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My small SC city of Spartanburg turned out! A joyful day
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
My small SC city of Spartanburg turned out! A joyful day
Library administrators who accept awards from Republican politicians whose book bans they enforced display a special kind of hubris.
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Library administrators who accept awards from Republican politicians whose book bans they enforced display a special kind of hubris.
I'd forgotten about this episode! Very well done, and I happen to know about weeding collections, and pissing off library directors!
Weeding is something that gardeners, your neighbors, and even librarians have in common. And we're not talking about crabgrass.
This week, we're talking books, getting rid of them, and what happened when one library had to downsize.
Full episode 👉 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...
This week, we're talking books, getting rid of them, and what happened when one library had to downsize.
Full episode 👉 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I'd forgotten about this episode! Very well done, and I happen to know about weeding collections, and pissing off library directors!
Devestated to hear about our Librarian of Congress being fired. Also proud that she joins our ranks of good librarians fired by bootlickers. #carlahayden #libraryofcongress #resist
May 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Devestated to hear about our Librarian of Congress being fired. Also proud that she joins our ranks of good librarians fired by bootlickers. #carlahayden #libraryofcongress #resist
Not me dreaming to school a young fundie pastor and recommending The Sin of Certainty by Pete Enns @theb4np.bsky.social . I had malice in my heart though, so probably not my most professional moment. Lol
May 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Not me dreaming to school a young fundie pastor and recommending The Sin of Certainty by Pete Enns @theb4np.bsky.social . I had malice in my heart though, so probably not my most professional moment. Lol
Fantastic event at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social last night with the ever-wise @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Fantastic event at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social last night with the ever-wise @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
As a librarian and a former bookstore manager, let me tell you how to identify people who paid their way onto the NYT bestseller list (or their publisher did). Their entry on the list will have a little dagger beneath the entry, denoting bookstores reporting big bulk sales. #themoreyouknow
March 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
As a librarian and a former bookstore manager, let me tell you how to identify people who paid their way onto the NYT bestseller list (or their publisher did). Their entry on the list will have a little dagger beneath the entry, denoting bookstores reporting big bulk sales. #themoreyouknow
Wish I could say I was astonished to watch a Christian white man claim he prayed before he murdered a woman and repeatedly disobey rules about what was admissible because he's so committed to the truth. His notion that he alone could act is quite chilling to watch.
BREAKING: A shocking development in the Killing on Canebrake trial from Zachary Hughes' defense.
‘A just cause’: Defense admits suspect killed Upstate woman, argues it wasn’t murder
The defense team for murder suspect Zachary Hughes gave a shocking opening statement to their case on Tuesday: admitting he killed a Greer woman in 2021.
www.foxcarolina.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wish I could say I was astonished to watch a Christian white man claim he prayed before he murdered a woman and repeatedly disobey rules about what was admissible because he's so committed to the truth. His notion that he alone could act is quite chilling to watch.
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
An easy way to start alerting your reps about your opinions on current events:
Resist.bot
Resist.bot
February 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
An easy way to start alerting your reps about your opinions on current events:
Resist.bot
Resist.bot
@maklelan.bsky.social I was reading the ARC of your book on a flight to Chicago when the man sitting next to me whipped out his Bible. I finished my chapter and switched to Candy Crush #dontarguewithme
January 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
@maklelan.bsky.social I was reading the ARC of your book on a flight to Chicago when the man sitting next to me whipped out his Bible. I finished my chapter and switched to Candy Crush #dontarguewithme
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I sometimes hear progressives say we shouldn't shame authoritarian Christian Trump supporters. And from one standpoint, I understand wanting to be nice and treat people with kindness. 1/5
December 18, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I sometimes hear progressives say we shouldn't shame authoritarian Christian Trump supporters. And from one standpoint, I understand wanting to be nice and treat people with kindness. 1/5
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If people who know better stopped using friends & children’s programs as excuses and stopped going to toxic churches, we could move the needle much faster.
Christian patriarchy only works bc ‘good people’ support it; Racism only continues bc ‘good people’ let it.
Sorry, y’all. Just tired today.
Christian patriarchy only works bc ‘good people’ support it; Racism only continues bc ‘good people’ let it.
Sorry, y’all. Just tired today.
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 PM
If people who know better stopped using friends & children’s programs as excuses and stopped going to toxic churches, we could move the needle much faster.
Christian patriarchy only works bc ‘good people’ support it; Racism only continues bc ‘good people’ let it.
Sorry, y’all. Just tired today.
Christian patriarchy only works bc ‘good people’ support it; Racism only continues bc ‘good people’ let it.
Sorry, y’all. Just tired today.
Spending a magical weekend in nyc with my daughter. Definitely more fun to travel with a young adult than a surly teen. Also chatted with Jesse Eisenburg (!) about the Power Broker and Indiana University.
December 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Spending a magical weekend in nyc with my daughter. Definitely more fun to travel with a young adult than a surly teen. Also chatted with Jesse Eisenburg (!) about the Power Broker and Indiana University.
This explains so much. Our city tried to help in one food desert by offering Piggly Wiggly big incentives, buy the store was expensive and closed after a year.
Food deserts "didn’t materialize around the country for no reason," Stacy Mitchell writes. "Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s."
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:18 AM
This explains so much. Our city tried to help in one food desert by offering Piggly Wiggly big incentives, buy the store was expensive and closed after a year.
Powering up for Small Business Saturday in the indie bookshop where I work. And if I see you pick up the Melania book, I immediately switch to Bad Religion's Christmas Album. 🤘🖕
November 30, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Powering up for Small Business Saturday in the indie bookshop where I work. And if I see you pick up the Melania book, I immediately switch to Bad Religion's Christmas Album. 🤘🖕
Decided to change up my exercise this morning so popped a YouTube dance video on. It was fun, but abundantly clear that the only club this body is designed for is of the book variety.
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Decided to change up my exercise this morning so popped a YouTube dance video on. It was fun, but abundantly clear that the only club this body is designed for is of the book variety.
Reading this alongside @99pi.org this year has been a particular delight. Reading about the decline of Moses' (abusive) power gives me hope that the power mongers in my own town will also eventually be exposed and defanged
One of @99pi.org's big 2024 projects is a monthly podcast series summarizing & discussing THE GREATEST BOOK OF ALL TIME, The Power Broker by Robert Caro. We have fun discussions with fellow fans like Conan O'Brien, @aoc.bsky.social, Sec Buttigieg, @jamellebouie.net ...
99percentinvisible.org/club/
99percentinvisible.org/club/
The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker - 99% Invisible
In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that 99pi host Roman Mars was born. And number two, The Power Broker by Robert Caro was published. Roman...
99percentinvisible.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Reading this alongside @99pi.org this year has been a particular delight. Reading about the decline of Moses' (abusive) power gives me hope that the power mongers in my own town will also eventually be exposed and defanged