April Lidinsky

South Bend locals: Please consider launching your weekend with a nourishing hour of silent reading at the gorgeous MLK Dream Center, 6:30-7:30 pm! There’s a partially covered second floot patio to enjoy, come rain or shine. 📚
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MLK Center The Reading Hour — South Bend

Made a new friend in a Milwaukee coffee house. #NoKingsDay

Thank you! 💚

Michiana Chronicles: Namesakes April Lidinsky muses on the meaning of namesakes.

What’s in a namesake? On @wvpe today, I celebrate my much-missed father and a new grandson. www.wvpe.org/wvpe/2025-06...

Dinner & A Book - Finding Freedom | PBS Michiana - WNIT Chef Erin French takes an unflinching approach in her memoir, Finding Freedom: Remaking a Life from Scratch, published in 2021. From her tween years literally slinging hash in her father’s diner, to t...

Benjamin Futa, founder of South Bend’s The Botany Shop is a splendid cook. Enjoy his insights on Erin French’s _Finding Freedom_ on this linked episode of @pbs.org WNIT’s “Dinner & a Book”: www.wnit.org/dinnerandabo...

It’s a horrifying moment, and all the IU campuses have remained silent. At IU South Bend, our Student Government Association has shown more backbone than our leadership in making strong resolutions in defense of academic freedom, endorsed yesterday by the Faculty Senate.

Last minute additions to the budget dismantle tenure, take aim at public universities One Democrat said higher education institutions are "slowly being destroyed."

Indiana University has served the young people of the state and the country and the world as a model public university. These measures, passed without review or discussion, destroy IU’s independence and will if allowed to stand undo its essential character. (1/3)
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Dinner & A Book - Eating to Extinction | PBS Michiana - WNIT Dan Saladino is a renowned food journalist whose nonfiction book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, is a stirring call to action. April Lidinsky invites Indi...

Grateful to share the @pbs.org WNIT kitchen with IU South Bend colleague Prof. Zach Schrank for a discussion of sustainable foods and Dan Saladino’s important book:

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Absolutely loved your presentation on these ideas at the Midwest SoTL Conference today! Thank you for the inspiration and practice! 🎉🎉🎉

Michiana Chronicles: This land is our land April Lidinsky shares her National Park story and encourages you to share yours, too.

My defense of the National Parks, for @wvpe by way of describing a transformative summer I spent working at Acadia National Park when I was 20. What story might you share to explain the power of our Parks?

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Wow — dead on.

Go, UUs!!

Yet again, essential anslysis from @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Experts decry these tariffs. Listen to the unhinged ramblings of DT in the closing paragraphs. Maybe *this* is the moment his followers will begin to peel away from him?

South Bend IN turns out thousands to demand “Hands off!” Hopeful energy and so many supportive honks!

Grateful for poets (and parodies!) in a fascist time…👏🏽

More essential reading, from @hcrichardson.bsky.social :

Brilliant work! I teach this to students in Feminist Theory at Indiana University South Bend and ask them to remap spaces important to them. The results have been eye-opening and delicious. Thank you!!

Brilliant project by Rebecca Solnit that I have taught to college students, asking them to rewrite/rename spaces that matter to them. Everyone should try this!

Use 5 calls and make some noise! Our silence will not protect us, as Audre Lorde reminds us.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Defending the US Postal Service with over 100 folks in South Bend this morning.

Dinner & A Book - The Little Liar | PBS Michiana - WNIT In his latest book, The Little Liar, best-selling author Mitch Albom explores the long-term psychological effects of betrayal, and the historical realities of Greek Jews during the Holocaust. Posi Tuc...

This episode of WNIT Dinner & A Book with Posi Tucker is about _The Little Liar_, Mitch Albom’s novel about the ways nefarious governments can make good people do their evil bidding.

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Happy Ides of March to all who celebrate…

Graphic with light purple background and deep purple text "Happy Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! To every clinic worker, abortion fund staffer, advocate & clinic escort: THANK YOU!"

Happy Abortion Provider Appreciation Day!

Today is all about celebrating & uplifting the work of Ohio's abortion care providers & the staff and supporters that keep them going strong every day.

YouTube video by PBS Michiana - WNIT The Woman Who Read Too Much | Dinner & A Book

Celebrate International Women’s Day by learning more about a ground-breaking 19th Century Persian intellectual in this WNIT Dinner & A Book episode with Prof. Mana Derakhshani:

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Love to see this!

Opinion | Truths to Remember in a Time of Lies (Gift Article) Chaos and disorientation are the goals here. But we know what’s going on behind the curtain.

All of us should follow this lead, and keep track of truths: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Vermont understood the assignment.
Take notes, America.

Video: Musk’s Cost-Saving Claims Are Wrong in So Many Ways We found huge errors in the “wall of receipts” for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York...

Examples of the incompetence of DOGE. Don’t believe their claims:

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We had these made at a local South Bend printer, Eco Owl Press, to put in windows and are distributing them for free. What messaging are you sharing?