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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Further reducing what library and information science actually is and further reducing the meaning and value of that specific line of training and education.

"Faculty were not consulted" ... of course.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 4d

THANK YOU! I knew this setting existed, but I've never been able to find it on my own.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 8d

This ruling, which pulls significantly from the May ruling from the Fifth Circuit, says that you as a taxpayer have no First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections or access to library materials.

You are losing your rights. You should care about this.

bookriot.com/parnell-vs-e...

Another Judge Chips Away at Library Patron First Amendment Rights

A District Court judge rules that neither library patrons nor authors have First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections.

bookriot.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 10d

A staircase from a 19th-century South Carolina enslaver’s house was preserved for its beauty – but is a powerful witness to the story of slave Harriet Jacobs, who wrote a narrative of her captivity.

It’s the type of #history some hope to exclude from America’s museums.

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement

The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12d

This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma.

This government is committing war crimes.

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 12d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 12d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

I need you to read this thread to understand why so many historians are revolted by this regime's crimes against the past

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Neko Case album release day to all that celebrate!!! 💃

Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 25d

Interviewed the one and only Neko Case about memorializing your friends through music, the cruel idolatry of muses, and her gorgeous new album for @pitchfork.com

Neko Case Gets Better With Age

The prolific singer-songwriter discusses the silver lining of grief, her everlasting obsession with nature, and her new album, Neon Grey Midnight Green.

pitchfork.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15d

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign.

This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 16d

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16d

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
time.com/7319963/bruc...

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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 16d

Plant Nursery | Germantown Kitchen Garden

Fresh flowers and readily orderable seedlings in Philadelphia PA, 19144. Start your own garden today!

www.germantownkitchengarden.com

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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 16d

Love this!! Just to let you know since it's on your Rowhome doc- the Schuylkill Center is not doing regular native plants sales since they no longer have the staffing for it 😔However, Germantown Kitchen Garden has native plants in Spring/Fall and Journeywork is another great option journeywork.org

Journeywork | The opportunity to move from awareness to action.

We organize and equip communities to replace lawns and landscaping with plantings that are ecologically functional, economically viable, and socially appropriate in southeastern Pennsylvania.

journeywork.org

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 19d

These libraries hiring "AI Librarians" all the while continuing to understaff in circulation, in cataloging, in reference... what are you even doing?

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21d

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23d

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 24d

Juntos doing all they can to support our Philly neighbors, so throw them some money if you can:

Donate — Juntos

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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 24d

"[Ana's] husband, whom she identified as Abelardo Carrión, had been taken during the raid. The pair has lived in South Philadelphia for 14 years, raising an 18-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son. They had just celebrated their 1-year-old granddaughter’s birthday." 🔔(gift link)

ICE arrested seven people in a South Philly park raid, immigration group says

Mifflin Square Park is a hub of activity for many in the immigrant and refugee communities.

share.inquirer.com

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 24d

SAA Statement on State and Territorial Archives and Records Repositories 📜
www2.archivists.org/news/2025/sa...

SAA Statement on State and Territorial Archives and Records Repositories | Society of American Archivists

Society of American Archivists

www2.archivists.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 25d

trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes

like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25d

“The latest orders include removing information at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia, two people familiar with the matter said, where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt.”

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · Aug 28

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.

Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 28

RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · Aug 27

Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811

The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

a 19th century embroidery sampler showing the solar system, the distance of the planets from the sun, and the length of time it takes each planet to circle the sun

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