Send money so we can produce the crucial work incumbents can't or won't produce, like Tom Scocca on the abysmal coverage of health care for trans teens in the New York Times popula.com/2023/01/29/the… (1/5)

Real coverage of the youth vote in Nigeria, BY a young Nigerian writer popula.com/2023/02/07/all… (2/5)

Taiwanese journalist Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 on the irresponsible coverage of tensions between Taiwan and China: popula.com/2023/02/18/199… (3/5)

Sensitivity reading for new books, yes, not for old ones, writes Maria Bustillos popula.com/2023/02/20/roa… (4/5)

Back-door donations to U.S. congressmembers from TikTok's owner, from Donald Shaw at Sludge readsludge.com/2023/02/17/tik… Contribute here to keep The Brick House free!! donorbox.org/brick-house-in… (5/5)

So proud to be a coalition partner of Library Futures. Thank you to Juliya Ziskina for crucial contributions to the fight to preserve library rights! Super stoked to see new bills introduced in MA and HI: publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

People often ask why I add songs to my tweets. When they do, my mind hearkens back to this mind-blowing piece by the supremely talented Shuja Haider (no, he is not the Coke Studio guy!) from Popula . popula.com/2019/03/19/son…

Here is how the NYT's front-page stories questioning trans youth care compare to major investigative series that the paper's publisher just highlighted. More counts of the NYT's push, latest by Tom Scocca popula.com/2023/03/06/the…

We'll be tuning in to this crucial hearing. Thanks Library Futures for all you do!!

.@mariabustillos: "The stakes in this lawsuit have become clearer in the years since it was filed, as attacks against the freedom of individuals to read, write, teach, and learn have escalated." thenation.com/article/cultur… #UnitedStates

Maria Bustillos writes in The Nation about the Internet Archive lawsuit over digital book-lending, and also Tyler Cowen's AI-written post about Francis Bacon and the printing press and how AI could pollute search: thenation.com/article/cultur…

By the judge's reasoning in the Internet Archive case, doesn't *any* library loan mean the loss of a potential sale? popula.com/2023/03/28/wri…

"Publishers are not archivists, they’re not librarians, and they shouldn’t be in control of cultural posterity." @mariabustillos kicking ass as usual. popula.com/2023/03/28/wri…

Yes, Writers could choose to publish with pro-library publishers. Like PM Press Seven Stories Press 11:11 Press AK Press all of which sell, really sell, books to libraries like the Internet Archive

"Publishers are not archivists, they’re not librarians, and they shouldn’t be in control of cultural posterity". Maria Bustillos siempre precisa y demoledora. ¡Larga vida a Internet Archive! popula.com/2023/03/28/wri…

America's First Plane Bomber, and His Intended Victim new at Popula popula.com/2023/04/05/ame…

YAY

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