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A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.

But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Inspector Let Recruits Who Failed Psychological Exam Join the N.Y.P.D.

Huge story. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/n...

Trump Administration Moves to Shutter Library Agency (Gift Article) The staff of the independent Institute of Museum and Library Services, the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries, were put on leave.

Gift article.
ALA President Cindy Hohl: “Congress created I.M.L.S. by law, with bipartisan support, and Republican and Democratic Presidents signed those laws, including President Trump in 2018...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/a...
#libraries

YES!!!

Don't listen to the naysayers. The answer is yes!

Can't stop thinking about #paradiseonhulu. When we found out who Cal's killer was and how he got there, we remembered the show was by the creators of #ThisIsUs and said "Damn, we gotta pay attention to every side story, cause they be bringing that [ish] back, don't they?" Kudos

Trump says he is removing Orioles owner from Kennedy Center board In Trump’s post, he wrote that he plans to make the Kennedy Center “great again.”

Trump posts that he is replacing Orioles owner David Rubenstein as chairman of Kennedy Center

Yay!!!!!

Anyone else looking at that 2024 reading goal like 😨?

Here are some short reads, selected by library staff, to help get you across the finish line: aacpl.info/short-books-24

If you have any other recs, drop them below! ⬇️

10 TV shows to get to know me:
Any Star Trek series
OMITB
Living Single
Supernatural
Scandal
Luther
Agents of SHIELD
The Good Place
This Is Us
Game of Thrones

The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

Breaking news: The fate of far-right website Infowars will be controlled by the Onion after the satirical news site emerged as the winning bidder of Wednesday’s private auction of the media company founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Choose curiosity over judgement
#pla2024

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