audie verde
@audieverde.bsky.social
Libraries/Bookmobiles/Rabblerouse/Inequity/Climb/Run/Bike/Social Infrastructure. Grow food. KY to ID. Words: mine. Shares: not endorsements. She/Her. Used to be @thebikebrarian in that other space. Anti-capitalist.
I decided as I approach my 50th I’m aiming to do **50 new things this year.** They don’t have to be epic, just a way to spend time with people/keep exploring. Time is the biggest gift you can give, after all. I started this journey today heading to Trinity Hot Springs…and yes I made a spreadsheet.
December 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I decided as I approach my 50th I’m aiming to do **50 new things this year.** They don’t have to be epic, just a way to spend time with people/keep exploring. Time is the biggest gift you can give, after all. I started this journey today heading to Trinity Hot Springs…and yes I made a spreadsheet.
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.
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#tdih 1960. W. Tenn. Black sharecroppers registered to vote (to break all-white juries which denied fair trial).
White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...
White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...
Dec. 28, 1960: Black Farmers in Tennessee Evicted for Registering to Vote
Black sharecroppers were evicted by white landowners simply for exercising their right to register to vote.
www.zinnedproject.org
December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#tdih 1960. W. Tenn. Black sharecroppers registered to vote (to break all-white juries which denied fair trial).
White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...
White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...
Great encapsulation of the year (and also why Gen Ed and broad education in college can be so valuable)
In a year dominated by the uncertainties of budget cuts, reporter Katie Klingsporn also examined health care affordability concerns, partisan library battles, a high-altitude trial over a notorious shortcut and the loss of two Wyoming political giants. wyofile.com/doge-hits-in...
DOGE hits, insurance premiums and school vouchers underscore 2025 in health and education - WyoFile
Reporter Katie Klingsporn also spent much of the year following rural health care challenges, library battles and a notorious shortcut.
wyofile.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Great encapsulation of the year (and also why Gen Ed and broad education in college can be so valuable)
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. And a big warm hug to those who just try to survive it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Idaho things…western things. I think we were in the episode Trouble with Trebbles
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Idaho things…western things. I think we were in the episode Trouble with Trebbles
The one I posted is now gone but they're out there....
Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The one I posted is now gone but they're out there....
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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While you've been busy wrapping things up at work, Congress has already left for vacation.
They left town without making any progress on a health care deal, meaning 22 million Americans will be going into the new year with outrageous premium hikes.
It’s apparently how congress says Happy holidays!
They left town without making any progress on a health care deal, meaning 22 million Americans will be going into the new year with outrageous premium hikes.
It’s apparently how congress says Happy holidays!
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
While you've been busy wrapping things up at work, Congress has already left for vacation.
They left town without making any progress on a health care deal, meaning 22 million Americans will be going into the new year with outrageous premium hikes.
It’s apparently how congress says Happy holidays!
They left town without making any progress on a health care deal, meaning 22 million Americans will be going into the new year with outrageous premium hikes.
It’s apparently how congress says Happy holidays!
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
I keep thinking about how a few short (yet very long) years ago all this precip resulted in snowmegadon and now it’s just…. A lot of rain.
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I keep thinking about how a few short (yet very long) years ago all this precip resulted in snowmegadon and now it’s just…. A lot of rain.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
More states are requiring public colleges to make class syllabi available to the masses. Proponents say these measures boost higher ed’s credibility, while faculty fear being targeted.
www.chronicle.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
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We need to normalize this tbh
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We need to normalize this tbh
I have worked with community schools in Idaho for years and this will be devastating. It’s a program that works and serves rural Idaho kids so well. If you don’t know, Idaho got a 44mill grant to expand after years of proving it works. I am gutted. edsource.org/updates/trum...
UPDATE: Trump administration abruptly cuts some community schools grants
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
edsource.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I have worked with community schools in Idaho for years and this will be devastating. It’s a program that works and serves rural Idaho kids so well. If you don’t know, Idaho got a 44mill grant to expand after years of proving it works. I am gutted. edsource.org/updates/trum...
Working the late shift at the library (till 2am)... any body else up? Have fun things or cute pics to share amidst all the bad things right now?
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Working the late shift at the library (till 2am)... any body else up? Have fun things or cute pics to share amidst all the bad things right now?
Update: my doc being a badass dealt with this first thing today an am now approved. But, she shouldn’t have to because it takes away from other patients. Maybe insurance should just trust the docs recs? What a thought…
Of course @regenceidaho.bsky.social denied my MRI of breasts and of course @idahogov.bsky.social Idaho employee insurance is awful (and of course appealing). But as a person who has had multiple biopsies and mammos and ultrasounds since age 30, and now 49, I was denied because: not enough biopsies??
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Update: my doc being a badass dealt with this first thing today an am now approved. But, she shouldn’t have to because it takes away from other patients. Maybe insurance should just trust the docs recs? What a thought…
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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And that’s why journalists should never publish someone’s name before they’re charged, even if law enforcement is calling them a “person of interest” and even if you really, really want to beat your competitors
Breaking News: A man who had been detained in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University was released, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, said.
Brown University Shooting Live Updates: 2 Dead, 9 Injured and Suspect in Custody
Officials at the news conference said the investigation was continuing. They provided no details about the man who they released from custody.
nyti.ms
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
And that’s why journalists should never publish someone’s name before they’re charged, even if law enforcement is calling them a “person of interest” and even if you really, really want to beat your competitors
Of course @regenceidaho.bsky.social denied my MRI of breasts and of course @idahogov.bsky.social Idaho employee insurance is awful (and of course appealing). But as a person who has had multiple biopsies and mammos and ultrasounds since age 30, and now 49, I was denied because: not enough biopsies??
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Of course @regenceidaho.bsky.social denied my MRI of breasts and of course @idahogov.bsky.social Idaho employee insurance is awful (and of course appealing). But as a person who has had multiple biopsies and mammos and ultrasounds since age 30, and now 49, I was denied because: not enough biopsies??
I read somewhere years ago one of the most true govt things ever: ‘the money is there. Where the money goes identifies the priorities. Pay attention.’ It’s never about the money…
So weird how we can't fund basic social services that reduce crime, but there is a never-ending tap of money for ICE and active duty military
Federal cuts force NYC nonprofits to reduce services, raising community safety concerns https://gothamist.com/news/federal-cuts-force-nyc-nonprofits-to-reduce-services-raising-community-safety-concerns
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I read somewhere years ago one of the most true govt things ever: ‘the money is there. Where the money goes identifies the priorities. Pay attention.’ It’s never about the money…