Emily Drabinski

Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

@umich.edu Center for American Dialogue inaugural panel. Or rather the Center for White Americans who mildly disagree with each other.

this would have been unthinkable a year ago, and it’s heartbreaking how quickly my university has fallen

Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

www.patreon.com/posts/152641...

Time-Wasting, Truth-Wasting Exercises | Los Angeles Review of Books Samuel Cohen’s anthology on book banning diagnoses a recent swell in censorship that’s problematic for more reasons than you’d think.

Wrote about @samcohen.bsky.social’s book banning volume for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The volume invites us to consider why books matter—and it shows the many ways they’re under attack, even here in progressive NYC.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/bann...

Oh wow, thank you so much for this review, and for your kind engagement with my contribution.

Librarian at the Library of Congress just out here hiding books for decades. 📚

I wrote the foreword to Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine/Palestine in Libraries, out now from @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social.

academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/693/

"Caitlin Smith." #NCAAWBB

Hey @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social ! Governance ballots are out this week and I hope you'll take a moment to cast your vote for Leah Richardson for ALA Councilor-at-Large! Organizing with her on the council floor is the most effective fun I've ever had.

#ALACouncil @rareleah.bsky.social

MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

ICEBREAKER cargo.site

IceBreaker is a free online resource that maps the activity of ICE within NYC. It provides key info such as time, date, the # of agents on sight and the number of people detained.
nycicebreaker.cargo.site

YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH

I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Sony Orders 24 Episodes of ‘Reading Rainbow’ Reboot as Classic Kids Show Finds New Life Mychal Threets will return as the host, with 'Sesame Street' and Ms. Rachel veteran Kristen McGregor joining as showrunner.

Some good news for once.

Image with text that says, "New Report: Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information from Federal Data Collections. January 2025 to January 2026, February 2026. Lauren Bouton, Elana Redfield."

New report from UCLA Williams Institute School of Law: "Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections, January 2025 to January 2026" More: https://myumi.ch/jJ8Qg

I’m reading War is Coming by Sami Hermez this week. About violence, duration, and event as lived in Lebanon. Strong recommend.

www.pennpress.org/978081229368...

REMEMBER THIS? Here's a look back at Trump's newly named DHS Secretary, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, in 2023 when he stood up and tried to fight labor leader Sean O'Brien at a senate committee hearing after reading O'Brien's tweet saying he'd take him "any time, any place."

Primary them all.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

I get asked a lot about how you become a game preservationist. Almost none of us set out to do that! I hope stories like Flori's show all the interesting and unusual ways you can end up working with games in cultural heritage

It’s an absolute dereliction of duty that the Trump Administration didn’t have a plan in place to get Americans out of danger.

A patchwork quilted jacket made out of blue, green, and purple fabrics

Someone very proudly, but also sleepily, wearing the patchwork data jacket they just finished sewing

I still need to build the companion website, but I finished the data jacket!!

The circle on the cuff is an NFC tag that will direct folks to a website that helps explain the visualizations.

#DHmakes

Q&A: Public libraries counting on bill to combat e-books' huge cost | NJ Spotlight News Digital content comes with agreements on license renewals and distribution limits, burdens that don't apply to printed copies

Great explainer on the problem of ebook pricing for libraries.

www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...

No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List “The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad ...

“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam

No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

YEP!

No war.

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

Here's some news: afscme31.org/news/america...

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!!

afscme31.org/news/america...

The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...