If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen... & your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati... Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.

Schumer is not bad at something good, he is good at something bad.

BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight* Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again). Not another #SchumerSurrender @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Have a machine that needs smashing?

Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

I can’t make it, but this sounds like a great event on Saturday: www.united4childcare.org/events/nov8-...

I liked a lot of the ideas here: urbanomnibus.net/2025/11/life.... Another thing folx can do is organize a People’s Assembly for <insert your focus area here>.

Want to be a #LibraryDefender? Join (or start!) a Friends of the Library group. #FriendsOfTheLibrary groups are a great way to strengthen your local library and fight for #InformationAccess for all! Learn how in our new Friends of the Library 101 Zine! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.

There are so many people who've had a hand in this historic moment, but one person I'm so grateful for is @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. Your courage and your conviction opened a door for so many people and so many futures, and this is one amazing reality you had such a vital role in making possible.

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Folks in the US, send us your stories of your experiences with your public library systems! Are you part of your library board/ raised funds/organised to keep your library open/part of your friends group? We want to hear it all!: librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...

If you don't want to be a library board member, then join your local Friends of the Library group. They advocate for the library in your community and need people who care deeply about the freedom of information and the right to read.

Here's an important way to make a difference: become a public library board member! Get training and support from Libraries for the People. Library workers--get a friend or community member to sign up. 📚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mamdani’s platform includes secure funding for libraries and the city’s municipal hospital system. It calls for a new ​“community safety” department to remove the burden of crisis intervention from the police.

We’re having a halloween lunch time power hour to call your alder and let them know they need to fully fund the library by taxing the rich! Go to bit.ly/callmyward to find your alder and their number.

A lot of folks are still having trouble saying @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's name, so I made a little PSA to help

Send a letter to your City Council members to demand increased and STABLE funding for our NYC Public Libraries. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

We got our 2nd "YES" - this time from District 1's Christopher Marte who is a terrific public library champion who also participated in @nycplan.org's People's Assembly earlier this month! council.nyc.gov/district-1/ - Let's GO!

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

“…newsrooms and media commons are not a distraction from the library’s core mission but a restatement of it. At each step in the library’s evolution — from the private collection, to the reading room, to the lending card, to interlibrary loan — the library becomes more open and more useful.”

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Why are Maryland public libraries spending public money to depress the wages of public sector workers? My latest for @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/lib...

Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds ! In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

Libraries are where kids & adults go to learn, socialize & connect. Now more than ever we need to invest in our public institutions. They are an essential good — the literal stuff of democracy. New Yorkers, please write & demand this budget increase! actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

If you're having events over the next couple of months in NYC and you'd be open to having some members of @nycplan.org table at the event, please reach out. We want more people in NYC to know about our demand to increase public library funding. Email [email protected] if you are interested.

I'm excited to share that our first on the record official YES to our demand is Council Member Lynn Schulman of District 29!!!! If Council Member Schulman is your representative, please thank her for supporting our public libraries. nycplan.org/scorecards/l...

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

Signup to stay in the loop with Hands Off NYC. Fight back against the war on our people and our cities. You'll get notified of trainings, events, community resources, etc. www.handsoffnyc.com#signup.

For FY26, funding for NYC Public Libraries is only 0.45% of the total city expense budget. @nycplan.org is currently organizing for an increase to 0.50% for FY27 which would mean an additional $56.4 million for our libraries. IMPORTANTLY, we demand this stay CONSTANT as the FLOOR. nycplan.org

Each public library system is a non-profit and has a board of trustees. there are 220 branches serving a population area of nearly 9 million. Operating budget is $523 million As a comparison, the NYPD's operating budget is over $6 BILLION [this is just the OPERATING budget].

I have a few minutes before my first meeting of the day so let's do a mini NYC public libraries teach in. There are three NYC Public Library Systems 1. NYPL - www.nypl.org 2. Queens Public Library - queenslibrary.org 3. Brooklyn Public Library - www.bklynlibrary.org

☎️ Wednesday phone zap time! Join us in calling our City Council members to tell them library funding is a non-negotiable priority ☎️ Find your council member and use this helpful script to make your voice heard! nycplan.org/actions/call...

You can search for information about your local library system in our new lookup tool (the first of its kind): www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#lo...

Finally, here's the application for our 2026 cohort for people who are seeking an appointment or to run for a local library board seat in their community: forms.gle/RuTxVLjvnX8K... - We are having a virtual open house in early December for folks who want to learn more.

Did you know there's an ICE detention site right here in NYC? In the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Sunset Park. I'll be here at the vigil, sharing about how to join the Dignity Not Detention campaign, to get New York State out of the business of caging immigrants!

I made a little zine to hand out today. Join the fight for your local public library (NYC edition). @nycplan.org drive.google.com/file/d/1Qoyj...

Wednesdays are for libraries! We’re calling our city council members every Wednesday now through January to demand at least half a percent of the city budget be dedicated for the NYC library systems. Call with us! Here’s a script including how to find your city council member : bit.ly/3KM9Eq9

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

Actually he said "ALMOST" a 50/50 chance lolol

Cuomo says he has at least a 50/50 chance of succeeding in a fight against Trump lol THAT'S WEAK, DUDE, YOU SOUND LIKE A LOSER

OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

"The book is called, Read This When Things Fall Apart. I read it when things fell apart. It cradled me when I fell apart ... This book will have wisdom for you. May it hold you the way it held me."

I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4

By mandating intentionally vague content “standards” and substituting the judgment of school board officials, Texas has begun the process of eradicating library expertise. Other states will follow suit. Texas’s sheer scale always affects books’ economic viability well beyond its boarders. 3/4

The Texas law @heykellyjensen.bsky.social describes in this article effectively abolishes school libraries in Texas. Libraries rely on the curatorial expertise of professional librarians; otherwise they’re just buildings full of books. 2/4 bookriot.com/new-braunfel...