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Emily Drabinski

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Associate Professor, Chair, Queens College (CUNY) Grad School of Library & Info Studies. Past President, American Library Association. PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity .. more

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

Anyway Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are both New Yorkers and the top Democrats in the House and Senate, respectively, and any point they could learn how to use a shutdown to make the point that we’re living in fascism.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

We cAn oNLy mAkE tHe ShUtDoWn aBoUt HeALtH cArE newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Letitia James is said to have been indicted after President Trump pushed the Justice Department to seek charges against her.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 8h

Blake Treinen met his wife on Christian Mingle. #DodgerFilter

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 15h

The Republican party is united around making children go hungry. Not a single murmur of meaningful dissent from this agenda from anyone in power in that party. What kind of hole do you have to have in your soul to support such savagery?

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: A surprise move by the Trump administration could result in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers losing their food assistance benefits as soon as November — disrupting one of the country’s oldest safety net programs months earlier than expected. nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 15h

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 15h

#bannedbooksweek

NYCLU statement: We have been receiving reports that ICE agents are unlawfully banning all books from entering the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (Batavia). Titles include a dictionary, books about religiong, drawing books, and even a Sudoku puzzle book. Banning books in immigration detention facilities plainly violates the First Amendment, which is afforded to all people in the United States--including those trapped in immigration detention. The Buffalo Federal Detention Facility must take immediate steps to end this practice and comply with the First Amendment"

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 15h

“As a Republican, I am very disappointed in my party . . . You have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show.”

If you watch one video today, hope it’ll be this one. Powerful words from a military spouse this morning to Speaker Johnson — he must reopen the House!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

"Full count."

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

What about my smiles. The fact that I have zero smiles. Doesn't my lack of smiles matter at all.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

"Ranger Suarez all smiles."

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I did today was provide a reference for a friend being considered as an adoptive parent for a bonded pair of cats named Chicken and Pork Chop.

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 1d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

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Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to be on the other side of this pile!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

I always think of @icpetrie.bsky.social when I get ready to fold the laundry, that is the power and legacy of a decade on Twitter.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

Katy is the best!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

And hi Safe Libraries Guy. Feel free to screenshot and tell twitter that I'm having a meltdown.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

The entire Republican party is united behind this guy and his violent buffoonery. How anybody continues to vote for these people is a mystery to me. Is it that important to you that kids don't learn how to read? That people go hungry and sick? That Marxist lesbians get put in their place?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like 80% of it is getting yourself to the meeting, staying to the end, and going back next time. Grateful for you too!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

Go to the meeting. Stay in it. When they ask for volunteers, say yes. Do the thing you said you were going to do. Go to the next meeting.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1d

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1d

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d

I was lucky to visit with South Carolina library workers three times during my term of ALA service. Some the most fierce defenders of the rights of children I have ever met. Solidarity!

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

**NEW**

Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy.

bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

Image of lady justice beside a stack of books.

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 1d

LISTEN: The Trump administration is using the federal shutdown to snatch away money it’s already committed to huge New York transit projects that are already ongoing.

LISTEN: An $18 Billion Transit Cut Is No Way to Cut Through Gridlock

A weekday newsletter to keep you up on New York.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

“Speak English or die.” Wow. This #BannedBooksWeek let’s also think about linguistic hegemony—what languages don’t get published & read. Lingít is an endangered language of the Tlingit people of the Pacific NW Coast. What does it sound like? Give these recordings a listen! tinyurl.com/4h4xkvwp

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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time, housing code violations issued by the city at NYCHA properties are now publicly available—giving public housing residents information about their buildings that tenants in privately-owned properties have long had access to. citylimits.org/city-issued-...

City-Issued Violations at NYCHA Developments Are Now Public, Following Legal Settlement - City Limits

NYCHA residents can now look up housing code violations for their buildings online, something tenants in privately-owned properties have long been able to do.

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