Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

WA State families: Please email or call your local reps & ask them to save #NBCT teacher stipends. Once we hit 25 yrs of service there are no salary increases. I started teaching right out of college. I must teach 42 years b4 I can retire. That's 17 more yrs #TLsky secure.ngpvan.com/OP85qBkL-0qv...

Learned this in the ALATT Library group: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

Teaching lateral reading is a must, but even a majority of Stanford students failed that test when the university created their Civic Online Reasoning course. It makes the two-source test nearly irrelevant if other sources just regurgitate the same misinformation. How are you combatting this?

Our accounts are starting to migrate over to Bluesky. Give them a follow! (We'll create a #StarterPack once everyone's up and running and verified).

Grateful for the bright spot that is @jasmineforus.bsky.social today! She inspires me to lead with knowledge, compassion, and courage.

👀 Gift article from the NYT. Grateful to the Wayback Machine & adding it to my donation list. Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

NEW: In these unprecedented times, it's easy to feel defeated and powerless. But there are many ways everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. @marcelias.bsky.social shares ten things all of us can do.

If you've felt hopeless by the executive orders & barrage of the administration in the news cycle, this is the message of HOPE you need to hear today from @americanstudier.bsky.social .

Legitimately trying to wrap my head around the intersection of the end to DEI and actual discrimination against protected classes. This is wild. If we aren't including, we're excluding, right? They can't claim that every non-white cis male is a #DEI hire #edusky www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Teacher librarian hive: Is there a newspaper database subscription that gives students access to current news (from at least a small subset of sources) without purchasing a class set of individual subscriptions? #tlsky #edusky We already have Ebsco and Proquest but want access to current news.

And Accelerated Reading points that devalue nonfiction & graphic novels and harm reluctant readers. AR points only reward high-achieving readers who already read above grade level 🙄

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 5/20

Remember that buying #bannedbooks helps authors, but does very little to keep books on library shelves & in the hands of readers/students who need representation & access the most. For meaningful support, please follow @heykellyjensen.bsky.social & @tasslyn.bsky.social work.

Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/b...

This is heartbreaking and it's one more form of modern day redlining where marginalized and impoverished school communities don't have access to libraries, books, & trained librarians. Early literacy is a predictor of long-term reading & academic success. #tlsky #edusky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 4/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 3/20

Let me get this straight. I was accused for more than a year of grooming students in the library w/ books. Now, actual groomers with witnesses & court convictions of SA are being given the highest leadership positions in our country, and these same people are silent. thehill.com/homenews/499...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 2/20

My #rstats #dataBS #datasky networks feel like they're in a good place in terms of replacing the old twitter days. Missing the epidemiologist folks though. I made a quick starter pack of those in #episky that I could find; if I missed you please let me know and I'll add you! go.bsky.app/3cn51fN

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 1 Book 1

Favorite LMS role is putting "perfect fit" books into the hands of high schoolers that they are excited to read for enjoyment but also personal reading assignments. Hot to go genre: #dystopianlit Cannot keep it on the shelves. #edusky

This is why reading is important. 50% of USians read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels. At least 45 million are functionally illiterate; 130 million more can't finish a children's book. thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...

If you’re interested in fighting book bans, this is a great starter pack to follow! go.bsky.app/L59xSVt

Just over here waiting for @wsdot.bsky.social to activate their famous road traffic, closures, etc via handmade drawrings. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ay2...

It's time to build my holiday reading list. What fiction book surprised you this year as unputdownable? The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters was a surprise hit. After reading Demon Copperhead last year, I am growing an appetite for regional fiction.