Feeling overwhelmed by Trump’s first week? A little piece of advice: skip the doomscrolling and go straight to the facts. This read is a great place to start.

Plot twist! The real reason librarians wear cardigans 😂📚

Video description:
“Having tattoos doesn’t make you unprofessional” by Heb plays. Mychal shows his reader’s advisory tattoo arm. Tattoos include Frog and Toad, Studio Ghibli, Where the Wild Things Are, Arthur Read, Grover, Strega Nona & more.

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

Inauguration Day.

I’ll be posting this today

So I am a certified transit nerd and my cousin is a NYC commuter and we vehemently disagree about the congestion pricing thing. But we still love hanging out and being close friends.

That is the type of politics that friends should be able to disagree on, not like whether trans people can exist.

If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.