Mailboxes and Christmas card signatures all over Utah and beyond probably have this wrong.

They are reportedly coming for IMLS tomorrow. Please take action NOW to protect federal funding for libraries, and stop DOGE from cutting IMLS to the bone saveimls.org

These days, the expression “You’re a good egg” is even more meaningful, perhaps 4-5 times more meaningful.

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.

Stand tall against right-wing extremism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

My kid lives in Siddall Hall and sent me these yesterday. First is what was put up by the school, second is the students’ alteration of the administrations’ cowardice.

The speed the universities have moved to comply with this stuff is astonishing. These are not fast moving orgs so embracing the erasure of inclusion and equity this quickly tells you about their leadership’s commitment.

Instead of a dangling chad, he can be a burrowing chad. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he were both.

16 years ago today (Jan. 24, 2009- a Saturday)

The NRA told him to shut it down.

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

Screenshot of the outcomes posted to the district’s website. Decisions were to limit to HS, limit to HS and require parent permission, and remove from all libraries. Follow the link in the post for details on each title.

Clay updated their review database with the decisions for the nearly 50 objections filed last month.

Every single one of them was either restricted or removed.

These decisions were made without reading the books and without a public review committee.

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Mychal smile in his “The Library is for Everyone” shirt

Mychal smiles in his green “You Belong in Books” shirt

If anyone knows of any extra-help, substitute librarian or library worker jobs (especially in the Bay Area) please kindly send them my way! (:

I’ve applied to a couple of places, but either haven’t heard back or they went with someone else.

Long live libraries! ✨💚📚

a man with curly hair and a mustache is making a funny face . ALT: a man with curly hair and a mustache is making a funny face .

There is something to be said that I have only been on this app for an hour and already people have been 100 times nicer and more welcoming than they ever were to me on X or Threads. This is the place of good vibes.

Rascals, all of them! 😍

See any cool birds?

It’s probably better you don’t stay too long, because: Utah. But I’m so excited you got to experience the beauty!

Gorgeous! (You’re three hours away from me!) 👋

I keep reading Keats’s “Bright Star” over and over. It inspired a clarinet piece I’m learning, and I need both the sonnet and music in my brain and body. Also love the 2009 movie about Keats and his poem.

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care -The Onion

Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care
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Wisconsin reports its first human case of bird flu The Wisconsin Department of Health Services​ announced Wednesday that it had detected presumptive positive human case of H5N1 in Barron County.

Wisconsin officials say they found H5N1 in a backyard poultry flock in Kenosha County. And today a person in Louisiana was confirmed to have the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S.

Millionaires and billionaires would be perfectly FINE not getting salary for 33 days, or even 333 days.

The average American, folks like you and me working paycheck to paycheck, would not. Do NOT let billionaires make decisions for US.

PASS IT ON.

I’m singing this to the tune of “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay”

I really had no idea. Eyes opened.

so my alma mater is byu. is it ok that i feel indifferent about this byu-asu football game?

@amyppc.bsky.social - yay!

@annefrench.bsky.social - love the hat!