What's happening with Imagination Library across the country is reflective of what's happening to libraries and other literacy goods nationwide.
Keep an eye on this because states cutting the IL budgets is happening in drips and drops, but it's adding up.
NEW: Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women
Black women across the country are dying in childbirth at rates that should be terrifying to every single one of us.
I wrote the Momnibus because in the wealthiest nation on Earth, Moms shouldn’t be dying of preventable causes. Now it's well past time we got it passed.
(1/X) The media's refusal to discuss Trump's personality disorder has made its coverage of Iran very poor. They pretend that Trump had some normal rationale for the war, some semi-imminent threat, but it's more likely he did it out of some kind of combination of a desire to distract from Epstein...
screenshot of the profile page for the account @protectsaladokids.org
An account you're going to want to immediately block if you've ever spoken about kids' right to read
No idea who the actual person behind the account is, but they love targeting librarians over on X and they'll likely just be looking to screenshot your posts here for clout (such that it is) there
They can all go to hell. These fake asses wanted him back and tilted the scales in his favor. Don’t act all principled now.
De Niro: Every morning when I get up, I reach for my phone to look at the headlines of the day, and for some time now, I start every morning depressed about the latest outrage from our would-be king. I mean, it’s amazing—every fucking day there’s something new and crazy, but it’s different today…
Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East.
KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS
Votes recorded on hr 7661 in House Committee for Education and Workforce Development’s markup.
HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how.
This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.
A scanned page from The Irish Republic newspaper discussing the rights of African Americans, and pushing for the franchise to be extended to them via the fifteenth amendment.
While in 1868, The Irish Republic, a Fenian Brotherhood newspaper in New York, shunned the racist policies of the Democratic party which had almost total Irish Catholic support (and voted as a bloc against black suffrage) to endorse the Fifteenth Amendment. "Liberty, to be just, must be universal."
Gil Scott Heron - Winter In America
#music #gilscottheron #musicsky
Colourful collage of four stylised Black female figures in dresses with umbrellas on grass under a blue sky
Ekua Holmes (born in 1955), artist and illustrator known for her mixed media collages #womensart
At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
#ICE #DHS #Noem #immigration #HumanRights
Dave Whamond
His book is supposedly about W&C but every excerpt is about H&M. Myers needs to have a seat.
Stacey Lee on unexpectedly writing Gothic fiction and the importance of sitting with discomfort–including YA books that force readers to do just that: bookriot.com/stacey-lee-o...
An Oklahoma state senator believes a puberty book for young people should "be burnt."
www.koco.com/article/heat...
Paterson, New Jersey, libraries will face service cuts due to budget challenges. I'd tell you what those cuts are, but the story is paywalled.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
On this day in 1956, 19 Senators and 82 Representatives from the 11 Southern states—almost 20% of Congress—released the Southern Manifesto, opposing the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
From Linda Lee Peacock @lindaleepeacock.bsky.social CBC Roundup: Chris Jones for (AR-2) - I am called to those most in need
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
When asked to comment on the Iran War, Speaker Mike Johnson declined, saying this was the first he was hearing about it.
The Novels of Toni Morrison and Language as Liberation
#booksky #BlackBookSky #ToniMorrison
My law firm is litigating 90 voting and election cases in 45 states. We are currently fighting for voters in: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CT, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MD, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY, and WV.
If I were Barbara I would've told Shirley to go talk to her man & then hung up the phone 🤣
Sounds like a Trad Son is a bum because traditionally sons got married and left the home in their 20s .
Those teens are also more likely in underfunded schools, without access to school libraries or professional librarians, and they likely have a harder time accessing their public libraries.
The right has been itching for this outcome and they're getting it.
