In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

Photo of Tamika Barnes, a Black woman wearing a bright red cardigan. Text over photo reads "Tamika Barnes wins 2027-2028 ALA Presidency" ALA150 American Library Association

ALA election results are in!

Congratulations to 2026-2027 President-Elect Tamika Barnes and to all of our newly elected leaders. Thank you to all the great candidates who stood for election this year and all the members who voted.

Read the announcement: https://bit.ly/48y7RxM

All the lil zombie guys so far

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Graphic reading ‘Celebrating Black Voices’ with a collage of book covers arranged at angles, including The Wicked, The Body, Harmattan Season, Big Girl Blitz, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays, Ember, and Forged in Fiyah, on a textured beige background.

Celebrating Black History Month with new and upcoming releases from Black authors we can’t stop thinking about. 📚✨

Which one’s going on your TBR first? 👀

10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month

Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!!

To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.

If you aren’t aware of this, please listen. Make sure your friends know. Kon was amazing and deserves to be respected and remembered. Those who ripped him off should be publicly shamed. Make sure your non-animation friends know.

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

How Moon Palace Books became a hub of anti-ICE resistance.

Today's the day, don't miss our ICE Out Charity Stream stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social from the MinnMax Studio at 5pm Central! www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow

You can donate now - bit.ly/iceoutminnea...

100% goes to helping those in need with rent assistance and food delivery here in Minneapolis.

The National Weather Service in Raleigh is now predicting up to 9 inches of snow for central North Carolina this weekend. That’s close down the Bojangles kind of weather.

literally yes

I have for years said a call for a national general strike is unrealistic without a great deal of ground level organizing that hasn't happened (many more union members, for instance). I still think this is true, but I admit "get people so fucking mad it just happens" is starting to look possible

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Prep your emergency kit – including enough water, non-perishable food, and medication for every person and pet in your home for 3 to 5 days without any power.
Check on your friends, neighbors, and loved ones.

Starting Saturday, only get on the roads if necessary.

As we prepare for winter weather across the state this weekend:

Follow your local media, the National Weather Service, and your local emergency management agency.
Keep all of your electronic devices charged.
Layer up and stay warm.

Cover art for the game Lost Records

Max and Chloe from life is strange 1

Cover art for Life is Strange 2

Hey! Just a friendly reminder that if you liked what we created with Max and Chloe and Sean and Daniel in #lifeisstrange 1 and 2 you will love Swann, Nora, Autumn and Kat in #LostRecords, play it!
It’s celebrating its first birthday soon!

Disneyland Handcrafted is absolutely fucking incredible filmmaking.

Kinda late but Nancy 1/20/26

Animal Crossing Aquarium Tour makes its Way to Multiple New and Returning Aquariums in US starting Feb 13

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Come to church with us.

Life is Strange 2026 here we come

A screenshot of Max and Chloe in Life is Strange Reunion

Now that the cat's out of the bag

SURPRISE

I am incredibly proud to say I got to write the OFFICIAL PREQUEL COMIC to LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION with the amazing Claudia Leonardi on art. Writing Max and Chloe has been a genuine dream come true and I can't wait for y'all to reunite with them in March!

Life is Strange: Reunion announced, releasing on March 26th news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

"By and for fans of the original, Life is Strange: Reunion finally brings Max and Chloe’s saga to a definitive close."

Trump absolutely does not make Black Americans either look bad or feel bad.

We tried to tell ya.