Melissa Gardner

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Metro-East library employees organizing to fight censorship - The Labor Tribune By ELIZABETH DONALD Illinois Correspondent Employees of a Metro-East library district are unionizing to fight back against book banning and what organizers are calling “right-wing assault.” The…

Employees of a Metro-East library district are unionizing to fight back against book banning and what organizers are calling “right-wing assault.”

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

🤣🤣🤣that’s probably a good idea— but sometimes you gotta!

Any time there is rough! Hope you got in and out with answers and some relief!

Having just spent 24 hours in an ER, I concur.

This is lovely in so many ways!

Ugh. I can never tell what’s parody or not these days🤷🏻‍♀️

Please take the time to read this. I don’t know this person but her compassionate and dialectical approach echoes many thoughts I’ve had the past 1.5 years.

Thank you for sharing your thoughtfulness. This is not an either/or situation where we have to either support Israel or Gaza. Our hearts are big enough to grieve multiple tragedies at once and we can call for peace and healing for all w/out being ‘anti’ either side.

Sorry, nope.

Yep! We’ve been here before. And earlier this week he claimed to have invented the word ‘equalize’ too!

Welcome!😊

I believe deeply that teaching our children to love reading at scale is the only thing that can save us from ourselves.

Kidlit writer and student is still locked up. For what?
Stating her opinion. Yes, she locked up for free and protected speech.

Sophie Blackall and Julie Flett in Conversation | Children Award-winning author illustrators Julie Flett and Sophie Blackall sat down for a chat on the occasion of Children’s Book Week 2025. Flett created this year’s poster on the theme: “An Ocean of Stories”...

It’s Children’s Book Week! Julie Flett and Sophie Blackall sat down for a chat for the occasion
www.slj.com/story/Sophie...

This cracks me up! Love it, Rekha!

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Beautiful!

That’s the thing- it’s not supposed to be jail. Jail implies that that have had due process and sentencing and the possibility or release.

Say no more!

It’s all so inhumane and so terrible.😣

I’m not certain that this is accurate, but I did read that the child was deported with the mom and older sibling so they weren’t alone, which is small comfort. Regardless, it looks like due process was neglected and the poor dad wasn’t given an opportunity to testify, make requests or say goodbye.

Ah, that makes sense. They really should have a separate way of letting drivers indicate if they want to be matched again or not.

Exactly! There won’t be elections, at least not legitimate ones, if this continues.

I’ve apparently got a bad rating too and I know I’ve not done anything rude or inappropriate and I tip well. But—I almost always have my kids with me. I checked with other moms too and they noticed the same trend. So, I wonder if there are other unspoken no-no’s that we are don’t know about too?

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you! I think if this young woman often and can’t imagine how scary all this must be for her and others that were abducted. I’m glad you’re going to bat for her.

A poster with illustrations of endangered animals that are partly painted, partly sketched, to give the impression that the animals are disappearing.

It’s #earthday today and I’m reminded of this poster I made several years ago. Sadly it’s all still true today. Climate change is real and we humans aren’t the only ones feeling its effects—but we are the only ones who can stop it!

This is why government funding is so important to academia.
Governments give money to universities, which in turn use it for research to save us all from the next pandemic, global warming, etc. Trump defunding research institutions is not just short sighted, it’s dangerous!!!