Trans day of visibility, brake light clinic, and free store

It would be so funny if it happened tonight

So the America I love still exists if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists AT THE FRONT DESKS OF OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vonnegut, always
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Cover of the zine “Radical Books That Aren’t a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks” featuring gentle color blobs

📣 New zine! "Radical Books That Aren't a Slog : Leftist Book Recommendations for Newly Radical Folks." If you're a baby leftist looking for a place to start imagining new possibilities, here's 17 books to get you started! violetbfox.info/radicalbooks/ 📚

Everything feels especially bad today

I was blocked too! I’m so excited!

I want to buy it’s just me and the husband in 700 sq ft and I don’t know that it would work for us

I continue to believe that a densely organized library workforce is essential to winning the world we need. Pulling together a Labor Notes training for library workers on the Thursday of annual. Watch this space!

40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...

Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.”

www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

Can they put tariffs on AI

I don’t miss it at all

Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:

reps.fyi

Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!

Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️

(thank you @gregpak.net!)

I would like more StoryGraph friends please! 📚 💙 #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rest...

Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

Volunteered at the community garden today and I hate to admit it but literally touching grass really helps the ol mental health

A throuple of championships

It’s the best

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

Okay phew

Will this affect programs that are already in the works (like creative aging?)

#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.

Image promoting Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, via the org’s IG page.

JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC

ALA to U. S. Department of Education: Book bans are real The American Library Association responds to the Department of Education's dismissal of complaints about censorship and discrimination: the "effort to terminate protections... advances the demonstrabl...

Everyone, everywhere, regardless of their age, background, or political views, deserves access to information from a wide range of perspectives and books that reflect their lived experiences @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

At my first national library conference as an Emerging Leader and ended up having dinner with a retired librarian and ALA vet. It felt like a very cool passing the torch moment and reminder of the good work we’ve always done and will continue to do. #librarians #booksky

eggs benny

i see eggs benny i order eggs benny

Mr. Trump’s executive order indicates that in 30 days, all federal agencies will be required to confirm the immigration status of the parents before issuing documents like a passport.

If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Mark you should be the modern Andrew Carnegie and support libraries! We need a hero!