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📚 #Booksky | Aspiring Librarian 🌆 Chicago & Oak Park life 💛 Mom to one boy, one cat, 2 dogs 💐 Floral arranging, cooking, thrifting in my free time
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Forward Together Forward ❤️🖤 Thinking of everyone that has a tough Valentines Day due to one of the many shootings that have occurred on this holiday. It’s hard for me as an NIU alum. It never gets easier. Sending hugs.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Manifesting Dick Durbin, Danny Davis, and Jan Schakowsky retirements

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Libraries are essential. Support your local library, speak up for your local library, love your local library 💙📚 We can never express enough support for libraries!

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Hey BookSky, Remember that professional football player who was pictured reading a book on the sideline and when asked about it he said, “I like to read.” He won the Super Bowl tonight. READING BOOKS WINS! 📚💙

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

RE book bans We’re past signing petitions. Show up. Show up at the library. Show up at board meetings. Run for local boards. The fox is already in the hen house*, they don’t care about your signature on a petition. *Books help us understand metaphors like this

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

If we are to really respect the taste and intelligence of kids, we should also be venerating their art as highly as any other literature. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Another great day to: Buy books Call your reps Support small businesses And fight the patriarchy! Even small acts of resistance are resistance! ❤️

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Minority Leader Jeffries has required all Congresspeople to host an emergency Town Hall this week. Rep Davis (Rep. D-IL-7) has still not scheduled his or taken any real action to support his constituents. I’m asking that you flood his line demanding he take required steps immediately. (202) 225-5006

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

It took over an hour of nonstop busy signals, but I finally got through to my Sen and Reps’. Keep calling! For a script, I recommend @jesscraven101.bsky.social She has excellent talking points! PS be kind to the people answering phones. I can hear their voices shake just from a simple thank you.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I love my little side gig. Cute dogs and paying off debt a little faster. Today, I get to hang with Dalia. #dogsofbluesky #dogwalker

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

A voter and activist’s relationship with elected officials should be purely transactional. “what the fuck are you going to give me and do for me?” Not “thank you, thank you, you’re my hero.”

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

submitted 21 days ago • 140 comments

If you see this, quote with a GIF of your personality type

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Border czar Tom Homan is on CNN complaining that Chicago is “very well educated” and people “know their rights” too well for ICE to be able to enforce mass deportations. Good work, neighbors.

submitted 24 days ago • 280 comments

It's not nothing to call your reps or donate to a food bank or fix someone's flat tire. You can't do everything but you can do *something*.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

PSA: Take a break from the doom scrolling. One of the most important things you can do today is CALL your elected officials and voice your concerns. Every call matters as staff keep count of how many care about an issue, which gives officials justification to speak up and fight.

submitted 24 days ago • 93 comments

Convinced all my problems would be solved by a Scholastic book fair right now.

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

It’s a wonderful day to visit your local used bookstore and buy some banned books 🥰

submitted 27 days ago • 59 comments

I'm not sure who lied and said that dogs are good for reducing stress and improving your mental health... Because all I think about all the time is...is my dog is sick, are they happy, am I giving them enough mental enrichment, what the fuck is in their mouth...

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

Happy Sunday, #booksky! Read something that makes you smile today.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing brings me more joy than my 6-year-old giggling quietly to himself while reading a new book. Man, I love libraries so much.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

We now live in a country where school security means protecting kids from homeland security. “Regardless of which branch of Homeland Security visited this school, officials followed the established protocols to ensure student safety.” abc7chicago.com/post/us-immi...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Pick your focus and stick with it. We cannot fight in all fronts or we will become overwhelmed. But we can all peel off a corner in our area of expertise and begin to reveal effective strategies for resisting the chaos. Every single one of us has something to offer.

submitted 29 days ago • 106 comments