It's 2026 & @nycplan.org wants you to join us in getting every City Council Member on the record re our demand to increase & stabilize public library funding. We could use your help in two ways: 1. Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... 2. Follow up with a call: nycplan.org/actions/call...

My review of Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory has been published in Boundary 2 read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

"All we can do is keep showing up, keep speaking up, keep donating, keep connecting, keep our values close and our courage strong and keep an eye out. And not give up, including not settling into this as though it's normal or permanent or we're helpless"

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

People are lead to believe governance is cumbersome, colonial, bureaucratic, non-efficient until you have none and you are at the whim of lawless, mindless abusers of power. The left and the right use the strategy of "burn it all down". Do that and you have nowhere to live. #VoteThemOut #TwoYears

No other account speaks for us - if it doesn’t say YourAnonCENTRAL, it’s not us. Here are our most trusted human rights accounts and Anons on blue sky. More information: therussiareport.substack.com/p/the-russia... #Anonymous go.bsky.app/5eZX3Ek

People are lead to believe governance is cumbersome, colonial, bureaucratic, non-efficient until you have none and you are at the whim of lawless, mindless abusers of power. The left and the right use the strategy of "burn it all down". Do that and you have nowhere to live. #VoteThemOut #TwoYears

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

Academic Institutions simply need to not bend the knee. If the academy is about knowledge generation, that includes ALL KNOWLEDGE, and means that preserving and protecting that will matter moving forward. Private schools should lead in this effort and prepare for a legal fight.

LIBRARIES ARE ABOUT TO MATTER MORE NOW THAN EVER. Books are the windows to worlds unseen. Support them by: - Joining a Friends of the Library (annual donation) - Visiting and using their many wonderful resources - Hiring librarians (@mychal3ts.bsky.social is on the market!!)

Mosab Abu Toha on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza: “All the dreams that I and friends in Gaza and abroad were drawing for our children have been burnt by Israel’s genocidal campaign to erase Gaza and everything that breathes of life and love.”https://lithub.com/read-mosab-abu-toh…

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

RIP Cecile Richards 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

Long overdue! #LeonardPeltier apnews.com/article/leon...

“We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. We are not moving on; we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly; We are brave enough to bend to cry. And sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech.” #RIPNikkiGiovanni

The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress. A man must be buried. It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination. RIP 🕯️ Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

RIP NIkki Giovanni ❤️

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live — Nikki Giovanni

New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.

Thank you to Elections Canada for the opportunity to serve on its Advisory Circle of Educators - a dynamic community of educators from across Canada! #EduSky #abed electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/spotlig...

this is very cool apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

Please read books. I’m begging you.

Buy all banned books as presents

I made a climate change education starter pack. More to add, so please reach out if you’d like to be on this list: go.bsky.app/Pgq6Tzu

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Reading books will be our most powerful force against AI and other forms of killing propoganda, disinformation and mistruths masquerading as knowledge and truth. We need to study the inner workings of fiction -- as powerful a force as science (and together are formidable). #BanBombsNotBooks

We need to expand our understanding of literacy beyond 200 years of decoding as comprehension. We have a responsibility to teach that language conceals and deceives as much as it opens up and liberates. Privileging the "science" of reading over the experience of reading has got us in this mess.

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Autocracies always ban books, knowledge, ideas, words. Anyone who advises not to read something (left or right, right or wrong) institutes a new and closed regime of power. Citation politics is not politics. Its just book banning by another name. #FreeYouMind #ReadEverything

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms." --Nineteen Eighty-Four

Still learning BlueSky's parameters... so I'm going to chain-mail the PDF for a book-project with a very tight timeline (release on Inauguration Day in the US: 20 January). The title is "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" and it's all hands-on-deck. Email [email protected] - Here goes:

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...

Teaching History is critical in the times we live. It will be important to engage postcolonial, literary (yes history is fiction) and critical frameworks for this teaching. Identity politics, virtue signalling, and EDI have failed us all (as predicted). #GetBackToKnowledge #EducationNotCelebrity

There’s a dream I have in which I love the world.

If you are teacher of reading the one way to push back against tyranny is to support students to, "read everything," in the words of James Baldwin. Make a push wherever you are to renew reading. Reading is now radical and subversive. Also: Join #AuthorsAgainstBookBans #ReadForYourLife