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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

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Andrea @teachbk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

As a classroom teacher it's frustrating that my intellectuality and my perspective are systematically overlooked while my labor, my pedagogy & my time are never enough I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 25/05/2025

If you care about libraries, and the stories they hold dear, you should be following Kelly. She’s been reporting what’s happening from the beginning and we are so blessed she has been.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Remember that every time you deride "red" states you deem "bad," you're deriding the thousands of folks doing unbelievably hard, tireless work to stop these brutal anti-literacy/library/school bills. CONGRATS, Alabama library advocates and thank you <3

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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’ve been a @katemessner.com fan for a long time, but even I wasn’t prepared for her newest book, THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. Absolutely blew me away. 😭😭😭 Don’t miss it!!! (Also, the audiobook is excellent & @libro.fm is offering it to teachers/librarians for free this month thru their ALC program!)

The cover of Kate Messner’s newest book, THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. It features a white boy looking at the sky from the summit of a mountain. A happy, shaggy black dog sits at his feet.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef

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President 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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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

a friendly reminder never to buy your books from Amazon, where they are used as a loss leader so that you'll buy a flatscreen TV and your toilet paper instead-- and then use that money to send Katy Perry to space. Books aren't just products. They're culture. Buy them from those who understand that.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This. And here's the thing - we need joy. We need connection. If we can't find that, even in these times, it makes fighting THAT much harder.

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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

When we silence books, we silence voices—and we risk raising a generation without the tools to think freely and compassionately. Because the real danger isn't in the pages of a book—it's in a world where people stop reading them. #FreedomToRead #StopBookBans #ReadBannedBooks

Quote by Lyndon B Johnson that says books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators

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An Open Letter to My Fellow Book Creators — Pretty Ok Maggie

Inside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing...

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My god she sucks. How many trans people read HP fervently and with wild delight under the covers as children. How can she have such disrespect, such contempt and outright hatred for the young adults whose imaginations she nurtured and fed? It's unacceptable.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Banning books is not about books. Banning books is about the erasure of stories. Banning books is about the erasure of identities. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism. Silence is complicity. Resist this regime. Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.

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Go Birds!💚🦅 @okoyessmile.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We had a Holocaust survivor speak at the school today. He told the kids 1930s-40s Germany was inspired by Jim Crow here in the USA.

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Authors Speak Up About Their Books Being Misrepresented in a Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court buff.ly/xecdhKZ

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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Had a conversation with a friend today about censorship and book banning as it relates to my job as a school librarian. They asked if that was a hill worth dying on. Unequivocally and without reservation: YES.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Free Palestine and free all the people being kidnapped for saying free Palestine. (And, of course, free. them. all.)

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 13/04/2025

Pressure groups. Ask yourselves why and what do they get out if it. Follow the money. @la-cac.org @oif.bsky.social @ifrt-ala.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Shoutout to @ebonyteach.bsky.social for filling my feed with such beautiful blooms in such ugly times. 🌺🌸

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 06/04/2025

📚 Wishing you all a happy National Library Week! Libraries need your love and support right now, just as they love and support you. 💙📚 Big thanks to @goraina.bsky.social and @scottmccloud.bsky.social for being the Honorary Chairs!

A colorful poster promoting National Library Week, featuring four illustrated panels. The panels depict children engaging with books, asking a librarian for help, and drawing. The text "Drawn to the Library" is prominently displayed along with the dates April 6-12, 2025

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Being on an island full of tariffed penguins sounds pretty great right now actually

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now. That is not this assignment. Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.

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On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted

DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.

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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Got to spend my afternoon listening to @as-king.bsky.social speak, and as always, she is a fierce advocate and truth-teller: “We can only expand into the spaces we’re given, and our job is to make those spaces as big as we can so kids can expand into whatever they want.” 💜

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Dr. Betina Hsieh (she/her/ 她） @profhsieh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

“History has shown us that authoritarian regimes target academics first, fearing the power of inquiry, free expression and the pursuit of truth. We do not choose the times in which we live, but we do choose how we act in those times.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

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Op-ed: A letter in defense of academic freedom, human rights and the First Amendment - The Tufts Daily

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I am a grandchild of grandparents who were forbidden from getting library cards, who didn't have libraries they could visit. We celebrate libraries, celebrate one another. We celebrate togetherness ✨ We can't keep moving backwards 💔 Our only hope is marching forward, together 💛 🧵 2/2

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My now-rain drenched protest sign from two (three?) weeks ago.

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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Also: if you don’t already know about or use @5calls.org, now is a great time to give it a try. The app makes it so easy to call your representatives and even provides scripts that you can use. It may be a small thing, but all of our small moves add up. 💛

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 06/03/2025

I say this to myself every single day. 💛

Teaching has the potential to be an act of
radical hope

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

One other resource, too: a collection of all the different threads from February on one page—particularly helpful for going back and exploring what was said and considered with each chapter! #BelovedFebruary (Also: sorry for not updating this while we read!) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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#BelovedFebruary - Homepage

— Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. — A BlueSky Slow-Read of Beloved by Toni Morrison #BelovedFebruary One chapter a day. Every day in February. Creating conversation around Ton...

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/02/2025

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Fantastic thread. Thanks for your insights, Sarah! ⬇️

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Federico Erebia @federicoerebia.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, HAV, HBV, HPV, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, VZV are largely preventable with vaccines. Covid & flu as well. HPV vaccines can prevent cervical cancer! Willful ignorance is a shameful way to get gravely ill or die. Believe in science. www.aha.org/news/headlin...

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Measles outbreak hits Texas, CDC says most cases nationwide are among unvaccinated | AHA News

The Texas Department of State Health Services reported a measles outbreak Feb. 11 in Gaines County, with 24 cases confirmed and more expected.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 14/02/2025

Hey #PoetryPeople Let’s start a thread of love poems for this day. I love I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca “I love you.”

I Am Offering this Poem
BY JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

I am offering this poem to you,
since I have nothing else to give.
Keep it like a warm coat
when winter comes to cover you,
or like a pair of thick socks
the cold cannot bite through,

I love you,

I have nothing else to give you,
so it is a pot full of yellow corn
to warm your belly in winter,
it is a scarf for your head, to wear
over your hair, to tie up around your face,

I love you,

Keep it, treasure this as you would
if you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature;
and in the corner of your drawer,
tucked away like a cabin or hogan
in dense trees, come knocking,
and I will answer, give you directions,
and let you warm yourself by this fire,
rest by this fire, and make you feel safe

I love you,

It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,

I love you.

Keep it, treasure this as you would
if you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature;
and in the corner of your drawer,
tucked away like a cabin or hogan
in dense trees, come knocking,
and I will answer, give you directions,
and let you warm yourself by this fire,
rest by this fire, and make you feel safe

I love you,

It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,

I love you.

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