Lisa Schiff
@lschiff.bsky.social
Librarian. Some things I care about: social justice; defending libraries, education, & research; information equity. All posts/thoughts my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981 @[email protected] https://defendresearch.org
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www.public libraries are funded by taxpayers to meet the needs of the entire community. The First Amendment bars the government from suppressing
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
www.public libraries are funded by taxpayers to meet the needs of the entire community. The First Amendment bars the government from suppressing
ideas.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/11/24/book-ban-library-trump-transgender-executive-order/87352328007/
ideas.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/11/24/book-ban-library-trump-transgender-executive-order/87352328007/
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These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students
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5. As a result of Hargett’s demand for libraries to complete the review within 60 days, at least one Tennessee county has closed several of its library branches for up to a week.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
5. As a result of Hargett’s demand for libraries to complete the review within 60 days, at least one Tennessee county has closed several of its library branches for up to a week.
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1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
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Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.
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If you aren't familiar with autism groups, this like the Abundance Democrats and the PSL put out a joint statement
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
If you aren't familiar with autism groups, this like the Abundance Democrats and the PSL put out a joint statement
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The New York Times is intent on bullying Zohran Mamdani on behalf of some of the worst people in NYC. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions With Jewish Leaders
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The New York Times is intent on bullying Zohran Mamdani on behalf of some of the worst people in NYC. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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This is unacceptable. Shame on BBC
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Here is the transcript. Do read it in full.
The Reith Lectures 2025
with Rutger Bregman
Moral Revolution
1. A Time of Monsters
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
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Here is the transcript. Do read it in full.
The Reith Lectures 2025
with Rutger Bregman
Moral Revolution
1. A Time of Monsters
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is unacceptable. Shame on BBC
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Here is the transcript. Do read it in full.
The Reith Lectures 2025
with Rutger Bregman
Moral Revolution
1. A Time of Monsters
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
🧵
Here is the transcript. Do read it in full.
The Reith Lectures 2025
with Rutger Bregman
Moral Revolution
1. A Time of Monsters
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
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As soon as this new information was unleashed, people began looking at the location data for accounts that primarily serve to stoke political tensions in the U.S. with far-right narratives that are often misleading or outright false.
X's Top MAGA Trolls Revealed to Be Foreign Accounts
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
As soon as this new information was unleashed, people began looking at the location data for accounts that primarily serve to stoke political tensions in the U.S. with far-right narratives that are often misleading or outright false.
Exactly!! RFK, Jr's active disinterest in the contaminants that poison us tells you everything.
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Exactly!! RFK, Jr's active disinterest in the contaminants that poison us tells you everything.
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California Digital Library (CDL) Shares Details About the Upgraded Version of the Online Archive of #California (#OAC) (via @caldiglib.bsky.social) cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2025... #libraries #archives #history
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
California Digital Library (CDL) Shares Details About the Upgraded Version of the Online Archive of #California (#OAC) (via @caldiglib.bsky.social) cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2025... #libraries #archives #history
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ICE agents tell citizens they don't care their citizens because citizenship doesn't mean anything in a world with racial and demographic profiling and no warrants or other 4th amendment protections. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ICE agents tell citizens they don't care their citizens because citizenship doesn't mean anything in a world with racial and demographic profiling and no warrants or other 4th amendment protections. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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ICE agent when told he's about to arrest a US citizen. Direct quote: "I DON'T CARE."
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ICE agent when told he's about to arrest a US citizen. Direct quote: "I DON'T CARE."
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"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social
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We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social
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This new policy from NIH is concerning.
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This new policy from NIH is concerning.
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
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"National murder rates began falling in 2023 ... and have continued to decline ever since. This year could result in the largest one-year drop in murder ever recorded, with data going as far back as the 1960s. Similar trends are taking place with other violent and property crimes."
The United States is experiencing historic drops in crime across almost all categories, including murder, burglary and motor vehicle theft.
But crime statistics don’t necessarily change how safe Americans feel; those beliefs are driven by political preferences.
But crime statistics don’t necessarily change how safe Americans feel; those beliefs are driven by political preferences.
Want to Know if Someone Is Worried About Crime? First Ask How They Voted.
The sitting president can be a better predictor of how safe someone feels than what the crime data shows.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"National murder rates began falling in 2023 ... and have continued to decline ever since. This year could result in the largest one-year drop in murder ever recorded, with data going as far back as the 1960s. Similar trends are taking place with other violent and property crimes."
Just contacted my senators asking them to intervene and stop the Department of Education from de-classifying professions as professions. This is simply another wealth transfer effort that needs to be shut down right away! Please write your senators! www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin
Certain students may no longer receive the same loan for their studies as what counts as "professional" will determine how much they get.
www.newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just contacted my senators asking them to intervene and stop the Department of Education from de-classifying professions as professions. This is simply another wealth transfer effort that needs to be shut down right away! Please write your senators! www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
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Arizona is a measles hotspot right now, and it’s totally preventable. Grateful to Chief Duran and the Phoenix Fire Dept. for stepping up with free vaccine clinics this month and next to keep families safe.
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Arizona is a measles hotspot right now, and it’s totally preventable. Grateful to Chief Duran and the Phoenix Fire Dept. for stepping up with free vaccine clinics this month and next to keep families safe.
This is horrific!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is horrific!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
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There’s a lot of 2022 races where the massive COVID death rate discrepancy between Trump voters & Biden voters made some difference, but there’s only one where I’m convinced it made THE difference between the Democrat winning & losing:
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UPDATE: Elephant in the Room Redux: The GOP's COVID Death Cult made the difference in exactly one statewide race.
I posted my final analysis of the potential impact of the COVID death rate divide between Republicans & Democrats on 2022 midterm election results back in September. According to official CDC data, ar...
acasignups.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There’s a lot of 2022 races where the massive COVID death rate discrepancy between Trump voters & Biden voters made some difference, but there’s only one where I’m convinced it made THE difference between the Democrat winning & losing:
acasignups.net/22/12/29/upd...
acasignups.net/22/12/29/upd...
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I'm gonna need every single person admonishing us to participate in ICE watch & document "non-violently" to read this by a definitely NOT radical org
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that revealing the identities of agents and videotaping them on operations constitutes “violence”
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that revealing the identities of agents and videotaping them on operations constitutes “violence”
The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology.
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm gonna need every single person admonishing us to participate in ICE watch & document "non-violently" to read this by a definitely NOT radical org
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that revealing the identities of agents and videotaping them on operations constitutes “violence”
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that revealing the identities of agents and videotaping them on operations constitutes “violence”