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Y'all, I'm genrefying my library and that means I'm touching every book in my library. Look 👀 #booksky "When seventeen-year-old Denny, who is black, falls in love with his white stepsister and her father throws him out, he drives cross-country to find his own father, whom he barely knows."

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Carly Simon really was in her bag when she sang "you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you" Cause he can't even talk about it! Icon

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February Library Vibes #tlsky #edusky #booksky #skybrarian Music: Roberta Flack and Friends Scent: Almond Shortbread Candle Most requested books: 48 Laws of Power, Twilight, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Actual most checked out books 👇🏾

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He's gonna fuck up every single independent creator who depends on the mail for their business. Call your reps and tell them you didn't vote for Trump to destroy your business. reps.fyi

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There is a video of Frankie Lymon where the all white audience realizes that they’ll be seen clapping & singing to a song by a Black person. It’s the social repercussions they’re afraid of. That’s what’s going on now w/ so-called well-meaning GOP members & supporters. youtu.be/E9PNVUpI19A?...

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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These are the books for the girls who need a story about somebody who made it out. These are books for those who need to share a story to someone who is in Hell & needs to climb out. This isn’t fantasy & it’s not Anne of Green Gables. #booksky #blacksky shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/books-for-...

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www.wistv.com/2025/02/19/s... #TLsky #TLchat #EDUsky

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Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

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DEI was the compromise. It was the shrugged shoulders and let’s move past all the harm and move towards the future. With that off the table America owes reparations. Not just for slavery but any number of violations against its Black citizens.

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The Valentine's Day card about deportation & this ASMR video of people's lives being upended is the consolation prize for not lowering the cost of eggs. As the economy gets worse, expect the images of tearful undocumented ppl to get vicious. Again, the cruelty is the point. tinyurl.com/3ajx9aav

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We all think we're living in unprecedented times but if you were born in 1910 by the time you were 40 you would have lived through: Prohibition (1920) Spanish Flu (1918) WWI (1918) Dust Bowl (1929) Great Depression (1930's) WWII (1940's) Korean War (1950)

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Hey #tlsky #skybrarian folks, where are you shelving dystopian novels if you’re genrefying?

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Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor. What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through. bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

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I’ll soon be in the UK for some DEATH OF THE AUTHOR events. 😊🇬🇧 Here’s one of them: afroribooks.co.uk/products/in-...

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Congratulations to @kimjohnson.bsky.social, THE COLOR OF A LIE is the winner of The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!

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We gave away a heart ❤️ shaped pizza 🍕 on Valentine’s Day and a banned book! #booksky #teachersky I’m trying to get a class set of WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS for Women’s History Month. It seems like now is a GREAT time for that discussion. a www.donorschoose.org/project/wick...

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ATTN IOWA:

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Our character is being tested. Many of us are failing.

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THIS. Be annoying as hell. Play dumb. Don’t do anything until it’s required by law and it’s the last possible moment to comply. Ask for clarification. Insist on explicit definitions of the most pedantic minutiae imaginable. Get it in writing. Slow. Everything. To. A. Crawl. Malicious compliance.

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I post a lot about politics, but I am actually an author. I have focused on 🖤 Black children and teens and their capacity for joy. My latest book follows a girl who uses her powers to bring her parents back from the dead. Enjoy!!! 😉 www.unionsquareandco.com/978145494933...

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If you feel like people know things you don’t know you may need to diversify your news intake. Add newspapers. A lot of libraries have free online access. Add an inat’l source like @aljazeera.com or BBC News Add an indie journalist like @aaronparnas.bsky.social or @underthedesknews.bsky.social

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Do not comply in advance. Leave everything as it is and wait. Are they going to review your collection? Read every book? Send a warning? Wait.

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Citizens United was INTENDED to make it legal for the US presidency to be bought. What happened was by design, not because of some barely literate grifter conman who admitted to sexually assaulting women with the IQ of a rock.

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Confused about what company is doing what and why we are boycotting this or that? The @naacpmainline.bsky.social has a guide!! #blacksky #boycott naacp.org/campaigns/bl...

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How a Black Utopia For Formerly Enslaved People Became a Wealthy White Enclave “You could feel chills to know that they had it and then they just pulled the rug from under them, so to speak.” #BlackHistoryMonth www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Help public libraries today by: ✅ Downloading an ebook ✅ Registering for a program ✅ Sharing a post from your library ✅ Emailing staff and thanking them ✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting ✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same

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If you think it’s dumb to have a hopeful message on your clothing, I swear it’s not. Sitting in my local that does sooooo much to support our community, this lifts me even more. HOWEVER LONG THE NIGHT THE DAWN WILL BREAK

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5 things to do this week for resistance and self care 1. Get a bookshelf for your house or room and put something in it 2. Get a water pitcher w/ a filter 3. Put a timer on your phone to stop doom scrolling 4. Download your kindle books before 2/26 5. Wear a mask/put a few masks in your bag/car

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FYI, Amazon will no longer enable the downloading of ebooks to exterior devices starting February 26th. Here’s a tutorial on how to download your ebooks off of Amazon. You can use Calibre (free software) to reformat the kindle books to be used on other devices. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2DQuRqn/

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Ummmm @authorsabb.bsky.social I am obsessed with this little informational zine that came in my author welcome packet at #LoveYallFest

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People don’t understand what fascism means. Trump wants to be King. He has declared himself ultimate ruler and above the law.

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There is so much chatter online about how it’s so hard to date and that incels are becoming the norm and women are tired or too aggressive or too online in general. You know, it’s all chatter. People still fall in love. #valentinesday tinyurl.com/4c8m2pu4

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You can transcribe documents on crowd.loc.gov any time, not only today, so check back later when the site is hopefully back up.

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