National Library Workers Day: Libraries Work Because We Do. April 21, 2026. ALA-APA logo
It's National Library Workers Day, our favorite day of #NationalLibraryWeek where we celebrate the hardworking, dedicated professionals who power possibility in our neighborhoods, our schools, and our places of higher learning.
Thank you, library workers - libraries work because YOU do! #NLWD26
That work would be hard. Really really hard. The fact that we lack the collective will to do so is a form of violent patriarchy unto itself.
It’s the guns. But it’s also the domestic violence.
And we have to figure this out. Our children are dying. 3/3 dot-connecting.ghost.io/its-the-guns...
With all due respect, wasn’t “workfare” invented under your tenure? The lives of working women needs a DOL that sees women’s work as work!
Stop ICE warehouse detention - National Day of Action, April 25th host an action, image with protest signs that read: no ice warehouse, not here not anywhere, shut down detention centers
ICE wants to cage up to 10,000 people in industrial warehouses — spaces built for goods, not human beings. On April 25, we fight back! Host a #CommunitiesNotCages action in your city: bit.ly/nowarehousea...
@indivisible.org @moveon.org @workerscircle.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social
For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.
People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇
📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...
the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies
www.trumpactiontracker.info
trump continues to be just a terrible president, and significantly worse than last time
To get something closer to what @acadia-maine.bsky.social suggests you should write a Maine Voices column - 250 words is short (standard LTE) but Op-Eds are longer - you can also check with them about if they are open to it before putting in the drafting time www.pressherald.com/2024/03/28/w...
I submitted of my own volition because I was also mad when I read it - fwiw I am a middle-aged white sociologist who teaches Women and Gender Studies - I hear the feedback on my language, but 250 words is pretty limiting - hope others also write.
Sorry, that was me and I am an academic! Didn't mean to be coded and totally agree with the feedback but since we are facing such a cruel attack on trans kids also seems important to acknowledge who we are genuinely threatened by at the pattern level...
This sexual assault awareness month is a bad time in Maine/USA. So many scandals, so much private horror. Here’s my tiny LTE in response to a tiny expression of DARVO-in-defense-of-Platner but really we need a massive uprising once more with clear demands
www.pressherald.com/2026/04/17/e...
OK what are we even doing here? Come on. He’s not even pretending; why is anyone else?
Yousof Azizi, Iranian researcher, journalist, commentator and PhD candidate at @virginiatech.bsky.social with valid legal status, has been illegally detained by ICE. He was taken from in front of his home, has been denied access to a lawyer, and may be transferred to a detention center in Louisiana:
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social was such an excellent film, revealing and terrifying and a map for how we must come together to create freedom of ideas and imagination and information. Thank you to all the brave people who shared their stories
@mainewomenslobby.bsky.social represented feminism at the Maine state house gloriously and without throwing anyone under the bus to advance their policy agenda. Huzzah! Join to get even more done next time! mainewomen.org
Trump’s recent behavior leaves little doubt that he no longer has the fortitude and faculties necessary to serve as President.
@raskin.house.gov is leading a bill that would create a nonpartisan commission to assess Trump's fitness under the 25th Amendment.
I'm a proud cosponsor of this effort.
You are writing the BEST Emails and I might just rejoin NWSA because of you! (I’m a disgruntled long term adjunct mad at all the ways I pay to be a part of academia but you’re helping me imagine NWSA as an actual feminist project not just a space for career building). Thank you.
LIVE NOW! Catch our Climate Comedy Show at @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social
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www.youtube.com/live/tXOIY9L...
there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes
There’s already a date onboard for a general strike
May 1st, National Strike
No work, no school, no shopping
www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
(Published Nov. 2025 with @startribune.com)
Maine – if there is a whisper network, someone needs to shout out, louder before we finish this primary season
I am grateful that Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales are resigning from Congress. We must take every allegation of sexual assault and abuse seriously and hold those responsible accountable.
Now we should remove the convicted serial predator from the White House.
Damn. How much did we hear about Obama playing golf?
Hypocrisy is an essential part of the GOP brand.
