ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army. If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.

This order is fire.🔥 I haven’t read a dressing down this pointed or elegant in a long time.

Whoever first decided to market Wuthering Heights as a gothic romance was either an evil genius or didn’t actually read it. I think I just spent 5 hours on a novel about toxic relationships, teenagers making bad decisions, inter generational trauma, and mental illness masquerading as ghosts. #books

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Please join us in congratulating Margaret Wickens Pearce on being named a MacArthur Fellow and thanking her for her extraordinary contributions to the field of cartography! Read more about the award: buff.ly/XIMH3QA

Ah, career burnout in a nutshell.

She's not anonymous (can't speak to her salary). Her name is Camille Zapata

I’m about to start naming and shaming tech recruiters on LinkedIn who contact me with GIS job offers, even though it explicitly says in my profile that I’m not looking for GIS work. 🙃 I get multiple messages a month and I am very sick of the AI scraping/ low reading comp. #linkedin #recruitinghell

In case anyone wants an alternative Notepad++ is excellent, and conveniently available in a Portable format.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

I know that many of our corporate overlords would disagree with me, but there is, in fact, difference between having a meaningful day off for restful self care and being out of work because you’re literally passed out after an invasive medical procedure.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

Too real today.

Congrats to all the 2025 Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Award honorees! We especially love seeing @becalzada.bsky.social, Immediate Past President of @aaslala.bsky.social and co-founder of the #FReadomFighters, recognized among this year’s champions of the freedom to read. ervk.org/banned-books/

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Beautiful piece of antique cartography from an 1895 ed. Charles Gaskell Family & Business Atlas of the World that I picked up at a yard sale 2 summers ago. Stabilized the volume, which is currently sitting in an acid free archival box, pending donation to a map library, as it’s apparently rareish.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

Let's say it louder for those at the back: Routine childhood vaccines do not cause autism, a major study in Denmark confirmed Wednesday, countering a myth that has been trumpeted for decades. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Really thrilled to say that as of this week, I am officially a part-time archives coordinator at an R1 university library! My collection deals mainly w. vintage/antique sewing patterns, fashion magazines, & ephemera related to pattern companies. This is a great collection and I’m v excited to start.

The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees: ✔️ due process for all ✔️ birthright citizenship ✔️ equal protection under the law Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Sorry, folks, much like unfortunate Brits with Brexit, there are no take-backsies. We are all stuck now living with the disastrous consequences of poor decisions in the face of rising right-wing nationalism.

ht: @heidireports.bsky.social

This crow is not amused. Quit it. (You know what you did.)

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

So with that, the IMLS is gone as of October 1. What I want to know is what this means for the two lawsuits filed against the administration over the abrupt gutting of the only agency federal supporting public libraries in the US. They're moot, yeah? The agency is *GONE* in October.

Well, this is extremely frightening.

Next up at #ALAAC25 (last main stage session)...

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

Democratic congressmember heads to court as watchdog group files complaint against federal prosecutor over charges stemming from a confrontation at an ICE facility.

Finally got around to reading Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom! @libraryatnight.bsky.social As a fellow death-positive LAMs professional, I thoroughly enjoyed her thoughtful & occasionally witty work on the otherwise macabre subject of anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Can we stop pretending any of this was about government efficiency?

Over 54% of US librarians currently have a Master’s degree or PhD, and over 80% of librarian job openings require an MLS/MLIS degree. School and Children’s librarians often require additional certifications. Librarians are highly educated professionals with complex jobs that need appropriate pay.

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Wildfires devastate communities. UC Berkeley is helping preserve local government research, policy, & action on wildfire management on the Internet Archive. Learn more ➡️ igs.berkeley.edu/news/califor... 🧵

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

The writing’s been on the wall for a while, and in case anyone was unaware: YOUR GENOMIC DATA IS THE MOST VALUABLE ASSET THEY HAVE LEFT. Delete your data. Make sure you opt-out of any opt-outable options. Tell your friends and family - you know that technophobe cousin missed the memo. 🧪

On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The bill’s primary author was former Democratic House Rep. Tony Coelho of California, who was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 22. Hear from Coelho today about the bill’s legacy.

Ohhhh, this is bad.

No words #LGBTQIAally

Here to tell you the stage we're at now is DISOBEY IN ADVANCE.

Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.

Welcome to all our new followers! 💚