Lucky to know you!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you, James! 🥹

No… + WHY?

Regular reminder to lawyers that Westlaw’s parent company collaborates with ICE: www.404media.co/r/0e83cb57?m... ht @sarahlamdan.bsky.social

You…..don’t have to use it as often as you do now, I promise: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2684/

How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

Featured story: "It didn’t take long before Tammy Fogle, the leader of our local Moms for Liberty group, issued 27 book challenges. She had no children attending our schools, but SB 13 had opened the door for her."

Kelly and I expose the faulty legal tricks book banners are trying in order to erase people’s stories and take away our rights to access information.

I’m grateful for @heykellyjensen.bsky.social (and so many others) for their insight and awesomeness! It takes a village to fight censorship.

The entry's text: MEMORANDUM ORDER denying defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. 48). (see order for details) Signed by District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles on 3/20/2026. (dvanm)

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New filing: "E.K. v. Department of Defense Education Activity (Dep't of Defense - Book removal/EO 14168, 14185, 14190 - school libraries)"
Doc #73: MEMORANDUM ORDER denying defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. 48). (see…

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Information Access as a Public Good Learning from Librarians, Libraries and Library Science Inside the Seattle Public Library, photo copyright Emily M. Bender 2019 By Emily Yesterday I posted...

And you know who does know something about information access as a public good? Librarians:

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'Dangerous' bill inviting government censorship passes House committee The American Library Association condemns the March 17, 2026, passage of H.R. 7661 by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

ALA is disappointed that the House Committee on Education & Workforce moved forward dangerous federal book banning legislation yesterday. HR 7661 contains vague, confusing, and overly broad language, inviting government censorship.

More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/03... (1/2)

Yayyyy!

Awesome. I can certainly handle that. There’s enough nightmare juice coming through the podcast pipeline.

Yay for open access and good, data justice-focused information activism!

Can’t wait to listen to the episode. (I say this knowing that it will be kind of like drinking nightmare juice. Or at least deep disturbance juice.)

It’s such a greedy, and obvious, and tedious, and world-ruining way to privatize and monetize OER and digital commons in general.

Image for the documentary Ghost in the Machine by Valerie Veatch. The title appears in large glitch-style rainbow text over a black-and-white close-up of a hand holding a set of mechanical eyes. At the top it reads “Official Selection 2026 Sundance Film Festival” and “A Film by Valerie Veatch.” A quote reads, “A necessary, radical, Molotov cocktail of a documentary.” Attribution: The Wrap. A small badge on the right says “Not AI.”

The wait is (almost) over! @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at: notaidoc.com

Emerging Tactics in Destroying Libraries for Political Power: Book Censorship News, March 13, 2026 Perkins County, South Carolina, and Randolph County, North Carolina, point to new tactics being used to destroy libraries for political power.

Emerging Tactics in Destroying Libraries for Political Power: Perkins County, South Carolina, and Randolph County, North Carolina, point to new tactics being used to destroy libraries for political power.

That, plus this week's censorship news roundup.

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Reminder that Thompson Reuters sells several crucial academic + legal research databases! See @sarahlamdan.bsky.social’s Data Cartels!

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…

“We don’t know if there will be a happy resolution to the problems plaguing our country, and we can’t skip ahead to find out. But I believe if we support and uplift librarians, there will be more sunlight for all of us.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

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Want to learn how to recognize and fight the latest tactics in book banning? Sign up here! Book bans aren’t slowing down — they’re evolving with a sneakier strategy that often flies under the radar. Join us as we discuss the newest trends and tactics driving today’s book bans and how commun...

I'll be live with Sabrina Baeta of PEN America for a Red, Wine and Blue event 2/19. We're talking the trends in book censorship and where/how you can get involved in pushing back right now.

Register for the free event here --> go.redwine.blue/0219tt-bookr...

Leslie Street, The Wolf Law Library, William & Mary Law School.

Amanda Runyon, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

"The Library of Congress at a Crossroads: Executive Overreach and the Future of Public Knowledge," by Leslie Street (William & Mary Law School) and Amanda Runyon (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I’d love to talk to Elmo about intellectual freedom.

“The librarians featured in this film are not symbols. They are real people who have endured harassment, retaliation, defamation, and loss for doing their jobs ethically.”

What a terrible loss. She has touched so many of us, and we will all cherish her many contributions to the professional lives of library workers and beyond.

Oh my gosh yes!!!!

Absolutely no worries! I don’t care about that at all! ❤️ I am very glad people are cognizant of these connections - the issue is for all of us to define and face together, which is both difficult and galvanizing.

I hate that this is all the more timely now, years after it was first written.

Love the quote on the shirt! 😎