How about some neutral-leaning-good news? Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.

During the current extraordinary surge of book-banning efforts, committed advocacy by library ­workers & their allies is stemming the tide of censorship attempts in both school & public libraries, with more & more states enacting anti-book-ban laws. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/06/02/b...

Come join me and at least 150 people at the Edgewater Public Library to protect those coming in for Drag Story Hour! Support and follow @transupfrontil.com!!

Today! Support our @afscme siblings at CPL!

"Democracies are not to be taken for granted, and the institutions that support democracy should not be taken for granted." #FreePeopleReadFreely Spectacular interview with Dr. Carla Hayden on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social today. www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...

150 - IMLS destruction feat. Kelly Jensen We’re talking with @heykellyjensen.bsky.social about the IMLS executive order and fallout. www.librarypunk.gay/e/150-imls-d...

A Timeline and Update on the Institute for Museum and Library Services: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)

For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.

“In an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to ‘influence’ children.”

And here we have it: the end game to banning all those LGBTQ+ books. It never really was about getting rid of books. It’s always been about getting rid of people.

If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

Not only is it _certain_ that both the head of the FBI and the head of DOJ will act unconstitutionally if ordered to, but we have reached the point at which the considerably more immediate question is whether _Pete Hegseth and the United States Armed Forces_ will follow unconstitutional Trump orders

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot.

School librarians are an equity issue: youtu.be/Gy01tgLXXew?...

Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.

Being a librarian was already hard. Than came the Trump Administration. #TLSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

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BREAKING: Earlier this evening, our big bargaining team and executive board voted in favor of the proposed settlement with CPS. We officially have a tentative agreement. The next step toward transforming our schools, House of Delegates on Wednesday #CTUStrong

I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.

@johncusack.bsky.social one of the things we talked about at the board meeting came to fruition this morning: WIRED now un-paywalls stories based on FOIA docs! https://freedom.press/issues/wired-is-dropping-paywalls-for-foia-based-reporting-others-should-follow/

Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix* The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc… They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

“As a transgender teacher who works both within CPS and the union, I have witnessed the impact of gender-affirming care in my school community and others. When students feel loved and supported by their teachers and their communities, they do better in school and in life.” bit.ly/4i4Xc00

#SchoolLibrarians have been sounding the alarm about book banning. Now our government is the enemy, censoring books, criminalizing librarians, & closing libraries. There is more than one way to ban a book. @ctulibrarians.bsky.social& @ctulocal1.bsky.social will fight for the freedom to read.

Gov. Pritzker…”My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America — and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one,” he said. “I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my ⭐️obligations⭐️.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/19/g...

Red States are criminalizing school librarians to try and eliminate access to diverse books. @chipubschools.bsky.social already did that by cutting library positions. @ctulocal1.bsky.social wants a contract that returns a librarian to every school & protects students’ freedom to read.

I need everyone to know that the "feels like" temperature rn in Chicago is -26 so the idea that anyone out here is a bigtime demonstration

Pedro Martinez & @chipubschools.bsky.social STILL have not addressed the librarian crisis in CPS. Every student deserves a school librarian! www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news...

LFG Santa Rosa. This is how we do it.

Book bans impact public libraries & bookstores, but it’s school libraries where they are rampant ❤️‍🩹 Many kids are unable to make it to the public library. They can’t drive, often times the library isn’t in walking distance. It’s not that their grown-ups don’t want them to be library kids. 🧵 1/11

A librarian in every school. A nurse in every school. Safe drinking water in every school. These aren’t ‘extras’—they’re the basics. Our contract fight is about raising the floor for ALL students.

That’s more like it.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

The Department of Defense is targeting libraries and schools and blacklisting people and ideas it deems ‘dangerous’.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing - Audre Lorde wordinblack.com/2025/02/chic...

CPS used student based budgeting to cut librarians. @ctulocal1.bsky.social wants to return librarians to every school, & even the Fact Finder agrees!

This is your reminder to USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY THERE'S BOOKS THERE AND MOVIES MUSIC PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET IT'S ALSO FREE

Reposting with alt text: Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

Even the fact finder agrees that we need to staff schools with librarians and our new contract should reflect that 🔥 www.wbez.org/education/20...

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵