Literature takes both writers and readers to create meaning. And anyone watching Superman today knows what country Boravia stands for in this moment. Yes, there is good and evil in the world: occupation and genocide are evil. It's that simple

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?

My middle child, who has worked for four years in the University of Oregon library, is ON STRIKE with thousands of other student workers, and I'm so proud! U of O isn't bargaining in good faith--hasn't even agreed to arbitration for harassment & discrimination. Tell the university what you think!

I'm not a Catholic, but I married one & attended mass for 10 yrs. Today, we've lost a great & humble leader who understood Jesus' radical message: love for all, 'including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands'. Pope Francis--¡Presente!

If you love books and are in Delhi, you don't want to miss this... Annie Zaidi is an important writer, and she's launching her book at @tclp.bsky.social because she loves libraries! Register: forms.gle/7FYXoBYYhqnH...

This fundraiser is focused on making sure seniors have the space, access & resources they need to be full participants in TCLP libraries... ...and when young people see seniors in libraries, they learn to expect a lifetime of reading--please help! www.thecommunitylibraryproject.org/donate-to-us/

There's so much bad news in the world, and then there are these three free libraries in Delhi where everyone & all ideas are welcome. We're not great at raising money, but we really do need your help, and we promise we'll put it to good use! Please donate today!

If the current economic order runs up against the limits it seems to be approaching (i.e., over-production; falling rate of profit; environmental catastrophe; rising world unemployment) rich liberals will have to choose: wealth and power or freedom & justice. Jeff Bezos made his choice clear today

Let's forget the theory and political analysis for a moment and look on the bright side: DOGE's 'What did you do last week' email just reminded American workers that Elon Musk is the kind of boss we all snicker at bc they are such colossal, clueless *jerks*.

Starlink should be owned by the U.S. public as a government agency vital for national security. Expropriate it now.

Musk/Trump/NYT is going to call firing IRS agents savings, but the lost revenue will be many times their salaries: this all about making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes.

'Stated otherwise, for every hour of work at a given skill level, Northern workers are able to consume 8–19x more of the global product than Southern workers...' Yep, rich countries rip off the Global South, but tourists from the North still love to complain about how Delhi auto walas 'cheat'.

Sunday L💙VE for Libraries is real! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @tashanmehta.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

A new week for library L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Shabnam Minwalla is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

Important read: We all want to believe that a social democracy could heal the world. Hickel explains why that's likely not possible. (Anyone watching the underemployment in S. Asia must suspect the problem's bigger than corruption or mismanagement. But there are signs of this in the US as well.)

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

No longer hiding exploitation behind the mask of 'free trade', US is getting back to the basics w/ old school Imperialism. (It's an extension of Biden's Palestine policy. US elites understand current economic order is failing; economic nationalism is a desperate, short-term fix.) wapo.st/40ZiEwv

This baby screaming on the Q train speaks for us all.

Two thought's about Trump's press conference with Modi: 1) Trump says US will sell India “many billions of dollars” of military hardware: once again, US state capitalism pushing bombs when what we need is libraries, parks, rural hospitals, renewable energy infrastructure...

The absolutely fabulous @freelibsnet.bsky.social and a host of storyteller stars are coming up with some really cool offers, starting tomorrow. Follow them, and please share this post. 👇

Jamie Merchant’s ‘Endgame, Economic Nationalism & Global Decline' (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social) was a gift from my eldest daughter, so I knew it'd be good. It’s changed my understanding of the world in a way few books do. No easy answers, but we have to understand what we're up against. #left #books

Yes @tclp.bsky.social @freelibsnet.bsky.social @bansalibrary.bsky.social @mridulakoshy.bsky.social

Just had a super creepy AI moment. I was chatting with GTP4 about economic ideas emerging from Jamie Merchant's 'Endgame' (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social)-a little classic economic theory; Marx's concepts of the falling rate of profit and surplus value; Universal Basic Income; etc. 1/

There’s not enough progressive thinking about big tech’s use of AI tools to replace human workers. Elon Musk’s attack on the federal workforce reminds us this is an urgent problem. (And no, copyright lawsuits won't fix it) 1/8

I think Trump's on the right track, going the wrong way when it comes to this 'make Canada the 51st state' thing. Given how much most folks in the US hate our healthcare system, I think we'd all be happier if we could convince #Canada to make us their 11th province.

It is #LifttoSky Monday and I’m revisiting New Delhi Love Songs by @mocreighton.bsky.social :) As someone who grew up with Gujarati and Hindi poetry, English poems had never worked for me until I came across this a few years ago. So gentle, beautiful, simple. Do give it a try, if you haven’t!

Proud to be part of the free library movement in India. I think @edrabinski.bsky.social says it best: Win the Library, Win the World!

Best book of my reading year, so far

@mocreighton.bsky.social feels a nice coincidence that just yesterday I took out your book to read again, and today I saw the notification that you followed me :)

There'll be time for outrage against Trump. But for now, all I can feel is outrage against Biden. He could have had a cease-fire a year ago when South Africa presented its case for genocide. Instead, he kept shipping baby killing bombs. #Shame on you, #GenocideJoe. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I kept waiting for words like 'genocide', 'war crimes', 'ICC', 'apartheid'... @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social what happened? If this is the 'age of monsters', and you have a monster on your show, aren't you obliged to at least *ask* about the monstrous things?

It was cold and rainy in Corvallis, Oregon this winter when I visited home, but the weekly protest against the genocide in Palestine is still going strong... 1/2

I vehemently disagree with most of this, especially the bit about the Laken Riley Act. That is the most moderate thing I can say about this post.

Until the Voting Rights Act at least I don't think US can claim to have been any kind of real democracy. This 'oldest democracy' line is cliched American exceptionalism propaganda. We get it from right and left and it makes me sick.

For this still(-kinda)-shiny-new-year, I suggest you follow the amazing @freelibsnet.bsky.social and two of its members who are here too, @tclp.bsky.social & @bansalibrary.bsky.social, and three of the people steering it, @purnima.bsky.social, @mridulakoshy.bsky.social, & @mocreighton.bsky.social.

"‘When we read, we are sovereign over our own mind, a sovereignty that can never be abridged," @edrabinski.bsky.social in conversation with @mridulakoshy.bsky.social scroll.in/article/1076...

Extraordinary interview on transformative power of libraries and reading. We need an international, internationalist movement for free libraries!

WaPo devoted page 1 space to tell us what a great guy Brian Thompson was & how much he cared. Maybe so, but UnitedHealth earned $22 BILLION in profit last year by denying claims & over-charging customers. That's a 'capitalism' problem not an 'image' one: Profit in healthcare is bad for our health.

I interviewed @edrabinski.bsky.social for Scroll.

Feels like US may be entering a Pretty Boy Floyd period. CEOs and bankers beware. #LuigiMangione

Stories read together are special. Pictured here are a majority of girls who frequent our library. We promote peer learning apart from structured studies so as to make well rounded individuals who can think for themselves. #ReadingIsThinking #RightToRead

If there were as many corporate shootings as school shootings in the US, just imagine what gun control laws would look like. #UnitedHealthcare #LuigiMangione

Books are not locked behind glass shelves in our libraries. For the youngest of our members. We are building. #PalacesForThePeople. DK says YES to #PalacesForThePeople. You should too. DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ youtu.be/_fVh2q6Ac4c

Class war didn’t start with us.

When the jester speaks, all shall listen. All around the world the commons are shrinking. We are building. #PalacesForThePeople. Varun says YES to #PalacesForThePeople. You should too. DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ @varungrover.bsky.social youtu.be/xpQ19Zd8JLs?...