Leigh Russell King

Leigh Russell King

@lfrk.bsky.social

School librarian and book reviewer for ysbookreviews.wordpress.com. Busy mom of 3 humans and 1 dog. Worcester girl with Maine aspirations.

296 Followers 481 Following 8 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

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1 month ago

Kermit was on Sesame Street too!

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1 month ago

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

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1 month ago

Now, more than ever, check out a novel from your public library, get yourself some snacks, and READ for pure joy. You deserve it.

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2 months ago

The artist is @karenhallionkenney.bsky.social

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2 months ago

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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3 months ago
Dan Robinson (@bookmandan.bsky.social) Retired. Interested in just about everything. Avid reader.

Buy a book.

Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.

Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.

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5 months ago
Free virtual 3-author visit giveaway! Enter to win. Image shows books by Middle Grade Authorcade authors.

Who's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻
#teachersky and #librarians!
What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!!
How: Follow & repost to enter
When: Ends Wed 10/8
Where: US/CAN
🎃Good luck!🎃

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6 months ago

As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

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6 months ago

*** UPDATE ***
The winner is ... @lfrk.bsky.social - congrats! I'll message you for shipping details.

And stay tuned for more #giveaways next week!
*** END OF UPDATE ***

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6 months ago

Thank you so much! My students will be thrilled!

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6 months ago

I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.

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6 months ago

Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post.

#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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6 months ago
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I still have more books that would do better in kids' hands than on my shelves, so it's time for another #giveaway. Want to win these 9 picture books (some of which are signed)?⁠

To enter: follow, like, & repost and/or comment and tag a friend.

#kidlit #booksky #edusky #skybrarian

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8 months ago

Noem says ICE only arrests those suspected of bad crimes.If so, then send unmasked officers into workplace with warrants for such criminals.
Of course they don’t do that because they are doing racial profiling and hurting hard-working people and the courts have called them on these nazi tactics.

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8 months ago

If you are able, do three kind things today: one for yourself, one for somebody else, and one for the world. We can't make everything better, and we can't yet put an end to this terrible administration and its campaign of unrelenting evil. But we can do small, good things: beauty, grace, connection.

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8 months ago

Proud of my congressman!

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8 months ago

I hope Gov. Gavin Newsom wins his $787 million lawsuit against bullshit mountain Fox News, and turns their headquarters into a massive library full of banned books.

Run by drag queens.

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8 months ago
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My colleague laying it plain.

Thanks @senangusking.bsky.social

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9 months ago

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

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9 months ago
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I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.

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9 months ago

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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9 months ago

Formaldehyde

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9 months ago

I don't know about you, but I care less and don't want to see any report now about President Biden's so-called cognitive decline from any journalist or consultant who wants to line their pockets by doing Trump's bidding and going after President Biden.

Leave. Joe. Biden. Alone.

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9 months ago
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Baby Platypuses to cleanse the timeline

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10 months ago

He fired

Carla fucking Hayden

The Librarian of Congress

An amazing, badass, kind human being

May he never know peace

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10 months ago
A photograph of a stack of notices for pupils alerting them to overdue books on their accounts. Some have already been folded ready for distribution.

The life of a school librarian… half our time spent convincing you to borrow our books, and the other half desperately pleading with you to bring them back!

#SchoolLibrary #SchoolLibraryLife #SchoolLibrarian #Overdues #TLSky

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10 months ago
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Trump administration fires librarian of Congress | CNN Politics The White House on Thursday notified Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden that she was removed from her position, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress told CNN.

Shameful. Devestating. I urge people who keep making excuses to look at this and stop letting others get away with looking away and carrying on with business as usual. Regardless of the title, she remains my Librarian in Chief. #Librarysky

www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...

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10 months ago
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Tell me The Vatican made the perfect choice without telling me The Vatican made the perfect choice.🤣

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10 months ago
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•••••PURGE ALERT•••••

Trump gleefully fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first Black American to serve as the librarian of Congress.

Hayden was appointed in 2016 by President Barack Obama.

It seems the Trump regime has identified Dr. Hayden as “anti-Trump” and “woke.”

On…

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