I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
For Renee Good & Alex Pretti and everyone else who has been unlawfully detained and abused by ICE. #iceout #minneapolis
🚫🧊
50,000 Minnesotans marching downtown in subzero weather.
Thousands more patrolling the streets, delivering groceries, and caring for families.
Faith leaders getting arrested by the dozens in acts of civil disobedience.
This is Minnesota. We stand together.
The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
Photo of a stack of Beverly Cleary Books
It’s Beverly Cleary Day!
#booksky #dropeverythingandread
Harry Lerner, the founder of Lerner Publishing Group, died in Minneapolis on April 8, at the age of 93. See our tribute: buff.ly/DwWVHUB
The Literary Impact of Beverly Cleary | Book Riot buff.ly/ET3Elpt
Hello Minnesota! Tonight there is a press conference & then a school board meeting about legal action to stop book banning in the St. Francis area. If you can make the meeting add your voice!
educationminnesota.org/news/press-r...
Illustration of a Great Horned Owl wearing a United States Post Office Uniform holding a sign that says Save The USPS
The Post Office Owl is back (I made him in 2020). Don’t privatize the USPS!
#USPS #birdsky #art
This is fine meme, but with dog saying “So I have a book coming out”
Chuck Schumer right now:
“Do you want a mayor who is not meeting the moment?” - a Senator who is not meeting the moment
Well, it finally happened. Larry Schultz eggs went up by a $1 to $6.29 a dozen.
The more I live the more I’m astounded by how difficult it is to keep living and to remain a person. This is WORK.
Birding brings me so much peace. It was nice to momentarily escape from the world at the @saxzimbog.bsky.social. What a magical place! Highlights were Great Gray Owls, a Boreal Owl(!), Boreal Chickadee and Evening Grosebeaks.
#birding #birdsky
Below three pictures (two of a parent/caregiver reading a book with a child, the other of a young person looking at a book) is the text: Empowered by Reading. The Benefits of Giving Youth Access to a Wide Variety of Reading Materials.
Books are lifesaving.
Research shows that when schools offer inclusive reading materials, LGBTQ+ students report feeling safer and better mental health outcomes.
When provided with a wide variety of books, youth are Empowered by Reading: uniteagainstbookbans.org#white-paper #UniteAgainstBookBans
Same. It’s a lot for such a small guy!
Trying to stay informed and engaged but limit my doomscrolling (it’s not going well). Good thing my library holds have arrived!
#books #booksky
I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library
Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
I made this poster in 2017, time to put it back into production.
#resist
