Carinna Tarvin

She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, ‘just let it all burn.’ Democrats are struggling to match the massive “resistance” movement that sprang up in Trump’s first term — and battling cynicism among their own voters.

if you were looking for signs that Jeff Bezos's obeisance to Trump has bled over into newsroom coverage it would probably look something like this article getting top billing over the story of 3-5 million people marching yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This week, after a whole adult life of dealing with every unread email in my inbox, I decided to abandon the habit. I can’t even explain how liberating it feels. I probably have a whole new Myers-Briggs personality type now.

“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”

—Madeleine L’Engle

Anybody know any Tacoma attorneys?

It would be really, really awful if people abused the Department of Education’s new snitch portal and filled it with so much spam that they couldn’t possibly sort through all the claims.

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Embroidery says Books 2025 and lays out a key using dashes and straight lines to measure the length of books, as well as different patterns for reading or listening. Each genre has a different color thread. French knots are used for star ratings.

My #embroidery #bookjournal is almost caught up. I’m only stitching each color on a genre when I read a book from that genre—it’s making me diversify!

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This is Nature Dog. She really likes nature.

Stole this from a friend - Admin V

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

Embroidery book journal! 💙📚
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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Feel free to join me!

Book covers that go hard #4
Canto Contigo
Artist: Felix Deonart
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Book covers that go hard: #3
Compound Fracture
Artist: Evangeline Gallagher
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Book covers that go hard: #2
Libertad
Artist: @el_zanate on IG (if anyone knows their name, lmk)
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Book covers that go hard: #1
So Witches We Became
Artist: Marco Mazzoni
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As a member of the 2025 Printz book award committee, I received 500+ books in 2024. I have decided to make my own list of “YA book covers that go the hardest.” I have no rubric, just vibes. This is not endorsed by YALSA or the rest of the Printz committee. 😂 💙📚

Biggest snowflakes falling in Tacoma rn.

BREAKING: Another plane has crashed, this time in a crowded area of Philadelphia. Details still emerging.

Fuck

I read this the summer before I studied in London and brought it with me IN MY BRAIN. I was always thinking about the layers of history under my feet. Have you read Sarum? Russka? I was obsessed.

Staff also won at musical chairs during the assembly, I might add.

Today I worked out the actual, beyond-protocol logistics with my neighbor teacher for what we’ll do in an active shooter situation, and then after school, our staff figured out the same kind real-live, this is not a test, details for what to do if ICE gets into the building. Nobody’s tougher than us

I just need to tell somebody that I picked The First State of Being as the best book of the year. In April. And was told it was too young for a Printz. (It just won the Newbery.) Let’s never speak of this again.

Wow. Better or worse than Love, Actually?

2025 ALA Youth Media Awards It's the biggest event of the year in the world of children's publishing. The American Library Association's Youth Media Award titles are chosen by librarians, and who knows children's literature bett...

Congrats to all the #ALAYMA winners and honorees! Check out the full list of winner and honor books on ilovelibraries.org. #kidlit #yalit

(Also, your former Antioch student was on the Printz committee this year!)

It was a huge honor to be on the Printz award committee that picked these books! READ THEM NOW. @yalsa.bsky.social