Reposted by a_bibliotaphLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21h“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 388319439694
Reposted by a_bibliotaphTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 6223061695
Reposted by a_bibliotaphErin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comForget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us. 3592189
Reposted by a_bibliotaphNancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very happy to find Zayd Ayers-Dohrn's Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: My Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground longlisted for the Nat'l Book Award for Nonfiction. Such a good read. I interviewed Zayd: www.seattlechannel.org/videos?video.... @seattlechannel.seattle.gov @wwnorton.comseattlechannel.orgBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Zayd Ayers DohrnBook Lust's Nancy Pearl interviews Zayd Ayers Dohrn about his new memoir, "Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young." The title comes from a lyric in Jefferson Airplane’s 1969 song “We Can Be Together”. 0103
Reposted by a_bibliotaphKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too. 401081146
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread) 91562610
Reposted by a_bibliotaphInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It is, however, the guy who had a volunteer who turned out to be a pedophile and whose brother last week tried to kill Amy Acton for calling his brother a pedophile 133675
Reposted by a_bibliotaphJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Destroying the Earth and hiding the evidence. In the service of greed and power. 616773
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Eye-opening look at who actually owns what in the cookware business 26917
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I think about gay men during the AIDS crisis, in the face of what often seemed like utter hopelessness, using everything in the arsenal--rage, resolve, defiance, humor, sexual energy, imagination, and art--to prevent despair from ruling the day. Even Larry Kramer didn't simply say, "We're doomed." 111299238
Reposted by a_bibliotaphDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Juan Sánchez Cotán, born OTD 1560. Painter of produce in mysterious arrangements. And a Carthusian monk. 2429
Reposted by a_bibliotaphRude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 30/05/2026in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that 432536504
Reposted by a_bibliotaphCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is incredibly tragic. I had the pleasure of speaking at an MIT Libraries event last month and got to see the good work the do and the community they support. For a university of this caliber to shutter this many of its libraries--this is truly a travesty. 1028680
Reposted by a_bibliotaphSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.” 223149972812
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026On Bob Dylan's birthday, a thread about the story behind the remarkable photo below: Dylan driving away from Andy Warhol's Factory with one of Warhol's Silver Elvis paintings—a painting now worth millions of dollars—on the roof of his car 931168
Reposted by a_bibliotaphPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear 7647321180
Reposted by a_bibliotaphsmofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026x.com/JamesTate121... 292230366
Reposted by a_bibliotaphRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 25/04/2026André Kertész Dive, 1935 424050
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Lucian Freud, "Buttercups," 1968 29813
Reposted by a_bibliotaphTim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 30/04/2026Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds 507175872915
Reposted by a_bibliotaphChristopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Up next, including a guest appearance with the author, @renfro.bsky.social 252
Reposted by a_bibliotaphKim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 17/04/2026TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along. 1764462921
Reposted by a_bibliotaphOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026the conservative obsession with children's genitals now extended to wanting to breed teenage girls tell me why democrats stopped calling these weirdos weird 681028256
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026To mark the birthday of Vincent van Gogh—iconic modern artist born today in 1853—a thread of some of my favorite, relatively lesser known works by him. First up, the stunning multi-colored variegation of his Tree Trunks in the Grass, made in last months of his life krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v... 822754
Reposted by a_bibliotaphGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946. 194107083232
Reposted by a_bibliotaphkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...bookriot.comA Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of RepresentativesHours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide. 2425441
Reposted by a_bibliotaphTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.boltsmag.orgIn an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - BoltsA change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers. 4916621349
Reposted by a_bibliotaphKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day. 392071581
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 09/02/2026fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it 10761117
Reposted by a_bibliotaphRon Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 04/02/2026After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comI’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books. 77485152
Reposted by a_bibliotaphAlex Johnson @malexjohnson.com · 04/02/2026Context: Ron Charles, a former Pulitzer juror, is perhaps America's finest book critic. 0123
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/01/2026From the great David Wojnarowicz (thread): "I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone" 110530
Reposted by a_bibliotaphJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Helene Schjerfbeck, Fragment, 1904. Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki), from an exhibition of the Finnish painter now on at the Met 0515
Reposted by a_bibliotaphAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three. 6995693838
Reposted by a_bibliotaphChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/11/2025"fuck your grandpa and his purple heart" -- the us coast guard 4535139
Reposted by a_bibliotaphAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true. 11182424932
Reposted by a_bibliotaphskELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Just gorgeous: Saeed Jones’ “Date Night” 29719
Reposted by a_bibliotaphRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.” 190120223045
Reposted by a_bibliotaphKatie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA. 1172148765756
Reposted by a_bibliotaphKali, the Psycho Alchemist @magickali.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I will repost this forever. 3860262678
Reposted by a_bibliotaphTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Took this excellent advice tonight and my God, she's so good in it. It feels condescending to say she held her own with Nicholson and Beatty If anything she made Nicholson hotter and Beatty more intense. They had to meet *her* level. An understatement to say she holds the film together 31255
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/10/2025There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years. 49920161
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Jenny Holzer, "Redacted (Top Secret)," 2012 05713
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Hard to think of many artists of the last fifty years more clear-sighted than this: David Wojnarowicz, "Democracy at Work," 1990 19538
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining 270300397066
Reposted by a_bibliotaphDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12/09/2025George Hendrik Breitner, born OTD 1857: girl adjusting an earring before her mirror, 1893. 2678
a_bibliotaph @abibliotaph.bsky.social · 11/09/2025@andydehnart.com Roku has finally added The Great Pottery Throwdown seasons 6 and 7 010
Reposted by a_bibliotaphMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 13/08/202527 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years. 4376361999