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The latest on the IMLS and why we need to be taking America 250 really damn seriously: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The Latest From IMLS and What You Need to Prepare For Right Now
It’s only been a little more than a month since the current administration dropped an Executive Order related to funding and projects from the Institute for...
buttondown.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The latest on the IMLS and why we need to be taking America 250 really damn seriously: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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Reminder to All Conservative Christians:
Today you celebrate a man for being woke.
Today you celebrate a man for being woke.
April 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reminder to All Conservative Christians:
Today you celebrate a man for being woke.
Today you celebrate a man for being woke.
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Proof your public library loves you: they leave you alone when you're reading, they love when you bring your kids over, and they'll literally let you borrow any book you want...even their hardcovers
April 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Proof your public library loves you: they leave you alone when you're reading, they love when you bring your kids over, and they'll literally let you borrow any book you want...even their hardcovers
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The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
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Subject: Urgent: Protect Library and Museum Funding — Oppose Elimination of IMLS
March 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Subject: Urgent: Protect Library and Museum Funding — Oppose Elimination of IMLS
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I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed
March 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed
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Do you value your library?
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Do you value your library?
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
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Not hard, super important. Feb 28 economic blackout!
Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?
A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.
www.cbsnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Not hard, super important. Feb 28 economic blackout!
Torn Apart: Punk + New Wave Graphics, Fashion & Culture, 1976–1986 exhibition has a few more days @orlandomuseumofart. Amazing collection.
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Torn Apart: Punk + New Wave Graphics, Fashion & Culture, 1976–1986 exhibition has a few more days @orlandomuseumofart. Amazing collection.