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Here are the states proposing anti-book ban bills in 2025 so far. These are where you need to direct phone calls and letters–and there are a lot of unexpected states included. That, plus this week's extensive book censorship news: bookriot.com/anti-book-ba...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

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OK this “assertion” presented as neutral fact by the New York Times is fucking enraging. Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs to replace him with a loyalist. The extremely qualified person he fired is Black, and in writing this, the NYT is laundering racism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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145 - Queer Liberation Library with Avi and Amber We're talking with @queerliblib.bsky.social about who they are and what they do! www.librarypunk.gay/e/145-queer-...

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Give me food 🐟

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Borrowed on the left, bought on the right. Haven't touched Ivey since 2013, so I'm hoping this goes well 💙📚 🖋️📚 🏳️‍🌈📚

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Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

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AI slop in Hoopla (first noted by Library Futures and our friends at Library Freedom Project) of the week @404media.co! Read the full story: www.404media.co/public-libra...

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Four Books From the Shelves on a Random Theme, Day 16 Most Read Adult Authors (I was young once) 💙📚 🖋️📚 🪐📚

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I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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“As a transgender teacher who works both within CPS and the union, I have witnessed the impact of gender-affirming care in my school community and others. When students feel loved and supported by their teachers and their communities, they do better in school and in life.” bit.ly/4i4Xc00

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Bumped into friend of mine who's an English professor at lunch today and we ended up talking about the necessity of humanities education for everyone--and how everyone really needs to read Ursula Le Guin's devastating story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One...

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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BREAKING: AFSCME, AFGE, UNAC/UHCP, & allies file lawsuit seeking to block the unlawful mass firings of probationary federal employees. “These mass firings are yet another unlawful attempt by this billionaire-run administration to gut public services" said Pres. Saunders

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“You should do something.” “Nah, I think I’ll start a committee that oversees a task force to create a coalition that might do something in 2032, but probably not.”

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Some federal workers have started to express their grievances at Tesla locations. In San Francisco federal workers and others staged a protest against DOGE cuts outside a Tesla showroom. Musk and Trump have now laid off up to 220,000 federal employees. www.ktvu.com/news/federal...

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This is one of Musk's many goals. Kill workers in factories and control the regulator who's supposed to punish him.

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Four Books From the Shelves on a Random Theme, Day 15 Autobiographies/Memoirs 💙📚 🖋️📚 🏳️‍🌈📚 💡📚

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The IRS is expected to fire upwards of 6,000 employees as early as today. This will mean fewer audits for rich tax dodgers. According to U.S. Treasury estimates, the top 1% underpay their taxes by $163 billion every year.

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Someone's gotta do it I guess New print here! www.sonnyross.com/shop/together

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#tdih 1968, 27,000+ teachers and administrators from Florida Education Association walked out. First U.S. statewide teachers strike. (Later banned in Florida) Focus on salary, school budget, & overall failure of Florida legislators to fund public ed. Read ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fl...

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The toll of climate disasters is a direct consequence of decades of disinvestment in the communities most vulnerable to crises. @zacariasm.bsky.social reports on how many disabled & elderly residents were abandoned during California wildfires. prismreports.org/2025/02/19/d...

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Flora and fauna of the coastal redwoods! 🌲🌧️

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when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

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Colleges and universities continue their FEROCIOUS assaults against students who act in solidarity with Palestine; the students are being doxxed, evicted, harassed, suspended, and punished in myriad ways. Hear them in their own words: hammerandhope.org/article/stud...

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Anti-union extremists & billionaires want to make DEVASTATING budget cuts to public services. Everything from health care to home care, social services to sanitation, is at risk. 📞 202-559-1165 & tell your member of Congress to save public services.

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"What did you not like about your previous employer? It's self-sabotage to talk bad about previous employers." #LIS #GLAM #Libraries #LibraryJobs

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If you’ve indulged the fantasy of this being a “pro worker” administration in any way shape or form now would be the time to stop.

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The day after people across the United States took to the streets for No Kings Day, Trump signed an executive order consolidating executive power. He wants to seize direct control over independent agencies that were designed to operate outside of presidential influence to prevent authoritarian rule.

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Currently reading: 💙📚 💡📚 🏳️‍🌈📚 🪐📚

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Four Books From the Shelves on a Random Theme, Day 14 Books on Books 💙📚 🖋️📚 💡📚

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We don't misgender anyone. Not even people we don't like. Not even people who misgender us. We don't treat being gendered correctly as a reward for good behavior. Ever.

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🚨Tune in today at 10:15 AM as LIUNA GP Brent Booker testifies before the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Booker is taking a stand against frivolous litigation that’s killing thousands of blue-collar jobs & blocking America’s path to energy independence. shorturl.at/uY0QM

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For a piece I'm working on reporting, if you're studying library science or are working in a library (especially if you're earlyish in your career), I'd love to speak about what you're hearing & experiencing right now. You can be anonymous. [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

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"Mere weeks ago, media outlets were still publishing pieces asking where the “resistance” was. It seems we are now well past that: Possibly, that’s because “the resistance” is bubbling up in too many places to track." via @melissagiragrant.com

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NYRB Classics. Also, ones without unnecessary frills in the typeface.

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Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡). Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚

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As the Trump administration tries to erase their identities, these college students are founding a group to cultivate transgender leaders across the country.

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Four Books From the Shelves on a Random Theme, Day 13 Working Towards a Better Tomorrow 💙📚 🖋️📚 💡📚

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This also describes libraries, except they don’t run on plagiarism and potable water

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She's cracking. New Yorkers, please feel free to call her office one more time and tell her to fire him. Also tell her she should have done this MONTHS ago. 1-518-474-8390

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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Protesting down by the bay. Photos from the Monterey Bay 50501 protest. We are stronger together. PS. I’m the kitty emoji face! My signs read “PROTECT TRANS KIDS” and “BELEAGUERED FED EMPLOYEE BUT I’M NOT BACKING DOWN” #FiftyFiftyOne #courageiscontagious #5050movement

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