“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent.” – Common Sense (1776) 250 years later, Thomas Paine’s words still resonate. Explore the pamphlet that lit the fire of independence: 🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/431 #ThomasPaine #CommonSense #Revolution250

Call me Ishmael.

From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history. #wikipedia25 I got started editing in my dorm room in 2006, still here! wikipedia25.org/en/which-wik...

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

“Most of us live off Hope” Ever true 💔

My latest episode on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Library Science channel is live! newbooksnetwork.com/preserving-g... it was a pleasure having @freegovinfo.bsky.social on the program to talk about the government information landscape past, present, and future

Some music worth listening to this afternoon #bmfs youtu.be/WgqaxMOKfnI?...

I’m at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Crystal City, VA the next few days and presenting a paper tomorrow afternoon. If anyone I follow on here is around get in touch! Glad to be back #ASIST25 #ASIS&T

In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker tells the story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage, providing a critical look at data archives and access to information. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...

Hath the Count all this intelligence?

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge, "Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor" Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke Thei have all come to looke for America

Going to listen to this song 810 times in a row open.spotify.com/track/6n6EXI...

Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00). ⁠ Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige. More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e

walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

My HS biology teacher had a laser disc set with all these science videos about things like mitosis, photosynthesis, etc that I remember watching. Also watching Gladiator in Latin class and having to point out historical inaccuracies, fun times

The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

The new Clipse album dropping alongside their Tiny Desk concert speaks to my white boy suburban millennial soul on a very deep level. So happy to see these guys back together and making music #grindin

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“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”

Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier

@usnatarchives.bsky.social post on X:

I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers." Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed." pen.org/magic-tree-h...

President Declines Gift (1925)

You are askinge chatgpt questions. Ich am wavinge a cheerye hello to the local crowes. We are not the same.

11 APRIL 1775, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK: A meeting to select delegates to the provincial convention for the “preservation of the Union of the Colonies and rights and liberties of America” attracts about a hundred of the “principal freeholders” of Westchester County.

The deletion of websites and other government data is a dangerous attack on knowledge, harming democracy. My colleague @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & I contribute a guest essay in @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now, the government has terminated those grants.

The Maine State Library laid off 13 staff members Wednesday — nearly one-third of its staff — and announced that it would close for two weeks to restructure its operations after the Trump administration indefinitely suspended certain federal funds. www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever 🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

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Minister of Trade press brief: “We strongly disagree with 10% reciprocal tariffs. Our penguin oil body lotion tariff ensures our resident birds are not replaced by American factory workers from Ohio. This retaliation is not a reflection of Morgan Freemen documentary lovers but of evil malice”.

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:

"US libraries and museums receive support from many sources, including public donations and funding from other federal agencies. But IMLS is 'the single largest source of critical federal funding for libraries,'" @wired.com www.wired.com/story/instit...

Cory Booker is nearing the record for the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history.

The American college experience—earning a degree to join the middle class while coming of age on a pastoral campus with sororities and sports—may be over. Trump's attacks on higher ed impact much more than just Columbia or scientific research. They put the whole idea of college at risk. My story:

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Imagine being scared of a book smh. Couldn’t be me

It's not just the most visible universities being damaged by the administration. It's all of them.

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

The IMLS story reached NPR www.npr.org/2025/03/20/n...