For the love of god someone do a special issue in library trends or something about HVAC in libraries. We need to pump this literature base up. Deferred maintenance costs need to be calculated. Labor issues. Cooling centers and climate change.

165 - Backburner We’re back after a break! We’re talking about our backburner episodes. Episodes we haven’t gotten to yet, guests we’d like to have on. Also: the AI booing at commencements which was very funny.

“There has to be stronger oversight to make sure that community promises are kept” | Kingman Park community is concerned about the impact of the RFK Project youtube.com/shorts/tFaWw...

The criminalizing parents for teen behavior in DC is awful AND also it is end game of all the low key parent-blaming that happens at a much smaller level and in which many, more people are complicit 1/

Reminder. #JusticeforJulian

The criminalizing parents for teen behavior in DC is awful AND also it is end game of all the low key parent-blaming that happens at a much smaller level and in which many, more people are complicit 1/

Everyone should see the film Palestine36. So powerful. So beautiful. And devastating.

Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.

@mayor.nyc.gov public libraries need a measly .5% of the city budget!

UPDATE: Community members identified the three victims of the shooting as “beloved” security guard Amin Abdullah, who played a “heroic” & “pivotal role” in saving lives; Mansour Kaziha, who ran the mosque store for decades; & Nader Awad, who came running from his home across the street to help.

It's time to vote for annual DC's "3 Stars Book Award" organized by the DC Librarian Association! Vote in categories for: Picture Books, Upper Elementary, Middle, and High School Any DC student and reader is eligible to vote! Vote by Friday, June 5th Details: dcla.org/Three-Stars-...

We do not need panel discussions about the "dismantling of Black Studies." Cross the street and ask the local church if you can run a Black Studies Saturday school in their basement for interested community members.

"We were promised this pot of gold, and now we are left with an exhaust pipe" Great line by neighbor Alexis Pazmino about how Kingman Park neighbors are getting broken promises over and over (as we predicted) by this new Commanders/RFK stadium #RFKStadium www.wusa9.com/article/news...

"We were promised this pot of gold, and now we are left with an exhaust pipe” || “Residents in DC's Kingman Park neighborhood are pushing back against a recently released plan not to build a Metro station at the RFK campus” www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Reminder that people live live in the area where y'all are building your billion dollar stadium playground. "Development" of people's communities is like a game to so many policy folks

It is 2026 and people are excited about dedicated bus lanes as if that is groundbreaking transportation infrastructure

Embarrassing. No new metro, just more vehicular traffic. DC is stuck in the mid-1900s.

And before folks suggest Councilmembers have not tried to advance this concept in front of schools, we have. This became law in 2023, but ongoing challenges with DDOT on implementation : ⬇️ code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci... lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/...

“Soccer Streets is a part of NYC DOT's Open Streets for Schools program, which allows schools to close an adjacent street to traffic for recess, outdoor learning and safer pickup and drop-off.” @ddotdc.bsky.social maybe ask how they are able to pull this off but you’ve been resisting for years 🙄

This is from the ALA AI Guidance Draft (feedback is due today ALA members). I have a question related to this principle: does anyone know of an AI product that actually meets this criteria right now?

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

Oh, c’mon WaPo Editorial Board! This is not the biggest reason there aren’t more grocery stores east of the river. But talking about income, wealth, & population numbers wouldn’t fit the narrative I guess.

HAPPENING NOW… marching on the Capitol…. #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee

NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today! The issue features a suite of articles reflecting on two years of student encampments and struggles for academic freedom and against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

We encourage everyone to join the 5/1 Workers over Billionaires Solidarity March, starting 12pm at the Washington Monument. And because the fight doesn’t stop until our streets are FREE of occupation… Head to our bonfire store & wear your resistance with DCAF’s newest merch drop! 🚫🧊

Collective Action for Safe Spaces did amazing liberatory, anti-carceral work in Washington DC for years. The org itself has sunset (closed), but is documented in an archive: collectiveactiondc.org Golden list of resources: collectiveactiondc.org Their bystander intervention training was topnotch

Collective Action for Safe Spaces did amazing liberatory, anti-carceral work in Washington DC for years. The org itself has sunset (closed), but is documented in an archive: collectiveactiondc.org Golden list of resources: collectiveactiondc.org Their bystander intervention training was topnotch

I turned a 40 page policy report (for which I was a co/lead author) into an 8, half page digital zine. Climate change and care work: Integrated solutions for intersecting crises It's even better printed out issuu.com/lindseyzines...

I turned a 40 page policy report (for which I was a co/lead author) into an 8, half page digital zine. Climate change and care work: Integrated solutions for intersecting crises It's even better printed out issuu.com/lindseyzines...

YIKES.

Reminder that #JulianBailey should still be alive. #FreeDC and #BlackLivesMatter in Washington DC and everywhere

New resource on Anti-Palestinian racism: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47332

DC Public Library is hosting its first Flea Market on Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. outdoors in front of the MLK Library! DMV-area vendors are invited to sign up to participate! Fill out the Application by Friday, May 8 ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vsvjq0

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

I filled it out. And one of the points I made, which I want in the public historical record is that this land IS BEING USED BY OUR COMMUNITY today, right now, every day, as it is. Yes, we want changes, but the claim by our politicians that 'it is not being used' is wrong. #Commanders #RFKStadium

"One person sees superpredators, feral kids, a city under siege. Another sees bored teenagers...I think I see something more political...young people getting off their screens, gathering in public, and refusing the quiet age segregation of urban life." anotherpanacea.substack.com/p/they-saw-a...

Happy earth day AND happy national library week! This year’s theme of national library week is #FindYourJoy Here are some ideas for how to find + share your joy from the #RosedaleLibrary Friends association: mailchi.mp/b9375e4acf9f... #ILoveMyLibrary @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Trump is not the only politician who defunds public libraries... I think this is important for everyone to understand.

Data Center Policy in Practice Training Series - starts this week. events.zoom.us/ev/AjDEwb0rp...

ugh

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now. Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's a result of book censorship, and it impacts you wherever you live. bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

Pair this with the rise in older YA being marketed as "mature YA" and, well there's a reason a lot of us are gravely concerned about the future of the age category.

Israel approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. The largest single approval of settlements by any cabinet to date. Israel’s far right government pushes de-facto annexation, even, further, in violation of international law.

People need to understand how bad, how devastating, how unjustified Israel’s bombardment of Beirut is — it’s not just yet another of the strikes that have become routinized. Catastrophic civilian harm and human suffering that simply must not be shrugged off as normal and forgotten. Stop the madness.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Ceasefire is a completely meaningless word. So tired of this.

cc: @askhistorians.bsky.social whom I forgot to tag in the original post!

This Friday I am going to park myself on Reddit to answer as many questions as I can about the TOMATO in EGYPT. Bring your questions! I will do my very best to respond! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Cannot watch that clip again

Oh my goodness #DCSpirit