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From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day

Libraries work because we do ✊️

Picture of my current read: Lights Out by Navessa Allen and my boarding pass and passport.

Picture of my plane outside my gate

Toronto here I come! #BookSky #SoloTravel #Toronto

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Can we get some updated freaking infrastructure first, please?

What the New Loan Caps Will Mean for Grad Students This Fall

Some news coverage and info here: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

It isn't that loans are gone. There are new limits and the Grad Plus loans are eliminated altogether. And yes people can still take private loans if they want but that is a really bad idea.

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree.

This limit is going to further restrict access to the field.

I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

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GOOD MORNING! Hello Wafflers! Welcome to another week here on Planet Earth. It is Monday the 20th of April, which is, of course, Record Store Day! ® Well, it isn't. But it was yesterday, and we did not want to miss the opportunity to celebrate these sanctuaries of sound, crackle, and curated genius. Our favourite record store is the wonderful Pie & Vinyl. Yes, purveyors of both pie and pressings! Flaky, savoury, magnificent pie and gravy, alongside fabulous spinning records. Sustenance for the soul in more ways than one.

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A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

2/By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block Mr. Obama. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own ‘institutional legitimacy’ would be threatened.”

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

1/The NYT is releasing internal SCOTUS documents re: 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket” noting Justice Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Prime Minister of Spain is advocating for a woman to lead the United Nations.

From a post by political.speech…

The Prime Minister of Spain is advocating for “…the United Nations to be renewed, reformed, and led by a woman.”

It is time. Yes, yes it is.

Last year, in a conversation with two of his own law clerks, recent law school graduates chosen for their conservative views, Justice Thomas said he intended to remain on the Court until the year 2034. Why that long? one asked. Because that would give him a 43-year term, he replied, according to the clerk's account, explaining, "The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."

Thomas isn’t going anywhere voluntarily. www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/u...

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Having RFK Jr vouch for your sanity is like having Jeffrey Dahmer vouch for your healthy eating habits.