By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Shot in the back. Don’t shoot a man while he’s down. Close range. Sometimes it’s terrifying when figurative language comes to life.

Come work with us! (I mean, on a very part time basis. If you're a student. But still!)

My favorite comment on another FILTHY BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY video suggests that someone hasn't read Chaucer recently. www.facebook.com/reel/9111130...

"Unfortunately, no library schools apparently include a curricular unit on 'Denying Wrongful Authority.'" Thanks to @zinelib.bsky.social for this perfect interview with/by Sandy Berman. lowereastsidelibrarian.info/interviews/s...

Amen. “First” Gulf War, 1991.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Please share this post. I have made a deal with the devil where he will turn me back into a slug if I get 100,000 followers on here. I miss being a slug. I did not have to pay taxes. I had no idea who Katy Perry was. I slithered around aimlessly, not knowing salt would make me die a horrific death.

Joan Didion, conservative, or Joan Didion, cop-hater? I wrote a thing. newrambler.net/2025/12/27/j...

huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

Hear me out.

All our projects are my favorite projects, but this one, by one of my interns, is my favorite right now. Enjoy! 📚

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“American history does not stop in 1800.” www.historians.org/news/aha-sub...

Love it. Remember Quiz Show? That was the actual oversight folks. When they can’t do it, it’s good to see people step up.

Everyone, change your clock to midnight.

You talk single mothers and public transportation? You got me. Tears of joy.

Voting is the least you can do. But do it for those who can’t. I was once almost one of them. newrambler.net/2008/10/30/t...

📚 support your public library 📚

📚 for anyone at #ILAAC25!

TL;DR It does not improve after the headline.

this exists it is called thinking

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Do the people in the waiting room understand that I am laughing at a post about datasets and a class action lawsuit @authorsalliance.bsky.social? "with lots of caveats (we’re dealing with crowdsourced metadata from a pirate website here)" 😂 authorsalliance.substack.com/p/bartz-v-an...

I am pro-mayonnaise. There. I’ve said it. Fight me.

Recommended reading in any format! 📚

IYKYK. 📚

Please share widely with any and all networks--we're on the lookout for AI slop that's wormed its way in to digital library collections and we'd love your eagle eyes! 📚

“Ask six Ancient Greek professors, get seven different pronunciations.”

My Substack is now back home on my blog, where you can read, subscribe, unsubscribe, or outright ignore to your heart's content. newrambler.net/2025/08/06/o...

My father died by suicide 44 years ago today. Usually I go by the old house to pour out a libation for him, but today I wanted to go somewhere he was happy, not somewhere he despaired. So I went to the library. 📚 www.icpl.org/westgate

Going home, going home, resting my bones back on my blog. lauracrossett.substack.com/p/its-been-f...

Couldn’t have said it better.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

“The Road Not Taken” was clearly written by a man who never had to get to the grocery store before picking his kid up from sportsball practice.

One under-considered angle here is the professionalization and cutthroat nature of kids' sports. If parents are ready to go to the clink for throwing a punch at the little league ump coz of a perceived bad call, of course they'll be more conditioned to throw trans kids under the bus.

“Oh Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”

Indeed! But still, don’t write naughty words on walls if you can’t spell.

Protip: if you are already feeling sad, don’t start thinking about your dog dying. (Dog is fine. My brain is evil.)

Grouchy as usual. Public goods deserve public funding, not private beneficence. lauracrossett.substack.com/p/the-laura-...

Thread on some of the oversights in the NYT library ebook pricing story. 📚

I had the pleasure of getting to talk on the radio yesterday about how great it is to repair your stuff. Listen here or in podcast form. www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

Cool initiative. Get in early! 📚

Truly a fine way to while away some clicking time. The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com

I went to visit ICE today. lauracrossett.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...