How about some neutral-leaning-good news?
Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.
During the current extraordinary surge of book-banning efforts, committed advocacy by library workers & their allies is stemming the tide of censorship attempts in both school & public libraries, with more & more states enacting anti-book-ban laws.
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/06/02/b...
Asher of Trans Up Front addressing the crowd
Come join me and at least 150 people at the Edgewater Public Library to protect those coming in for Drag Story Hour!
Support and follow @transupfrontil.com!!
Protect drag story time Monday, June 9 9:30 AM Edgewater branch Chicago public library 6000 N. Broadway Chicago, Illinois trans upfront shows up
Today! Support our @afscme siblings at CPL!
09.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"Democracies are not to be taken for granted, and the institutions that support democracy should not be taken for granted."
#FreePeopleReadFreely
Spectacular interview with Dr. Carla Hayden on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social today.
www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...
150 - IMLS destruction feat. Kelly Jensen
We’re talking with @heykellyjensen.bsky.social about the IMLS executive order and fallout.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/150-imls-d...
A Timeline and Update on the Institute for Museum and Library Services: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
24.05.2025 12:35 — 👍 39 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 3
"These wins are temporary and only as good as the extent to which they are upheld throughout the appeals process... Library advocates will not rest until libraries in every state receive the funding promised and IMLS is back in full" - ALA President Cindy Hohl.
This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)
22.05.2025 00:04 — 👍 114 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 1![The Library of Congress belongs to Congress and the American people. [Logos: Show up for our libraries - American Library Association]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreib3eioahb3b27g7vdp65hu4bmfloqxp3k3frylkwhdtg6bnfbl7iy@jpeg)
The Library of Congress belongs to Congress and the American people. [Logos: Show up for our libraries - American Library Association]
For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.
15.05.2025 18:43 — 👍 475 🔁 155 💬 4 📌 4
“In an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to ‘influence’
children.”
And here we have it: the end game to banning all those LGBTQ+ books. It never really was about getting rid of books. It’s always been about getting rid of people.
23.04.2025 10:53 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.
21.04.2025 14:59 — 👍 3917 🔁 766 💬 63 📌 56Not only is it _certain_ that both the head of the FBI and the head of DOJ will act unconstitutionally if ordered to, but we have reached the point at which the considerably more immediate question is whether _Pete Hegseth and the United States Armed Forces_ will follow unconstitutional Trump orders
20.04.2025 17:34 — 👍 671 🔁 164 💬 42 📌 4
Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.
07.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 12726 🔁 2265 💬 170 📌 92I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot.
18.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 419 🔁 110 💬 17 📌 7
School librarians are an equity issue:
youtu.be/Gy01tgLXXew?...
Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.
14.04.2025 19:19 — 👍 8489 🔁 2507 💬 402 📌 129
Being a librarian was already hard. Than came the Trump Administration. #TLSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
07.04.2025 12:21 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
You guys, they're not stupid
They're doing propaganda
When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda
Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.
It's called
p r o p a g a n d a
Check out our friends!
01.04.2025 10:16 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING: Earlier this evening, our big bargaining team and executive board voted in favor of the proposed settlement with CPS. We officially have a tentative agreement. The next step toward transforming our schools, House of Delegates on Wednesday #CTUStrong
01.04.2025 00:10 — 👍 68 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 6I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.
19.03.2025 11:29 — 👍 5646 🔁 1438 💬 181 📌 92
@johncusack.bsky.social
one of the things we talked about at the board meeting came to fruition this morning: WIRED now un-paywalls stories based on FOIA docs! https://freedom.press/issues/wired-is-dropping-paywalls-for-foia-based-reporting-others-should-follow/
Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
