So great that this is happening in partnership with a public library!! #DefendResearch #DefendLibraries #StandUpForScience!
@svasti.bsky.social and I are speaking at this event - join us tomorrow at San Diego Central Library! We’ve also collated several stories, resources, and action items for you to #standupforscience
🚨 SAN DIEGO!
Join us TOMORROW, June 26th 1-2:30pm at the San Diego Central Library to hear about the real stories and insights from doctors, scientists & survivors about what’s at stake if medical research funding is slashed.
#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience
#CutsCostLives
Join us TOMORROW, June 26th 1-2:30pm at the San Diego Central Library to hear about the real stories and insights from doctors, scientists & survivors about what’s at stake if medical research funding is slashed.
#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience
#CutsCostLives
June 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
So great that this is happening in partnership with a public library!! #DefendResearch #DefendLibraries #StandUpForScience!
Each banned book reveals what certain politicians fear: educated minds, critical thinking, diverse perspectives. #StopBookBans #DefendLibraries
December 7, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Each banned book reveals what certain politicians fear: educated minds, critical thinking, diverse perspectives. #StopBookBans #DefendLibraries
Dear US people! Get together and go to see this (Emmy-winning) documentary film.
It is vital that Americans understand what is happening to their libraries and what that means.
#DefendLibraries
It is vital that Americans understand what is happening to their libraries and what that means.
#DefendLibraries
September 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Dear US people! Get together and go to see this (Emmy-winning) documentary film.
It is vital that Americans understand what is happening to their libraries and what that means.
#DefendLibraries
It is vital that Americans understand what is happening to their libraries and what that means.
#DefendLibraries
Everyone concerned with research, libraries, and education should register for this webinar--you will get information and ideas for how to take #action to protect our invaluable knowledge infrastructure. #DefendResearch #DefendLibraries @everylibrary.bsky.social @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
Stand with us as we #DefendResearch. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/4dtwVHJ
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Everyone concerned with research, libraries, and education should register for this webinar--you will get information and ideas for how to take #action to protect our invaluable knowledge infrastructure. #DefendResearch #DefendLibraries @everylibrary.bsky.social @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
We all know that's happening: The toddler in chief is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action.
#DefendLibraries #DefendMuseums
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
#DefendLibraries #DefendMuseums
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Take Action To Save Federal Funding for Libraries!
Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. We need you to take action today! That's why we made it easy to contact your reps, sign petitions, and learn about the Institute of Museum...
action.everylibrary.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We all know that's happening: The toddler in chief is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action.
#DefendLibraries #DefendMuseums
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
#DefendLibraries #DefendMuseums
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson likes birdsong, tuna treats, & sniffing my library books. If you also like library books, check out @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social & how you can help defend library funding!
#defendlibraries
#TakeActionForLibrariesDay
#booksky
#defendlibraries
#TakeActionForLibrariesDay
#booksky
April 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Shirley Jackson likes birdsong, tuna treats, & sniffing my library books. If you also like library books, check out @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social & how you can help defend library funding!
#defendlibraries
#TakeActionForLibrariesDay
#booksky
#defendlibraries
#TakeActionForLibrariesDay
#booksky
Libraries have been under assault for awhile now, but we are fighting back! For The People works to strengthen & #DefendLibraries by getting folks engaged in library governance, e.g. showing up to board meetings to getting on a library commission. www.librariesforthepeople.org
May 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Libraries have been under assault for awhile now, but we are fighting back! For The People works to strengthen & #DefendLibraries by getting folks engaged in library governance, e.g. showing up to board meetings to getting on a library commission. www.librariesforthepeople.org
Proud to stand for libraries & schools! Thanks to the folks making calls, donating to civil rights groups, educating & providing childcare today, too!
#handsoffdemocracy
#defendlibraries
#bookthreads
#handsoffdemocracy
#defendlibraries
#bookthreads
April 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Proud to stand for libraries & schools! Thanks to the folks making calls, donating to civil rights groups, educating & providing childcare today, too!
#handsoffdemocracy
#defendlibraries
#bookthreads
#handsoffdemocracy
#defendlibraries
#bookthreads
I'm really looking forward to learning more specifics about what we're facing and how we can fight back to #DefendResearch and #DefendLibraries!
Stand with us as we #DefendResearch. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/4dtwVHJ
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I'm really looking forward to learning more specifics about what we're facing and how we can fight back to #DefendResearch and #DefendLibraries!
Anyone who cares about #IMLS, but more importantly #intellectual_freedom and critical thinking, must read this latest piece by @heykellyjensen.bsky.social: bookriot.com/imls-propaga... #defendlibraries
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Is Now a Propaganda Machine: Book Censorship News, March 21, 2025
DOGE didn't dismantle the only federal agency supporting public libraries. It was instead turned into a propaganda machine. That, plus this week's book censorship news.
bookriot.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Anyone who cares about #IMLS, but more importantly #intellectual_freedom and critical thinking, must read this latest piece by @heykellyjensen.bsky.social: bookriot.com/imls-propaga... #defendlibraries
Those who want to #DefendResearch and #DefendLibraries should attend this webinar from @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social and @everylibrary.bsky.social The first in the series provided so much useful, sobering, necessary information about the threats and how to respond! Ready for the second one!
Stand with us as we #DefendResearch. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/4dtwVHJ
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Those who want to #DefendResearch and #DefendLibraries should attend this webinar from @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social and @everylibrary.bsky.social The first in the series provided so much useful, sobering, necessary information about the threats and how to respond! Ready for the second one!
Please contact your legislators and urge them to vote NO on SB74. You can find your #Georgia state legislators here: georgia.gov/who-represen...
#defendlibraries #freedomtoread
#defendlibraries #freedomtoread
March 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Please contact your legislators and urge them to vote NO on SB74. You can find your #Georgia state legislators here: georgia.gov/who-represen...
#defendlibraries #freedomtoread
#defendlibraries #freedomtoread
Here it goes …
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
#DefendLibraries
#DefendMuseums
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
#DefendLibraries
#DefendMuseums
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Here it goes …
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
#DefendLibraries
#DefendMuseums
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
#DefendLibraries
#DefendMuseums
Thank you @everylibrary.bsky.social for this great piece about what we are losing and what we can do to prevent it: www.newsweek.com/trump-admini... #DefendResearch #DefendLibraries #DefendEducation #DefendDemocracy #NoTimeForSilence
The Trump Administration Is Attacking Democracy | Opinion
This is about control—an attempt to control our history, and with it, the future of American democracy.
www.newsweek.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thank you @everylibrary.bsky.social for this great piece about what we are losing and what we can do to prevent it: www.newsweek.com/trump-admini... #DefendResearch #DefendLibraries #DefendEducation #DefendDemocracy #NoTimeForSilence
Libraries are more than books—they're community hubs, offering skills, tools, and support. But they need our help! Get a card, attend events, donate, and advocate. 💪📚 #SaveOurLibraries #SupportLibraries #LibraryLove #ProtectLibraries #CommunityMatters #LibraryAdvocacy #DefendLibraries
9 Ways To Save Libraries
A 2017 Pew research study found millennials are the most likely generation to use public libraries. The generation that had reading drilled into us through Scholastic book fairs, the BookIT program, Reading Rainbow, and gobs of other methods uses the library the most. Huh, you don't say? I remember the day I got my first library card. I was young, six or seven.
nerdgirlsarecool.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Libraries are more than books—they're community hubs, offering skills, tools, and support. But they need our help! Get a card, attend events, donate, and advocate. 💪📚 #SaveOurLibraries #SupportLibraries #LibraryLove #ProtectLibraries #CommunityMatters #LibraryAdvocacy #DefendLibraries
📢A library in every community is a threat to authoritarianism.📢 The current administration fears informed citizens. That’s why he’s targeting libraries. Let’s fight back. #DefendLibraries #StopTheCensorship #EqualityNow
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
📢A library in every community is a threat to authoritarianism.📢 The current administration fears informed citizens. That’s why he’s targeting libraries. Let’s fight back. #DefendLibraries #StopTheCensorship #EqualityNow
Spot on as always Kelly. Two resources for those looking to fight back: 1. #DefendLibraries and strengthen libraries with www.librariesforthepeople.org and 2. Resist censorship and #DefendResearch with defendresearch.irg
For The People
www.librariesforthepeople.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Spot on as always Kelly. Two resources for those looking to fight back: 1. #DefendLibraries and strengthen libraries with www.librariesforthepeople.org and 2. Resist censorship and #DefendResearch with defendresearch.irg
More evidence of the urgent need to #defendlibraries! Check out what For The People is doing and how you can help strengthen and defend your public library: www.librariesforthepeople.org #publiclibraries #resist #freedomtoread #Intellectualfreedom #thirdspace
March 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
More evidence of the urgent need to #defendlibraries! Check out what For The People is doing and how you can help strengthen and defend your public library: www.librariesforthepeople.org #publiclibraries #resist #freedomtoread #Intellectualfreedom #thirdspace
"reach out to your own Representative and urge them to demand their colleagues include restoration of IMLS funding in their markup. Put the pressure in every place possible." Just made my call to my rep--you can do it too! #DefendLibraries
The early closure of the House of Representatives leaves the future of the only agency dedicated to public libraries in question. What this means and what you can do right now: bookriot.com/imls-funding...
Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do
The abrupt early recess in the House of Representatives means the future of IMLS funding remains a question mark. Use this time to act.
bookriot.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"reach out to your own Representative and urge them to demand their colleagues include restoration of IMLS funding in their markup. Put the pressure in every place possible." Just made my call to my rep--you can do it too! #DefendLibraries
Remember when my dad took me to the library, located in an old Victorian house. I got to enter the world he loved. He showed me the kids’ section and said I could take any book I wanted. He went to the history section. It was magic. I grew up to become a writer. Thanks Dad 😘
August 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM
We must hold Senator Jean Leising accountable.
#IndianaSenateBill1 #IndianaDemocrats #RipleyCounty #Batesville #Versailles #SavePublicSchools #DefendLibraries
#IndianaSenateBill1 #IndianaDemocrats #RipleyCounty #Batesville #Versailles #SavePublicSchools #DefendLibraries
April 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We must hold Senator Jean Leising accountable.
#IndianaSenateBill1 #IndianaDemocrats #RipleyCounty #Batesville #Versailles #SavePublicSchools #DefendLibraries
#IndianaSenateBill1 #IndianaDemocrats #RipleyCounty #Batesville #Versailles #SavePublicSchools #DefendLibraries
Great news from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and @afscme.bsky.social in their defense of #IMLS
#DefendLibraries
#Libraries
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
#DefendLibraries
#Libraries
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
ALA, AFSCME Defend IMLS and Reach Settlement with Federal Government
In the same week that the White House dropped its appeal of ‘Rhode Island v. Trump,’ the ALA and AFSCME settled with the federal government in ‘ALA v. Sonderling,’ a case that prevents the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Servic
www.publishersweekly.com
April 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Great news from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and @afscme.bsky.social in their defense of #IMLS
#DefendLibraries
#Libraries
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
#DefendLibraries
#Libraries
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Help families fighting censorship in Columbia County libraries. Support their First Amendment lawsuit & protect the right to read. Donate here: https://gofund.me/dda1b5b1 #FreedomToRead #DefendLibraries #columabiacountyga
Donate to Stand Up Against Book Bans in Georgia, organized by Karin Parham
A group of families is prepared to sue the Greater Clarks Hill Regional Library Boa… Karin Parham needs your support for Stand Up Against Book Bans in Georgia
gofund.me
July 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Help families fighting censorship in Columbia County libraries. Support their First Amendment lawsuit & protect the right to read. Donate here: https://gofund.me/dda1b5b1 #FreedomToRead #DefendLibraries #columabiacountyga
Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder (Lesson Two - Defend institutions) www.openculture.com/2025/04/acto... #defendlibraries @johnlithgow.bsky.social #timothysnyder
Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder
In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller. A historian of fascism (then at Yal...
www.openculture.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder (Lesson Two - Defend institutions) www.openculture.com/2025/04/acto... #defendlibraries @johnlithgow.bsky.social #timothysnyder
Help families fighting censorship in Columbia County libraries. Support their First Amendment lawsuit & protect the right to read. Donate here: https://gofund.me/dda1b5b1 #FreedomToRead #DefendLibraries #columabiacountyga
Donate to Stand Up Against Book Bans in Georgia, organized by Karin Parham
A group of families is prepared to sue the Greater Clarks Hill Regional Library Boa… Karin Parham needs your support for Stand Up Against Book Bans in Georgia
gofund.me
July 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Help families fighting censorship in Columbia County libraries. Support their First Amendment lawsuit & protect the right to read. Donate here: https://gofund.me/dda1b5b1 #FreedomToRead #DefendLibraries #columabiacountyga