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“The chaos that is unfolding south of us right now is a clear indicator that it’s coming our way and if we don’t put these things in place to stop that, it’s going to be your neighborhood next”

Is Duncan saying Winnipeg is banning actions similar to the Twin Cities resistance to ICE violence? WHY

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I know I'm being a typical academic and harping on what some may say is a minor point, but instead of using the Charter protected characteristics, we have a list of special characteristics that includes "source of income". No protesting billionaires or war mongers anywhere in downtown Winnipeg!

Legal name change to an incumbent, anyone could get in

What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...

Oh, the Freep story literally uses a photo of a pro Palestinian action on campus. This definitely will be fine.

(Preemptively, no need to tell a schol comms librarian how hard it is to make the individual choice not to publish with these guys, or that individual actions don't mean much and we need structural change, I... know. I have, in fact, heard it all before!)

The Data Brokers Fueling ICE’s Deportation Machine—And the Union Shareholders Fighting Back "As investors, we are thinking about this as a risk to our investments, but also as a social and ethical issue.”

Maybe I was actually thinking of this piece from In These Times: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

I feel like the most recent thing I've read - including attempts by shareholders to end some of these ICE contracts - was from @404media.co , but y'all post too much and I can't find it yet. 😅 #BadLibrarianing

(Link in the first post to the crucial piece by @sarahlamdan.bsky.social - shows how deeply related these things are not just for Librarianship, but all academics): www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-sur...

And bsky.app/profile/rmou...

What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...

From my sister's Norwegian workplace stories ... This all tracks.

Akiko Hiroguchi knew what's up

Find Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real Estate Use The Maple’s searchable database to discover which Canadians MPs are landlords or invested in real estate.

I love (but, you know, hate) that this exists. www.landlordmps.ca

Investigative journalism lives! (I'm instinctively nervous about farfalle, and now I can articulate why!)

One banana, etc 😭

From the Cooking community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Cooking community

Heroes live among us, and farfalle is a crime.
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This is why expanded IMLS funding isn't really a good thing under the current regime--funding is the tool through which they will seek to push and control a narrative that will unmake and disassemble our libraries under the fascist image of trump's big government plan that we likely will never undo.

There simply are no other solutions!
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Disciplinary ones sometimes do, eg, PsychINFO

YouTube video by Open Education Conference Open Education in the Age of Authoritarianism: A New 5Rs to Meet the Moment

Hey, my talk on open education and authoritarianism from #OpenEd25 is up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ta4...

Five minute task of the day: send a cranky email to researchers sending out a survey via CAUT/ Faculty Associations on Academic Freedom, which appears to be worded to either exclude academic librarians, or ignorant that they are also usually Faculty Association members. With Academic Freedom.

I'm pleased to have co-authored a new article out today in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Kevin Sanders, @sluginkpress.bsky.social, and I reflect on the Radical Librarians Collective and how we situate radical librarianship alongside critical librarianship. doi.org/10.33137/cja...

Everything about that consult was a clusterfuck.

That FACTOR funding was really worth it.

Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) has announced a restructuring of its executive leadership team and the intention to sell multiple properties, as the university tries to address a shortfall of approximately $25 million. The changes are just two of several that are expected in the year ahead, as the university also contends with an upcoming tuition-fee freeze. In late January, MUN announced it will begin selling multiple properties in St. John’s that are “not closely aligned with its academic mission,” as well as its Harlow Campus in the United Kingdom. The announcement came just two weeks after the university announced executive restructuring, which saw it reduce the number of vice-presidents from seven to three.

PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions.

Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3.

Yes we can!

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A pancake topped with cannoli filling

🎵Hakuna ricotta🎶

More than a dozen Canadian companies – including Thomson Reuters – have done business with ICE, Star analysis reveals Such contracts have become controversial as concerns mount that products or services sold to ICE could be used by the agency in activities that may violate human rights.

Turns out that the publisher of the property law textbook I use, Thomson Reuters, "holds a contract worth up to $22 million (U.S.) that began in May 2021 to provide ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative database subscription". Welp, new book time...
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But now no one can accidentally leak all the adorable pet names you give it!