Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Love this thoughtful work from the brilliant @mollyhardy.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciSarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2025‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830. #printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks 47826
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciKEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 15/11/2025‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.csmonitor.com‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ... 7743252
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park… 203341472
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse. 457182825765
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist 204176573973
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Keep thinking about how this acetaminophen announcement is about blaming women for not “toughing out” their pain. Especially after listening to two seasons of Susan Burton’s excellent podcast “The Retrievals,” which is all about how women in pain are rarely heard, believed, or appropriately treated 000
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate. 17379441594
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciAlex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 25/06/2025A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators. 353642977
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this 8096337014277
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuircijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president 4155138111265
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I wish this headline didn’t take up space in my brain, but alas…. 010
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes 97171294658
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally? 481144623519
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025NEW: A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the gutting of the Institute of Museum & Library Services is likely unlawful. This is the SECOND federal court to rule against the slashing of the only federal agency dedicated to library funding. Learn about ALA's own legal case: ala.org/IMLS-lawsuit 192714809
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Fascinating (horrifying) to watch RW media sell people on American manufacturing jobs and leave out the parts where there’s no unions or health benefits, no OSHA or FMLA or ADA compliance, no child labor laws or whistleblower protections. Welcome to The Jungle, I guess. 030
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciSheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave. 307339
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciAditya Gotu Desai @adityadesai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Save the NEH, my job, and the jobs of thousands of culture workers who are supported by NEH funds and programming. This link takes you to a SUPER simple form to email all of your reps. It took me 15 seconds and I got email replies from my congressman and both senators. p2a.co/DdtlGITp2a.coURGENT: Save the NEH 033
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciJason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award, 17461322
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements 9864659311510
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday 112
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025This morning’s opening bell #stockmarketmedia.tenor.coma cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is nearALT: a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near 030
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025starting to think that centering your campaign around the most viscerally offputting man in history isn’t a reliable winning strategy 11810087834
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciRep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025For nearly 70 years, a segregationist held the record for the longest the filibuster in order to block civil rights. Today @booker.senate.gov broke that record to advance justice and defend democracy. Grateful for your leadership, Senator. 757042
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciÉlika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Thinking of dear friends and colleagues at NEH 💕💕 0243
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Me looping my husband into the national security group chat 070
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 20/03/2025As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...reddit.comFrom the fednews community on RedditExplore this post and more from the fednews community 10254224
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciAnthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Schumer (202) 224-6542 no vm Hassan (202) 224-3324 Peters (202) 224-6221 Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm Schatz (202) 224-3934 King (202) 224-5344 Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full Fetterman (202) 224-4254 Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542 Gillibrand (202) 224-4451 671462702
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciNicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency. 15249608626501
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciMatt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages 608176212917
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciS.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/02/2025This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!! 4355471396
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Refs have their orders, I see 🙃 #SuperBowl59 #SuperBowl 010
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 04/02/2025All the post-election spicy takes on how Harris should have toned down the threat to democracy language have aged like a tuna sandwich in a hot car 020
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Never make an enemy of the Friends.inquirer.comQuaker groups, including in Philadelphia, sue to keep ICE out of religious sitesThe lawsuit says “the very threat" of ICE enforcement deters congregants from attending services, violating First Amendment rights of religious liberty. 010
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciJillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Had so much fun talking “book history on a budget” w/ @ldicuirci.bsky.social at the Bibliographical Society of America this weekend (also featuring MARCH makerspace researcher Sophia Westfall and her experiments with ink and paper!) Am so grateful for the great conversations all day long 192
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Wrote this up more fully, same bottom line on Washington: there is no carve out for slavery. "Slavery was not an incidental factor in his life. It was part of all that he did and accomplished. His world was made by, and bound by, the centrality of slavery." 1/ time.com/7173647/geor...time.comEven George Washington Was a TyrantWe don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom. 919077
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Has anyone written a good piece on the kind of stylistic tells of an AI-generated essay? Not how to spot AI as a teacher, but more an analysis of the organizational, syntactical, stylistic, and rhetorical moves it tends to make? 041
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Student referring to something fairly recent as happening “back in the 1900s” has me feeling like 020
Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 15/11/2024you know #Bluesky has made it when your timeline is once again full of plagiarized viral jokes. 130
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/11/2024mental health break? you bet it did 187335466112
Reposted by Lindsay DiCuirciR. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌 324174364033