The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

If members of the WH Press Corp don’t ask this question RELENTLESSLY they should turn in their badges.

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime Law Read more here.

BREAKING: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows Trump to use the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. Sotomayor, who dissented, warns “the Court should not reward the Government’s efforts to erode the rule of law.”

From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
apnews.com/article/trum...

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

The 2025 National Poetry Month poster: poets.org/national-poe... Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye | Art by @christymandin.bsky.social

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

Facts are Facts.

The U.S. Dept of Ed does not and legally cannot “control schools.”

States already do that.

Shutting the U.S. Dept of Ed means ripping $$$ from your local schools. Lowering opportunity for students. Oh, and maybe raising your local taxes.

Fight myths with facts.

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Instead of The Empire Strikes Back, we've been living in...
The Lost Cause Strikes Back.

And here you've been wasting your time complaining about Star Wars!

Please see the following Vox explainer for more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkF...

NEW: Trial begins Monday in a years-long redistricting battle that will determine Black representation in Alabama’s congressional delegation through 2030. Here's what you need to know about this lawsuit.

Facts!

What a great selection! Well done!!

If you heard the laugh that I just let out…HAHA!!

Project 2025 Contributor Outlines How Trump Can Roll Back Voting Rights Read more here.

Project 2025 contributor and right-wing lawyer Hans von Spakovsky outlined in a recent op-ed what steps the new Trump Administration should take to roll back voting rights. Here's what you should know.

::Sigh:: Once more for the people in the back. If audiobooks don’t count as reading, then braille isn’t reading either. Stop gatekeeping literacy.

Terry Pratchett was a wise and gifted writer!

The audiodrama podcast HALFWAY, produced by #IdrisElba and #SabrinaElba on #audible, is superb! Highly recommend! I NEED a second season PDQ!

I saw you from afar! I’m sad that we didn’t connect!

Heeeeyyyy! 👋🏾

This cover is everything!

#Cross is top tier!! Highly recommend and need a 2nd season PDQ!!

I love this idea!!!

For a couple of years I ran #GlobalSPED Chat on the other place. I'd just returned from mentoring teachers in #Bangladesh and I wanted to stay in touch with them.

It turned into a hub for special ed and new teachers. I'd do these "mentor teacher" tips that eventually turned into my blog for PSU.

So glad to see you at NCTE!

Hey hey!!

I saw you from afar! I hope that you have a beautiful holiday! Safe travels back!

Well done! Congratulations!!!