Reposted by audie verdeSimon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive 326487
Reposted by audie verdeMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You 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. 5713226
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If 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/...zillow.com10 N Harrell St, Boise, ID 83706 | MLS #99001191 | ZillowThis 716 square feet Single Family home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. It is located at 10 N Harrell St, Boise, ID. 190
Reposted by audie verdeMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today in destruction of books www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comRussian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school yearUkraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches. 1128
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I 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.netjenniferbuehler.netHome | Jennifer Buehler, PhD 000
Reposted by audie verdeLeila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026GREAT 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...bookriot.com“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to ReadAdvocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six. 12620
Reposted by audie verdeAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026ICYMI, 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 insteadreason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 110537
Reposted by audie verdeEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026We 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. 1416
Reposted by audie verdeRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Bears 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...ictnews.orgPatagonia, environmental groups revive old legal fights against new cuts to Utah monuments - ICTGrand 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… 13219
Reposted by audie verdeEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026An 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 Kliffnytimes.comRoger 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. 22418242
Reposted by audie verdeKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173914953
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wow. 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??) 2130
Reposted by audie verdeKentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 01/09/2026Kentucky has lost a giant Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/k...kentuckylantern.comKentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky LanternA 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. 14451162
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today 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/ 3372
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If 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...archive.orgROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 19751H 39M STARRING TIM CURRY AND SUSAN SARANDON 050
Reposted by audie verdeKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/20264 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:stripes.comLawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issueThe 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. 4422301147
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So now I’ll be crying over Dolly while doing the Time Warp all day. 💔💔 Tim Curry 090
Reposted by audie verde👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026if you're in line to donate money to the Imagination Library, please stay in line 91542432
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bec 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💔 0150
Reposted by audie verdeMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026re: the scope of this law, this is so much worse than I even thought it was and I already thought it was really bad 0125
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 21/08/2026My 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...boisestatepublicradio.orgMustangFor $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... 160
Reposted by audie verdeThe 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... 114524190
Reposted by audie verdeDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I 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.+ 21920551
Reposted by audie verdeSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally. 5879433
Reposted by audie verdeJohn Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This 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.thepurplewire.beehiiv.comSCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies 471937806
Reposted by audie verdekelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Among 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...cullmantribune.comCullman County Public Library Board meeting notes: Aug. 6 - The Cullman TribuneCullman County Public Library Board meeting notes: Aug. 6 - The Cullman Tribune - Featured 2910
Reposted by audie verdeRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/08/202650 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. 1155
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Mark your calendars if you're so inclined... www.boisestate.edu/news/2026/08...boisestate.eduIdaho Center for the Book selects two ‘Great Reads’ for 2026 National Book FestivalThe Idaho Center for the Book announced the two Great Reads books that will represent... 163
Reposted by audie verdeStates Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 10/08/2026Employing 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-...newsfromthestates.comWith new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrestsFederal 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… 21251190
Reposted by audie verdeoptimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Libraries 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? 32497943127
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If 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...m.youtube.comOK Go - Here It Goes Again (Official Music Video)YouTube video by OKGoVEVO 1120
Reposted by audie verdeMurphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Strap in folks. There's a lot of season left. www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/p... 0114
Reposted by audie verdeThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/08/2026A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada.bit.lyWildfire destroys about 230 homes in western Canadian Indigenous community, officials sayA 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. 312267
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This 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 020
Reposted by audie verdeJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026When 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. 222075
Reposted by audie verdeThe Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/08/2026This 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...newsletter.thexylom.comWhat It Takes to Report on America's Elderly Prison Healthcare CrisisOur Editorial Intern shares what it took to reveal what it looks like to get sick and age inside the carceral system 12111
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Applying 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?? 190
Reposted by audie verdeMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026In 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 116032
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This 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. 0141
Reposted by audie verdethe moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026urban 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 2449
Reposted by audie verdeRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 416159833946
Reposted by audie verdeJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026As 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. 4355104
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Me 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!) 480
Reposted by audie verdeAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/07/2026Whenever 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 0288
Reposted by audie verdeMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Maybe the answer to daylight savings is to stop organizing life around work. 26615
Reposted by audie verdepeppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026this 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 29132
Reposted by audie verdeZeb Palmer @zebpalmer.com · 20/07/2026Every librarian I’ve ever known is one of the coolest people you’ll ever meet 1222
audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Yet 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...idahocapitalsun.comAfter ‘tight budget year,’ Idaho ends fiscal year with positive cash balance • Idaho Capital SunIdaho ended the 2026 fiscal year with a positive ending cash balance that lets the state transfer about $250 million into next year’s budget. 091