Amitha Jagannath Knight

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Award winning poet and children's author, twin, parent, MD (not practicing). Also: guitar, piano, bharatanatyam student (not great at all of them but enjoying myself).

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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Of course, a celebration like 15 years needs lots of yummy snacks! Besides the Vanilla Olive Oil Mug Cake I shared earlier, I created this gluten-free adaptation of a favorite traditional cookie this week (family calls them "Ear Cookies"--no one remembers the real name #KidLitChat #KidLitConfections

#kidlitchat oh gosh! i think at the time I was agented with my 1st agent and my 1st novel manuscript, and since then i've written about 6-7 more novels and a bunch of picture books, had 2 kids, am on my 3rd agent and finally 1 book deal!

TOPIC: It's 2009. There's a new-ish social media platform called Twitter--funny name!--where you can "chat" with "online friends"! Cool! After fifteen years (and a move to nicer digs), #kidlitchat is STILL HERE every Tuesday. And we're glad YOU'RE here! What has the last 15 years been like for you?

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I made a #kidlitchat Starter Pack to make it easy to follow some of the frequent flyers: go.bsky.app/2NHcZCX

Random fact: Al Gore is younger than Donald Trump.

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If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio. #TTRPG #DnD #KidLitArt

If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio. #TTRPG #DnD #KidLitArt 🎨

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People are sleeping on the last sentence. With "pornography" being defined this broadly that's like, the entire fucking internet and entertainment and (by extension) publishing industries.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Pretty impressive that Peter, Michael and Rhiannon have managed to keep this partnership under wraps for the last three months

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Happy BOOK Birthday to The Reindeer Remainders written by Katey Howes @kateywrites.bsky.social pics by me! 🎉🥳 I'm very proud of this book. I know Katey was too. It is a bittersweet celebration without her here but a celebration nonetheless bc it is a book that will bring JOY to many!! #kidlit

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Today, I'm celebrating the launch of @kateywrites.bsky.social newest book REINDEER REMAINDERS with art by @mariehermansson.bsky.social Of course this posting doesn't come without a great deal of mixed emotions. I wish Katey could be here to celebrate with us. I miss her so much. #kidlit #STEM #SEL

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The founders of America's oldest Black town only received the land because white residents deemed it too flood-prone to use. Princeville, N.C. just received millions of dollars in new funding to help relocation efforts. But it might already be too late.

What will happen to America's oldest Black town?www.whatimreading.net Princeville, North Carolina, is relocating with help from a new federal grant. But much of its history has already been lost.

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How Amazon's negligence practically destroyed a small business. I'd call this almost unbelievable, but it jibes with my own experience of the arrogant and insensitive way that Amazon tends to shift as much of the burden of doing business onto sellers as it can get away with.

Amazon's failure to inspect a returned item before resale quickly turned one mom-and-pop shop into a $600,000 pile of debt

Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report saysarstechnica.com Amazon's process for inspecting returned items is "broken," consultant says.

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I'm wearing this silly hat for a reason. #kidlitchat turns 15 this month!! Fifteen!! We survived Twitter/X long enough to find a new home here where the skies are blue. Join us to celebrate and reminisce about the good ol' days, tonight (July 16, 9 pm EDT). See you there!

Thinking about how there were journalists covering the rally where Trump was shot. How we rely on them to get the facts for us. To describe the scene accurately. To interview attendees. Also thinking about how Trump hates journalists and the press and actively targeted them at his rallies.

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I don’t need another notebook. I *have* notebooks! I have full notebooks, half-full notebooks, untouched notebooks, big notebooks, little notebooks. I don’t *need* another notebook! Got a new notebook. It’s *awesome*! #WriterProblems #WritingCommunity

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The publishing sine wave can really hurt our hearts. When I feel this way, I read a beautiful picture book, call a friend, and then get back to it.

Was feeling in the dumps last night over the mess that is trying to be a children's writer right now but I choose to believe that reading and writing books is a worthwhile endeavor for is own sake, and I wouldn't be better off choosing a career that brings me less joy.

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Kind of a big correction from the BBC here

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I think this is what Toni Morrison meant when she called racism a distraction. how many hours wasted on trying to convince racist white people that police brutality is always wrong? racism makes all of us less safe.

this is kind of bleak, but it's interesting to be in Kenya and see people discuss police brutality without ever blaming the victims. there isn't a contingent of loud white people saying Black people deserve it. and it's a relief and allows folks to be focused on the true enemy

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The arc of the universe bends towards justice, but only when brave and stubborn people, often with little concrete reason to believe they will succeed, grasp it and bend it down.

I think a really misstated lines is “the arc of the universe bends towards justice.” It doesn’t bend. It has to be pushed, grudgingly and unwillingly, with thousands of hands pushing back. And I’ve come to think doomposting, even more than doomscrolling, it wholly antithetical to that.

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"The near-extinction of the birds across India in the 1990s led to the spread of disease-carrying pathogens from an excess of dead animals, killing more than a half-million people from 2000 to 2005."

Loss of India’s vultures may have led to deaths of half a million peoplewww.science.org Find could offer lessons for conserving key species in other places

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

A 'new era' in malaria control has begun with a vaccination campaign for children in Ivory Coastapnews.com Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine. It's the beginning of a regional campaign that experts hope might curb the impact of one of Africa’s top killers.

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mmm big stretch

oh no vance's wife's name is Usha and she is indian american

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'The perception that mountain folk like to be poor serves someone — but it’s not the poor mountain folk. The representation of Appalachia as all white is not only inaccurate, but it preserves a false and destructive ideal of imaginary “pure white stock.” '

Apropos of nothing:

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

The terror of winging it while cooking with whatever ingredients you have in the fridge and not knowing if you've made something kind of okay or inedible slop

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Hachette announced today that Algonquin Young Readers is no more. Luckily, the authors and books will move into the hands of the terrific Little, Brown Young Readers staff.

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Sending love, thanks, and admiration to every author, illustrator, staffer, and supporter who made Algonquin Young Readers a beautiful thing for a decade. You brought us a Newbery, Edgars, Schneider, Bloomer, and other awards, NBA noms, and so many starry reviews. Your words and stories live on.

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Oh by the way, this a great time to read writers with roots in Appalachia who aren't J. D. Vance. I grew in North Carolina, my novel concerns New Orleans, Alabama, & Atlanta, but it's a way better read for y'all than HILLBILLY ELLEGY. Get it from my neighborhood bookstore here. Y'all welcome.

None But the Righteous a book by Chantal Jamesbookshop.org Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound de...

today in deep thoughts: why did they call it UNtitled goose game and not ENtitled goose game?