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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 17 days ago • 644 comments

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

People who live in the next town over who have been saying they’ll defund their library and just use our library are SO MAD to find out that they aren’t allowed to just use other towns’ libraries. IT ISN’T FAIR!

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Diversity Equity Inclusion live and let live love and let love

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

Love Libraries? Then Fight for their Future! #NationalLibraryWeek

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite sign from the Albany #HandsOff rally.

submitted 80 days ago • 56 comments

“Protecting” kids without empowering kids is actually just “controlling” kids and if you remember that you will see through a lot of bullshit

submitted 81 days ago • 22 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 82 days ago • 561 comments

Email addresses for all IMLS staff were being disabled today. Those with questions or concerns over IMLS funding will no longer be able to reach the individual or individuals with whom they’d been working. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

It happened again.

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submitted 92 days ago • 487 comments

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

submitted 98 days ago • 313 comments

In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"

submitted 101 days ago • 13 comments

How long have I been walking around with a googly eye stuck to my leg? #childrenslibrarian

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

Oh hey, I was wondering what the Fruitstripe Gum guy was up to! Looks like he went pro. Good for him! #glowup

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submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

All grad admissions offers rescinded at my institution, UMass Chan Med School. There is just no alternative. It’s a terrible loss for students. But it’s also a loss for all of science. Science *runs* on grad student labor. They get paid pennies to do highly skilled work. Science can’t function w/o

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

#JoannFabrics looks like the grocery store in March 2020.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

My brain is being very mean to me today, so here is my Zeus, who thinks I hung the moon.

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, no, did the leopards eat your face? How very unfortunate? They were only supposed to eat their faces? That's just the worst...... Alas, whatever shall we do?

submitted 140 days ago • 3 comments

I decided that all my coworkers need everlasting cupcakes on their birthdays. Naturally, I decided this during the month when half my coworkers have birthdays.

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

It’s National Hot Chocolate Day in the USA ☕️💖

submitted 143 days ago • 5 comments