Lisa Thorp (she/her)
@lisakthorp.bsky.social
Cynical idealist - I love libraries & voting & STL & my family & biking & yoga, & try to be kind & curious. ✌️🩷📚
Please #vote folks! Visit vote411.org for scoop on your ballot. #STL polling places open 6am to 7 pm. ✌️🩷🗳️✊
April 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Please #vote folks! Visit vote411.org for scoop on your ballot. #STL polling places open 6am to 7 pm. ✌️🩷🗳️✊
Vote today in the City election at 6 SLPL locations or the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners - tomorrow City voters can vote at ANY polling place from 6 am to 7 pm - link to info in comments. (Rest of MO - you likely have an election too - check it out on LWV’s vote411.org!) ✌️🩷🗳️📚✊
April 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Vote today in the City election at 6 SLPL locations or the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners - tomorrow City voters can vote at ANY polling place from 6 am to 7 pm - link to info in comments. (Rest of MO - you likely have an election too - check it out on LWV’s vote411.org!) ✌️🩷🗳️📚✊
Early (“no excuse absentee”) voting underway for 4/8 STL municipal election at 6 SLPL locations & Bd of Elections. LWV voters guide available at Libraries or online at vote411.org. ✌️🩷🗳️✊ #vote
March 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Early (“no excuse absentee”) voting underway for 4/8 STL municipal election at 6 SLPL locations & Bd of Elections. LWV voters guide available at Libraries or online at vote411.org. ✌️🩷🗳️✊ #vote
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God’s work from the @nytimes.com aka math www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
See How Elon Musk’s Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims
The cost-cutting group removed hundreds of contracts from its “wall of receipts,” added back many of them, and inflated savings values.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
God’s work from the @nytimes.com aka math www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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On this day in 1835, Missouri enacted a law requiring free Black residents to obtain a license to remain in the state. Those who did not faced fines, imprisonment, and expulsion from Missouri.
Mar 14, 1835 | Free Black People Must Apply for License to Remain in Missouri
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
March 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1835, Missouri enacted a law requiring free Black residents to obtain a license to remain in the state. Those who did not faced fines, imprisonment, and expulsion from Missouri.
Itsy bitsy display about education & elections as well as a little library bragging for the SLPS school board candidate forum - 2-4 today at SLPL Central, enter from Locust. ✌️🩷🗳️🎓📚
March 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Itsy bitsy display about education & elections as well as a little library bragging for the SLPS school board candidate forum - 2-4 today at SLPL Central, enter from Locust. ✌️🩷🗳️🎓📚
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In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word “gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.
War heroes, military firsts and the Enola Gay are among 26,000 Pentagon images flagged for removal in DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts…
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word “gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.
Jamie & I had a lovely time representing SLPL at today’s SLACO conference, meeting folks, learning stuff, & hearing “I LOVE the Library!” over & over. Feeling a little warm & fuzzy/less despondent. Act locally, organize, know your neighbor, vote, read a book, the world will be a better place✌️🩷🏡🚲📚✊
March 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Jamie & I had a lovely time representing SLPL at today’s SLACO conference, meeting folks, learning stuff, & hearing “I LOVE the Library!” over & over. Feeling a little warm & fuzzy/less despondent. Act locally, organize, know your neighbor, vote, read a book, the world will be a better place✌️🩷🏡🚲📚✊
Feeling snarky (come on STL - 18%??) but not giving up. There’s a LWV-hosted school board candidate forum this Sunday 3/9 from 2-4 at Central, & the voter registration deadline for the next round is Wed 3/12, then we do it all again 4/8. Early voting starts 3/25. Join us? 🤨🩷🗳️✊
March 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Feeling snarky (come on STL - 18%??) but not giving up. There’s a LWV-hosted school board candidate forum this Sunday 3/9 from 2-4 at Central, & the voter registration deadline for the next round is Wed 3/12, then we do it all again 4/8. Early voting starts 3/25. Join us? 🤨🩷🗳️✊
March 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” I saw this Elie Wiesel quote on a FB page & checked to make sure it WAS a Wiesel quote.
March 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” I saw this Elie Wiesel quote on a FB page & checked to make sure it WAS a Wiesel quote.
Blue skies indeed. Acknowledge this weather in Feb isn’t normal/right - but neither was the horrible frigid weather earlier this month & last - so yay blue skies.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Blue skies indeed. Acknowledge this weather in Feb isn’t normal/right - but neither was the horrible frigid weather earlier this month & last - so yay blue skies.
Monday refresh of love, with a side of peace. #porchmanifesting 🫶🩷✌️🤞
February 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Monday refresh of love, with a side of peace. #porchmanifesting 🫶🩷✌️🤞
Found some joy & beauty today at the STL Art Museum ✌️🩷
February 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Found some joy & beauty today at the STL Art Museum ✌️🩷
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is how it’s done.
From Dick Gregory’s No More Lies - The Myth and the Realitt of American History (1972 - SLPL has 1971 1st edition in our Rare Books & Manuscripts collection).
February 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
From Dick Gregory’s No More Lies - The Myth and the Realitt of American History (1972 - SLPL has 1971 1st edition in our Rare Books & Manuscripts collection).
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In the face of an administration trying to erase their identities, these students are founding a group to cultivate trans leaders across the country.
‘We won’t be safe if we’re silent’: Young trans leaders want to build a network of their own
In the face of an administration trying to erase their identities, these students are founding a group to cultivate trans leaders across the country.
19thnews.org
February 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In the face of an administration trying to erase their identities, these students are founding a group to cultivate trans leaders across the country.
Yesterday for 1st Day School (Quaker for Sunday School) we read & discussed this book about my childhood hero, Shirley Chisholm, in advance of Presidents’ Day (Ms. “Unbought & Unbossed” Chisholm ran for President in 1972) & b/c we are mid-Black History Month (not cancelled - really).
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yesterday for 1st Day School (Quaker for Sunday School) we read & discussed this book about my childhood hero, Shirley Chisholm, in advance of Presidents’ Day (Ms. “Unbought & Unbossed” Chisholm ran for President in 1972) & b/c we are mid-Black History Month (not cancelled - really).
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Here is the clip from ‘Waterloo’ which ends with the same line Trump used this morning - it is speech in which Napoleon asserts, “I did not usurp the crown,” because he picked it out of the gutter and the people put it on his head:
February 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Here is the clip from ‘Waterloo’ which ends with the same line Trump used this morning - it is speech in which Napoleon asserts, “I did not usurp the crown,” because he picked it out of the gutter and the people put it on his head:
Saturday greetings from Central Library ✌️🩷📚
February 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Saturday greetings from Central Library ✌️🩷📚
As I straddle the FB/Bluesky divide, wanted to also share here with any who don't know that I am the proud, happy (& necessarily terrified) Mom of a trans daughter. I forced myself to reread the Jan. 20 Executive Order that attempts to claim that our daughter doesn't exist, but I call bullshit.
February 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
As I straddle the FB/Bluesky divide, wanted to also share here with any who don't know that I am the proud, happy (& necessarily terrified) Mom of a trans daughter. I forced myself to reread the Jan. 20 Executive Order that attempts to claim that our daughter doesn't exist, but I call bullshit.