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Statement on IMLS Staff Administrative Leave IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries. This action will interrupt IMLS's vital, congressionally funded work. We cannot allow IMLS to be dismantled by executive action.

IMLS staff were placed on administrative leave following the Trump Administration’s Executive Order, which eliminated federal funding for libraries. www.everylibrary.org/statement_im... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Chappell Roan celebrates win for best new artist by calling out record labels Roan, known for being outspoken, stayed the course with her acceptance speech for best new artist.

Legit, pursuing the american dream in the right fucking ways.

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From the Libraries community on Reddit: A murder by words about words Posted by conmanique - 5,748 votes and 67 comments

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Census.gov and the 2020 Census (www.census.gov/2020census) are down.

The CDC's webpage on contraception (www.cdc.gov/contraceptio...) has gone dark. Some flu pages are also wobbling.

I might call it a day. Click through the QPs below for an incomplete list of things the CDC removed/altered today

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

US Air Force resumes teaching video on first Black pilots after DEI review The U.S. Air Force said on Sunday it will resume instruction of trainees using a video about the first Black airmen in the U.S. military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, which has passed review to ensure compliance with President Donald Trump's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Omg. This friggin admin...
They ran on an anti DEI platform and suddenly theyre having an aha moment of "oh, thats what it is...nevermind."

Hopeful news in the battle against erasure of peoples history.

Its tentative hope, though. The military industrial comlex might be the only acception.

Ive been a safer spaces nerd since I started booking diy music shows in my late teens and early 20s. I dont play out much anymore, but have never lost the ethos in community building and am stoked on this new read.

My God, Sagan had it pegged long ago.

I am concerned that it might be way too easy to be gay and do crime in america if being gay turns back into a crime. I really kind of got attatched to the idea of the whole american freedom and justice for all schtick. Dang christian nationalism...

All well. Too gay to stop now.

Arresting Librarians Has NEVER Led to More Liberty and Freedom.  History has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime.

Come on, america.

bit.ly/3WtYPMs via @everylibrary.bsky.social

NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure

The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:

"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board

What de-escallates the alienation in which is key in the escallation of fear and rise of far right extremism and loneliness is finding groups where you can just hang out.

Join up. Branch out.

Write, email, call your legislators. Cuts to IMLS and State Library resources drastically affect local libraries. Like interlibrary loans? Say goodbye. Does your library receive LSTA grants to pay for technology that bridges the digital divide? Say goodbye to those. Protect your libraries.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Statement on Proposed Elimination of the South Dakota State Library and HB 1041 Enacting Legislation

Libraries have historically been sanctuaries for the 1st amendment and critical for an informed public in a functioning democrasy. Fascism inevitably opposes intellectual freedom as it requires manufactured consent in order to maintain dominance and authority.
Project 2025 is here, y'all.

On a Tightrope, by Minor Cat from the album Lullabies & American Heresy

Wrote this the first Trump go around. Still feels relevant. search.app/CXXYTYF8LYwP...

Minor Cat Currently based in Cottage Grove, Oregon Minor Cat is a DIY music project by compulsive songwriter and experimental enthusiast Mary Love.

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