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Rapid City library facing 10 percent reduction in funding Loss could impact programs, staffing, open hours in 2026

Rapid City Public Library (SD) needs to cut 10% of its budget: www.newscenter1.tv/news/rapid-c...

Libraries are so wild, man. Rooms filled with thousands of books, and you can read any one of them. For free! One of humanity’s greatest inventions.

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Ahhh Shannon!! This is so cool!

Either legislators are purposely trying to worsen quality of life for Americans or they don't realize how much damage it will cause to defund the CPB. And that's the point. You don't destroy something that Americans have spent decades & billions building w/o VERY GOOD REASON. There is no reason.

A concentration camp built solely to cause despair, anguish & harm to human beings now exists in the USA, and we as a nation — our political leaders & our media — are discussing this abomination as just another GOP change to how we operate here. Nothing about the actions of either party is normal.

BREAKING: After their longest vote in history, the Republican-led House of Representatives just passed Donald Trump’s budget bill 218-214.

It will take away healthcare for 17 million Americans and cut food assistance for 3 million, all to give a tax break to Donald Trump’s wealthy donors.

A black-capped chickadee is perched on a branch with muted leaves in the background creating a watercolor look.

Sometimes - most of the time - it's the commonplace that brings beauty. Today, a black-capped chickadee.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #Chickadees #PhotographersOfBluesky

Juneteenth memories from Baylor’s oral history archives

Many people don’t know that there are #oralhistory collections that provide firsthand accounts of the experiences of Black Texans. Take a moment to explore them today. Here’s one collection:

#Juneteenth #TexasHistory #BlackTexans #BlackTexasHistory

bn.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

We are at 916 librarians. Can we get 1000?

Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER JOHN J. MCCONNELL, JR., United States District Court Chief Judge. Once again, this Court is confronted with a legal challenge by various states, against an Executive Order that attempts to dismantle congressionally sanctioned agencies and ignores congressionally appropriated funds. Here, the targeted federal agencies support our libraries, museums, minority business enterprises, and the well-respected federal mediation services. This Executive Order violates the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") in the arbitrary and capricious way it was carried out. It also disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government; specifically, it ignores the unshakable principles that Congress makes the law and appropriates funds, and the Executive implements the law Congress enacted and spends the funds Congress appropriated.

Accordingly, because IMLS, MBDA, and FMCS have not provided a rational connection between the sweeping actions they have taken and the vague, conclusory justifications they have provided, the Court finds that the States have established a strong likelihood of success on their arbitrary and capricious claims. Ohio, 603 U.S. at 292. Further, the Court finds that the States have illustrated a strong likelihood of success on their claims that IMLS, MBDA, and FMCS acted arbitrarily and capriciously in failing to consider reliance interests. Regents, 591 U.S. at 30; see also Smiley v. Citibank (S. Dakota), N.A., 517 U.S. 735, 742 (1996) (citations omitted) ("Sudden and unexplained change, . . . or change that does not take account of legitimate reliance... may be 'arbitrary, capricious lor] an abuse of discretion."

The Court therefore finds that the States are likely to succeed in establishing that IMLS, MBDA, and FMCS violated the APA by acting "not in accordance" with 38 Case 1:25-cv-00128-JJM-LDA Document 57 Filed 05/06/25 Page 39 of 49 PagelD #: 1396 their respective statutory mandates and congressional appropriations acts when effectively absconding their statutory mandates by terminating core services and grant programs.

BREAKING: Federal judge finds, in multistate lawsuit, that Trump's EO targeting three entities — Institute of Musuem and Library Services, Minority Business Development Agency, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service — likely violates the APA, Take Care Clause, and separation of powers.

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.

If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

That these young men have been given the authority to ruin so many lives is infuriating. Every single Republican in Washington is aligned behind these efforts and must be held accountable.

There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.

But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.

Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.

THEM: you look tired

ME: I am tired

THEM: oh right because of the…

ME: the horrors yeah

THEM: right right, that’s right

Legislative committee endorses prosecution of librarians who lend books deemed harmful to children • South Dakota Searchlight A South Dakota legislative committee advanced a bill that would subject schools, universities, museums, libraries and their employees to criminal prosecution and jail time for allowing children to vie...

South Dakota is ALSO working on passing laws to criminalize librarians! Why the fuck aren’t more people getting mad?

I feel like only a few of us are screaming about this.

#booksky

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the entire free world.

It’s high time we start being honest about what’s behind a lot of the push towards “wellness”.

It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment.

It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵

I don't want my government run "like a business." There are so many horribly run businesses! I want a government that actually gives a shit about people and wants to make life better for them. Other things that I do NOT want run like a business: health care, libraries, transit, mail, education...

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

So many book banning bills are written like HB0194 in WY (if you live there, vote's on Weds) where it pretends it's about protecting kids from porn, but uses a new, BROAD definition of "obscenity" and makes people CRIMINALLY liable for disseminating it.

Don't buy it.

www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/...

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

I hope folks understand what’s happening here. Some in the administration view concentration camps inside the US as *maybe* a bridge too far.

So they’re starting with Guantanamo Bay, away from prying eyes and 24/7 coverage.

Readingthis again this morning and it's so entirely clear that when catastrophe arises from this memo like mothers not getting WIC or cancer patients having their care put on hold, they'll simply blame trans people for it. They'll say it's necessary to root out "transgenderism" from the government.

if I ever have a Wikipedia page of my own, I hope there’s one section sandwiched in the middle called, “The Incident”

Donald Trump rescinded Biden's action to lower prescription drug costs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid.

There's no other way to spin it. That means more money out-of-pocket for seniors and families.

Big Pharma first. Ordinary people last.

FB and Insta accounts are gone. I've had my FB account since 2009. I just couldn't give any more of my life and data to Meta. I want my daughter to have some sense of privacy on the internet.
I'm fine. I'll be fine. It's okay. Grateful for the community I found on both platforms.