Kimberly
@kimberlyolsonfakih.bsky.social
🍿👀 Oh my god, now what?
🖍️writer (Little Miseries)
📚executive editor (School Library Journal)
🥣baker (Podunk Tea Room)
🌐 https://sideways.nyc/discover/fPiC7s3YF2su6cKi940EZ/podunk
🌐https:/kimberlyolsonfakih.com
🖍️writer (Little Miseries)
📚executive editor (School Library Journal)
🥣baker (Podunk Tea Room)
🌐 https://sideways.nyc/discover/fPiC7s3YF2su6cKi940EZ/podunk
🌐https:/kimberlyolsonfakih.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
You know, the column inches devoted to that terrifying political assassination in the NYT is already about four times what they devoted to the Melissa Hortman shooting in June. 🤨
September 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You know, the column inches devoted to that terrifying political assassination in the NYT is already about four times what they devoted to the Melissa Hortman shooting in June. 🤨
Please read: Boycotts help.
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Please read: Boycotts help.
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Not Just Books—A Jump Start | Great Books
For more than 60% of children in the U.S., walking into a school or library represents their first encounter with books. If we make that experience as welcoming as possible, we're giving them fuel for success.
www.slj.com/story/not-ju...
For more than 60% of children in the U.S., walking into a school or library represents their first encounter with books. If we make that experience as welcoming as possible, we're giving them fuel for success.
www.slj.com/story/not-ju...
Not Just Books—A Jump Start| Great Books
For more than 60% of children in the U.S., walking into a school or library represents their first encounter with books. If we make that experience as welcoming as possible, we're giving them fuel for...
www.slj.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Not Just Books—A Jump Start | Great Books
For more than 60% of children in the U.S., walking into a school or library represents their first encounter with books. If we make that experience as welcoming as possible, we're giving them fuel for success.
www.slj.com/story/not-ju...
For more than 60% of children in the U.S., walking into a school or library represents their first encounter with books. If we make that experience as welcoming as possible, we're giving them fuel for success.
www.slj.com/story/not-ju...
Let's go, sir! Flip that seat! FOLLOW HIM.
July 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Let's go, sir! Flip that seat! FOLLOW HIM.
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Here’s one good reason to vote for Zohran Mamdani.
July 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Here’s one good reason to vote for Zohran Mamdani.
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I’m not a Newsom fan at all, but I gotta give him props for understanding the current situation and throwing away unilateral disarmament.
If they’re gonna further gerrymander Texas mid-cycle, let’s gerrymander the fuck out of every blue state. You don’t beat fascism with niceties.
If they’re gonna further gerrymander Texas mid-cycle, let’s gerrymander the fuck out of every blue state. You don’t beat fascism with niceties.
July 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I’m not a Newsom fan at all, but I gotta give him props for understanding the current situation and throwing away unilateral disarmament.
If they’re gonna further gerrymander Texas mid-cycle, let’s gerrymander the fuck out of every blue state. You don’t beat fascism with niceties.
If they’re gonna further gerrymander Texas mid-cycle, let’s gerrymander the fuck out of every blue state. You don’t beat fascism with niceties.
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Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
July 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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Bullying at a high level and grade school level—it’s embedded into our culture. And despite the optimism of our teachers and parents, the bullies are winning. Please listen to this heartbreaking true story from the childhood of @rbreich.bsky.social
61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW
When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh
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June 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Bullying at a high level and grade school level—it’s embedded into our culture. And despite the optimism of our teachers and parents, the bullies are winning. Please listen to this heartbreaking true story from the childhood of @rbreich.bsky.social
Reminder! VOTE and do not rank Cuom0
From @phillewis.bsky.social Thank you for spreading this info!💙
June 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reminder! VOTE and do not rank Cuom0
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Fox News’ TikTok page
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June 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fox News’ TikTok page
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From @phillewis.bsky.social Thank you for spreading this info!💙
June 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
From @phillewis.bsky.social Thank you for spreading this info!💙
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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
May 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
I don’t understand why sales haven’t zeroed out.
Tesla sales in Germany and Britain fell to their lowest point in more than two years in April, cementing a wider trend of Europeans shunning the U.S. automaker.
Tesla Sales Fall in Germany and U.K. to Lowest Point in 2 Years
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I don’t understand why sales haven’t zeroed out.
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100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
I am happy for them, grieving for us. 🇨🇦
Carney: We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and above all, we have to take care of each other.
April 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I am happy for them, grieving for us. 🇨🇦
Can we vote somewhere for this? Now? Multiple times? No ID required? (JK about multi-times, promise)
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thanedar.house.gov/media/press-...
Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Shri Thanedar
thanedar.house.gov
April 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Can we vote somewhere for this? Now? Multiple times? No ID required? (JK about multi-times, promise)
thanedar.house.gov/media/press-...
thanedar.house.gov/media/press-...
From Reddit, r/pics:
Obama's portrait gone, and in its place...
Obama's portrait gone, and in its place...
April 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
From Reddit, r/pics:
Obama's portrait gone, and in its place...
Obama's portrait gone, and in its place...
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“Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-2026 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia’s 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians.”
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-2026 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia’s 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians.”
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
This is such a moving story.
Editorial
📰 Bearing Witness is an Act of Patriotism, Then and Now
"Stories matter." SLJ's editor-in-chief, @kishizuka.bsky.social, reflects on how her mother's testimony bore witness to injustice and why telling our stories is vital.
www.slj.com/story/Bearin...
#libraries #storytelling #diversity
📰 Bearing Witness is an Act of Patriotism, Then and Now
"Stories matter." SLJ's editor-in-chief, @kishizuka.bsky.social, reflects on how her mother's testimony bore witness to injustice and why telling our stories is vital.
www.slj.com/story/Bearin...
#libraries #storytelling #diversity
Bearing Witness was an Act of Patriotism Then, and so Necessary Today. Tell Your Story. | From the Editor
She was a bit shaky at first but persevered through nerves and emotion to tell her story. My mother's testimony bore witness to injustice. Stories matter.
www.slj.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is such a moving story.