On June 13th, we’re hosting a Library Art and Propaganda Fair! It’ll be an all-ages artistic celebration: library-centric art, zines, and ephemera - plus activities for kids, readings, a photobooth and more. The event is free and open to all, RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lib...

I loved talking to organizers in Menomonie and across Wisconsin about how they're beating back data center proposals coming from shady development companies left and right. One told me, "Organizing swiftly and fiercely and relentlessly is the key.” ✊

The @sunynewpaltz.bsky.social library no longer performs original cataloging, which means, in addition to no longer adding many other unique library and archives holdings, their zine collection will be frozen. Shame! 📚 oracle.newpaltz.edu/campus-libra...

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

NEA joins a broad coalition challenging the Department of Education's RISE ruling, which blocks educators, nurses, counselors, and other professions from vital financial assistance: https://tinyurl.com/3ndee7sf

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

I try to clearly articulate where things currently stand here: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Really psyched to see this event from @organizeworkers.bsky.social . The WNBA Players Association CBA campaign is the strongest public demonstration I've seen of workers who know that they are the source of all profit and are entitled to their share. www.mobilize.us/thebasketbal...

The May issue of AMERICAN LIBRARIES is a keeper! So many great articles, especially the profiles of 8 trailblazers. I love this quote from @edrabinski.bsky.social: “It’s not enough to be right. You also have to be organized, and you have to build power that’s bigger than theirs.”

“I’m sick to my stomach as a former prosecuor. I’m sick to my stomach as a U.S. citizen who has to live in this country with this Department of Justice that is acting this recklessly.” Grand jury improprieties tank 'Broadview Six' case UPDATE: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/21/p...

Hey New York! It can be easy to think book bans aren't a big deal in a Blue State so we pulled together some information from PEN America for you. Keep pushing on your Right to Read legislation.

💥Toronto! See you there www.eventbrite.ca/e/sameer-far...

Q: Are there immunity opportunities? SURVIVOR: Yes STORMING THE CAPITOL: Yes.

There’s always money for war.

Also the idea that the real problem here is children who want to play sports.

Honored to have an essay included in the @modernlanguage.bsky.social Democracy Project style.mla.org/the-mla-demo...

Our 1.8M members have at least $29B in retirement assets invested in Apollo via pension funds & additional exposure through funds’ public equity allocations. Why is its CEO using company resources for a private political campaign attacking colleges & universities? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Black women’s resilience shapes their families, their communities, their workplaces and the institutions they move through. It also shaped American democracy long before Black women were fully recognized as citizens within it. The latest from @errinhaines.bsky.social:

Palantir executives donated more than $1.3 million to current members of Congress across the 2022, 2024 and 2026 election cycles—more than any other top ICE contractor’s executives. Copublished with @theappeal.org.

should your admin have to know what it is you do before telling you how to do it? join us live for a debate between an academic dean and a CTO. Both say no

Are we far enough past 6-7 that next school year being 26-27 won't be an issue?!?!?

This is an Andy Pages fan account going forward. #DodgerFilter

Amazing. So proud of @972mag.com and really glad to be one of their writers www.972mag.com/sally-rooney...

It’s ‘law’ as in state violence and ‘order’ as in the order.

I want to know less about loose bodies in the elbow. #DodgerFilter

The Republican Party is unified behind this, in complete and total support of the corrupt looting of the public purse. Not a single significant voice of opposition.

This is a great opportunity to learn from Josh MacPhee about making posters on Thursday 5/21 at 6 pm. You will finish by printing small two-color editions on the Risograph press.https://events.humanitix.com/posters-101-resistance-is-a-language

This is appalling, but sadly not unique. Three people have died at the Kings County Criminal Courthouse in the last year and a half. And 3 more this year at Rikers, while awaiting trial. (2/3)

Happy Election Day, Idaho! Polls are open from 8am-8pm. There are several competitive primaries so please make sure you vote as some of these races may come down to just a handful of votes. If you have an absentee ballot at home still, DON'T MAIL IT - DROP IT OFF! Happy Voting! #idpol #idaho

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Join me this afternoon at Bedford Library for a discussion about how to talk about incarceration with children who have imprisoned loved ones. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/tal...

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

Puma in the front, Cougar in the back.

My garden store got kittens!

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

NEW: ICE violently arrested a US citizen, filmed high-res videos of the operation + made viral social media content out of him Christian Cerna, LA native, speaks out about his arrest at gunpoint while driving his baby + toddler and the turmoil in his life that followed "They tried to humiliate me"

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

You are looking at the skeet of a newly-elected Queens College @psc-cuny.org chapter alternate delegate! My term begins May 26th. 🫡

Folks, he's the one who cut the funding that he has restored. Is this difficult to understand?

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

THEY CHANGED THE HOLD MUSIC AT MY ONCOLOGIST’S OFFICE! It’s been years. A true relief!

And the book stack for summer keeps growing (even as for me at least summer seems still just over the horizon in this never-ending semester).This week I also got this helpful, beautifully conceived new book by @samcohen.bsky.social. I'm excited to plan some of my fall semester teaching around it.

*A swell opportunity here for me to blame genres others than science fiction. #genreglitches #generated #Delvish jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

This news broke when I was busy yesterday, I think alot of folks in the comments don't realize how much she portrayed she was mostly fine with it. The legislation was already a compromise. A total betrayal.

I’m trying to imagine a job where you‘re told to use more spreadsheets and emails, you‘re assessed on how many spreadsheets and emails you‘ve made, better make up some. It doesn’t happen, because people don’t have to be forced to use tools they need for their jobs. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

folks seem jazzed about yesterday's libraries exec budget news. HOWEVER, we at @nycplan.org are not thrilled. it is still 97 million dollars short on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign promise... 0.5% for libraries. he only restored the cut HE made in Jan. budget is basically the same as last yr

NEW: At 4:30 a.m., a Louisiana Senate committee voted 4-3 to advance a congressional map that would eliminate the state’s second majority-Black district, leaving it with only one. The measure now heads to the Senate floor, where it’s expected to get a vote on Thursday.

Good morning, as promised some info and thoughts on the NYC library budget. First, here's some background in case people are unaware of what came before: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...