@piecesofthepi

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

Want to help some Minneapolis area kids whose neighborhoods are being terrorized AND stock up on Thin Mints? Order Girl Scout cookies! Right now, there are 157 boxes left. Can we get all of them sold? digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop1...

another fear…

My worst fear is getting on and not knowing a literature question!

Libraries help communities weather storms. Many are getting snowed under COMMENTARY | The recent winter storms showed how vital libraries are, but they are struggling with deferred maintenance and an uncertain funding future.

New from ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: Libraries are centers of community in difficult moments. But many libraries are facing their own challenges with aging & outdated facilities.

Read more, including new federal research on library facilities, spurred by ALA advocacy: www.route-fifty.com/digital-gove...

We’re here to support libraries. Take action at action.everylibrary.org.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarylove #author #publiclibrary #literature #lit

This, too, is book banning.

@heykellyjensen.bsky.social
@tasslyn.bsky.social

How are you coping with the boot?

NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.

Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach

go.nature.com/4buGJSO

It’s horrible.

The headline reads 2nd MPLS. Killing and shows a woman crying on the streets being comforted by another man

Front page of Minnesota Star Tribune showing a US citizens being held on the ground and pepper sprayed. The headline says Children as young as 5 detained

Right now, this is the most important publication in America.

Its reporting has been relentless and essential.

@startribune.com

Hope you’re feeling better!

Usually my lower back…

"The study was undertaken by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan federal research agency...published in Dec.2025...provides the first comprehensive national data in decades about the state of America’s public library facilities" publiclibrariesonline.org/2026/01/majo...

Show up for our libraries - ALA American Library Association

We will not let this news slow us down. We will keep showing up #ForOurLibraries. Because that's what we've always done.

Sign up to get updates on ALA's advocacy in Washington and for opportunities to make your voice heard: oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi... 2/2

New: Gov. Hochul is set today to unveil a $260 billion budget.
- $10.3 billion in lost federal aid, most significantly $3 billion for the Essential Plan
- Three year extension of the corporate tax rate increase
- Taxing nicotine pouches like Zyn the same as tobacco

Happy for you!

There are at least 10 states proposing really cruel, detrimental anti-library, anti-literature bills this legislative session. It's only January 18, so these won't be the only ones.

Here's what they are, what they do, and how you can respond.

Also note the outside agitators fueling these.

Me too. The plants must be strong and hardy to survive.

From Trump’s rejected treaties to our daily lives, we’re building walls around ourselves | Anand Pandian Martin Luther King Jr knew that ‘whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly’. But we Americans are denying that reality

MLK Jr insisted that what affects any one of us will affect all of us. His understanding of the “network of mutuality” that sustains us all is an essential lesson for this fraught moment in the US, I argue in a new op-ed for the Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No, but they’re lovely

Hugs to you!!!

I’m sorry- just do what you can do. you’re only one person.

Everyone wants Rain! They’ve missed you!

How horrible 😞

Interesting article on an emotion I’ve felt - sort of like the warm fuzzies. Happy Monday

love it! Here’s to new chapters! can’t believe i’m officially retired now!.

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

It's not book burning. But close enough.

"NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff & Lab Cuts. Holdings from the library ... includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Reupping this one for New Yorkers who likely didn't see this news when it dropped right before the holidays...

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c.... A travesty😞

Merry Christmas! Wishing everyone a wonderful day filled with peace and love!