PEN reported 6,870 instances of book bans last year alone, meaning 6,870 times a books was removed from shelves or access was restricted. That number is not a typo. The number has tripled since 2021.

Hahaha truth

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban trans Americans from owning guns. Since 2018: •4 trans shooters means 2A is null & void •4193 NON-trans shooters means 2A needs expansion Here's a better idea: Solo men commit 94.6% of all mass shootings. Let's ban firearms from solo men & see how it goes.

This is not how any of this works FFS

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

If you’re writing an older character, you are not contractually obligated to make them: •cranky •incompetent •hilariously baffled by technology If they’re a woman, they don’t HAVE to call everyone “dear.” If they are sexual, it doesn’t have to be played for laughs. #writingcommunity #ageism

Our term recap - big themes, roses & thorns, and … yikes. crooked.com/podcast/a-te...

The lists are weighted by pubs, we all understand this, right? The only possible bestsellers, barring random Bigolus Dickolas activity, are the ones that enough copies were printed and people have heard of. So what they're saying is "we are going to keep drowning you in this shit."

THIS

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"Unable to condone that grave misjudgement, I dissent," seems like it could be applied to many of the decisions this session.

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+ 4. I don’t want to contribute to a harmful industry. 5. I can write better than ChatGPT. So, in some ways, our question should be: how do we get students to a point where these things are true for them, too?

Nothing to see here, just further destruction of science and research. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Absolute truth

*pretends to be shocked* White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

NPR's What to Read This Summer list is live - and written by actual real humans, including me! www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

I literally started college at 16. It was amazing and set me up for success. Teenagers are intelligent and deserve the best.

All of this happened yesterday. One day.

For the people in the back that still don't get it: ChatGPT and AI Bots are generative. They make words up based on probability. They are in no way, shape, or form doing research and looking for real things.

I guess poor people don't need the internet. gov.illinois.gov/news/press-r...

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More from Pedro: "I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the US after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

I adored these books. #romancelandia #rideacowboy

The Senate State Affairs committee will have a hearing tomorrow on HB3225, the age restriction bill for public libraries, at 9 AM in Senate chamber. If you care about your teen having access to books, please consider coming to testify and DM us. It is likely to be in all day wait.

Texas, wtf man.

Goal was 500 letters sent today. So far 140 letters already sent. 360 letters to go. Let's raise our voices to protect Medicaid. Send your letter here in 5 seconds--> bit.ly/4jQh0Wd

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I know everything is burning but I finished grading my papers and submitted my grades today. It's a small win in the grand scheme of things, but I'm going to take it.

Librarians, the toughest of all. “Staff members at the library called the U.S. Capitol Police as well as their general counsel, Meg Williams, who told the men they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office and asked them to leave,” which they did. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Actual footage because Strict Scrutiny liked and reposted me.

I need to tell everyone that I am going to see the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social ladies when they come to Chicago in October and I will be an absolute puddle of excitement the entire night.

She was an excellent librarian and served us tirelessly. I was lucky enough to meet her once and have a signed card from her in my office. She did not deserve to be fired in a 2 sentence email. #libraries www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

we know that the right have always been great at branding propaganda because somehow being decent to people who are just living is "political correctness" but being forced to behave correctly to political people is not.

People in Alaska without a library will no longer be ale to receive books from the Juneau Public Libraries. Their funding relied on IMLS grants, which the President has cut. Also cut: summer reading programs for the state. #libraries www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/in-wake...

Today, I sent a campus wide email detailing impacts from the loss of ERIC and IMLS funding. In it, I wrote: "I have been wanting to send this article for a couple weeks now but I did not want to appear alarmist. I think we are well past the alarm going off. The flames are in the room with us."

This is a BFD for all educational research going back to the 70s. There is no replacement for this access we are losing. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

My thermostat in my office is trying to tell me something.

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To quote Gus, "That's God's comma."

Literally the conversation we have in my house every day.

Conservative lawmakers and activists have called on the library board to do more to protect children from “sexually explicit content,” though no such content is available at libraries in Arkansas. www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

NASA’s budget would be slashed nearly in half under Trump’s current proposal to Congress—a move that would wipe out billions in ongoing and future missions. Wonder who that benefits? (Sarcasm, of course.)