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Emily Drabinski
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2h
“There aren’t a lot of people like you willing to do the things that you are willing to do.”
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Oct 24
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.

Reposted by American Library Association, Charles W. Smith, Sebastiaan Faber , and 2 more

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h
No contract, no coffee.

We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

Reposted by American Library Association, Robert C. Richards

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d
Public servants, artists, cultural figures, heads of nonprofits and industry. Meet our Transition Committees:

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d
Trump has announced ambitious remodeling plans for the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the announcement comes as Americans overall are struggling with the effects of inflation, which has grown due in part to Trump’s economic policies, including his tariffs.
As Americans Grapple With Affordability, Trump Announces Joint Base Andrews Golf Course Remodeling Project
The Trump administration hasn’t provided any details on how the project will be paid for.
truthout.org

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1d
The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it’s well on its way to qualifying for the ballot.

via @idahocapitalsun.com
Ballot initiative to end Idaho’s abortion ban has more than 50,000 signatures, group says
The group behind a proposed ballot initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban says it’s well on its way to qualifying for the ballot. Idahoans United for Women and Families announced last week…
www.newsfromthestates.com

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d
Science journalist *and* private pilot? Wow! Definitely believe every word you say with credentials like that.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Jean Burgess, American Library Association , and 13 more

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

Reposted by American Library Association, Paolo Crosetto

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d
📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d
Well we gotta address both at the same time!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 2d
Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, American Library Association, Gerald Friedman

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 2d
Congrats to the 21,000 @uptecwa.bsky.social health care, research and technical workers at the University of California on voting to ratify their new contract! After 17 months of negotiations, this new contract is a testament to the power of our solidarity.
UC Workers Ratify ‘Best Contract Yet’ After Four Strikes and 17 Months of Negotiations
The union representing 21,000 healthcare, research, and technical professionals celebrates what union leaders are calling a historic win.
www.independent.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, American Library Association, Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 2d
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
PITTSBURGH'S Public Source Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. They return as union organizing continues throughout the region. Stephanie Strasburg November 24, 2025 Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)

Reposted by American Library Association, Anne Norton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 3d
Professor Herman Bennett, executive director of the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Program, explains how the program is designed to conceive of other possibilities for the future. #CUNY

Reposted by American Library Association, Lesley A. Hall

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 3d
Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book

The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...
Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book
www.nytimes.com

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Kelly Wooten @kwooten.bsky.social · 3d
Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.

Reposted by American Library Association, Juan Cole

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 3d
good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university

utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
Anatomy of a Fall: The Case of Indiana University (Guest Post)
Indiana University on November 3, 2025    by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...
utotherescue.blogspot.com

Reposted by American Library Association, Stuart Shapiro

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Richard Staff @richstaff.bsky.social · 3d
Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 4d
Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
NEIGHBOR KIDNAPPED HERE ABOLISH ICE painted on Seattle sidewalk in yellow paint

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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 4d
Thinking about how an editor once chewed me out when I was a reporter because a radio station offered me free tickets to see a movie premiere.

I didn’t take them. I just told her about the offer.

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Joe R. Feagin, American Library Association , and 6 more

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d
Former Vanderbilt player Jabo Burrow talks about the economic exploitation players of his era experienced, including the fact that his parents went into credit card debt attending games that they are still paying off.

For the full conversation, check out ep. 146 of @endofsportpod.bsky.social.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 5d
Quick question: is there a kidlit and YA feed on Bluesky yet? I know that folks were a bit wary of moving here at first... I miss kidlit Twitter and YA Twitter!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 5d
So psyched for next season already!

Reposted by American Library Association, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Ivan the K ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 5d
BUS RIDES IN CITES SHOULD BE FREE.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 5d
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