wording of this is very interesting! we pulled him because we thought he said a bad thing BUT we've had conversations with him about it BUT we're going to imply that we scolded him BUT we're not really going to say why we changed our mind

Happy Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month! #hispanicheritagemonth #americanhistory #latinepeople

The arts sustain us and speak out for us

If this isn't your response to doomerism I don't want to know you

#tdih 1868 Camilla Massacre, Albany, Georgia After being expelled from elected office, African Americans & a few whites bravely marched to attend a political rally. Fired upon by whites in town, & pursued as they ran. Followed by weeks of #votersuppression 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

Check out our new lesson by Jesse Hagopian. Students explore examples of laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories for the Black Freedom Struggle, highlighting the historical context & motivations behind these legislative efforts. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/le...

By today,it is meant whatever day you read this

Every union that worked on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and works with Disney, Sinclair Broadcasting, and Nextstar should strike. Just shut it all down. No one’s jobs are safe when corporations put appeasing fascists over workers and their constitutional rights.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and other academic workers. www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

The silence from white academics is deafening right now. Your colleagues are being fired and targeted. Threatened with mob violence. Silenced. Censored. Isolated. Alienated. Deported. Abducted. Arrested. Kendrick said it: "You not a colleague. You a f*ckin colonizer."

Breaking Through the Historical Walls of Silence, a post by Pablo Leon To echo Guatemalan Archbishop Gerardi’s words, “Knowing the truth is painful, but liberating. Without it, the scars will never heal.” teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/09/18/b... @tltkaren.bsky.social @artsypabster.bsky.social

Thank you for standing up for what's right, Jerry 🍦

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Quick, name five Greek gods. Now try naming one Puerto Rican god. Victor Piñeiro writes to bring Puerto Rico’s Indigenous Mythology to life for middle school readers. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/09/17/r...

book review: The Family I'm In by Sharon Flake #Scholastic #Ruby's&Pearl's #youngadult pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/09/17/r...

sometimes I get the image from the blog post. sometimes I don't.

review: The Family I'm In by Sharon G. Flake pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/09/17/r...

book review: The Family I'm In by Sharon Flake #Scholastic #Ruby's&Pearl's #youngadult pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/09/17/r...

I love Bsky! Where else would I learn its Pythagorean Triple Square Day

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our founder and friend Robert Redford.

Teachers, librarians, & homeschooler friends! LAST CALL for this week's virtual author visits! There's still time to sign up if you haven't already. Both will be recorded & if you register before the webinar, you'll have access to that recording for the full school year!

What did Trump know about the Doha bombing? As the White House struggled to form a coherent response to Israel’s strike on Qatar, Trump’s credibility began to take a hit. Full report ▶️ youtu.be/BoDxk8ZPCM0

I snapped this from a bus on a recent rainy day in Ireland

President Trump is eyeing Memphis for his next National Guard troop deployment. @justinjpearson.bsky.social says the administration’s “main targets” are Black-led and Black majority cities and that “we should all be terrified by what we are seeing.”

Back to School List: Self-Care for Teens pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/09/10/b...

Teachers! Librarians! How School Librarian Monica DiGiovanni created a Nonfiction Unit Her Grade 3-5 Students Loved tinyurl.com/3etr4ybm #SchoolLibrarians #TLsky #Skybrarian #edusky #kidlit @stenhousepub.bsky.social @lisaljrogers.bsky.social

Back to School List: Self-Care for Teens pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/09/10/b...

Tiara's Hat Parade is on tour! February 7-15, Orlando Family Stage - tinyurl.com/4yyuwkxe March 7-22, Children's Theater of Madison - tinyurl.com/4dj9tref April 11-19, South Carolina Children's Theater - tinyurl.com/3k4ksjmb Buy the book: tinyurl.com/yyny4wnc Thanks for your support.

Sad news out of Augusta County – they’re being forced to shutter three rural doctors’ offices in direct response to Republican Medicaid cuts. This horrible law is going to devastate rural health care.

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TOMORROW (9/9): Don't miss ALA's next free advocacy webinar! Learn how you can bring Congress to your library - one of the most effective ways to advocate for your library and community. Join us Sep 9 @ 5pm ET / 4pm CT: elearning.ala.org/local/catalo... #ForOurLibraries

Happy 71st birthday to civil rights advocate Ruby Bridges! 🎂 🎁 🎆 If you don’t know Ms. Bridges’s story please read: www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Apparently ICE is hiring a historian to help investigate human rights violations, can't imagine how that could go wrong. careers.historians.org/jobs/2164421...

Actor Tom Hanks’s planned West Point honour is cancelled as Trump praises move against critics of his US administration.

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

For nearly 40 years, the SARE program has helped farmers across the country develop new methods and keep their farms going (and growing). It's been a game-changer for many Mainers.   Once again, Trump’s USDA is illegally withholding money already approved by Congress ($48 million worth, this time).

I met the screenwriter for Minority Report in high school. We had a TIME talking about sci-fi. He impressed on me how tech cannot and should not solve problems that are largely humanitarian. Crime is not the cost of "modern society." It's the cost of willful inequity. No justice, no peace.

Maybe one of the most ridiculous new products from the anti-library, book ban crowd.

Happening now: ~13 miles away from the Broadview detention center, hundreds hitting the street in downtown Chicago in protest of ICE.

Please I am begging you to stop engaging with RFK or any other member of this administration as though they are sane or reasonable. They will watch billions die and call it evolution

Who is Lori the Librarian, new idol of the book banners? She's a superhero who defaces little free libraries and "takes down" librarians and educators. But *what* is she? A PragerU-like animation by a couple who have been campaigning against DEI for years. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

NEW: Did you know the Trump Administration has been demanding that states hand over ALL of your voter data? “It's literally everything that you would need to steal someone's identity,” says one expert. More on what’s at stake:

Thorough piece on evolving language, people, and imaging to ban books and people buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

After 20 years of service, an NPR reporter's beloved minivan is on the fritz. But what is its best and highest calling now: Pass it on to another family or recycle it into parts?

The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free. buff.ly/5UCPGq4

Literary titan Stephen King has long dominated the horror genre & captivated audiences on the page & movie screens. @stephenking.bsky.social joins me for a very special meeting of the #VelshiBannedBookClub at 12pET to discuss fairy tales, horror & his books being taken off shelves. Don't miss it!