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This is nuts. Famous and prestigious program. So toxic that it’s now a conservative goal to gut the humanities and universities generally while shoving AI everywhere

Troop 6000

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

Page from a book showing a headshot of Samuel Starks in an oval frame. Caption reads" Hon. Samuel W Starks, State Librarian of West Virginia. Re-Appointed by Governor Dawson.

Samuel Starks was the first Black person to be a US state librarian, appointed in 1901 in West Virginia because of his position in the state Republican party. He was very active in the Knights of Pythias, founded a newspaper, and died too young. #BlackHistoryMonth
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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that lib

In a deliberate strategy, to harm women and hits rural women first & hardest. The U.S. State Dept. ordered public libraries to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that communities rely on and that has run smoothly for years.
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Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.

Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:

zinelibrary.org

State Dept. orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance.

The SAVE act will disenfranchise millions, mostly women

It requires ID that matches your birth certificate or passport

If you’ve had a name change, your birth certificate won’t match

The State Dept is banning libraries from processing passport applications

They don’t want certain people to vote

y'all

ChatGPT cuts in action

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.

Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

wish i had a publishing concern that could snap this pitch up; someone must

The effort behind the mark

A scroll opened with several sections visible, including the title, a black sun illustration, and the beginning of the poem

A large black sun print, likely linocut, taking up an entire page. The texture is almost woodgrain.

I'm new to Cleveland and thus the poet Hart Crane. Yesterday, we taught with a 2017 art "book" printing of his epic The Bridge. This contemporary scroll opens with a print of a black sun, a nod to the original publisher Black Sun Press. The scroll form rolls out in front of you, just like a bridge.

Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 70 – Tales from the Dark Side Dan dives into the past and brings you a talk that was the genesis of his Defcon 32 presentation. We’re going to talk about shadow libraries, shadow librarianship, and what the traditional library …

Ohhhhhh snap!

The signal is hot but the podcaster is not. Cyberpunk Librarian is back with episode 70 and Tales from the Dark Side. Let's talk about shadow libraries, shadow librarianship, and what the traditional library might learn from the underground.

In commemoration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're featuring MS O.2.48 in which we see: 🧵👇

The front page of a newspaper: BIG BEND Sentinel Vol. 93 No. 44 • February 5, 2026 Our 100th Year Marfa, Texas • TWO DOLLARS BORDER WALL TO START CONSTRUCTION

This headline made me cry.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.

I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

Paragraph from Sludge story, Feb. 11, 2026: "The City of Hartford, Connecticut is also moving to end an ICE contract with the Hartford Parking Authority (HPA) that has been in place for a decade, according to Cristian Corza-Godinez, deputy chief of staff of Hartford, who spoke with Sludge." ... “The contract was brought to our attention about two weeks ago through a constituent submission on our city website,” Corza-Godinez told Sludge. “Once we learned of the contract, we immediately moved to cancel it.”

NEWS: Hartford, Connecticut says it will "immediately" terminate ICE's long-running parking contract with the city.

A constituent raised concerns with the ICE contract in the past two weeks, said Cristian Corza-Godinez, Hartford's deputy chief of staff.

Full story: readsludge.com/2026/02/11/t...

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

i love this, i would make time.

POTW: Another Kind of Flip Book | Brooklyn Public Library Cover and page from Charles (Karl) Blieffert photograph album, 2015.010. 1900-1917. Today’s POTW comes from a collection I discovered when it was requested by a researcher.

"I was originally struck by the album because it is constructed in a way I have never seen, with multiple photographs attached to a page by tabs which hold them in offset stacks, like shingles on a roof."

LibGuides: Special Collections: LGBTQ+ Research Resources: Introduction LibGuides: Special Collections: LGBTQ+ Research Resources: Introduction

February is LGBT+ History Month! 🌈

You can find out more about our LGBTQ+ research resources in this online guide ⬇️

Our collections are available to everyone - for research, interest or enjoyment!

#LGBTplusHM #LGBTQIA #Archives #RareBooks

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.

Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:

Doing this tomorrow. If you're near Hartford, come on out.

Hurt readers hurt readers.

Honoring Fobazi Ettarh — ThriveLib Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh , has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our co...

Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh, has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our community, and her friends and loved ones.
www.thrivelib.com/news/honoring-fobazi-ettarh

Once more, for others like me who are resentful that they’ve become armchair detectives.

'Exhibiting Resilience’: Tribal consultation brings modern vision to new museum gallery - ICT Native curators help create a Penn Museum exhibit that could serve as a model for other museums

Native curators help create a Penn Museum exhibit that could serve as a model for other museums under NAGPRA.

Adjunct pay/working conditions AY25-26 This form is part of a project to crowd-source pay and working conditions for people who teach and research in colleges and universities during AY2025-2026. This form is for people paid by the course ...

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Is the Chronicle still bothering to collect salary information on adjuncts or do we need to do another Google spreadsheet?