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Emily Drabinski

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PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 10h

Ask for more.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 15h

Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 21h

When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.

By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...

‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her.

The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.

thebarbedwire.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15h

Yesterday I wrote about printing and shipping a half million whistles with a horde of whistle goblins. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Whistle Up 2: Rise of the Whistle Goblins | dansinker.com

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 15h

Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 16h

No doubt. Working on it!

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Michigan Library Association @milibraries.bsky.social · 16h

Registration for Michigan Library Advocacy Day is open 1 week early exclusively for 1st time participants. No experience? We’ll handle your legislator meetings, provide talking points, & host a training session. www.milibraries.org/advocacy-day

Registration for everyone opens 2/13.

Group of library supporters at the Michigan Capitol for Library Advocacy Day 2025.

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 17h

Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities. @comicslibrarian.com breaks down all the ways libraries are standing up to ICE.

How Libraries Are Standing Up to ICE

Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 19h

So much incredible library organizing in Texas documented in this film. And also, the state library association canceled my planned visit and directed me not to cross into the state during my year. I published Queering the Catalog in 2013.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks--I appreciate that a lot. <3

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 20h

Contract in hand, revisions due in three months. Getting there, but it's been surprisingly painful.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

"In their words and drawings, they convey how much they ache for creature comforts and describe the anguish of being trapped. They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick...and feeling scared."

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 20h

It's been interesting to think about how this movie is and isn't about my experience. I'm not in it, nobody has asked me to speak or write about it, it's almost like what happened to me never happened. Except that Iowa extremists are attacking libraries because 'ALA wants to queer the catalog.'

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 20h

The Librarians is streaming now thanks to PBS Independent Lens.

www.pbs.org/independentl...

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens

The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 21h

ICE’s pending $30 billion budget exceeds the military spending of nearly every country, including Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Iran.

ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.

Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 22h

After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.

Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...

ICE funding exceeds the military budgets of all but 15 countries. This table ranks the proposed $30 billion ICE budget for 2026 among the largest military budgets worldwide. It has 3 columns — ranking, military or agency, and funding — and 40 rows, 39 of which are country military budgets and 1 is the ICE budget. ICE is ranked 16th, larger than the military budgets of countries including Canada, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Iran, and Switzerland. The ICE budget refers to the proposed 2026 discretionary spending in H.R.7147 plus average annual reconciliation funding in P.L.119-21. Military budgets are sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

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Jeff Regensburger @jregensb.bsky.social · 1d

I love that @haymarketbooks.org has published a children's picture book advocating for prison abolition. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...

Prisons Must Fall

www.haymarketbooks.org

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

union creative talent at work

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. The orders .. came from senior officials .. several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation .. would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good ‘violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer’ ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

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The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 3d

Stream Kim A Snyder's award-winning film THE LIBRARIANS today at 5pm on Kinema! We’ll be joined by frontline changemakers for an activating a
& inspiring discussion to help YOU combat book banning in your community. Limited tickets left so grab yours now!

Tickets: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...

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Chicago Teachers Union @ctulocal1.bsky.social · 3d

Not Bad Bunny crying over us securing $1B for schools, libraries, and parks 😭❤️ #SBLIII

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

“When asked what people should take away from this film, Snyder emphasized the immense courage of these everyday workers who choose to show up and fight, even though they have everything to lose.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

The Librarians: Heroes Stemming Book Banning Tide

This most recent crackdown on “controversial” books began in 2021, when a Texas State Representative compiled a list of 850 books to be targeted for removal from libraries.

hollywoodprogressive.com

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Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social · 3d

Free for ALA members! elearning.ala.org/local/catalo...

Responding to ICE at the Library: Real World Approaches | ALAeLearning

elearning.ala.org

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 3d

A group of independent Idaho schools won a court order that will block the state from enforcing a law banning schools from using books the state deems “harmful to minors.”

Idaho Schools to Get Block on State’s ‘Harm to Minors’ Book Ban

A group of independent Idaho schools won a court order that will block the state from enforcing a law banning schools from using books the state deems “harmful to minors.”

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit.

Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard

NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

www.gofundme.com

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Curlsinthelibrary @curlsinthelibrary.bsky.social · 3d

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Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard

NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

auto-opens Pony on my spotify

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

When I tell you it involved the registrar and a legacy process…. 🥵

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

Just banked a bureaucratic win that was my first priority when I stepped in as chair, the kind that is both boring and tedious and the exciting and transformative. I’m taking the huge win!!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

Unclear.

These are not serious people.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4d

The New York Times has finally covered the Trump video of Obama as an ape — and they are still providing cover for him. Fuck the Times.

It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it. It was unclear how the clip was made, although it appeared to have been generated by A.I. The clip appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X whose watermark is shown, with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 4d

In a new report, PEN America said the federal government has emerged in 2025 as the newest force fueling campaigns to restrict materials related to race, racism and LGBTQ+ issues.

Report warns of 'disturbing' normalization of book bans in US schools

The Trump administration has emerged as the newest force fueling campaigns to restrict materials related to race, racism and LGBTQ+ issues, according to a new report.