Aly Gray
@alyjg.bsky.social
Librarian, writer, researcher, and music lover.
EB White once wrote that he arose each day determined to change the world and to have a helluva good time - he remarked that it sometimes made planning his day difficult - I just love that!
EB White once wrote that he arose each day determined to change the world and to have a helluva good time - he remarked that it sometimes made planning his day difficult - I just love that!
This is just happy making:
March 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is just happy making:
Reposted by Aly Gray
This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
DOGE Descends on the Institute for Museum and Library Services
DOGE employees and a new acting director showed up at the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on Thursday for an intended 'raid'
news.artnet.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
Trump signed an Executive Order attacking Federal Funding for Libraries.
Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late!
action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late!
action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
SEND AN EMAIL: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacking Federal Funding for Libraries
We need your help TODAY to tell your governors and key members of the House and Senate that federal funding for libraries - the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - needs to be preserved!
action.everylibrary.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump signed an Executive Order attacking Federal Funding for Libraries.
Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late!
action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late!
action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Happy Pi Day & Happy birthday, Albert (1879)
March 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Happy Pi Day & Happy birthday, Albert (1879)
Reposted by Aly Gray
This is today, March 4, the year or our Lord 2025. He’s threatening to remove federal funding and arrest people for exercising 1A rights (speaking against *him*) and to “expel” *Americans* … from what? The colleges he doesn’t run or the country he thinks he does? Impeach/convict/remove @resist.bot
"I'm burning America down and making it illegal for you to complain about it."
March 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is today, March 4, the year or our Lord 2025. He’s threatening to remove federal funding and arrest people for exercising 1A rights (speaking against *him*) and to “expel” *Americans* … from what? The colleges he doesn’t run or the country he thinks he does? Impeach/convict/remove @resist.bot
Today, in 1990, Voyager I took the famous “Pale Blue Dot” image
February 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Today, in 1990, Voyager I took the famous “Pale Blue Dot” image
But history….
The erasures grow more Orwellian by the day:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
But history….
Perfect
@tomgor11.bsky.social
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To be able to sit down and play my favorite song
February 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Perfect
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@tomgor11.bsky.social
Research, Fund, Support, Love… it matters
February 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Research, Fund, Support, Love… it matters
So true
It's #LibraryLoversMonth and libraries rock ❤️ They:
➡️ Offer free materials
➡️ Host events
➡️ Build community and life-long learning
➡️ Are safe spaces & makerspaces
➡️ Provide life-saving resources & ESL support
➡️ Boost critical thinking
➡️ Aid in career development
➡️ Have LIBRARIANS!
➡️ Offer free materials
➡️ Host events
➡️ Build community and life-long learning
➡️ Are safe spaces & makerspaces
➡️ Provide life-saving resources & ESL support
➡️ Boost critical thinking
➡️ Aid in career development
➡️ Have LIBRARIANS!
February 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So true
Today, in 1960, 4 young men sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in my home town and helped create the modern Civil Rights movement
For a fantastic treatment, check out Carole Boston Weatherford’s (2025 ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner) — Freedom on the Menu
For a fantastic treatment, check out Carole Boston Weatherford’s (2025 ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner) — Freedom on the Menu
February 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today, in 1960, 4 young men sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in my home town and helped create the modern Civil Rights movement
For a fantastic treatment, check out Carole Boston Weatherford’s (2025 ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner) — Freedom on the Menu
For a fantastic treatment, check out Carole Boston Weatherford’s (2025 ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner) — Freedom on the Menu
This is terrifying… I grew up in a world (not that long ago & or far away) that still had TB sanatoriums and people would have lungs removed to stop the spread of the disease…
Everything coming out of Trump America right now is like foreshadowing for the world’s most epic disaster movie.
Why just have economic collapse when you can have plague, war and spiralling climate crises all at the same time?
Why just have economic collapse when you can have plague, war and spiralling climate crises all at the same time?
The Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in U.S. History Is Happening Right Now in Kansas — Esquire
And the news comes as the Trump administration has “paused” all public messaging by the CDC.
apple.news
January 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is terrifying… I grew up in a world (not that long ago & or far away) that still had TB sanatoriums and people would have lungs removed to stop the spread of the disease…
Today in 1958, the Lego brick was patented
January 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Today in 1958, the Lego brick was patented
Good day for lists - making a TBR for ‘25 - here are a few more:
The findings of the AHA’s recent report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, served as the backdrop for Smithsonian magazine’s article on the ten best history books of 2024 🗃️:
The Ten Best History Books of 2024
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Good day for lists - making a TBR for ‘25 - here are a few more:
Another book list
#Holocaustremembranceday
#Holocaustremembranceday
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship
January 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Another book list
#Holocaustremembranceday
#Holocaustremembranceday
Reposted by Aly Gray
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship
January 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship