Trump and DOGE accused federal civil servants of fraud (with no evidence).
Meanwhile, they're halting enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law, dropping criminal charges against Eric Adams, and pardoning a former governor who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat.
Hello?
Next Saturday!!!
Meet The Misfits, me and @dansantat.bsky.social in person at Barnes & Noble in Montclair, CA -- OOF!!!
@randomhousekids.bsky.social @barnesandnoble.com #booksigning #Misfits #KidLit
To hell with Trump and Musk.
Our grandparents and great grandparents and half a billion Americans didn't die defeating fascism, just so that we could allow a felon-rapist mobster and an unelected racist billionaire bring it here without opposition.
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Lovely interview 🥰
Resist
Celebrating Black History 💕
A happy surprise. These two groups use public libraries the most. 🥰
That’s all I can do is donate to the ACLU and support our democratic senators. We have to continue calling out lies. We can’t give up on our democracy.
@lincolnproject.us
“It hasn't even been 24 hours and one of Trump's first actions was to rescind Biden's Executive Order 14084, titled ‘Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services.’ 😡
Biden's E.O. broadly aimed to support the nation's creative and cultural economy…” -EveryLibrary
Extract from a longer cartion strip by Ann Telnaes (recently resigned from The Washington Post) concerning the decade since the terror attack at offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, Paris on Jan. 7th 2015. Under the caption “Some people think the solution is to limit what cartoonists may draw” a group of large, intimidating black-clad figures crowd over a small cartoonist at a drawing table. One bully points a finger and tells the cartoonist “Watch it.” while they sweat with a wide-eyed, scared expression.
“We reaffirm our commitment to defending cartoonists & their right to create without fear. A society without the freedom to laugh, question, or criticize is no society at all.” Marking the Charlie Hebdo attack 10yrs on, with visuals from @anntelnaes.bsky.social
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#stopbookbans
Greenland has universal healthcare, gender equality, and clean energy.
Can they take over the USA instead?
Sandy Hook Promise. Let’s remember our sweet little angels. Let’s never stop fighting for them. 💕
Let’s repeat the good parts of history to change the bad.
“Schools and libraries both provide critical services for our society and have a heavy influence on literacy…ensure students engage with their public library to expand access to many educational programs they can take advantage of long after graduation.”
-Marjeta Bejdo, early-childhood educator
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate, and Tyson hopes you all are safe from Black Friday stampedes.
“Families play an important role in helping children develop fluency in reading. Research has found that, for struggling or non-fluent readers in particular, parent-led reading interventions and support at home increase a student’s reading fluency.”
We have to continue to strengthen our libraries. They are integral to our communities. 📚 🧸 💙
Be sure to check out the BROWN SUGAR BABY board books by @kllewis.bsky.social. Great for the holidays. Great for baby showers. Great all the time! And if you do end up purchasing one or all three, please support a local independent bookseller, now more than ever! #NCTE24
“You can never get enough books into the hands of enough children.” -Dolly
At the risk of reading too much into Bluesky’s success at the moment, I do think it’s a signal that people don’t want to be surrounded by bots and manipulated algorithms
AI can only go so far. We want human connection.
It releases on my birthday and it’s unsettling that for the first time, I’m upset my birthday is not coming fast enough. 😂
“Because they are so very powerful.”
“Suddenly book bans and other forms of censorship in schools and libraries are ascendant across the country, led by organized groups and politicians. Last year saw a record-breaking 1,269 efforts to censor books and resources nationwide, nearly twice as many as in 2021 (ALA),”
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I don’t know if we can survive these California “winters.” 😆
“It’s cold, Mama. Are you sure you turned the heater up?”
We went out for a very early dinner to catch the sunset at 4:37pm. 😂
