Press statement From Islip Forward: At approximately 9:30 a.m. this morning, federal agents were documented using infrastructure located on the property of the Central Islip Fire Department Station 2, at 110 Wheeler Road-without prior authorization to be on or use that space. When a volunteer with Islip Forward approached to document the activity, federal agents threatened the volunteer with arrest for alleged trespassing, despite the agents themselves operating in an area where no prior permission had been granted. Immediately following this interaction, the Central Islip Fire Department took swift action to protect its property and the public. Temporary restrictions were implemented, including closing the gate to the area being used and preventing external access. The use of municipal fire department property for federal enforcement activity—without authorization-and the subsequent threat directed at a community volunteer raise serious concerns about transparency, overreach, and respect for local institutions. We are deeply grateful to the volunteer firefighters of the Central Islip Fire Department for their decisive and responsible response.

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

Fascism dehumanizes segments of the population by singling them out for public abuse and persecution.
By target these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, imprisonment, and much more.

The unspoken assumption is that you are a woman who is doing it for the love of the game and that your husband makes the real money so it's okay to post positions requiring an MLIS and think you'll be just fine with only making $15-$19 an hour.

Library Advocates Show Up for E-Rate Library advocates rallied on Capitol Hill in support of E-Rate, a federal program that funds broadband for libraries and schools, as the Supreme Court weighs its constitutionality.

E-rate and the Universal Service Fund are essential to rural communities, making access to broadband internet possible in schools and libraries. But will they remain legal under the current administration? Read more from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social:

ilovelibraries.org/article/libr...

As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.

Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.

Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...

Make art. Make bad art. Make queer art. Make stupid art. Make sublime art. Make art of a chicken quesadilla meal. Your art has value no shareholder can touch.

The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.

Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Sir Terry wearing a velvet jacket with white shirt open at the neck and his trademark hat

Happy #TerryPratchettDay

This photo was taken back to 2009 at the @cilip.bsky.social Youth Libraries Group Conference

This is Cuomo through and through, from the total lack of understanding of libraries and public goods to blaming a nameless volunteer for his failings. Just disgusting.

This is so real lmaoooo
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂

BOOK DRIVE FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH No Borders is partnering with a local librarian to bring requested books to youths ages 12-18 who are incarcerated at Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn. To help, you can: • Buy books from our Bookshop.org registry • Donate funds to The Rolling Library • Donate gently used paperback young adult novels, manga, and comics wishlist: tinyurl.com/2025bookdrive donate funds: tinyurl.com/tridonate contact: nobordersbooks@proton.me

last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...

Coast libraries call for help amid federal funding cuts, service suspensions Mississippi Coast libraries wasted no time in alerting the public and requesting a call to action in the aftermath of cuts to federal funding.

Mississippi libraries immediately sounding the alarm about what IMLS cuts are going to do.

Lots of public libraries (& museums) are doing this. Keep it up! Expand it!

www.wlox.com/app/2025/04/...

I wonder if they're freaking out over at Midwest Tape. So many libraries were on the verge of not being able to afford Hoopla as it was, and this just sinks it now.

lol lmao bsky.app/profile/dans...

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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

I do and I feel really weird if I don't have one now. I started after I was getting some low back/pelvic pain.

If Columbia gives in to Trump's demands, they are going to see faculty flee faster than they can stay alive.

No one is going to feel safe working at a university that gives away any semblance of intellectual freedom like this.

There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.

But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.

Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.

I reposted this earlier asking who's in DC and can form a human chain tomorrow, 3/20, and I was NOT KIDDING. IMLS funding is critical to the everyday functioning of public libraries across the US. 955 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Ste 4000. 📚

It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming

Any #skybrarians 💙📚 out there who have considered adding wording to their collection policies about AI generated materials? I'm very curious.

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.

We can usually dodge buying it in Libby but patrons can and do mistakenly put Notify Me tags on deceptively titled slop available in Overdrive Marketplace. It's a big problem with Hoopla.

I'm still in SAVE forbearance purgatory. I didn't even ask to be put on SAVE in the first place. I can't progress in PSLF while stuck here. I have a feeling a lot of us are cooked.

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

I liked TikTok because I got to be who I really am in my heart: a creepy little lurker who watches everything and says little.

He looks like a Metrosexual Caveman

"A loud reminder that it’s not buying personal copies of banned books nor distributing banned books via buses or vans or even Little Free Libraries which will solve the problem . . . It’s showing up to board meetings, showing up at the polls, and using your voice to loudly push back."