Nicole Pagowsky
@nope4evr.bsky.social
Librarian and Liaison Program Lead, PhD candidate, LIS adjunct faculty. Instruction programs, crit info lit, edu policy studies, valuation of library labor, qual methods.
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https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
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https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
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tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
StandWithMinnesota.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
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I have said a few times that it is no coincidence that the wave of “institutional neutrality” statements started showing up when they did. Too many universities fell for a very long game that now makes them complicit with fascism and, apparently, unable or unwilling to take a stand against it.
Opinion | My fellow university presidents have just been shown how to stand up to Trump
Michael Roth: This moment requires more bravery from higher education leaders
www.ms.now
January 26, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I have said a few times that it is no coincidence that the wave of “institutional neutrality” statements started showing up when they did. Too many universities fell for a very long game that now makes them complicit with fascism and, apparently, unable or unwilling to take a stand against it.
Do any academic librarians know where I can find ACRL membership stats over time? I feel like I came across this before somewhere and now I can no longer find it
January 25, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Do any academic librarians know where I can find ACRL membership stats over time? I feel like I came across this before somewhere and now I can no longer find it
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Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
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PublicSquare seems to have memory-holed its marketplace pages, but I just scraped 40k of them from the Wayback Machine and extracted JSON data for 37k businesses, including 34k distinct email addresses, 31k phone numbers, physical addresses, etc.
I remember searching the PublicSquare listings just a few months ago - the tool that let you view affiliated businesses by state appears to be GONE now.
Guess the MAGA's realized they are, in fact, widely hated.
www.publicsquare.com
Guess the MAGA's realized they are, in fact, widely hated.
www.publicsquare.com
PublicSquare | Payments technology to protect
our American way of life
PublicSquare gives you the tools to secure payments, expand customer credit, and empower transparent giving.
www.publicsquare.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
PublicSquare seems to have memory-holed its marketplace pages, but I just scraped 40k of them from the Wayback Machine and extracted JSON data for 37k businesses, including 34k distinct email addresses, 31k phone numbers, physical addresses, etc.
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They know they are losing badly and they are looking for a way to frame the disastrous loss as a win.
Comer on Fox right now urging Trump to pull ICE out of Minneapolis to *punish* Minnesotans — will prove to the state how good it was to have ICE there! This is really some 5-D chess
January 25, 2026 at 5:04 PM
They know they are losing badly and they are looking for a way to frame the disastrous loss as a win.
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"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
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I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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I'm seeing a lot of calls to block/report any and all "Alt" accounts in the replies, but I think it's worth saying that AltNPS is BY FAR the worst, most harmful, and most dangerous "Alt" account.
The others are generally pretty harmless, and I don't want to unnecessarily lump them in with AltNPS.
The others are generally pretty harmless, and I don't want to unnecessarily lump them in with AltNPS.
Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post.
A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
January 24, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I'm seeing a lot of calls to block/report any and all "Alt" accounts in the replies, but I think it's worth saying that AltNPS is BY FAR the worst, most harmful, and most dangerous "Alt" account.
The others are generally pretty harmless, and I don't want to unnecessarily lump them in with AltNPS.
The others are generally pretty harmless, and I don't want to unnecessarily lump them in with AltNPS.
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Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
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HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
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MN's AG: “We will not save our country in a courtroom. ... ultimately, this country will be saved by the people of the United States. And so that — you protesting, you gathering evidence, you sharing it with us, you communicating with us — is action. It’s actually how we’re going to win.”
January 22, 2026 at 8:23 PM
MN's AG: “We will not save our country in a courtroom. ... ultimately, this country will be saved by the people of the United States. And so that — you protesting, you gathering evidence, you sharing it with us, you communicating with us — is action. It’s actually how we’re going to win.”
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🚨 The House has PASSED the DHS appropriations bill with a 220-207 vote.
7 Democrats voted YES:
Cuellar (TX)
Golden (ME)
Gillen (NY)
Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Davis (NC)
Suozzi (NY)
Gonzalez (TX)
The bill now goes to the Senate, floor vote expected *next week*
7 Democrats voted YES:
Cuellar (TX)
Golden (ME)
Gillen (NY)
Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Davis (NC)
Suozzi (NY)
Gonzalez (TX)
The bill now goes to the Senate, floor vote expected *next week*
January 22, 2026 at 9:51 PM
🚨 The House has PASSED the DHS appropriations bill with a 220-207 vote.
7 Democrats voted YES:
Cuellar (TX)
Golden (ME)
Gillen (NY)
Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Davis (NC)
Suozzi (NY)
Gonzalez (TX)
The bill now goes to the Senate, floor vote expected *next week*
7 Democrats voted YES:
Cuellar (TX)
Golden (ME)
Gillen (NY)
Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Davis (NC)
Suozzi (NY)
Gonzalez (TX)
The bill now goes to the Senate, floor vote expected *next week*
"This trend of placing the burden to identify and solve the issue on the individual experiencing burnout was repeated across the literature, as indicated by the percent of interventions recorded as personal compared to those recorded as organizational."
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Interventions for Reducing, Preventing, or Overcoming Librarian Burnout: A Scoping Review | Logue | College & Research Libraries
Interventions for Reducing, Preventing, or Overcoming Librarian Burnout: A Scoping Review
crl.acrl.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"This trend of placing the burden to identify and solve the issue on the individual experiencing burnout was repeated across the literature, as indicated by the percent of interventions recorded as personal compared to those recorded as organizational."
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
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Great! I have a PhD in labor law, so…
Please, don’t upset a business model that devastates the environment, stealing the human right to water at the time that robs human ingenuity, crashing the labor market, so a band of billionaires can be even more rich over the backs of the rest of society.
Please, don’t upset a business model that devastates the environment, stealing the human right to water at the time that robs human ingenuity, crashing the labor market, so a band of billionaires can be even more rich over the backs of the rest of society.
a woman stands in front of a purple background with the words " this is how to fund a functioning society "
ALT: a woman stands in front of a purple background with the words " this is how to fund a functioning society "
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Great! I have a PhD in labor law, so…
Please, don’t upset a business model that devastates the environment, stealing the human right to water at the time that robs human ingenuity, crashing the labor market, so a band of billionaires can be even more rich over the backs of the rest of society.
Please, don’t upset a business model that devastates the environment, stealing the human right to water at the time that robs human ingenuity, crashing the labor market, so a band of billionaires can be even more rich over the backs of the rest of society.
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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salute to all the brave people in Minnesota who are bringing back shame
"Research would tell us that most ICE agents entered into these jobs in part because they want approval, and they want to affirm their masculinity in public," said sociologist Nicole Bedera. "An ICE watch works by surrounding these people ... with disapproval."
Observing ICE agents is 'a de-escalation tactic,' sociologist says
The federal government has accused ICE watchers of breaking the law. Sociologist Nicole Bedera said ICE watchers have science behind them. She spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters.
www.mprnews.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
salute to all the brave people in Minnesota who are bringing back shame
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Old Dominion University is trying to compress 16-week courses into 8-week online courses for the 2026 fall semester — and fully integrate AI without faculty input.
Isaac Kamola, AAUP’s Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, explains why this is a “nightmare.”
Isaac Kamola, AAUP’s Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, explains why this is a “nightmare.”
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Old Dominion University is trying to compress 16-week courses into 8-week online courses for the 2026 fall semester — and fully integrate AI without faculty input.
Isaac Kamola, AAUP’s Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, explains why this is a “nightmare.”
Isaac Kamola, AAUP’s Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, explains why this is a “nightmare.”
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"I’m talking about overthinking so intense that it could power a good-sized factory building. Throw in a giant hamster wheel and a steady source of caffeine, and your electricity bills are a thing of the past."
I Will Be Your Chief Executive Worrier
In these uncertain times, you need a steady hand at the wheel. An unblinking beacon of sure-footed decisiveness. A fearless, damn-the-torpedoes lea...
buff.ly
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"I’m talking about overthinking so intense that it could power a good-sized factory building. Throw in a giant hamster wheel and a steady source of caffeine, and your electricity bills are a thing of the past."
Just scheduled my April dissertation defense date, today in fact!
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Just scheduled my April dissertation defense date, today in fact!
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This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.
Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!
Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.
Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!
Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!
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Lost Science:
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Lost Science:
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...