Don’t let the government regulate your reading www.bookbanpetition.us

“Now you know it, the best verse Was made up down in Montgomery, Alabama Says, "We are not afraid" And here, you and I up here And like every human being in the world We have been afraid But you still sing it, ‘We are not afraid’ ‘We are not afraid today.’”

Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home. action.everylibrary.org/dodschools via @everylibrary.bsky.social

🔥 Happy International Women’s Day

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” —Michelle Obama [Happy International Women’s Day!]

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💚 Scrolling back through my screenshots, from The Daily Stoic

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For nearly 30 years, E-Rate has helped libraries—especially in rural areas—provide affordable high-speed internet through the FCC’s Universal Service Fund. Now, that access is at risk. ALA is fighting back. ilovelibraries.org/article/the-...

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Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer, that hang’d himself on th’ expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins enow about you, here you’ll sweat for’t.

☮️ If you want the world to know / We won't let hatred grow / Put a little love in your heart

Times Square 🇺🇸🇺🇦✊

🕊️ We are not afraid / we are not afraid today / Deep in my heart, I do believe / We shall overcome

But wherefore art not in thy shop today? Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?

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Across the country, libraries are helping their patrons access the internet to learn, work, & grow. But a resolution in Congress to limit the use of #Erate funds could put that access at risk. Tell Congress to protect funding for wifi hotspots: oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi...

❤️‍🔥 Is it the end of America? / No, it's only the beginnin' / If we hold on to hope, we'll have our happy ending

“Touched by an Angel” by Maya Angelou

The National Archives safeguards our collective history, protects the public's right to know, and ensures transparency and accountability in government. action.everylibrary.org/nationalarch... follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries.

—Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Cabinet Battle #1” (Hamilton)

Take the first step in joining the campaign against book bans! Sign and share the petition today. www.bookbanpetition.us

❄️🔥 I’ve been spending a lot of time revisiting Westeros lately. (Weirdly comforting!)

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.” —George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

❤️‍🔥 It’s not too late, we should be giving / Only with love can we climb / it’s not too late…

❤️‍🔥 “WE ARE” by Jon Batiste

“Under the surface” by Maria Popova (from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days)

The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home. action.everylibrary.org/dodschools via @everylibrary.bsky.social

“Hope doesn’t mean denying these realities. It means facing them and addressing them by remembering what else the 21st c. has brought, including movements, heroes, & shifts in consciousness that address these things now.” —Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities

🕊️I haven’t thought of the Prayer of St. Francis for years. But it was in my head this morning.

🩷 “Sunny Side of the Street” by Jon Batiste

“Mysteries, Yes” by Mary Oliver

we may deny him yet.

Took a news break over the weekend. Coming back is…yeah.

Alack, thou dost usurp authority.

In bleeding us dry, you longed for our spirit / But that you will never possess

“Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower” by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. This action would negatively impact school libraries and literacy rates. www.saveschoollibrarians.org/deptofed2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

“Ship’s Manifest” by Amanda Gorman

Away with him to prison!

I do defy him, and I spit at him

☕️ “Black Coffee,” Sarah Vaughan

💕Toni Morrison

And what confederacy have you with the traitors Late footed in the kingdom?