pitched, I can flag it to the team. Happy to brainstorm ideas, too!)

Student + early career journalists in Appalachia (or young folks who want to write): pitch 100 Days! Looking for stories w/ angles on young people, related to education & what's happening on campuses, politics, life & identity, & more. Rates start at $150 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting.

Data from the study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

hello book publicity friends if you're here ... i'm working on a quarterly book recommendation series for Yahoo. first one comes out in December ahead of the winter season. Please add me to your press lists and pitch me your upcoming releases!! <33

Child labor laws around framework are...flexible. They might be getting more so, and this is an interesting profile on a classic teen job: Corn detassling.

A year after Helene, students and teachers across Western North Carolina are wrestling with heightened mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression, sleep issues, aggression and substance use.