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Advocacy & Issues ALA advocates year-round at every level of government for libraries, library workers, and everyone we serve.

This is your reminder to support your local public library. Libraries are more than just places to read and learn, they are refuges for people of all ages where young minds in particular can find support and direction. Let's not let the fascists and fanatics be their compass.

www.ala.org/advocacy

"We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true.

"I give you a holy word: DISARM."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Deadeye Dick (1982)

If there is anything MAGA needs it’s a good library.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Up to 1845, half of everyone born was dead by age 35.
There were no chemicals in their food then, the air & seas were clean, animals were not fed any weird stuff.

Today the average life expectancy has nearly doubled thanks to science, to medicines, to vaccines

A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

Proofread, proofread, proofread...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...

Letters to Louisiana: The Storm We Should’ve Seen Coming July 9, 2025

Letters to Louisiana: The Storm We Should’ve Seen Coming
open.substack.com/pub/grangerf...

A very large sassafras tree sits in a broad yard by a lake on a horse farm. The farm owner is setting up chairs in the tree's shade while a dog plays in the shade. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

Some days are best spent sitting under a tree. This sassafras is perfect for sitting by the lake and listening to the birds and the nickering horses. You don't, though, need to own a farm - a local park should serve your needs. Spending time among our trees is deeply rewarding. Go find a good tree!

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

If she can do it, we can all do it.

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

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Together we can change the world.

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution:

Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.

I've seen a lot of posts lately saying that to support a library, you should get a card. Other things you can do:

1. Be promiscuous in using that card
2. Go to board meetings
3. Join the Friends
4. Demand the books that represent you, you can challenge absent books as much as present ones
5. Donate

Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.

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Join the park side
@altyellonatpark.org

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

Libraries matter now more than ever. They stand for the powerful idea that knowledge is free and belongs to everyone. In a time when books and free thought are under threat, we must defend and support our libraries and librarians—they are guardians of access, learning, and freedom.

Proof your public library loves you: they leave you alone while you read, they don’t mind when you bring your kids over, and they’ll let you borrow any of their books, even the hardcovers

Libraries matter more than ever now! They embody a beautiful & brilliant idea that we must never stop defending. The idea that knowledge is free & belongs to EVERYONE. We all need to support our libraries & librarians - especially when people seek to ban books & free thinking. #libraries #books

This is what an endangered wolf family looks like. Strong, resilient, loving 🐺