Adam Kriesberg

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America

The General

Going to listen to this song 810 times in a row open.spotify.com/track/6n6EXI...

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00). ⁠

Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e

walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982

walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982

I referred to inform you that www.powermobydick.com is an amazing, albeit digital, resource for the book

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

My HS biology teacher had a laser disc set with all these science videos about things like mitosis, photosynthesis, etc that I remember watching. Also watching Gladiator in Latin class and having to point out historical inaccuracies, fun times

Clipse: Tiny Desk Concert The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

The new Clipse album dropping alongside their Tiny Desk concert speaks to my white boy suburban millennial soul on a very deep level. So happy to see these guys back together and making music #grindin

Georgia Librarian Fired After Kid Chooses LGBTQ Book For Summer Reading - GO Magazine Lavonnia Moore says she was just following the library’s mission to serve everyone—but it wasn’t enough to save her job.

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We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”

Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier Dog stayed by his master, who was wedged in an 8-metre-deep crevasse, and was spotted by helicopter crew A small pet dog is being hailed as a “four-legged hero” for helping to save his owner’s life after he fell down an icy crevasse in the Swiss Alps. The Air Zermatt helicopter company credited the pint-sized pooch with drawing their attention to the location of the hiker, who he was extracted and taken to hospital. Continue reading...

Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier

X post from U.S. National Archives @USNat Archives June 25, 2025 We caused a misunderstanding yesterday in the way we communicated long overdue enhanced security standards that are going into effect at the National Archives at College Park, M.D. First things first: For those who want to come to College Park and look through the records, the research rooms were, are and will ALWAYS remain open to the public. Ensuring public access to records in the archives is part of NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not - and would never- change this. The National Archives is implementing long overdue enhanced security standards at College Park due to several recent incidents that have left those in the building-including researchers- and our nation's records vulnerable to threats. In addition to other measures, NARA is increasing video surveillance and mandating that traffic bollards stay up closer to the building. Many of these measures mirror security standards that have been in place for many years at the research rooms at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and research facilities at presidential libraries. We look forward to continuing to always welcome researchers to College Park.

@usnatarchives.bsky.social post on X:

Opinion | I testified at a congressional hearing on the JFK files — that was a mistake As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.

I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."

Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
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President Declines Gift of Holiday Apple Pie WASHINGTON, Oct 27 - AP - President and Mrs. Coolidge have declined an offer from the Girls' Club of Vermont University of a large apple pie for the White House Thanksgiving dinner. Although no reason was given for declining the pie, apparently it was refused because acceptance might have been taken as an endorsement by the president of the proposed apple week to be held about that time. This might be regarded as a precent for endorsement of similar movements in other parts of the country. The telegram tendering the pie said it was designed to be a part of the apple week program. --The Fresno Bee, 27 Oct 1925

President Declines Gift (1925)

You are askinge chatgpt questions. Ich am wavinge a cheerye hello to the local crowes. We are not the same.

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold is Wisconsin nature writing at its finest 🧀

11 APRIL 1775, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK: A meeting to select delegates to the provincial convention for the “preservation of the Union of the Colonies and rights and liberties of America” attracts about a hundred of the “principal freeholders” of Westchester County.

Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Data Purges Weaken America The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.

The deletion of websites and other government data is a dangerous attack on knowledge, harming democracy. My colleague @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & I contribute a guest essay in @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now, the government has terminated those grants.

Maine State Library lays off 13 workers, will restructure after losing federal funds The library last received funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services on March 24 and has not gotten any updates on when — or whether — payments may resume.

The Maine State Library laid off 13 staff members Wednesday — nearly one-third of its staff — and announced that it would close for two weeks to restructure its operations after the Trump administration indefinitely suspended certain federal funds.

www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy

Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever

🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Rep. Dina Titus Leads Letter Urging President Trump Not to Eliminate Support for Museums and Libraries

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