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Heidi Burkhardt

@heidisb.bsky.social
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Anxious list maker. Web projects and content strategy in libraryland. Mama. Pronouns: she/her. 📍Ann Arbor, MI.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026
🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇
A graphic poster reads "We have a deal! The ProPublica Guild has reached a deal with ProPublica's management on our first contract and has voted to ratify it. Swipe for the highlights [pointing emoji].
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If you're not familiar with the Prairieland case (I wasn't), highly recommend listening to the one-two punch of this plus the latest epsiode of Code Switch. It is...unsettling, to say the least.
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damnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Guest opinion from @akgood.bsky.social: Ideology vs Progress - Why I'm voting for Taylor, not Rabhi www.damnarbor.com/2026/07/opin... #a2Council
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Opinion: Ideology vs Progress - Why I'm voting for Taylor, not Rabhi
Note: This piece by Adam Goodman reflects his own views, not those of any group or organization A recent Guardian article chronicling the r...
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Jonathan Levine @jnthnlvn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#a2council residents deciding to support the proposed municipal takeover of electricity service from DTE will be interested in the experience of other municipalities that have pursued municipalization since 2000. I identified 15 such municipalities. Of those, 2 ultimately completed the transition.
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Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is great. But meanwhile, folks claiming the DSA banner in A2 are running a grievance-fueled campaign, backed by landlords, Republicans, and other anti-housing activists, with no clear plans other than maybe putting the city into massive bond debt? #a2council www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Democratic socialists are winning in US cities with message of getting stuff done
Mayors such as New York’s Zohran Mamdani show leftwing ideology can go hand-in-hand with effective governance
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17/02/2026
Maybe it’s just me, but I would much rather have an entire undocumented immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than white supremacists or racist MAGA lunatics who worship their pedophile president any day of the week.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I feel like I shouldn't yell into the void about anything other than abolishing ICE, copaganda, and the fascist regime that is our current federal government, but OH MY GOD I HATE THE AI SUMMARY IN GMAIL SO MUCH. I just keep thumbs downing every one and saying "I DON'T WANT THIS."
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I want everyone to understand that Democrats are proposing not one thing that will meaningfully constrain ICE--and several things that will make it worse. But they also have absolutely nothing to say about the massive, daily violence of the DHS bureaucracy. Chris Murphy just ignores this stuff:
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Democrats cannot even bring themselves to talk about reducing the ICE budget (which was TRIPLED out of the blue and no one knows how exactly such sums could ever be spent even on the vast network of concentration camps and private contractors) to, say, its already-record 2024 levels.
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Twin Cities are an encapsulation of how diversity makes us stronger. The news makes it obvious, but if you've never been, it's a really special place.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It’s wild that they’re going to do a cover-up of a murder that the whole world saw play out on video, but that’s America for ya.
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FBI takes over case of ICE agent killing US woman and cuts Minnesota’s access to evidence
Minneapolis remains on edge, with several protests planned after shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE shouldn't exist.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
WELP, I guess I’m awake now. Time to make some tea, read more of BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY by Nicholas Boggs which is just incredible, btw and then get back to writing. I’ll keep an eye on Trump’s moves, but I will not give my day over to him. He doesn’t get to plan my heart’s agenda.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 17/12/2025
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
Headline: ProPublica management wants 100% discretion over when and how to use AI
Supplementary text: The organization rejected our proposal that ensures staff will not be replaced by AI and requires labeling AI-generated content
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"We are in an era where the highest office in the country is disseminating imagery that isn’t just fake and stupid, but actively hostile to the people living in this country. ... AI continues to be the aesthetic of fascism: fast, easy, ugly." 🔥💩
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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
University-wide AI mandate.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Fake as HELL.
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I'm obsessed with this hyperlocal news.
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Juicy Kitchen is a wonderful, local Ann Arbor business with the sweetest owners and they need help after a fire. Hope #a2council folks can show them some love. gofund.me/704ee4058
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Donate to Support the Juicy Kitchen Team during Fire Repairs, organized by Kelby Behan
On the evening of Wednesday, September 17, a merchandiser freezer malfu… Kelby Behan needs your support for Support the Juicy Kitchen Team during Fire Repairs
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This validated that I am not, in fact, losing my mind. Thank you 🙏.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 11/07/2025
As the August 5th election nears, we've been getting a lot of questions from patrons who have heard or read false claims about Proposals A&B. So, we've put together this page with the false claims we've heard and the facts that refute them: aadl.org/morefacts Please share and tell your friends!
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Things you may have heard about the August 5th Vote | Ann Arbor District Library
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Not there, but did I cry watching this? Yes. Yes, I did.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Socialism, tonight, defeated barbarism. After the two-decade midnight of 9/11, dawn is breaking.
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This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era
Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 23/06/2025
We are finally here on Bluesky, too! Follow us to help build an Ann Arbor for All.
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is really great and made me love and be in awe of @aadl.org more than ever. We are fervent library users and I still learned a ton. Ann Arbor is so lucky to have a visionary and commited director like @eli.aadl.org, an excellent library board, and stable funding structure. Vote yes on A&B!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/05/2025
NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.
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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma...
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Unreal. Hate it.
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Dr. Heather Moorefield Lang @actinginthelib.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I mean, fuck off, obviously. 📚 apnews.com/article/dona...
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President Donald Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.
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LEO Union @leounionumich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
LEO-GLAM Members: be sure to check your email ASAP and vote! The contract ratification vote is open until Thursday, May 15th at 5pm. Please email brianna@leounion.org or DM us if you can't find your ballot!
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LEO Union @leounionumich.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
LEO-GLAM has officially reached a TA with U-M Admin after 4 months of bargaining! 🎉 Onward to ratification 🙌 Read more on the blog: buff.ly/Gooep34 #WeAreLEOGLAM #1u #SolidarityForever #UnionStrong
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“Overall, negotiations with our employer have been professional and productive...The only item left on the table is salary. We believe we can reach an agreement soon. However, our members are willing to escalate, if necessary.” - @mkahn.bsky.social (our kickass chair) #WEARELEOGLAM #UnionStrong
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LEO-GLAM quits contract with UMich
LEO-GLAM announced that they will be quitting their contract with the University after four months of bargaining over a new contract.
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The stereotypically perfect action for our sweet little union. #WEARELEOGLAM #UnionStrong
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U-M union holds 'read-in' for new contract
Members of the University of Michigan’s Lecturers’ Employee Organization’s Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums bargaining unit (LEO-GLAM) have overwhelmingly approved a strike pledge. WEMU’s K...
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The title and description are subtle, but this episode of This American Life is 3 hugely important stories about how this presidential adminstration/regime is destroying lives. All are carefully told and it's a must listen.
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Heidi Burkhardt @heidisb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Proud to be part of this community of colleagues. ✊🦁
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LEO-GLAM holds rally amid contract negotiations
The University of Michigan Galleries, Librarians, Archivists and Museums bargaining unit held a rally Wednesday to support negotiations.
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