DeAnne Luck

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Make Your Own Comics Exercises for the Classroom

Love this "Make your own comics" post from Grant Snider: incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/make-your-... #TLsky #edusky

Black History book displays fill our shelves. I am reliant on volunteers to pull these and do the work. A volunteer team is essential to operations here. Without them, there are no displays. My time is very limited in each building. #MakingItWork

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YouTube video by MS NOW 'The Librarians' focuses on America's book-banning battle

These librarians are doing a fundamental critical service in ensure the 1st amendment rights to read whatever we want.
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I taught students how to query search and navigate different grocery store sites (ex. Walmart, Aldi, Hannaford), and I helped them narrow their searches, keyword search, select the best price, and even showed them how the sites do the math/budgeting for them (with tax)! Research in real life!

LOVE! Such a great idea. Would love to see that project 🙏 #TLSkyChat

Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

YouTube video by PBS Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary | Independent Lens

Everybody, do yourselves a favor and watch and share The Librarians, a phenomenal film about the librarian heroes putting everything on the line to keep books on shelves. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE

Most people still don’t understand how bad the situation is when it comes to censorship of children’s literature.

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Library Lovers Week 2026 on EveryLibrary Live!

Lots of fun author events from @everylibrary.bsky.social this week for Library Lovers Week! Schedule here: www.everylibrary.org/llw2026

People often say w/pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' If we mean to keep any control over our world & lives, we must be interested in politics. -M Gellhorn

THE LIBRARIANS-award-winning documentary that features my peers & friends.

The documentary that hits way too close to my life & I cannot watch without sobbing.

It premieres February 09, 2026 on Independent Lens on PBS!!!

Watch it. Recorded it. Watch it again.

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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

First showing on Nashville PBS station Monday night at 10:00!

8 Lovely Titles for Young Readers That Center Ramadan and Eid Running from mid-February to late-March, the religious holidays are celebrated by Muslim people all over the world. From board books to a graphic novel, there’s something here for every young reader.

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"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

There is serious ice dancing drama about to happen and I’m going ALL IN.

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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

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Democrat WI Sec. of State Godlewski announced a record-breaking $73.5 million distribution from the Common School Fund, the largest in the Fund’s history, a 5% increase over last year, providing critical support for public school libraries and media centers in every Wisconsin school district.

Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post' The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.

Well, this sucks. Bezos could fully staff this thing and get it back into profitable fighting trim with what for him would be pocket change.

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lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.