Ari
@ariba.bsky.social
Librarian
📚 #readbannedbooks #freadom
⚾️ #LGM 🏀 🏈 #Rutgers
📚 #readbannedbooks #freadom
⚾️ #LGM 🏀 🏈 #Rutgers
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There’s something about a literary fall 🍁
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
There’s something about a literary fall 🍁
Looks like Rutgers cleaned some things up in the bye week. Now they just have to keep this up for another 55 minutes.
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Looks like Rutgers cleaned some things up in the bye week. Now they just have to keep this up for another 55 minutes.
It’s Banned Books Week, when we read and celebrate some of the best books ever written. Here is a list of current commonly banned and challenged books, for anyone looking for some good reads:
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Banned Books List 2025
What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.
pen.org
October 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It’s Banned Books Week, when we read and celebrate some of the best books ever written. Here is a list of current commonly banned and challenged books, for anyone looking for some good reads:
pen.org/banned-books...
pen.org/banned-books...
I’m not mad, just disappointed. And also oddly relieved - it’s nice not to have to watch any more of this 2025 team.
a mascot is wearing a baseball cap and covering his face .
Alt: Mr. Met is covering his lowered face with his hands, either is shame or sadness.
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I’m not mad, just disappointed. And also oddly relieved - it’s nice not to have to watch any more of this 2025 team.
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God is dead there is only Greg Schiano now
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
God is dead there is only Greg Schiano now
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PSA for book banners 👇
Additional pro tips: 1. Read the damn thing. 2. If you don’t like it, close the cover (refer to illustration for operating instructions)
Additional pro tips: 1. Read the damn thing. 2. If you don’t like it, close the cover (refer to illustration for operating instructions)
For those who never learned the ancient art of opening a new book. You're welcome.
(Do not attempt with a Kindle.)
#BookSky 💙📚
(Do not attempt with a Kindle.)
#BookSky 💙📚
September 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
PSA for book banners 👇
Additional pro tips: 1. Read the damn thing. 2. If you don’t like it, close the cover (refer to illustration for operating instructions)
Additional pro tips: 1. Read the damn thing. 2. If you don’t like it, close the cover (refer to illustration for operating instructions)
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like do they need to stomp us into the ground any further I am already dead
The Mets will have a ChatGPT night on September 17th
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
like do they need to stomp us into the ground any further I am already dead
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Wow Army is looking strong in Manhattan tonight. Don’t worry this is a college football post
September 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Wow Army is looking strong in Manhattan tonight. Don’t worry this is a college football post
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"Once a library buys a book, they can do with it as they damn well please."
Worried about the move from libraries owning books to just renting temporary access to eBooks? @MariaBustillos.com & the Brick House team have launched BRIET, inviting publishers to sell, not license, eBooks to libraries!
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@ftrain.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Once a library buys a book, they can do with it as they damn well please."
The trade I really want to see: Bring Jose Iglesias back to the Mets.
Jose Iglesias Shared Adorable Reunion With Former Mets Teammates
The vibes of the Mets in the summer of 2024 were undeniable.
www.si.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The trade I really want to see: Bring Jose Iglesias back to the Mets.
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Keli Zinn had a big hand in things at LSU the past few years, most recently with the rev-share plan and the new arena project. Comes after Rutgers hired former LSU president William Tate earlier this summer.
An LSU administrator appears to be following former LSU president William Tate to Rutgers.
An LSU administrator is reportedly in line to be named Rutgers' next athletic director
An LSU administrator appears to be following former LSU president William Tate to Rutgers.
bit.ly
July 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Keli Zinn had a big hand in things at LSU the past few years, most recently with the rev-share plan and the new arena project. Comes after Rutgers hired former LSU president William Tate earlier this summer.
“The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public”
July 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public”
“The NBA lost money for over 40 years. Do you think player salaries stayed the same for 40 years? (Hint: They did not).”
“Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity..."
Jemele Hill calls out hypocritical women’s sports defenders bashing WNBA player pay demands
Jemele Hill noticed the hypocrisy of those who want to defend women's sports being the same ones to chastise WNBA players for their demands.
dlvr.it
July 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“The NBA lost money for over 40 years. Do you think player salaries stayed the same for 40 years? (Hint: They did not).”
“Nobody has ever lost an Olympics for denying visas to athletes, because nobody has ever been careless or brash enough to repeatedly deny visas to incoming athletes based on their nation of origin shortly before hosting the Olympics.”
Three years away from LA 2028, the Trump regime keeps denying visas to athletes from certain countries trying to enter the country for competitions.
There are not a lot of things you can do to get the proudly “politically neutral” IOC to act. But they keep doing one of those things
There are not a lot of things you can do to get the proudly “politically neutral” IOC to act. But they keep doing one of those things
This is how you lose the Olympics
There is basically just one thing the Trump regime could do to convince the IOC to strip America of the Olympics... and they keep doing it.
open.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Nobody has ever lost an Olympics for denying visas to athletes, because nobody has ever been careless or brash enough to repeatedly deny visas to incoming athletes based on their nation of origin shortly before hosting the Olympics.”
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Mike Gundy heard rumors how SEC teams succeeded in recruiting; now Oklahoma State’s benefiting w/6 assistants w/SEC ties. “So now cheating is legal,” Gundy told @On3sports. “Now you just gotta know how to do it. They’re great. They know ‘how to go’ ”
www.on3.com/news/mike-gu...
www.on3.com/news/mike-gu...
Mike Gundy heard rumors how SEC teams succeeded in recruiting; now Oklahoma State's benefiting with six assistants with SEC ties
Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy hired six assistants with SEC ties because they know the tricks to get it done on the recruiting trail.
www.on3.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Mike Gundy heard rumors how SEC teams succeeded in recruiting; now Oklahoma State’s benefiting w/6 assistants w/SEC ties. “So now cheating is legal,” Gundy told @On3sports. “Now you just gotta know how to do it. They’re great. They know ‘how to go’ ”
www.on3.com/news/mike-gu...
www.on3.com/news/mike-gu...
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naval academy says books on feminism and civil rights are too “radical.” but sure — let’s train future officers with zero context and maximum fragility.
Books Deemed Unfit to Serve: Almost 400 Books Purged from Naval Academy Library
Author: Lily Marino July 2, 2025Banning books is a contentious issue, both in the eyes of public opinion and constitutional law, but in recent American memory it has largely been confined to…
www.humanrightsresearch.org
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
naval academy says books on feminism and civil rights are too “radical.” but sure — let’s train future officers with zero context and maximum fragility.
Great thread.
Book banners always seem confused about how we can call something a ban if the books are still available elsewhere.
I'll put this in a way they'll understand.
When your outreach leader was barred from going within 2500 feet of a playground?
Still a ban even though they sell slides on Amazon.
I'll put this in a way they'll understand.
When your outreach leader was barred from going within 2500 feet of a playground?
Still a ban even though they sell slides on Amazon.
July 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Great thread.
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“It will have a chilling effect on how school districts use books that create affirmative and diverse look into literature for students to prepare themselves to become part of a civil community and become students that are prepared for the real world with diverse family structures.”
great news: bigotry just got its own hall pass. the supreme court says kids can now ditch any book that hurts mom’s delicate worldview. this isn’t neutrality, it’s surrender.
How SCOTUS decision on LGBTQ+ books in schools will affect Minnesota’s classrooms
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents who want to pull their children out of the classroom when public schools use LGBTQ+ themed books in lessons.
www.mprnews.org
July 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“It will have a chilling effect on how school districts use books that create affirmative and diverse look into literature for students to prepare themselves to become part of a civil community and become students that are prepared for the real world with diverse family structures.”
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I know its not his WORST offence but Cuomo should be run out of town just for that cowardly answer.
Nobody likes both the Yankees and the Mets! And if you do, I think you may need to get some help.
Nobody likes both the Yankees and the Mets! And if you do, I think you may need to get some help.
June 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I know its not his WORST offence but Cuomo should be run out of town just for that cowardly answer.
Nobody likes both the Yankees and the Mets! And if you do, I think you may need to get some help.
Nobody likes both the Yankees and the Mets! And if you do, I think you may need to get some help.
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I think about this every day
And AI is OxyContin.
And AI is OxyContin.
I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.
June 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I think about this every day
And AI is OxyContin.
And AI is OxyContin.
The Mets need a shakeup. Bring back Jose Iglesias!
June 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The Mets need a shakeup. Bring back Jose Iglesias!
“We like to say as librarians, 'Free people read freely.' And so, there's been an effort recently to quelch that."
She said she has received no phone call, either – only that single email.
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Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, received an email announcing her dismissal. She talks about libraries as bastions of democracy, ...
www.cbsnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“We like to say as librarians, 'Free people read freely.' And so, there's been an effort recently to quelch that."
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Rutgers’ new president knows a thing or two about sports. Here’s the athletics angle on LSU president William F. Tate, a former basketball and track coach, with insights from an interview with Paul Finebaum this past fall:
www.app.com/story/sports...
www.app.com/story/sports...
A new era for Rutgers athletics? New president was boss at a sports-crazy SEC school
LSU's football program raised $20 million in donations from fans. William Tate, Rutgers new president, knows how to generate capital.
www.app.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Rutgers’ new president knows a thing or two about sports. Here’s the athletics angle on LSU president William F. Tate, a former basketball and track coach, with insights from an interview with Paul Finebaum this past fall:
www.app.com/story/sports...
www.app.com/story/sports...