No cat for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social until he restores public library funding to .5% of NYC's budget. Library renegers do no deserve feline love. 😿

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities. Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve investinlibraries.org

WTF @mayor.nyc.gov has allocated LESS than Mayor Adams did to public libraries in his preliminary budget! He RENEGED on his commitment to fund NYC libraries with .5% of the budget. New Yorkers are SICK of this annual public library budget dance. @nycplan.org for more info. 📚 🗽

Oaklanders you need a Black Panther Party library card!

"This past month, I’ve had flashbacks to the ICE abductions at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. I cannot help but think that 👉🏻if this university did not normalize the kidnappings of their own students👈🏻, that things would be different today." laylasaliba.substack.com/p/a-differen... 🎓 🧊

Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't advise anyone to take an academic librarian position that didn't come with union membership and/or faculty status. 📚

Organize Your Library! ("organize" as in labor, not classification) with Angelo Moreno, @kellymce.bsky.social, Meredith Kahn, and @edrabinski.bsky.social 📚 📜 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“This isn’t just a story of one trustee. It’s about a fundraising model that puts the College at the mercy of a very, very small group of very wealthy people,” Prof Milanich told The Bulletin. “Our dependence then forces us to quietly look the other way when they do things contrary to our mission.”

I'd just signed into a Zoom call today when I heard a bunch of little kids marching down my street shouting "ICE out now!" evgrieve.com/2026/02/eart... #BlobBlessAmerica #EarthSchoolNYC ⛔🧊

39% is a LOT of (presumably mostly white) people

Anyone else so anxious and depressed instead of taking joy in Bad Bunny's Superb Owl performance, they fear some kind of retribution like Trump somehow canceling halftime shows in favor of military parades? Not that we shouldn't have Bad Bunny or joy!!! There's room for all feelings in Big Fascism

Israeli settlers broke into a mosque b/w the Palestinian villages of Kisan & Al-Minya near Bethlehem on Sun. night, Feb. 8, 2026, vandalizing the site & desecrating religious property. According to the head of the Al-Minya village council, settlers burned copies of the Quran, stole carpets, & cut...

a thread of (some of) my thoughts about the Super Bowl ad the National Council for #Adoption is touting. +

Their school was raided by ICE, and now they want to work with local artists Candida Gonzalez and Bayou Bay to "create a permanent art installation for their school building that tells the story of what happened" gofund.me/390cb70e9 If you want to help them! 🧊

And staff! Staff who have neither union nor academic freedom protections.

Man. I’d really love to stop seeing appearance-based criticisms of objectively bad people. Fascists, pedophiles, rapists etc can & do look like anyone, of any race age gender or body type. They are not bad because [insert appearance trait] but b/c of the shit they DO.

Can @thedailyshow.com go a day without a dick joke challenge

Have you searched for your institution's BoT members and senior staff in the Epstein files?

Prominent Barnard alum, donor, and board of trustees member referenced a bunch in the Epstein files, as is the husband of the current board president. 🫖 🎓 www.thebarnardbulletin.com/post/epstein...

"And made it illegal to post or talk about it. Or to teach it. We were supposed to only think about the future. Forced forgetting. Pass a patriotism test if you want to keep your job." relatable content from Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

Pittsburgh Penguins

Do you ever feel like you’re holding your breath, waiting to find out what’s bad about Mamdani? Like maybe he hates cats?

I'll say this for the NYPD in Zohran K Mamdani's New York City: In the six times I've been arrested doing civil disobedience in this town, I'd never been seat belted on a paddy wagon before the Hilton protest on Tuesday.

I was arrested last night to protest Hilton's complicity with ICE and the Trump Administration in housing ICE agents that abduct and murder people. ^ arrest speech I bombed in real time (shout out to incredible organizers who pulled this protest together in a day and a half)

This quotation from Anne Frank is so scary and evocative of our current reality "Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes...Families are torn apart and separated...Everyone is scared...the end is nowhere in sight"

Thiisssss. Buying from Amazon may be cheap and fast, but it is Not Good.

are.org The American Federation of Government Employees Demands Resignation or Termination of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller for Smearing Slain AFGE Member Alex Pretti as “Domestic Terrorist”

You know what's weird? Most people* only know the white folks' names. It's almost like the coverage is different, like a BIPOC person isn't quite as innocent. My take on the celebration of martyrs is evolving. *including me

Hello, Libro.fm. Did not know you were kinda radicals. Hope it's true! Regardless, everyone give Mutual Aid a listen!

You guyz…

1) temperature 2) snowfall 3) libraries Love our mayor’s priorities! 📚

Iconic--via Close the Camps on Facebook

To be a citizen of NYC USA: Yesterday, Mamdani said "Abolish ICE" on The View Today, Trump said "annex Iceland" (he meant Greenland) at the World Economic Forum Can some other country adopt us please?

Hoopla says libraries need to get "comfortable with different solutions." Cool! We'd love to see some different solutions that honor library values, preserve library rights, and don't bankrupt taxpayers! www.wordsandmoney.com/the-digital-...

Green card holders get free, confidential, in-person help with naturalization applications at CUNY Citizenship Now! Sat Feb 7 P.S. 50, 143-26 101st Ave, Jamaica. For eligibility, req'd docs & registration call 646-664-9400, text 929-334-3784 or request a callback: www.cuny.edu/about/admini...

Increasing park and library funding was the #1 way New Yorkers voted to improve NYC in the latest New York Times poll. - www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a... - cc @council.nyc.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov

One thing about Greenland that I don't think is getting sufficient attention: the population is about 90% indigenous. Are we really going to do that again? (I mean, obviously, but can we not?)

Y'all? Never again is now.

What’s everyone’s plan for when your phone and internet access are shut down? Do you have a physical rally point? HAM radio?

Buy Girl Scout cookies from a trans kid. www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans... 🏳️‍⚧️

There is a lot of woe in the world, but here is one thing I'm excited about: nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.

"A leader might take the opportunity provided by a fresh day to soothe the broken heart of a nation and appeal to the better angels among us. "JD Vance went in a different direction." The Catholics are calling Vance weird, too. Via @roxanegay.bsky.social's newsletter.

Mood

"I myself have copies of most, if not all, of the zines that Des Revol had in that box [that got Des arrested]. Those zines were free or cheap to get, and are filled with history, free thought, anarchist political analysis, discussions of shared struggle, and hope." - author Red Schulte

Ask me why most zine librarians & zinefest organizers who have been at this a while won't have anything to do with Microcosm. But do it via DM so Microcosm doesn't sue me. The CEO loves to sue people (all women/nonbinary I think), which is super punk.

Zine awards are bad and represent a misunderstanding of zine culture. I was glad when Broken Pencil zine awards went down with the magazine and I'm sorry to see this one come into being. Unsurprisingly co-sponsored by Microcosm Publishing, which also doesn't give a shit about zinester values.

Controversial take from known radical AOC

"Videos contradict Trump administration acct of ICE shooting in Minneapolis" & "An analysis of footage shows that the vehicle driven by a woman who was fatally shot by an ICE agent appeared to be turning away from the officer as he opened fire." The Times is SO CLOSE to "Trump lied" & "ICE murdered"

I curated a tiny 1-case exhibit about Joan Little in honor of the 50th anniversary of her acquittal. On 1/29 at 5pm, historian Christina Greene, and death penalty lawyer Shelagh Kenney will speak on how Little's case remains relevant today. library.duke.edu/exhibits/hub...