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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A cypress tree at the end of a road, with with ocean and a pink morning sky behind
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
highway lane leading into a fog cloud
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
White Sand, New Mexico, USA - Raymond Depardon, 1982
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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Download and print "How To Report ICE" zines! Available for: DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts Northern California (now including San Benito!) NYC Philly Pittsburgh So Cal is being edited now. If you have info on San Diego rapid response, please send! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe"hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E EquipmentBlack and white illustration of a large eye looking down on a melting cube of ice
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
a bridge crossing a ravine with the ocean in the distance
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
toy boat washed up on a beach. in the background a seagull is at the waterline
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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Klickedy @klickedy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is why libraries are under attack right now. They put everyone and all ideas in one place on a level playing field. They are community hubs for all. They must be destroyed because the idea of sharing public space with those you disagree with or who are different from you is anathema to MAGA.
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/04/2025
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In its own way, this is as damaging as what is happening at NIH, CDC, USAID, elsewhere. Even tariffs. It's the Cultural Revolution. Year Zero. And GOP grins and claps.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/03/2025
One of the things that's really hobbling older liberal leadership, Bernie included, is this reflex they have to show broad mindedness by using a kind of corporate version of Rogerian argument, where you always begin by acknowledging common ground or points of agreement you share with your opponent
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Meta swiped my book for ai training. It appears the entire book is available for the taking. Not quite certain how they’re getting away with this…
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Sune 🍞 @sunpanbreadroll.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down
Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads:

DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS.

There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries.

IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant.

There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities.

This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Confounding: The air of normalcy with which so much of US media reports on the dismantling of US democracy and Western alliances.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Jacob Lawrence, The Libraries Are Appreciated, 1943 philamuseum.org/collection/o...
Painting of a library setting. Bookshelves are crammed with books. Large windows let in light. Three figures sit at a table, focused on the books they are reading
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Erin Richardson @erinrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ
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Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department
Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Media folks still amplifying the misinformation here, by calling gross cancelled spending “savings”. It’s not *savings* unless a credible source has done an analysis that shows the *same quality and quantity* of services are still being delivered at lower (social) costs. And that hasn’t been done.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Shelves for young adult books in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, are empty. That's because the librarians have to read 30,000 books to check for "explicit content." (No such thing exists.) (This is a TREMENDOUS waste of taxpayer dollars). www.nola.com/news/livings...
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Librarians reading 30,000 books in Livingston Parish to check for explicit material
Livingston Parish libraries have found a solution for the community's concerns about the possibility of sexually explicit material in children's books: read every single book on the shelf.
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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.
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Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It wasn't just the solar panels on the roof. He had really, really big ideas for renewable energy. They would have changed the world.
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Jimmy Carter Might Have Saved the Climate, If the Country Had Let Him Try
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What's happening at Western Illinois University is catastrophic as folks will discover when knowledge systems that librarians build, maintain, and explain inevitably fall apart. Can you have a university without librarians? I don't know, can you swim without water? www.chronicle.com/article/a-lu...
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Can a Library Function Without Librarians? Can a College?
Western Illinois University is undergoing severe budget cuts. Librarians say their work is still crucial.
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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
NASA is closing its Libraries, including at HQ and multiple centers, "with at least 5 librarians losing their positions:"
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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 20/11/2024
We hear people are introducing themselves, and thought we'd give it a go! LibraryThing was founded in 2005, and is a book cataloging and social networking site. We offer detailed cataloging options, as well as a lively social atmosphere and lots of fun programs. www.librarything.com 💙📚🧵
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"Wake Up And Read" National Library Week Apr. 16-22 1961
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
One thing you should keep in mind is that the people most worried about this moment and directly affected by it are likely not broadcasting their feelings or concerns on social media.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Ugh, I missed this when it was announced: All goo.gl links will stop redirecting as of 25 August 2025 :/ developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ur...
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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
On archives and slavery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The history of Caribbean slavery is being lost. Britain must act now to preserve it | Laura Trevelyan and Nicole Phillip
Climate-related disasters are destroying precious records, warn campaigner Laura Trevelyan and Nicole Phillip of the University of the West Indies
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callnumber.bsky.social @callnumber.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books
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NPR @npr.org · 21/09/2024
Ahead of the 2024 general election, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state, territory and the District of Columbia.
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How to register to vote, and check your registration status
Ahead of the 2024 general election, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state, territory and the District of Columbia.
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