“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell

Dr. Roberts was one of my former superintendents I worked under. I appreciated his visibility and messages during his tenure with us, and I’m following this story with great concern and interest.

Something alarming happened this week w/ #AI. In conjunction with Apollo Research, OpenAI admitted that situational #genAI can lie or withhold certain results to appease its audience. The term they use for it is called "covert scheming intelligence." Y'all, this is worse than #hallucinations.

No. This is digital tracking and creating a dataset on an underaged minor disguised as a toy. No way in hell.

Delta women in Congress stand ten toes down with her. We won’t stay silent while he tries to tear her down. (2/2)

Happy #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! As a national NVRD partner, ALA is extremely proud to celebrate the work being done across the country to get communities #ReaderVoterReady. Is your library celebrating today? Be sure to share on social & tag ALA! More: ala.org/readervoterready #ReaderVoterReady

This gives a whole new meaning to training your replacement. AI mimics the heartless business man and corporation consumed by thoughts of profits not people. Elimination in the name of efficiency. www.wired.com/story/hundre...

New Mexico to become the first state to offer universal child care... www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload...

Read this, please. When I began researching #AI #facialrecognition, I knew this would happen. apnews.com/article/detr...

THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.

“Free DC! free DC!”

This was such a great conversation. It’s all about energy and willing to be a little raw & vulnerable. @joelmrubin.bsky.social made me feel comfortable from the start & the result was a few a laughs, some wisdom sharing & an overall good time. Thanks, Joel!

I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded. HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.

If it does burst, I wonder how our administrations in universities are going to justify their all-in-no-questions-asked attitude to incorporating AI into every aspect of university life, whether needed or not, whether harmful or helpful

Also meet this ⚾star in #Picturebook Swinging Into History: Toni Stone: Big-League Baseball’s First Woman Player, by Karen L. Swanson; illustrated by Laura Freeman - highly recommended! booksyalove.com?p=14858

On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. (PW)

In June, Latricia Green pleaded for a protection order from her ex-husband. It was denied. She asked again in July. It wasn’t served. She was shot and killed by her ex-husband this morning inside a Detroit hospital

I still believe in books. I will always believe in books. Books change lives. Books save lives. Reading is resistance.

A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation apnews.com/article/coll...

Weaponizing and sinking our communities into financial ruin w/over 300k black women losing their jobs in 2025. They're targeting BF mayors, librarians, congresswomen, etc. What kind of merit mercenary "leadership" is this? We voted our conscience and this is the backlash...bLackLash.

Black women are the milk and honey, the streets paved in gold, the oxygen the trees form, the abundance of flowy flowers and essential waters. Life truly would not be the same without you goddesses walking this earth.

Silence is complicity. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism. Organize. Not just on here. In person. Organize.

Libraries belong at #SXSW. Voting is open through August 24. Cast your vote for these library-themed panels today. 📚💙

Trump is trying to erase the horrors of slavery from the Smithsonian. It makes me think about how we teach history, when teaching honest history is under assault. Let me tell you about Ryan. He's a social studies teacher in New Hampshire. I write about him in www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com

"I’m a Texas teacher. My students and I are afraid." State lawmakers are making Texas public schools increasingly unwelcoming — even hostile — to LGBTQIA+, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and religious minority students. STUDENTS: You have rights. Visit aclutx.org/students to learn more.

How I built a years worth of slides using @Canva and ChatGPT and how you can also: #TLSky #EduSky #EduSkyai #aied open.substack.com/pub/aischool...

Thanks Arizona Daily Star @tucson.com for publishing my 8/12/25 op-ed: We are seeing the daily practice of cruelty (original title When cruelty trumps #empathy) The US administration uses our taxpayer $$$ to persecute people, including children. #Resist #TLSky #EduSky tucson.com/opinion/colu...

Baking the blues away.

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

faculty in these states: stop scrolling and fill out this survey, pls

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab. Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us. It’s time to fight back.

Republicans know they’ll lose in the midterms if they don't rig the system. That’s exactly what’s happening in Texas. I won’t tolerate it.

I will HAUNT you if you use GenAI to write my obit

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know. wrd.cm/4fqM8dC

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

I think about my mother being older than Ruby Bridges *constantly* My parents were alive when grown-ass white folks were spitting on babies for wanting to go to school--and trying so much worse than spitting that they needed guarding. And there's some real "spitting on babies" energy in 2025.

Loving this butterfly on my walk.

Planned Parenthood is losing funding at the worst possible time. Because of my horrific OB/GYN experiences, and because they provided care for my sister when she had her eldest daughter & no healthcare, I’ve been a donor for a long time. Abortion care is only one of many services they provide!

"Most people don't want yelling and screaming and division at their township library board meetings or their school board meetings. They want well-resourced schools. They want well-resourced libraries with a lot of services." — Daniel Montgomery, incoming ALA ED www.edsurge.com/news/2025-08...

Kwame Alexander has launched a national literacy nonprofit called ‘One Word at a Time,’ which aims to foster a love of reading and writing in young people and provide opportunities for children’s authors to meet their readers

ALA Executive Board Member Sophia Sotilleo and librarian/archivist Rodney Freeman interviewed for this WTTW feature highlighting "Are You a Librarian?," the new documentary highlighting the untold story of Black librarians and their impact.