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audie verde

@audieverde.bsky.social
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Libraries/Bookmobiles/Rabblerouse/Inequity/Climb/Run/Bike/Social Infrastructure. Grow food. KY to ID. Words: mine. Shares: not endorsements. She/Her. Used to be @thebikebrarian in that other space. Anti-capitalist.

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're like me and value epic garage space over living space...come be my neighbor. Awesome hood and I am pretty sure the garage is bigger than the house: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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10 N Harrell St, Boise, ID 83706 | MLS #99001191 | Zillow
This 716 square feet Single Family home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. It is located at 10 N Harrell St, Boise, ID.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today in destruction of books www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year
Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know I have connected with some folks on here and our shared love and respect for Kermit/Jennifer, so if you would like to livestream the memorial (starting about now) or view it, it will be here: www.jenniferbuehler.net
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Home | Jennifer Buehler, PhD
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Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GREAT piece today from @heykellyjensen.bsky.social with collab from @sarahlamdan.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, and @tasslyn.bsky.social. Awesome quote from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social. Read it. It’s good. bookriot.com/book-censors...
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“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read
Advocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
ICYMI, Ken Paxton demanded Adam Hoffman, a lawyer who statutorily raped a boy, be given 29 years, 11 months, and 29 days less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE. The judge sentenced Hoffman to 60 days instead
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
We have educated, mentored, and nurtured humanity for thousands of years without "delivering a product to our customer." Thanks for the heads up, Britt. This is the nonsense that we currently face.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bears Ears was the first national monument in the U.S. created in collaboration with Native nations. Now it's been slashed by more than 85%. ictnews.org/news/patagon...
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Patagonia, environmental groups revive old legal fights against new cuts to Utah monuments  - ICT
Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears had been managed jointly by the U.S. government and the Bears Ears Commission made up of five tribal nations: the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute…
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow. Showing up for every vote counts and local elections matter. I haven’t always liked what Andy Hawes said/did but I know he has stood up the Liberty Dogs that attack access to reading. Also he took Covid seriously. (Less than a hundred vote diff??)
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 01/09/2026
Kentucky has lost a giant Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/k...
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Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky Lantern
A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.
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aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today I learned that someone I’ve known for years and years, but hadn’t chatted with in awhile, died when hit on her bike by a vehicle. Kermit* was a camp counselor when I was a CIT and then we continued to work together a few more years at BCAC. (*camp name, real name Jennifer Buehler). 1/
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you think RHPS is behind a paywall (because googles will have you believe that), reminder that Internet Archive is working to preserve all the things from government stats and silly memes to Dr Frankenfurter #timcurry archive.org/details/ROCK...
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ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 1975
1H 39M STARRING TIM CURRY AND SUSAN SARANDON
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
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Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A post that says “I’m putting the grim reaper on a fucking PIP (performance improvement plan)”
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So now I’ll be crying over Dolly while doing the Time Warp all day. 💔💔 Tim Curry
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026
if you're in line to donate money to the Imagination Library, please stay in line
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bec I was crying at work I ended up breaking the news to an entire Bio class getting a library tour...and the fact that they all gasped, knew who she was, and immediately got sad proves Dolly did things right. She crossed generations/so many other lines. Sad for us but happy you're with Carl Dean💔
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
re: the scope of this law, this is so much worse than I even thought it was and I already thought it was really bad
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My feed is (rightfully) upset about wild horses news coming from this administration. And while I will not defend the actions (or anything ever from this admin) I’d like to point y’all this great podcast sharing the complicated layers of wild horses. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/podcast/must...
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Mustang
For $125 you can get a wild horse from the Bureau of Land Management and try and train it. That’s what I did this spring. Bua’a (“friend” in Paiute) is a three-year-old mustang from the Beatys Butte w...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“I probably know more about books than anybody in the county” 🤔 SUMNER COUNTY’s far-right county commission just appointed Don Scruggs, who proudly posts the Confederate flag (and says it has nothing to do with slavery)… to their library board. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally.
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.
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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Among many other changes, Cullman County Public Library (AL) has completely removed their young adult section in the public library. This is as a result of the Alabama laws related to book appropriateness. www.cullmantribune.com/2026/08/11/c...
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Cullman County Public Library Board meeting notes: Aug. 6  - The Cullman Tribune
Cullman County Public Library Board meeting notes: Aug. 6  - The Cullman Tribune - Featured
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
50 years of strip-mining on Black Mesa has reshaped the water, the land, and the people living on Navajo & Hopi lands. 45 billion gallons of Navajo groundwater pumped out. 12,000+ Navajos forcibly relocated. Reclamation so "shoddy" they reseeded the desert with Midwest grass.
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mark your calendars if you're so inclined... www.boisestate.edu/news/2026/08...
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Idaho Center for the Book selects two ‘Great Reads’ for 2026 National Book Festival
The Idaho Center for the Book announced the two Great Reads books that will represent...
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 10/08/2026
Employing new tactics, ICE arrested more people in July than in any previous month of the Trump administration. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/new-...
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With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests
Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading…
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you need some joy, the treadmill video turns 20. Oh the hours spent on YouTube before socials… and I was obsessed with OKGO m.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAA...
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OK Go - Here It Goes Again (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by OKGoVEVO
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Strap in folks. There's a lot of season left. www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/p...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/08/2026
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada.
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Wildfire destroys about 230 homes in western Canadian Indigenous community, officials say
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada. The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says the Bradley Creek wildfire devastated much of the reserve near Vernon, about 440 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is also relevant in terms of the Spokane fires arrest/announcement. This person may be guilty but while we still have some semblance of a (biased and corrupt) judicial system, it needs to be stated that this is just the arrest stage, and sometimes they're wrong! This is not a conviction. 🧵in OG
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/08/2026
This week on The Roots: Our Editorial Intern Zoe Beketova shares what it took to reveal what it looks like to get sick and age inside the carceral system. Join us every Sunday as we discuss one of the week's top news stories: newsletter.thexylom.com/archive/what...
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What It Takes to Report on America's Elderly Prison Healthcare Crisis
Our Editorial Intern shares what it took to reveal what it looks like to get sick and age inside the carceral system
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Applying to fed jobs has always had some coded patriotic themes but this is a new level. TLDR: how will you make US more efficient and what’s your fave presidential order these days??
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In case anyone else is burnt out and also cannot take the break they actually need here's some advice my therapist gave me today that I'm sharing here jic: -wear comfortable clothes, & only pack comfortable clothes for trips -take at least two 15min breaks a day of silence, no screens or sounds
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is a hill I will die on. I have very few hills I can control, but using capitalist terms for library patrons, even when I have been mandated, I have never ever done.
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the moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
urban planners love to ask people to comment on a particular road design or proposal etc but they should be asking people what kind of day they enjoy having, how they want to spend their time, what brings them joy because that’s what the design of the city decides
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As Israeli government officials rush to blame Mayor Mamdani for a horrible antisemitic attack yesterday, remember: after the far deadlier 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the Israeli government rushed to absolve Trump of any responsibility, despite most American Jews blaming him for it.
"Israel Blames Mamdani for NYC Stabbings as Police Work to Establish Motive
Foreign Minister Sa'ar decries 'horrific antisemitic stabbing' as witnesses say assailant yelled 'Allahu Akbar' during the attacks; both victims - one of whom is Jewish - are expected to survive""Israeli Minister Calls It Unfair to Link Trump with Synagogue Shooting
Criticism highlights divide between conservative Israeli government and many American Jews""Majority of American Jews Believe Donald Trump Has ‘Some Responsibility’ for Synagogue Shootings"
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Me yesterday afternoon: wonder where I’ll run away to this weekend to camp and hike?? - Me this afternoon: apparently I am now running in the Ironman. - Send gentle breezes and good vibes y’all. I am now attempting an off the couch Ironman (just the run part!)
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/07/2026
Whenever someone asks me "why can't I just follow a bunch of TikTok influencers and call it a day", I respond by asking "where do you think your favorite influencers get their information from?" And watch them either short circuit or go into a long diatribe glazing Generative AI
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Maybe the answer to daylight savings is to stop organizing life around work.
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
this isn't a new observation but it really can't be overstated the extent to which "the cruelty is the point" is the animating function of the modern conservative movement
On March 31, which is Transgender Day of Visibility, the governor signed a law making it a crime for trans people to use restrooms in line with their gender identities in government-owned buildings and private businesses across Idaho.
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Zeb Palmer @zebpalmer.com · 20/07/2026
Every librarian I’ve ever known is one of the coolest people you’ll ever meet
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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yet most state employees didn't get CEC this year (raises) and every other week we were told to cot 2-6% more. Because there just wasn't any money. (Though State troopers and legislators got their raise) idahocapitalsun.com/2026/07/17/a...
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After ‘tight budget year,’ Idaho ends fiscal year with positive cash balance • Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho ended the 2026 fiscal year with a positive ending cash balance that lets the state transfer about $250 million into next year’s budget.
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