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It's 2026 & @nycplan.org wants you to join us in getting every City Council Member on the record re our demand to increase & stabilize public library funding. We could use your help in two ways:
1. Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
2. Follow up with a call: nycplan.org/actions/call...
1. Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
2. Follow up with a call: nycplan.org/actions/call...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
It's 2026 & @nycplan.org wants you to join us in getting every City Council Member on the record re our demand to increase & stabilize public library funding. We could use your help in two ways:
1. Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
2. Follow up with a call: nycplan.org/actions/call...
1. Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
2. Follow up with a call: nycplan.org/actions/call...
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My review of Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory has been published in Boundary 2 read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
Theory of Philosophy or Philosophy of Theory: On Jameson's The Years of Theory
Abstract. This essay reviews Fredric Jameson's book The Years of Theory, which is the publication of a seminar that Jameson gave at Duke University. The review examines Jameson's attempt to provide a ...
read.dukeupress.edu
August 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My review of Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory has been published in Boundary 2 read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
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"All we can do is keep showing up, keep speaking up, keep donating, keep connecting, keep our values close and our courage strong and keep an eye out. And not give up, including not settling into this as though it's normal or permanent or we're helpless"
I tell these stories because I think we are all on edge, watching the atrocities and outrages of the Trump Administration, and feeling that something more than the current protests must happen, something decisive, something transformative. I tell them because....
When Hope and History Rhyme
In the summer of 2011, I went to a protest against economic injustice in New York City. I've gone to a lot of demonstrations over the decades, and this one was as forgettable as most of them are--they...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"All we can do is keep showing up, keep speaking up, keep donating, keep connecting, keep our values close and our courage strong and keep an eye out. And not give up, including not settling into this as though it's normal or permanent or we're helpless"
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American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
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People are lead to believe governance is cumbersome, colonial, bureaucratic, non-efficient until you have none and you are at the whim of lawless, mindless abusers of power. The left and the right use the strategy of "burn it all down". Do that and you have nowhere to live. #VoteThemOut #TwoYears
January 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
People are lead to believe governance is cumbersome, colonial, bureaucratic, non-efficient until you have none and you are at the whim of lawless, mindless abusers of power. The left and the right use the strategy of "burn it all down". Do that and you have nowhere to live. #VoteThemOut #TwoYears
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No other account speaks for us - if it doesn’t say YourAnonCENTRAL, it’s not us. Here are our most trusted human rights accounts and Anons on blue sky.
More information: therussiareport.substack.com/p/the-russia...
#Anonymous
go.bsky.app/5eZX3Ek
More information: therussiareport.substack.com/p/the-russia...
#Anonymous
go.bsky.app/5eZX3Ek
February 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
No other account speaks for us - if it doesn’t say YourAnonCENTRAL, it’s not us. Here are our most trusted human rights accounts and Anons on blue sky.
More information: therussiareport.substack.com/p/the-russia...
#Anonymous
go.bsky.app/5eZX3Ek
More information: therussiareport.substack.com/p/the-russia...
#Anonymous
go.bsky.app/5eZX3Ek
People are lead to believe governance is cumbersome, colonial, bureaucratic, non-efficient until you have none and you are at the whim of lawless, mindless abusers of power. The left and the right use the strategy of "burn it all down". Do that and you have nowhere to live. #VoteThemOut #TwoYears
January 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
People are lead to believe governance is cumbersome, colonial, bureaucratic, non-efficient until you have none and you are at the whim of lawless, mindless abusers of power. The left and the right use the strategy of "burn it all down". Do that and you have nowhere to live. #VoteThemOut #TwoYears
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1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I also keep thinking that we have to support our libraries.
January 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
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Academic Institutions simply need to not bend the knee.
If the academy is about knowledge generation, that includes ALL KNOWLEDGE, and means that preserving and protecting that will matter moving forward.
Private schools should lead in this effort and prepare for a legal fight.
If the academy is about knowledge generation, that includes ALL KNOWLEDGE, and means that preserving and protecting that will matter moving forward.
Private schools should lead in this effort and prepare for a legal fight.
January 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Academic Institutions simply need to not bend the knee.
If the academy is about knowledge generation, that includes ALL KNOWLEDGE, and means that preserving and protecting that will matter moving forward.
Private schools should lead in this effort and prepare for a legal fight.
If the academy is about knowledge generation, that includes ALL KNOWLEDGE, and means that preserving and protecting that will matter moving forward.
Private schools should lead in this effort and prepare for a legal fight.
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LIBRARIES ARE ABOUT TO MATTER MORE NOW THAN EVER. Books are the windows to worlds unseen. Support them by:
- Joining a Friends of the Library (annual donation)
- Visiting and using their many wonderful resources
- Hiring librarians (@mychal3ts.bsky.social is on the market!!)
- Joining a Friends of the Library (annual donation)
- Visiting and using their many wonderful resources
- Hiring librarians (@mychal3ts.bsky.social is on the market!!)
January 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
LIBRARIES ARE ABOUT TO MATTER MORE NOW THAN EVER. Books are the windows to worlds unseen. Support them by:
- Joining a Friends of the Library (annual donation)
- Visiting and using their many wonderful resources
- Hiring librarians (@mychal3ts.bsky.social is on the market!!)
- Joining a Friends of the Library (annual donation)
- Visiting and using their many wonderful resources
- Hiring librarians (@mychal3ts.bsky.social is on the market!!)
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Mosab Abu Toha on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza: “All the dreams that I and friends in Gaza and abroad were drawing for our children have been burnt by Israel’s genocidal campaign to erase Gaza and everything that breathes of life and love.”https://lithub.com/read-mosab-abu-toh…
Read Mosab Abu Toha’s statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.
Mosab Abu Toha, the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian (who, in November 2023, was kidnapped by Israeli forces as he tried to get his young family out of Gaza) has released a sta…
lithub.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Mosab Abu Toha on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza: “All the dreams that I and friends in Gaza and abroad were drawing for our children have been burnt by Israel’s genocidal campaign to erase Gaza and everything that breathes of life and love.”https://lithub.com/read-mosab-abu-toh…
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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RIP Cecile Richards 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
RIP Cecile Richards 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
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“We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. We are not moving on; we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly; We are brave enough to bend to cry. And sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech.”
#RIPNikkiGiovanni
#RIPNikkiGiovanni
WE are VIRGINIA TECH - Nikki Giovanni speech 4/16
YouTube video by EP
youtu.be
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 AM
“We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. We are not moving on; we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly; We are brave enough to bend to cry. And sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech.”
#RIPNikkiGiovanni
#RIPNikkiGiovanni
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The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress.
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
December 10, 2024 at 3:39 AM
The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress.
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
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RIP NIkki Giovanni ❤️
December 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM
RIP NIkki Giovanni ❤️
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i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
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New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.
Without the Poet, There Is Only War
“The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”
buff.ly
December 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.
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Thank you to Elections Canada for the opportunity to serve on its Advisory Circle of Educators - a dynamic community of educators from across Canada! #EduSky #abed
electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/spotlig...
electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/spotlig...
Spotlight on Dr. Carla Peck | Elections Canada's Civic Education
The Advisory Circle of Educators (ACOE) advises Elections Canada on best practices in
electionsanddemocracy.ca
November 25, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Thank you to Elections Canada for the opportunity to serve on its Advisory Circle of Educators - a dynamic community of educators from across Canada! #EduSky #abed
electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/spotlig...
electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/spotlig...
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this is very cool apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
this is very cool apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Please read books. I’m begging you.
November 22, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Please read books. I’m begging you.