Sheila Packa
@sheilapacka.com
Writer & teacher. Poet. Loves eco-writing, libraries, rivers, wilderness, archives, and languages. Books include Surface Displacements, Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range, Cloud Birds, Echo & Lightning, & Mother Tongue. https://sheilapacka.com/
Americans should “raise hell” to protect US national parks ...from the hands of a “bunch of ideologues” who would have no issue watching it “go down in flames” – and see parks from Yellowstone to Yosemite as potential “cash cows”, ripe for privatization. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
National parks facing ‘nightmare’ under Trump, warns ex-director of service
Jonathan Jarvis, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, laid out the dire consequences of not closing parks in shutdown
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November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Americans should “raise hell” to protect US national parks ...from the hands of a “bunch of ideologues” who would have no issue watching it “go down in flames” – and see parks from Yellowstone to Yosemite as potential “cash cows”, ripe for privatization. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Write to Congress to express the need to fully fund libraries. nwmd.social/s/copylink/5...
Send an Email to Congress
We built this petition to help you let your representatives know that libraries continue to be an integral part of a healthy American community.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Write to Congress to express the need to fully fund libraries. nwmd.social/s/copylink/5...
US journalists face threats for exposing corruption.
Fired for online speech. Doxxed and swatted for covering breaking news. Bombarded with death threats for exposing corruption. These are just a few of the safety concerns that U.S. journalists are now navigating. (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
US journalists face threats for exposing corruption.
Minnesota's changing climate: we need to meet climate goals. www.startribune.com/six-ways-min...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Minnesota's changing climate: we need to meet climate goals. www.startribune.com/six-ways-min...
The novel "Butterflies in November" was selected by the Nordic Center Book Club in Duluth. The book is a great read, and this interview with the author is wonderful. youtu.be/JgaMRyUxBp4
"The Need for Freedom Made Me a Writer" | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | Louisiana Channel
YouTube video by Louisiana Channel
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November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The novel "Butterflies in November" was selected by the Nordic Center Book Club in Duluth. The book is a great read, and this interview with the author is wonderful. youtu.be/JgaMRyUxBp4
Bravo!
Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.
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Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Bravo!
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Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …
uwpressblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Rikhardinkadun kirjasto, the University, and Finland's National Library, beautiful spaces to visit, to read in, and to write. All favorite places.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Rikhardinkadun kirjasto, the University, and Finland's National Library, beautiful spaces to visit, to read in, and to write. All favorite places.
Why it matters that US citizens protest against the Trump regime: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance
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October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Why it matters that US citizens protest against the Trump regime: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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#NoKings. America understand that Antifa means anti-fascist. Citizens across the whole country rally to protect democracy. And every citizen in these rallies is going to vote.
A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
October 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#NoKings. America understand that Antifa means anti-fascist. Citizens across the whole country rally to protect democracy. And every citizen in these rallies is going to vote.
The Mamdani Method
Five lessons to anchor a Democratic Party adrift at sea
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Good analysis from Rebecca Solnit www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...
No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left
Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Good analysis from Rebecca Solnit www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...
The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information.
Without them, remaining CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.https://action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarypetition
Without them, remaining CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.https://action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarypetition
PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library
Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.
action.everylibrary.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information.
Without them, remaining CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.https://action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarypetition
Without them, remaining CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.https://action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarypetition
This is a great source of information about history and culture of Nordic and Baltic countries: www.thenorthernvoices.com/c/nordic-sto...
Nordic Stories - The Northern Voices
Nordic and Baltic Insights, Updates, and Perspectives in the United States.
www.thenorthernvoices.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is a great source of information about history and culture of Nordic and Baltic countries: www.thenorthernvoices.com/c/nordic-sto...
We must address global warming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist
Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We must address global warming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Collective Nouns for Librarians www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...
Collective Nouns for Librarians
A group of librarians is called a cardigan.
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading.
A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Collective Nouns for Librarians www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...
Is your community facing book bans? Here is help: www.fightforthefirst.org
Fight For The First: The tools you need to fight against book bans.
Campaigns on Fight for the First will allow you to take action against book bans in your community and gain direct support from EveryLibrary.
www.fightforthefirst.org
October 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Is your community facing book bans? Here is help: www.fightforthefirst.org
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Reposted by Sheila Packa
Cool, cool.
Was anyone really expecting TSA to show up and not get paid?
October 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Cool, cool.
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Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.
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Immigrants don’t get government health care—they subsidize ours.
October 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Immigrants don’t get government health care—they subsidize ours.
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Trump's spiritual advisor Robert Morris being taken to prison for child sex abuse.
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump's spiritual advisor Robert Morris being taken to prison for child sex abuse.
Another humorous political commentary from McSweeney's. We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...
We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But…
We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but Democrats are dangerously close to keeping health insurance costs from spiking.
We, the GOP, don’t want a s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Another humorous political commentary from McSweeney's. We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...