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Iron Librarian

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School Librarian CTU WOSO Chicago ‘24-‘25 Fellow University of California Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4h
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sean Connery in The Untouchables
ALT: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In some ways, the biggest difference between me and a person who is "successfull in media" is this clip right here. Thompson is summoning every ounce of her strength to sit there and listen to sports praise of a sexual predator. I'd... lose my shit and get fired.
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Union workers on Mars submitting their demands: 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for work 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for rest 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for what we will
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would just like to announce to the world that the band that pulled out of Ed Sherran’s Zionist concerts a few weeks ago over the Macklemore farce has now joined the Garvaghy Rd Fleadh tent. BEOGA ! 🎶🎻🇵🇸 @unamullally.bsky.social @tonygroves.bsky.social
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God, I had so much fun putting together this 20 min. video on Eric Schmitt and the most embarrassing moment in a congressional hearing I’ve ever seen. Yes, 20 minutes. Full video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4wvOY...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.
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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem with seeing AI as an end and not a tool is you completely miss how it fundamentally layers into the way our economy/society is already structured. We don’t have the incentives to use AI for increasing factory productivity. We do for extracting maximum profits out of services.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 26/09/2026
Cool cool cool.
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5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Socialism #DV1 #proudblue very insightful comments on socialism vs capitalism from George Galloway, former UK Parliament member The Bridge to Nowhere Has a Destination: Everyone A thread
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Ravenmark @ravenmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A question worth asking: If a president repeatedly violates the Constitution, and enough members of his own party knowingly refuse to use their constitutional powers to restrain him, when does that stop being one president’s failure—and become a crisis of the party’s constitutional legitimacy?
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Put together some video from my time covering Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago/Broadview (including off topic behind the scenes clips, like when I invented a new way to lock myself out of my hotel room).
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A Year After Operation Midway Blitz
On Guantanamo Bay and Broadview
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The fields director at Starfire Sports, a beloved soccer complex outside Seattle that's hosted many US Open Cup matches over the decades, has been snatched up by ICE. Please consider helping him and his family if you are able.
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Iron Librarian @ironlibrarian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote a little essay on substack about how actually, quite a lot of people outside the academy are interested in books and other real things. The main reason to read this piece is that I discuss Frances, she of the bread-and-jam. emily613.substack.com/p/let-us-eat...
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Let Us Eat Cream-Cheese-Cucumber-Tomato-Sandwiches, On Rye-Bread
I love my students and my colleagues, and I love the discussions that are possible in the classroom and among scholars, in academic contexts.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Alex Driggars at the Austin Statesman tweeted a photo of the traffic camera at the intersection of today's ICE shooting in Austin. Just went and checked, and this is from 4 minutes ago. Crowd not leaving.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
ICE has again shot someone.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did you see this Fox News poll? The majority of Americans believe Trump's extreme immigration crackdown has gone too far. ICE's violent tactics and the admin's lies do not make our communities any safer—it’s quite the opposite. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Fox News Poll: Majority says immigration enforcement has crossed the line
A Fox News poll finds Trump's immigration approval at 43% as 53% of voters say ICE enforcement has gone too far, nearly erasing the GOP's edge.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When you understand this re: US politics things become clearer. It's always "look what you marginalized people made us do." It's abuser logics.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Texas public libraries generate roughly $5 to the economy for every $1 invested. New study from the Texas Library Association is a bounty of data about the power of libraries. trulytexas.txla.org
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Libraries: Truly Texas
Explore Libraries: Truly Texas, TLA's research hub showcasing public opinion polling and economic impact data on Texas libraries. Discover why libraries matter.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026
No one ever said, "Oh, great, they replaced their customer service department with AI chatbots!" My teenager and her friends use "That's so AI" as a shorthand for "That's low-effort shit."
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Melissa & Rashad Robinson discuss right-wingers using rigged rules & confusion to ward off democracy - and how Trump's IRS is trying to resegregate education. THEN Niko Bowie & Daphna Renan discuss SUPREMACY: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People crooked.com/podcast/how-...
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How Trump is Using the IRS to Resegregate America | Crooked Media
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 14/09/2026
Btw, I've added 2 new columns to the state-by-state breakdown of active agreements + agencies on the report home page to provide context on the total # of local/county/state law enforcement agencies in each state (from the DOJ's 2018 LEA census). www.tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-...
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ICE 287(g) Program Tracker
Interactive map and data visualization tool tracking local law enforcement partnerships with ICE under the 287(g) program. Understand how immigration enforcement operates in your community.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
LORD! THIS IS GOOD.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 21/06/2026
the “practice having no fear” mural of alex pretti on nicollet ave in minneapolis is finished, just a few blocks north of where he was killed by border patrol during operation metro surge. the inclusion of a medicine wheel makes me wonder if a native artist did this, couldn’t find a signature
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 11/09/2026
Midcentury American hotel letterheads, gleaned from the papers of actress/author Ilka Chase.
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/hH3Ln... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Just like clockwork every time Republicans have a big event, GRINDR usage soars causing stress outages on the Gay Hookup site Republicans love to hook up with other closeted MAGA’s wherever they meet Hypocrites to their very core
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Grindr Outages Reported in Dallas as Republican Convention Kicks Off
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 08/09/2026
TODAY: We often get requests for how to get involved in the work LPL is doing. We are finally re-opening our volunteers process up. Let's meet-up on Discord on Sept 8th and talk.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
11yo: “Bro [the president) is doing evil side quests at this point.”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The tee shirt I designed for the paper doll was modeled on the cover of the feminist anthology edited by the late Robin Morgan.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/09/2026
No charges for shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Charges for lying to the FBI about it.
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ICE officer charged with lying to investigators in the shooting of Venezuelan man, AP source says
Federal prosecutors are charging a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis i...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
BTW this was something I wrote to a press outlet in April during the Mythos hype. I'm realizing more & more the trap of constantly having to spend the time debunking this stuff. We spend time on that instead of implementing our visions, while they implement their dystopian tech futures.🧵
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The list of schools 12News had to sue to obtain makes clear: vouchers are forcing tithing for taxpayers. Religious institutions are the primary beneficiaries of $1 billion as "Arizona ranks near last in public school funding."
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolutely astounding how people will look me in the eye and detail the supremely mundane ways in which they use genAI while professing that “it’s not going anywhere“ as though they have no individual will whatsoever.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
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Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
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Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Last week, we spoke to the Chicago Board of Ed about the Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education, which 13 of 21 sitting board members have now committed to as well as issues with CPS compliance with the transparency requirements of the Student Online Personal Protection Act. Full statements 👇
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Comments at the Aug. 27th Chicago Board of Education meeting
Taking action for the public good
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A piece that gobbles up industry talking points and completely ignores the growing backlash to both AI and edtech overuse generally. The one blaring truth: AI means more, not less, work for teachers where you capitulate to it or not.
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Schools adopting AI could see benefits (and more work)
Schools are shifting the "show your work" model to AI assignments.
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