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Author/Artist * Asian Pacific American Librarians Association PB winner * Want kid lit, diversity, & science? I've got books for you! * 🇭🇰🇨🇦🇺🇸 * she/her * SO: @indianaclimate * Into: self-sufficiency * #AmQuerying * teresarobeson.com * NO DMs or MAGA

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · Dec 12

I am thrilled!!! to have CLOUDS IN SPACE as one of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social scholars’ picks for “Best Books of 2024” 😍 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t... Wait, have I mentioned that I am thrilled??? 😉

The Best Books of 2024, as Chosen by Smithsonian Scholars

Staff at the Institution pick their favorite reads of the year, including riveting memoirs, fascinating true histories and fun fiction

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Kim-M 26947 @kimberlymorgan.bsky.social · 14h

And that is just the way they like it.

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KidLitGN @kidlitgn.bsky.social · 6d

Calling all #agents, #editors, and #publishers of #graphicnovels for #kids through YA!

Check out all the fantastic stories pitched at KidlitGN.com , now through October 31... and don't forget to request! There are over 150 #pitches from over 125 #creators!

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KidLitGN @kidlitgn.bsky.social · 7d

#Agents, #Editors, & #Publishers, #KidLitGN's 2025 pitch event is officially open! kidlitgn.com/submission-d....

Reply to the pitches you are interested in with your sub guidelines, or add your guidelines here: kidlitgn.com/submission-d...

#pitchevent #kidlit #graphicnovels

Agent, Editor, & Publisher Submission Guidelines – KidLitGN

kidlitgn.com

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Eerdmans Books for Young Readers @ebyrbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Check out Betsy's preview of our Spring 2026 titles! Thank you again and again, @fuse8.bsky.social!

Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 18h

Today we consider a slew of Spring 2026 titles coming from @ebyrbooks.bsky.social. Anti-fascism, myths, philosophical considerations of silence, seasons, and more! Some real beauties are in here! 📚👍 #kidlit afuse8production.slj.com/2025/10/08/e...

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Preview (Spring 2026)

Today we consider a slew of Spring 2026 titles. Anti-fascism, myths, philosophical considerations of silence, seasons, and more! Some real beauties are in here!

afuse8production.slj.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h

Hoping these federal agents are held accountable, breaking the law should have real consequences. A federal judge has ruled that federal immigration agents illegally arrested more than two dozen people.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in the Bay Area, there will be another human banner in San Francisco on Oct. 18 No Kings Day.

human-banners-at-ocean-beach.org

10.18.2025

WE SAY

NO KINGS

(IMAGE OF CROWN CROSSED OUT)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h

Wild list of errors - significant but subtle enough that someone not paying attention would let is pass - generated by Microsoft's generative software INSIDE Excel formulas

We are so SO MUCH TROUBLE

office-watch.com/2025/facts-a...

ust one more example of Copilot getting facts wrong
We asked Copilot() for a list of UN countries and immediately noticed something was wrong. There are 193 countries in the United Nations not 194 so where is the other country? The answer is complicated.

=COPILOT(“list of UN countries, include headings”,”show short name, full name,date of UN entry and continent”)

Copilot has added Vatican City which isn’t a member, only an “Observer” but at least there’s a note.

Even more curious is Palestine which is also an Observer member only but is listed by Copilot as a full member which joined on 29 Nov. 2012.

That means Copilot has two non-members listed and there must be one member country not listed.

If that wasn’t enough, all the Central American and Caribbean countries are lumped into the “North America” continent which isn’t what most people would expect.

Different results on the same page!
For no explained reason, “Gold Coast Airport” appears in this Copilot() result (B17 result and below) even though it’s not shown in another result on the same page (Cell B3 and the spilled cells). All it took was small and irrelevant changes in the prompt.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 1d

ICE shot pepper balls into the head, face, torso, and legs of Reverend David Black in Chicago.

If they're not dropping from the sky into black and brown neighborhoods, and dragging their children outside, naked, and zip-tying toddlers, then they're shooting women.

#SheShed

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 1d

Country legend Zach Bryan has released a song that puts country over his own bank account.

The backlash from country fans will be massive- they’ll force him off country radio like they did to the Dixie Chicks but he doesn’t need radio access anymore

American hero 🇺🇸

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 1d

What a relief! Yay!

Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 1d

💪💪💪 Via Chop Wood, Carry Water 10/7 open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...

Chop Wood, Carry Water 10/7

We. Will. Get. Through. This.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 2d

‼️ This is how it is done ‼️
Democratic candidates - please take notes!
@jamestalarico.bsky.social

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

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Trump claims without evidence that insurrection is taking place in Portland

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Monday that an insurrection is taking place in Portland, Oregon, as he seeks to deploy National Guard troops to the city amid what he describes as surging crime.

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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 2d

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Gavin Newsom (@gavinnewsom)

TRUTH: Mike Johnson wants to triple your healthcare costs. TRUTH: Mike Johnson wants to rip healthcare away from 20 million people. TRUTH: Mike Johnson’s shutdown will cost the American people BILL...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

So everyone on the right so upset about the political violence of Charlie Kirk’s murder (even before we knew the facts) is going to speak out loudly and clearly about this too, right?