Jo Knowles

Maeve Mulvaney has had enough by Kelly Mangan and Someone's Gonna End Up Crying by Jo Knowles and Glynnis Fawkes

A book display with a banner saying Phoenix Books

A display of books by Darcy Marks. Posters above advertise workshops. Grounded for all eternity, the afterlife of the party and Smore Spooky Stories

A display of books on tables. Darcy's books are visible as well as another banner for Phoenix Books

@kellyamangan.bsky.social and @joknowles.bsky.social I see your books at the Milton Artists Guild bookfair!
Thanks @phoenixbooks.biz !

Oh wow!!!!! @glynnisfawkes.bsky.social ! Look! 😍

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

What so many of us are thinking and feeling. A great op-ed from @polgreen.bsky.social.

Trump's Fantasy is Crashing Down

(Gift article in link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

This man is not well

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Cats

I think we could all use a little pause in the doomscroll today 🥰

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Annnnnnnd the votes are in. 🙄😡

What a sweet way to put it. Thank you!

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

Also yesterday at the end of Town Meeting I made an announcement about the Mutual Aid Community Breakfast I and some friends started. After, a young woman came up to me and said, "Are you Jo Knowles the author"? Turns out she read all my books when she was in middle school. We had a moment.🥰 #kidlit

😭❤️ You are a good daughter though. I'm sorry.

At the end of Town Meeting today a woman in her 80s stood up to share the history of the Nature Club and made a joke about the drapes in the hall to great applause. The president is a heartless monster who cares nothing for our troops or schoolchildren or anyone else and EVERYONE knows it.

I predict this man has a very bright future.

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

Congratulations, pal.

#WellDeserved

I want to tag every member of congress and force them to listen. Sadly, they aren't here. But thank you for this. Praying they do the right thing.

Iran In Focus: Stop Trump's War YouTube video by MoveOn

If you've found anything I've had to say about politics useful, take my word on this: Click the link below and watch from to 39:00 - 47:00 to hear combat veteran Brittany DeBarros' powerful reaction to Trump's Iran War. You don't want to miss this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1F...

Trump campaign peace promises loom large over Iran war The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

Trump promised to end wars.

He's now started more wars than any president in modern American history. Instead of affordable healthcare and groceries, the American people get to foot the billion-dollar tabs for Trump's foreign wars of choice.

"Peace through strength" is a SCAM.

I didn’t write the piece, just sharing. But thank you!

There is one word that explains how so many men can be in the Epstein files. So why is no one saying it? We talk endlessly about the factors that make rape easier, but never about the factors that cause rape in the first place.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

Watching "A House of Dynamite" last night was probably not the best idea given the current situation. Just thinking about the "real" people in charge right now, all absent of any morality (or competence, LBH), is quite a frightening thing.

All generative AI is bad. Anthropic is no better than OpenAI, no matter their political standing. They'll harm the environment and put huge data centers in impoverished communities too.

Delete your AI. You know that it’s evil in every way. Don’t use it. Value something better than convenience.

How transparent policies can protect Florida school libraries amid efforts to ban books Well-designed school library policies make space for community feedback while preserving intellectual freedom.

Florida has ranked No. 1 in the United States when it comes to banning books for the past three years, with 2,300 books removed or restricted from public school libraries.

theconversation.com/how-transpar...

Free Movie: The Librarians Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights.

Next Sunday at the South Burlington Public Library! I'll be speaking on a panel following the viewing. southburlingtonlibrary.org/free-movie-t...

If “implored” is the best you can do at a time like this, we really have no hope.

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

Are you an organizational whiz with great attention to detail and an interest in the world of publishing? This is an in-person job opportunity based in San Diego.

All hands on deck, folks. This will effectively eliminate all books by queer authors and about queer lives, even books with secondary characters, books where the author or a character uses they/them pronouns. This bill will erase identities and harm kids. And it won't stop at public schools.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rs-presents-taking-the-reins-indie-publish-your-book-registration-1977808708087

Tonight! There's still time to register. It will be recorded if you can't make the live session. www.eventbrite.com/e/rs-present...