Reposted by Kate DrabinskiEmily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I haven’t trusted carob since my stepmom’s macrobiotic phase. 1242
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is a picture of my gray cat, Mr. Guy, showing off his long arm by dangling it over the edge of my blue velvet couch. 080
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiSarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Applications are now open for 2027-28 Newberry Library Long-Term Fellowships! Scholars with PhDs can apply to spend 4-9 months at the Newberry working on a book or other large-scale project with direct relation to our collections. @newberrylibrary.bsky.social www.newberry.org/research/fel...newberry.orgLong-Term FellowshipsLong-Term Fellows spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our scholarly community. 0128
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiDrew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com 156200268537
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiYour Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.” 105157683497
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiJoshua Wattles @joshdsw.bsky.social · 04/08/20261/2 There is a concerted effort to take DT's words and invest them with the value of the presidency - - as if they are a legitimate part of governance - - instead of off-the-wall utter cr*p. The left takes the craziest stuff and suggests it to be dangerous policy. The right takes it and ... 215453
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiNight of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports. 61918485
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiLil Miss Sinister Fairy Godbitch of the Burrow Mump 🧚♂️😈🌾 @fairygodmegan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I'm sorry I can't go out. My sassy dresser and I are in another argument, and I really have to deal with it before the issue gets blown out of proportion again 🙄 1151569
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 30/04/2026We need historians because there is always more than one side to the story. Looking at multiple perspectives changes how we understand the past. What perspective has reshaped how you see the past? #WeNeedHistorians #TalkAboutHumanities 12210
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiProfs and Pints @profsandpints.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Tonight in DC! Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... . @wamu.org.web.brid.gy @wtopnews.bsky.social @wpgc955.bsky.social @washingtoninformer.com @washingtonian.com @hillragdc.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @thehoya.bsky.social @pqliving.bsky.social 002
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in. All of this is absurd. 7923481004
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comHBCUs and the Uneven Legacy of Academic FreedomEddie R. Cole explores the complicated history around protecting scholars at historically Black colleges and universities and the risks of political interference in accreditation. 05824
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Almost two years in and I’m just so very happy to be in this body without breasts! I did not expect to feel like this. It’s so interesting! 090
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Tatyana Thompson said when she became pregnant with her son, her pain from sickle cell intensified. She was repeatedly in the hospital with a sharp pain, which she compared to being cut by a knife. After experimental treatment requiring bone marrow from her brother, she is pain-free. #BlackSky 🌱🙏🏾people.comWoman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New TreatmentTatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment. 131045294
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiJulie Scharper @juliemore19.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Historians, scholars and artists are working to unearth, record, preserve and share Maryland’s LGBTQ+ history— work they say is all the more urgent as the Trump administration and conservative legislatures try to roll back the rights of queer people www.thebanner.com/community/lo...thebanner.comBaltimore’s queer hidden histories galvanize a new generationAs the Trump administration and conservative legislatures around the country attack rights secured for LGBTQIA+ people, Baltimore historians say sharing the stories of queer ancestors has never been m... 11811
Reposted by Kate Drabinskirax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/03/2026we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer 162150367
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage. 586214425697
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiEmily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Join us at 5:30pm ET for a discussion of Organize Your Library! Building the Collective Power of Library Workers ! This event is part of the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies Research in Praxis discussion series. Register and hop in the zoom! bit.ly/ripdssp26bit.lyWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Research in Praxis Discussion Series Presented by QC SIS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.The Research in Praxis Discussion Series (RiPDS) aims to highlight the work of cultural heritage, information science, and library studies researchers and practitioners through a series of talks, pane... 0187
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiEmily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Hating women, more American than the sport of hockey. 0146
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiEmily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Always the women athletes doing the right thing, always always. 0395
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Made the paper! www.thebanner.com/culture/film...thebanner.com‘Heated Rivalry’ fandom exposes LGBTQIA+ divide in BaltimoreFor some, love of “Heated Rivalry” has exposed the loss of a once-vibrant gay nightlife in Charm City and splintered its LGBTQIA+ community. 1121
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 7462892160
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics. 40175433991
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Higher ed faculty in Maryland should have the right to organize their workplaces! If you agree, please send a letter to our state legislators in support of our bill to extend bargaining rights to adjunct and NTT faculty! actionnetwork.org/letters/coll...actionnetwork.orgCollective Bargaining Rights for FacultyFor far too long, faculty at Maryland's public universities have been left behind when it comes to collective bargaining rights. Almost every other public and state employee in the state of Maryland h... 051
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/01/2026A temperature of around minus 10 degrees did little to slow Minnesotans around the Twin Cities on Friday, with businesses closing, workers and students staying home, and demonstrators demanding that federal immigration agents depart. nyti.ms/3Zu4tiB 1636893
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2026He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop. 224100463419
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026In which I ride my bike to the Y even though it's cold outside. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/20/a...whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.comA Little Snow on the Sidewalk Behind the Waverly YMCAI have so been enjoying being back on my bike this year, especially since we’ve had some unseasonably warm weather. And that unseasonably warm weather has come to an end, for now, so the ques… 010
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 17/01/2026In which I take my bike to BBW to schedule a tune up and reminisce about my first ride in the city, on a three speed, up Fulton Avenue and over on North, in the heat of a July afternoon. I'm glad I pick my own routes now. That was a lot of cars. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/17/t...whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.comThe Counter at Baltimore Bicycle Works on Falls RoadOne of my bike rides this week took me down to Baltimore Bicycle Works, our local worker-owned coop bike shop, to make an appointment for a tune up and some new bar tape. I went with my friend R., … 120
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026Hey y’all! REMINDER: I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org 12435489
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out 378268718137
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order. 1160878
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 12/01/2026What are you doing on Wednesday at lunchtime? Join UMBC's CoLab team as they share their hands-on experience reshaping the Walters Art Museum's current 'Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano' exhibition! my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/summe...my3.my.umbc.eduWinter Wednesdays: Indigenous VoicesStudents, faculty, and staff — bring your lunch and stay connected with the UMBC academic community. Museum exhibitions are about more than just the artifacts -- they are about stories,... 040
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026In which I ride over to Hampden for a lunch date and think about what it means to tear down all those trees for another Hopkins building and think about it in the context of generations of betrayal by the institution. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/09/t...whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.comTrucks, Fencing, and Traffic Barriers on Wyman Park Drive at Remington AvenueI had a great week on my bike. I rode to the Y and back, even when I could have used the car–a small thing, but a big shift, and it takes basically the same amount of time. I biked to Mount V… 020
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I forgot to hold this grudge but I’ll never stop holding it now. 091
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 04/01/2026In which I reflect on a year without much biking, realize it is what it is, remember that I want to ride my bike more, and then ride around Guilford thinking about how much they don't want folks to enter their neighborhood from the east. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.comWordPress.com 240
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids. 491124434535
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt 281306411
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/12/2025www.commondreams.org/news/inside-...commondreams.org'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses | Common DreamsICE's plan to warehouse tens of thousands of immigrants in massive storage facilities is "beyond dehumanizing." 43628
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiCengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 22/12/2025CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...propublica.orgDeported and Imprisoned ArchivesA case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t... 3945142236
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Remember that 80% of the ACA subsidies about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich. www.kff.org/quick-take/m...kff.orgMore Than 3 in 4 ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in States Won by President Trump in 2024As Democrats push for an extension of the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits, new data from KFF show the extent to which states won by Trump in 2024 have come to rely on the ACA Marketplaces and the t... 471116343
Kate Drabinski @kdrabinski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I hate the warrior metaphors account cancer, but one thing it has in common with war is that whether you live or die is just luck of the draw. 150
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiCharm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 16/12/2025angela alsobrooks, grand marshall of the 50th baltimore pride parade 28231
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiEmma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This is racist even by his standards. The bigoted uncle nobody invited to Thanksgiving, and he rules us like a king. He’s a rapist and a pedophile, too. I can’t stand it. 0145
Reposted by Kate DrabinskiNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry 4127281059
