Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
🙄For all those red hats who said Biden/Kamala were going to lead us into ww3.
Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
Our latest book - "Legislative Advocacy and Public Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers," edited by Raymond Pun, Sonya M. Durney, and Tarida Anantachai - is now available. Learn more in an excerpt from the introduction and pick up your copy today!
Your ACRL Member of the Week is Monya Tomlinson, Reference Librarian at Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, GA!
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1. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court decision blocking enforcement of Florida's drag ban.
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The man checked out 50 books on topics that included Jewish history, African-American history and LGBTQ education.
Then burned them.
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✴️Texas Students for DEI is fighting SB37 from the student/alumni perspective--opposing the state’s attempt to crack down on "DEI" curriculum take over higher ed. Here is a legislative toolkit for those who wish to testify on Tuesday or submit written testimony. Please help!🗣️🗣️
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Yet national parks generate $55.6 billion in economic output, benefiting the U.S. economy far more than they cost.
I know I’m probably biased because I’m in this film, but it’s just so well done. The editing, cinematography, directing…I could go on. Everyone featured pours their hearts into standing up for intellectual freedom and I’m so proud to be a small part of this. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
NEW: The CDC has been gutted. Thousands of CDC employees working on HIV prevention and lead poisoning received RIF notices early this morning.
w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @knibbs.bsky.social
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And remember the first rule of Fight Club: we don’t talk about Fight Club. We’ll keep everyone updated as we can. Six. Twelve. Twenty-one. Now go cause some good trouble.
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
This museum is one of the best I’ve ever been to. The personal stories and narratives contained within it force visitors to reckon with the history of slavery and segregation, and of the lived experiences of Black people in America.
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
Beto O'Rourke:
"For Democrats, too many of them fear to fight at all. You saw Chuck Schumer surender... He gave up the only leverage we have... The only people who they should fear at all is you... You have the power to pick someone else and retire that guy from politics for the rest of his life."
Scientists & faculty of the Columbia Irving Medical Center spoke out today on Trump’s ongoing assault on Columbia & all higher learning in America & how cuts in vital scientific research will harm the health of ALL Americans.
Listen to Dr. Delivette Castor, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology.
Library patrons in Greenville, South Carolina, with help from the ACLU and ACLU of SC, have sued the county over library policies restricting and banning LGBTQ+ materials.
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If you're able to get to Dallas this Sunday consider showing up to show solidarity with this. There's a huge risk that ICE is going to show up so the more people who show up in support the better www.thebulwark.com/p/immigratio...
NEW: The greatest threat to Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections, @marcelias.bsky.social writes. The president's latest illegal executive order is a wake-up call for those who believe the danger of election subversion has passed.
Crockett: Free speech is not about whatever it is that you all want somebody to say. And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that isn’t Fox News is bullshit
Greg Casar (rep, tx, chiar of progressive caucus) joins AOC and Bernie at today's rally in Tuscon.
Sanders: You have a president who is suing ABC and CBS and the Des Moines register. He is threatening to investigate PBS and NPR. He loves media that fawns on him.. If you cannot take the criticism, get the hell out of politics
There are research papers showing that students who rely heavily on AI to generate answers for them are genuinely losing cognitive thinking and creative skillsets.
Weingarten: This is a remaking of America to try to undermine the contract that America has had in its modern age that says, opportunity for all.
