It's amazing they can find the road!

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

Great description. These skills are also good for library workers.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Love this! 😂 #Publibs

300 million workers!

This could be big: based on a major complaint filed by Carolina Forward, the State Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into several North Carolina state lawmakers who took part in a booze-soaked junket to Kentucky on behalf of casino interests. www.newsobserver.com/article31477...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Yazoo (Yaz) - Upstairs at Eric's

🚨🚨🚨THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!!!🚨🚨🚨

“He gives bread to anyone in need, and the elderly are often the most grateful.” 💛💙 #Ukraine #baking

To be clear #TaxTheRich

After 4 years I'm finally going to have space & ability to adopt some pet companions! Two chonkky, older tabbies (one needing a new home as her mom goes into a pet-free community, one rescued over a year ago by a local group) will arrive over the next week. Hoping they tolerate each other - and me!

Detailed thread on the sentencing judgment for former South Korean President Yoon. Well worth a read. The judge seems to be well aware that the eyes of the world (or at least some of them) are on the court today.

Well I guess this is how I know this woman has never been to a library

Recently read The Grieving Brain by O'Connor. Imperfect* but often revelatory ("The brain is utterly disoriented by the fact a loved one no longer exists"), providing some relief ("Grief requires neural rewiring... which in turn requires time") & validation (grief is very mentally demanding).

In addition to making specific promises, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaigned on bringing a different kind of politics to NYC--politics in which its non-elite residents are empowered to drive change & demand their needs be met. You can make those demands through several links here

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Happy Lunar New Year!

If we’re talking about celebrity Olympic enthusiasts, I am far far far more fond of Flavor Flav than Snoop.

Dear Readers' Advisory Librarians--Here are new forthcoming books to love and share with your patrons in March '26: the LibraryReads Top 10! An easy to print list can be found at libraryreads.org. #BookSky

A tale of two billionaires. Jeff Bezos was at fashion week in Europe while he pulled a let-them-eat-cake firing of 30% of Washington Post journalists. Jimmy Lai stood by his newsroom and he will now likely die in a Hong Kong prison. Tell everyone you know about Jimmy Lai.

The amount of damage to a brand that can be done in a short period of time.....

and now for your moment of chonky floating zen

A thread from peak internet, and to which we must RETVRN.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

EVERYBODY NOMINATE ALEX, NOMINATE THEM SO HARD IT'S VISIBLE FROM SPACE I can't say enough about Alex's presence in the SFF community, their generous and thoughtful reviewing, and the work they do to uplift marginalized creators.

This Galentine's Day, get the girls together for an end-of-life paperwork party. Pop some champagne, eat some chocolates, and witness each other's advance healthcare directives! #deathpositive #galentinesday❤️ #EndOfLifePlanning

This works, go directly to a customer service chat and use verbiage like whats in this post - and do not let them try to send you to ring customer service. Make sure you bring up that the terms & policies were changed since you bought the device.

“Heraskevych said he believes the IOC should help recognize athletes killed in war: ‘We have members of Olympic family, part of Olympic movement, and they don't even want to honor them.’” www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...

Important!

Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp. Every time. The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.” 👀

ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

Post a banger that isn't in English (Dilemme) 🎶 youtu.be/SDyyI2gAKrY?... (I know, I always pick this same clip but it's SO good!)

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war." - Ilya Kaminsky

Perfection

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

How did I miss Katherine Arden has a new book coming out called The Unicorn Hunters. It comes out in June.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I dont have an easy way to watch the Winter Olympics so I appreciate posts with the highlights!

Haiti though 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

Brrrrr 🥶

She is only a little girl, and she misses her family, her friends, and her cat. #ICE

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

I heard a loud thump and found this:

EarlyWord GalleyChat is TODAY if you want the scoop on the best books coming out in a few months to pre-order, or request from Netgalley or Edelweiss Plus if you get ARCs and/or DRCs. We are libarians and we know our stuff! Follow the hashtag #ewgc at 4 p.m. EST. #librarian #librarians #booksky