"Silver gave In These Times a tour of more than 60 buttons documenting key moments in Minneapolis' radical history." "Part of having something in the realm of possibility is knowing that it has happened there before." #Minnesota #USA #Protest #Labour #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

“Perkins responded by pulling their funding… by kicking those jackbooted thugs to the curb, she set precedent for dealing with rogue law enforcement agency—something that the…Democrats in Congress performatively denouncing ICE might want to read”- @kimkelly.bsky.social thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...

News: ALA welcomes the reintroduction of the Prison Libraries Act, legislation that would create a new federal grant program to support library services for incarcerated people. Learn more about the bill and its proposed funding measures: www.ala.org/news/2026/01...

DCL, one of North Carolina’s oldest Black-led nonprofit organizations, will enter a new era through a formal partnership and merger with the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University 📜 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/01...

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Winner Alexandra E. LaGrand on Shakespearean Breeches Actresses 📜 www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Next Thursday February 5 at 6:30, in person AT the SCHOMBURG Center, we're going to have a powerful conversation on the history of political repression and police violence and Black organizing against it. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/policing-b...

Take the fucking wins! Take the wins and consolidate power.

Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.

A reminder... The deadline for Travel Grant applications is coming soon...on February 2nd. It'll be here before you know it, so don't delay...apply today!

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

Chicago Public Library is doing some amazing work.

Green card holders get free, confidential, in-person help with naturalization applications at CUNY Citizenship Now! Sat Feb 7 P.S. 50, 143-26 101st Ave, Jamaica. For eligibility, req'd docs & registration call 646-664-9400, text 929-334-3784 or request a callback: www.cuny.edu/about/admini...

Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs www.emorywheel.com/article/2026... #OA #OpenAccess

I assume I'm not the only person stress-buying books, zines and records lately?

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Very excited to publish this interview with Greg Wiedeman on @bloggers.bsky.social! Greg has good insights on simplifying LAM tech to be sustainable in the context of limited resources. It was great to talk to him, and I'm glad to share our conversation saaers.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/k...

And now for some good news... Congress Funds Institute for American Indian Arts hyperallergic.com/congress-fun...

Hey #BibWeek, help me promote this job? ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/614... (I'm not there because I'm in Spain but you'll work with me a lot and I'm happy to chat)

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Fascinating (and sad) read on how trails across the US are disappearing for a myriad of reasons.

I didn't catch whether this talk was recorded for future viewing, but I highly recommend anyone interested check out the work the NAACP is already doing about the unevenly distributed (in deeply precedented ways) harms of data centers. naacp.org/campaigns/st...

Excellent reminder to always read Sarah Lamdan: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-sur...

If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.

Print history fam— ICE is terrorizing & threatening this small business print shop in Minneapolis: Smart Set Community Printing. If you’re in the area and need some printing (fine prints, business cards, stickers, saddle-stitched booklets, posters, etc) please consider supporting them! smartset.com

BACK BY DEMAND 🌹 after 2 sell out print runs The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social is back Feb 4, 12p ET! don't miss your chance to grab this important piece of writing on libraries+archives+memory+black history www.weherepress.org

Via the New Haven Independent: "At least one masked, armed federal immigration agent ran into the Elm Street courthouse on Tuesday morning to arrest a man — potentially in violation of a state law limiting ICE activity on courthouse grounds." www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/01/20/i...

New: Yesterday the Administration filed notice to appeal a recent decision in federal court which halted actions to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services. IMLS grants are still in place while the court hears the appeal. The appeals process will take time. 1/2

Well this looks excellent! Having traumatised myself with an element of work I was doing with records, I'm now VERY conscious of the risk to myself and others when dealing with these materials. Sadly I have a meeting clash for this, but you should all book! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/looking-af...

There are many books about zines & zine culture, including some that are just expensive eye candy with little info to guide someone that wants to start publishing now. This book is the one I'd give to people who don't know how to begin. It's filled with good info. halfletterpress.com/make-a-zine/

brilliant article about dispersed, displaced, lost and destroyed collections and the strange combination of emotional, affective, technical and administrative language used to describe them

The Trump admin is hoping to shutter over a dozen buildings and more than 100 labs at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center As part of its plans to gut the center, it shut NASA’s largest library last month, threatening to trash important documents in the process.

I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights. The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday. It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.

This is more nuanced than things on the ground: essential research services (libraries, staff support) have been gutted at an alarming rate, and there is little discussion of rebuilding former capacities. Even as the US is at its wealthiest, we are robbing the future www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

🧵 Staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, have voted by a 76% margin in a National Labor Relations Board election to unionize with UAW Local 2110. The ballot tally was 542 yes votes for the union with 172 votes against.

This article celebrates the Walter P. Reuther Library, its unique collection, and the collaborative and creative programming that keeps the legacy alive. Read about it here: bit.ly/4mrqCHA

There is a lot of woe in the world, but here is one thing I'm excited about: nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.

A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated

I'm begging us to stop playing gotcha on people living in southern states. Every person on this planet, regardless of what side of a river or ocean they were arbitrarily born on, deserves access to education and information.

While what is happening at TAMU with academic freedom is egregious, it is worth noting this started a while ago. In 2022, they vacated the tenure of their librarians and gutted the library. The library system was one of the best in the country. www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2...

Good morning, my dispatch from Centralia, Pennsylvania, the town that’s been on fire for 60 years, is live and might be a nice way for you to start your morning

this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

Vija Celmins, Gun with Hand #1, 1964 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137044

For months, I've driven through New Haven on I-95 and seen electronic billboards admonishing and shaming Avelo for working with DHS. Local grassroots groups funded those billboards. To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social "We're going to win"