A.J. Million

Tweet from 2023. Text reads: "A thing that's interesting is how "do your own research" on the internet has changed how we understand truth, knowledge, science, and facts. I talk about this with my students a lot, maybe it's a useful thing to think about."

I've been thinking a lot about the difference between doing a "search" and doing "research" and how that works with conspiracy theory/lies to control our public sphere. Here's an old thread from 2023

That's exactly it.

Younger people will be shocked to hear this, but way back when I grew up, anytime you saw a movie where some government official stopped someone on the street and demanded to see their identification papers, that was supposed to let you know they were the *bad* guys.

I come from hillfolk, and I support this.

We can't do it by ourselves, at least in the present situation. Our media is broken. One political party doesn't have a clear strategy or message. Another is incapable of acting in good faith. The political and legal system is captured by corporate interests. It's not pretty, but its the reality.

As a professional association, if you have members doing shady things, you have an interest in them no longer being members.

Thinking about Melinda Cooper’s “Turbulent Worlds.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Understanding how to find and use analog sources is a lost art.

I love my kids and my family, but there are many other ways to create meaning. Dunking on people for not having kids is gross.

Ron Chernow's book on Grant is also a solid one. It feels incredibly appropriate for the moment.

There's no one answer, but a group that flies under the radar is the '48ers in Europe. Liberalism, especially American liberalism, has forgotten how we got here. If Conservatives across the world are turning away from liberalism, then Progressives need to decide if liberalism is worth fighting for.

It doesn't exist. That's a hard reality to acknowledge, but it's the truth. Private organizations just don't have or give enough to offset the shortfall. Own it and get organized.

It's a thing. We talk too much, myself included. The best I can do is try to be aware of it and laugh at just how hard some of my female colleagues *own* me with their measured, short responses. 🤣

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The worst fortune cookie.

The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.

The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.

This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.

Yup. There was also a failure of imagination on our part, which means we weren't adequately prepared.

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SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.

They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.

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Good. Now do it again and again. They may not recognize their mistakes until it's too late, but at least this way, they can't feign ignorance.

Seeing simmilar BS in Missouri, although it's mostly related to Libby and not accreditation.

He had a good role model.

We're really well networked. I think that's why news got out faster than DOGE expected.

We need him back.

I mean, if that's what the funding calls say, my next proposal will be the Star Spangled Banner, copied and pasted 100 times. 🤣

I assume @everylibrary.bsky.social saw this?