@khemasanine.bsky.social
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🌟 3rd graders in Richmond VA singing my song “All I Really Need” at their fall performance at Barack Obama Elementary School. 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🐳
I’m sure these kids would enjoy singing my upbeat new song “ABC Democracy”❣️
#singablesongs
#babybeluga
I’m sure these kids would enjoy singing my upbeat new song “ABC Democracy”❣️
#singablesongs
#babybeluga
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🌟 3rd graders in Richmond VA singing my song “All I Really Need” at their fall performance at Barack Obama Elementary School. 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🐳
I’m sure these kids would enjoy singing my upbeat new song “ABC Democracy”❣️
#singablesongs
#babybeluga
I’m sure these kids would enjoy singing my upbeat new song “ABC Democracy”❣️
#singablesongs
#babybeluga
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Important updates for Virginia SNAP recipients:
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Important updates for Virginia SNAP recipients:
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What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people?
www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...
www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people?
www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...
www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...
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Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
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Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
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Blockety block block BLOCK!!!
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Blockety block block BLOCK!!!
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It’s me. Your favorite #bannedbooksweek curmudgeon. Just popping in to rain all over your caution tape.
#tlsky #tlskychat #librarians #skybrarians #edusky
#tlsky #tlskychat #librarians #skybrarians #edusky
October 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s me. Your favorite #bannedbooksweek curmudgeon. Just popping in to rain all over your caution tape.
#tlsky #tlskychat #librarians #skybrarians #edusky
#tlsky #tlskychat #librarians #skybrarians #edusky
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
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I made some free printable bookmarks for you to use in any Banned Books Week displays/programs/etc you may have. They're meant to give folks *action items* to take with them beyond that single week.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
A Free Printable Bookmark About Book Censorship
Print these free bookmarks to help engage your friends, family, and community in the fight against book bans.
buttondown.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I made some free printable bookmarks for you to use in any Banned Books Week displays/programs/etc you may have. They're meant to give folks *action items* to take with them beyond that single week.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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Throngs of shackled people have been loaded onto airplanes with no attributed owner about 80 separate times so far this year at Richmond International Airport.
Hidden in plain sight: Richmond International Airport is ICE deportation flight hub, according to human rights organization
Hidden in plain sight, behind the Richmond Jet Center and less than a mile from the Richmond International Airport terminal, throngs of shackled people have been loaded onto airplanes with no attributed owner about 80 separate times so far this year, according to a human rights organization and Citizen observations.
www.henricocitizen.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Throngs of shackled people have been loaded onto airplanes with no attributed owner about 80 separate times so far this year at Richmond International Airport.
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There are plenty of books at your local libraries and bookstores to read and learn about autism that do not focus on Tylenol. Best of all, more and more books are being written and illustrated. More and are being published! 📚
😊 Here are a few:
😊 Here are a few:
September 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
There are plenty of books at your local libraries and bookstores to read and learn about autism that do not focus on Tylenol. Best of all, more and more books are being written and illustrated. More and are being published! 📚
😊 Here are a few:
😊 Here are a few:
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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We are so excited to announce the #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair for 2025: legendary actor/author/activist GEORGE TAKEI! "Please stand with me in opposing censorship, so that we all can find ourselves — and each other — in books.”
bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are so excited to announce the #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair for 2025: legendary actor/author/activist GEORGE TAKEI! "Please stand with me in opposing censorship, so that we all can find ourselves — and each other — in books.”
bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
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Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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EDUCATORS: Join us Sept. 17 via zoom for the NEWEST version of www.JournalismInAction.org, our interactive gr. 5-12 site on US history through a journalist's lens.
Deep dive into Native American history w/ our curriculum writers💫
RSVP: https://bit.ly/pbsnewszoom9-17 #EduSky #ela #engchat #sschat
Deep dive into Native American history w/ our curriculum writers💫
RSVP: https://bit.ly/pbsnewszoom9-17 #EduSky #ela #engchat #sschat
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
EDUCATORS: Join us Sept. 17 via zoom for the NEWEST version of www.JournalismInAction.org, our interactive gr. 5-12 site on US history through a journalist's lens.
Deep dive into Native American history w/ our curriculum writers💫
RSVP: https://bit.ly/pbsnewszoom9-17 #EduSky #ela #engchat #sschat
Deep dive into Native American history w/ our curriculum writers💫
RSVP: https://bit.ly/pbsnewszoom9-17 #EduSky #ela #engchat #sschat
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Incoming University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Leo Lo on the water and energy costs of artificial intelligence.
Hint: "“Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty."
#ai #artificialintelligence
Hint: "“Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty."
#ai #artificialintelligence
AI has a hidden water cost − here’s how to calculate yours
AI systems’ water usage can vary widely, depending on where and when the computer answering the query is running.
theconversation.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Incoming University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Leo Lo on the water and energy costs of artificial intelligence.
Hint: "“Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty."
#ai #artificialintelligence
Hint: "“Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty."
#ai #artificialintelligence
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State Dept cites Palestinian appeals to ICC and ICJ over Israeli abuses in occupied territories in justifying move.
US denies visas for Palestinian officials before UN assembly
State Dept cites Palestinian appeals to ICC and ICJ over Israeli abuses in occupied territories in justifying move.
bit.ly
August 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
State Dept cites Palestinian appeals to ICC and ICJ over Israeli abuses in occupied territories in justifying move.
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Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from.
theconversation.com/college-stud...
theconversation.com/college-stud...
College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened
Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.
theconversation.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from.
theconversation.com/college-stud...
theconversation.com/college-stud...
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On the first day of school for kids in DC, federal agents in unmarked cars are intimidating families at child care centers.
No one should have to live in this kind of fear.
No one should have to live in this kind of fear.
When immigration shows up at daycare: crackdown in DC terrifies families and workers
Nannies stay home and schools provide transport as Trump takes over policing and Ice rounds up immigrants
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On the first day of school for kids in DC, federal agents in unmarked cars are intimidating families at child care centers.
No one should have to live in this kind of fear.
No one should have to live in this kind of fear.
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“It is the perfect storm for educational catastrophe.”
— @aaslala.bsky.social President Amanda Kordeliski
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— @aaslala.bsky.social President Amanda Kordeliski
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When libraries lose access to federal funds, the entire community loses, including local schools. Public educators rely on libraries & museums for supplemental support and experiential education: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries
Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries
How Schools Will Feel the Federal Funding Cuts to Libraries and Museums
Cuts to library and museum grants threaten school databases, field trips, and teacher training programs nationwide.
www.edweek.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“It is the perfect storm for educational catastrophe.”
— @aaslala.bsky.social President Amanda Kordeliski
📚💙
— @aaslala.bsky.social President Amanda Kordeliski
📚💙