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I fact check before I post. K12 NBCT teacher-librarian in another life.
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ICYMI, Seattle Libraries, like so many others, will be hit hard by the elimination of funds from IMLS. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/libr...

Cohn: "Tariffs are highly regressive. Meaning that poorer people end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs."

#Connections Puzzle #686 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 The game is evil. That's why I like it!!

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

#Wordle 1,407 2/6* 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 What a great way to end the week!

Listen to Litman on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com this week. Give her book to a young person! #independentbookstoreday

This Saturday is #IndieBookstoreDay! Did you know WNDB has an extensive directory of diverse-owned bookstores on our website? Here are all the stores we currently have listed! 🧵 💻 bit.ly/DiverseBooks...

The cruelty and the stupidity is the point

"...one-day party held the last Saturday in April celebrates independent bookstores across the country online and in-store. Through exclusive books and literary items, contests, cupcakes, and everything in between, it’s a party you don’t want to miss!" - American Booksellers Assoc. #booksky

Sickening. Make it stop. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

#Edusky, order this book! Parents, order this book!

Justice for this senselessness #gunviolence and for Garfield High student Murphy-Paine whose case is still unsolved from a year ago. @momsdemand.bsky.social @studentsdemand.bsky.social

"Personal incomes could see a drop of about $10,000 a year in the future, Miller says. That’s due to a combination of lower wages and higher prices." #Climate change is inefficient.

housedemocrats.wa.gov/thai/2025/04...

What in the af? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Watch this important film by acclaimed #artist Ai Weiwei about the families of disappeared and injured Mexican students and teachers that got on the wrong bus. avantarte.com/releases/ai-...

#edusky good news! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

If you preorder THE GATE, THE GIRL, AND THE DRAGON from your participating local indie bookstore, you’ll get a signed art print! Support your local indie bookstore! Check out the map to find the store near you: bit.ly/gategirldragon

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

“The quality of children’s education, their exposure to ideas and the preparing of citizens in the next generation are all being harmed by this censorship.” — Emerson Sykes, ACLU senior staff attorney and lead counsel in the case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #ForOurLibraries

“Cranford Dixie Giants” receives AASL Roald Dahl's Miss Honey Social Justice Award: bit.ly/AASLcranford

Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. No basis? Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash. apnews.com/live/donald-...

Want better academic outcomes and higher test scores? Research shows: well-equipped school libraries with certified librarians make a significant difference! Let's support our libraries! 🙌 #EducationResearch #LibraryPower #StudentGrowth #aaslslm

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

Everyone following @maryltrump.bsky.social and catching her live on Substack by subscribing? Do it now! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

More of this! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...

I'm reading Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, Careless People. It's explosive and damning. Watch her Congressional testimony about her seven years at #Faceboom #Meta here: www.youtube.com/live/u7tzjjj...

#StatesRights are a never more clear than when it comes to school curriculum. #edusky www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

I'm glad you're here, everyone. Keep looking for that rainbow!

What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

#edusky and families, preorder this book now! If you order from The Eric Carle Museum, and you will get access to an online event w the author!!

7 months ago. Bring back Bidenomics.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

75%

Hey Seattle! I'll be at Elliott Bay Book Company April 7. Save the date and info in the graphic below. From what I hear, this event is getting popular. Info in the link. I'll be taking questions and signing books. Hope to see you there! www.elliottbaybook.com/events/45196