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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. Itโs such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Day #13: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Translated Children's Books. So many incredible books hit our shores in a given year, that it only makes sense to write an entire post about them today. #31Days31Lists #kidlit ๐๐ afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/13/3...
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googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions

an organization in the Twin Cities is offering "ICE Watch" training The training provided by States at the Core, or STAC, prepares neighbors to monitor, document, and fight against ICE activity. The organization says it has trained more than 1,000 Minnesotans so far www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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The last book of mine to be published in 2025 is now back from the printers (even if copies haven't made it to me in Madrid yet)! WILL YOU READ A BOOK WITH ME, illustrated by Thiago Lopes, translated into Armenian by Hripsime Madoyan, published by Antares. ๐๐ #kidlit #booksky #scbwi


The last book of mine to be published in 2025 is now back from the printers (even if copies haven't made it to me in Madrid yet)! WILL YOU READ A BOOK WITH ME, illustrated by Thiago Lopes, translated into Armenian by Hripsime Madoyan, published by Antares. ๐๐ #kidlit #booksky #scbwi

while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March just saying
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