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Clumsy Feral Librarian
*The right to information IS a recognized HUMAN RIGHT*

To Defend your rights - VISIT YOUR LIBRARY!
The right to seek, receive, and share information is a recognized human right protected under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This human right is at the heart of Wikipedia's mission to spread free knowledge. Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/F6Rj
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Leading with science, this one resonates through time.
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Braiding Sweetgrass - Wikipedia
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September 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Delving into *Rest is Resistance* while figuring out more active resistance.

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The Nap Ministry
Rest is Resistance
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August 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Never thought I would be cheering for the Byrd Rule. C-Span is scary these days. Free app for the US Senate debate of the reconciliation bill.
June 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The person reading the reconciliation bill sounds a little emotional. C-Span had a free app to listen.
June 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
They are eloquent. May we all find compassion and empathy.
Wishing all of the anti-trans haters out there happy pride! I love & need you too!
June 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Carolyn Hao & Henry Wu serenading Rita Moreno at commencement for a school where none of them would have been on campus, in any role, fifty years ago. This is the story we need to tell.

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LIVE: Harvard University commencement 2025
YouTube video by Associated Press
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May 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
And they say archives are rarefied, but all the include tie dye.
This week, consider joining us for LIVE DEAD. This #booktalk explores how thousands of tapes, bootlegs & fan recordings shaped the cultural legacy of the #GratefulDead. 🎸

📅 May 22
🕚 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
May 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Consequences for detention are nothing new.
#OTD May 18, 1692 Dr. Roger Toothaker of Billerica, known for his countermagic, is arrested for witchcraft & questioned. He will die in prison less than a month later, the second person to die in prison during the Salem witch trials.
May 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A moment of pause
On Thursday, Philadelphia City Council officially voted to recognize May 13 as day of reflection and remembrance for the MOVE bombing. (1/4)
May 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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On Thursday, Philadelphia City Council officially voted to recognize May 13 as day of reflection and remembrance for the MOVE bombing. (1/4)
May 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No one knew the library had a magic flute or working historical instruments till Dr. Hayden opened the collections for performance!!!
May 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Sticker for 1932 Detroit #MayDay parade. Printed 5 years before the @uaw.org formed and in the aftermath of the Ford Hunger March massacre, it speaks to the violence autoworkers endured to unionize their industry. From the Joe Brown Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
May 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What's up, inflation?
27 Apr 1663: John Milton signs a contract #otd with a publisher for £5 for Paradise Lost - when 1,300 copies were sold, he'd get another £5.

This came to pass 5 years and 364 days later...
April 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hampshire is the least surprising school.
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300+ (and counting) leaders, including Hampshire College President Ed Wingenbach, have signed on to an open letter @aacu.org condemning “the unprecedented overreach and political interference now endangering higher education.”

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Good trouble! for everyone. All libraries are special collections!
“RAISE HELL!” ✊ Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos.bsky.social) calls on writers & readers to defend libraries & demand ebook ownership, not rentals. Attacks on libraries are attacks on knowledge itself. 📚

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/lu8jK_27vF0

#LibraryAdvocacy #DigitalRights #InternetArchive
April 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Now is the time to be even louder for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Write Congress and tell them to bring our SMART Union brother home NOW!
Bring Our Local 100 Brother Home
Please take a few minutes to send a pre-written letter to your representative and senator: Tell them to demand SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's return to the United States! Background ...
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April 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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The labor movement stands in solidarity with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and SMART Union for due process and the rule of law.

Write your member of Congress and demand they bring our union brother home NOW!
Bring Our Local 100 Brother Home
Please take a few minutes to send a pre-written letter to your representative and senator: Tell them to demand SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's return to the United States! Background ...
actionnetwork.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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April 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Our union brother Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was deported due to “an administrative error,” even though he has protected status. Despite a federal judge and Supreme Court order, he still hasn’t come home to his family.
April 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thanks to Jim for this.
Because the anniversary of the Düsseldorf #book burning comes on the eve of #Passover, I'll share the cover of this volume, produced for the first Passover celebration of #Holocaust survivors after the liberation, 1946. See alt text for explanation

#WWII

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April 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Most of the #Nazi #book burnings took place in May 1933, but the Action against the Un-German Spirit, initiated by students--who were fascist rather than "woke," began in April

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Already on 11 April, students in Düsseldorf acted
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Book Burning
Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. The Nazi burning of books in May 1933 is perhaps the most famous in history. Learn more.
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April 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
They started the leather cutters at $13/hr? Topping out at $17, you could work in rural Texas for Louie V. But dear reader, would you?
Six years ago, LVMH's billionaire CEO Bernard Arnault and President Donald Trump cut the blue ribbon on a factory in rural Texas that would make designer handbags for Louis Vuitton. But since the high-profile opening, the factory has faced a host of problems reut.rs/4lEqUM2
LVMH finds making Louis Vuitton bags messy in Texas
The plant’s problems highlight the challenges for LVMH as it attempts to build its production footprint in the U.S. to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffs on European-made goods.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The costume designer for the PBS Wolf Hall had it easy! Every character has a real life illustration.
5 Apr 1532: Robert Hobbes, abbot of #Woburn, is commissioned #otd as one of the 'general reformers' by Henry VIII to hold a visitation of the #Cistercian order (BM)
April 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Glad they were my union.
Today, on Trans Day of Visibility, UNITE HERE stands in solidarity with our trans members and trans people everywhere.
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM