The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books.
Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable.
Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Women's History Month is the perfect time to listen to this series I designed about the overlooked and underrated contributions of women in philosophy.
From Hypatia to Hildegard, Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Midgley, learn about philosophy's unsung heroines!
#WomensHistoryMonth #Philosophy #PhilSky
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
thinking about editing a book? @emily-elliott.bsky.social has some advice, especially if you're not on the tenure track. #feedingtheelephant networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8
every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally
A briefing would be nice, but that’s not the most important thing in front of us. I don’t need a briefing where Marco Rubio will gaslight us for an hour to know how I’ll vote on a War Powers Resolution.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
meanwhile, war rages on at home.
It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.
"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.
During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.
They killed him.
It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful.
This story I can't let go.
They chose to let him just die.
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech
Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.
Coming up tomorrow Monday night!!Snowed in? Stay home and listen up!! It’s not too late to register. Link below…
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
We paid roughly $680 million/yr to the WHO to participate in their worldwide data collection network and outbreak response infrastructure.
We withdrew from WHO because it was “too expensive”. Now the Trump admin is proposing we spend $2 billion a year to replace it.
Party of fiscal responsibility?
It’s giving middle passage
Registration is open for the 2026 Piedmont Publishing Symposium: lnkd.in/ekTnh6wS
Join 100+ publishing professionals, authors, allies, & students for conversations about the business of independent publishing. HT @cupress.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social UNG Press. FYI @aupresses.bsky.social
The @aupresses.bsky.social Journals Committee (including me) have organised a Hangout - Let's Talk About…The Impact of AI on University Presses, Thurs 3/5 at 12p EST.
Please do some along if you are a member!
Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.
Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard.
Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".
This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Book cover for Two Women in the Klondike with the text "Hitchcock's account of the Klondike Gold Rush is an outrageous adventure for general readers, armchair travelers, and anyone interested in the lives of American women in the late 1800s."
Personally, we love an "old" book. In fact, here's one for you from 1899, republished in our Classic Reprint Series. The premise? Two well-bred socialites travel to the Klondike in search of gold and all manner of outrageousness ensues. #ReadUP #classic #feminist #literature
Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office @FOX9 (1/) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)
Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 57m Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 47m CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. @FOX9
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
In just five weeks, usage of the 100 Path to Open titles that are now open exceeded their usage in all of 2025. Imagine a world in which all HSS scholarly books are open to all. Can we make it happen? @acls1919.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
The first 100 Path to Open titles are open to all! Check 'em out! @acls1919.bsky.social @smckee-acls.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social #feedingthelephant #ReadUP networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
