So the Trump administration has us sympathizing with pharmaceutical companies now?

www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-talk... I'm doing this "Panel Talk: Ephemera and Movement Politics" on Monday 9/29. They're charging, mostly so they get an accurate audience headcount. My plan is a zine story (quarter) hour, pending permission from the creator of the zine I have in mind.

I just read The Swans of Harlem (about Dance Theatre of Harlem). The dancers had a ritual prayer before they performed Dougla that holds resonance in This Moment: I believe in God, maker of heaven and earth, and myself. The whole world stinks. But I am so lovely. I am gorgeous. I am divine.

If you are considering or planning to seek appointment or run for your local library board, FTP is here to support you. You can complete this form and we'll be in touch soon re: applying to join our next candidates' cohort kicking off in early 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sometimes it’s hard to be an activist when your heart is breaking, but I guess heartbreak is also a strong motivator. Anyway, love and compassion to anyone fighting the good fight right now while feeling their feelings

Go, Jerry! wvoc.iheart.com/content/2025... "Greenfield and Cohen announced they would cease sales in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and sued Ben & Jerry's parent company over alleged efforts to describe what they called "genocide" in Gaza." (scare quotes very much not mine)

“The removal of funding from Columbia University has negatively impacted many students at Barnard,” Rosenbury continued. “‘So’, we thought, ‘Why not make things worse and fire all the staff that make this school worthwhile?’” 🤣😭🤬🤬🤬🤬 www.columbiafederalist.com/2025/07/31/f...

Laura Rosenbury is destroying what once was one of the best colleges in the country as fast as she possibly can.

The president of the college with the lowest free speech rating in the country:

Ask me how I'm doing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Robert Redford just couldn't live in a world without Charlie Kirk

gofund.me/c6414d2ad Please join me in supporting a professor who was fired from Texas A&M for recognizing more than two genders in a children's lit class. #IHateItHere

Same with institutions of higher education. Sadly, it's hard to limit consumption of what the small, irrational minority who rule your work life are saying and doing. #inhale #exhale

This is how I feel knowing I'm going to a suburban supermarket later today. Anyone need a large quantity of a niche item? #CityBumpkin

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09... Barnard president is interviewed in the Spectator. Can you guess which quote is the first one to make my head explode? Hint: it has to do with very public facing librarians and archivists getting fired. 📚🎓

Yeah, but the AirPods I bought last week have already proven to be a popular cat toy, so

Here's a more celebratory/less grumpy zine psa: you can buy below price stamps on eBay

zine psa: please number your pages please

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

journalism is wild these days

the descriptor "nazi agnostic" is kinda brilliant

Public library peops: how has reference changed in the past 5-10-20 years? Or has it not changed that much? 📚

Apparently theft is rife at the US Open. Think twice before you spend time around rich, white people!

I bet they’re Republetarians. Crap politics, but care about privacy—for everyone

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re: teaching & learning, I'm discovering that my philosophy is Less Reading, More Understanding. Go deep on 30 pages instead of skimming 100. Also--no all-white readings and no-all male readings in a given week. #pedagogy #DEfuckingI

When you're catching up with the readings on a course you're teaching but didn't design and you learn that Buckland on your syllabus isn't @jambina.bsky.social but...a cis man person!

"Solidarity not austerity" from tinyurl.com/dukedisozine25 wherein Duke students call for the highest paid executives to cut their salaries instead of their staff. #DisorientationGuides #DisGuides #DisoZines via @kwooten.bsky.social

"...the AI sometimes makes mistakes... “A human expert should be part of the vetting process” before any action is taken..." So is it really saving time and effort worth the cost of tool development, maintenance, and all the associated labor and environmental costs?

Starting tonight, I'm teaching Fundamental of Library and Information Science. I'm using the syllabus provided to me with one exception: adding #Zotero. Can you even be a librarian if you're not smug af about automating your bibliography? 📚 It's possible I'll also bring up the myth of neutrality.

I love tabouli, and I love kale, but this looks like the 2025 version--unrecognizable to democracy.

Thinking about all the universities (incl. mine) with higher ed admins who bought the hype to selfishly boost their careers, now leaving the rest of us to foot the bill amidst slashed budgets.

gender.libsyn.com/episode-32-a... Listen at 20 minutes in where @babywrist.bsky.social shouts out zine librarians for reaching out and asking how they wanted their previous name and pronouns to be handled.

You should read my friend @oshycapey.bsky.social's newsletter. It's helpful for managing/fighting off despair. open.substack.com/pub/oceancap...

In our pluralistic democracy, a politician doesn't "placate the left by moving left". A politician either actively defends the inherent human rights & dignity of every single last person—or that politician demonstrates that they don't believe in America's mission statement. This isn't difficult.

Library worker thought experiment: what could you get done if you didn't have to constantly explain what you do and justify your library or department's existence? 📚📜

ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas. The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre. Applications are due August 31st!!! zinedump.fyi #zines #zinesdiy

"In Israel, I am not restricted from criticizing my country or protesting its actions; my Palestinian peers are. Will Columbia be privileging my voice in a manner consistent with Israeli policy, or will it censor our speech equally?" op-ed by Israeli Columbia student Aharon Dardik 🇵🇸 🎓

They’re doing a great job dismantling Barnard tbh

The Trump admin made it official: they are coming after the University of California. What is at stake is not just research grant funding for UCLA, but the future of federal funding for the UC system, California’s political autonomy, and public higher education across the U.S. @ucaft.bsky.social

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

I'm thinking about how many Palestinians and reporters and health care workers and others in Gaza have "If you see this..." messages. Imagining people even writing and recording them is just devastating. 😭 🇵🇸

Fussbudget take on this but "revolutionary conservative" can't be a thing.

On July 31, 77 Barnard staff members were laid off. Here are a mutual aid fundraiser you can contribute to barnardstaffmutualaid.betterworld.org, an Ig handle to follow www.instagram.com/barnardstaff..., and a photo from Laura Rosenbury's inauguration that is worth 1,000 words.

"This became my form of quiet rebellion from superficial content. We're not here to chase trends. We're here to write with feeling, to remember, to resist." says Divya Desai, a zine maker from Goa. www.heraldgoa.in/cafe/less-sc...

Brad Lander & Zohran Mamdani is the bromance I didn't know I needed.

personally I think Andrew Cuomo should give his apartment back to the person who really needed it: his adult daughter whom he turfed out of an $8000+/month midtown Manhattan apt bc he actually lives in Westchester but needed to claim residency for psychosexual reasons (running for mayor)

Adjuncts of the World: is it typical not to get paid until your class has been over for one (1) week? I guess maybe until you turn in your grades?

Dusting off my old hypothes.is account to improve this article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w... #TeamBuffalo

Library workers go to great lengths to protect your reading privacy, but if you want to mail your kids' summer reading list to the government, you do you. What could go wrong? www.whitehouse.gov/read/ 📚