Ms. Barry
@msbarry3373.bsky.social
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🥗 #agsky #econsky
Where would we be without libraries? Yet libraries and museums are facing an existential threat from this administration. Consider taking action to let your members of Congress know how important libraries are to you:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
Where would we be without libraries? Yet libraries and museums are facing an existential threat from this administration. Consider taking action to let your members of Congress know how important libraries are to you:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
Show Up for Our Libraries
Join us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries.
www.ala.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
🥗 #agsky #econsky
Where would we be without libraries? Yet libraries and museums are facing an existential threat from this administration. Consider taking action to let your members of Congress know how important libraries are to you:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
Where would we be without libraries? Yet libraries and museums are facing an existential threat from this administration. Consider taking action to let your members of Congress know how important libraries are to you:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
🧵A worthy tutorial on Title 1.
Let’s talk about the Department of Education (DOE) and Title 1 school funding.
If we were to lose the DOE allocation of Title 1 funds would lose oversight. As planned in P2025, these funds would be turned into grants that would be granted to states with 0 accountability.
If we were to lose the DOE allocation of Title 1 funds would lose oversight. As planned in P2025, these funds would be turned into grants that would be granted to states with 0 accountability.
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🧵A worthy tutorial on Title 1.
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
Library patrons everywhere, rise up!
The most recent EO targets federal funding of libraries.
This will impact grants, interlibrary loans, statewide databases and collections, and systems of support for public, school, and academic libraries.
Reach out to your representative NOW 👇🏽
Library patrons everywhere, rise up!
The most recent EO targets federal funding of libraries.
This will impact grants, interlibrary loans, statewide databases and collections, and systems of support for public, school, and academic libraries.
Reach out to your representative NOW 👇🏽
March 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
Library patrons everywhere, rise up!
The most recent EO targets federal funding of libraries.
This will impact grants, interlibrary loans, statewide databases and collections, and systems of support for public, school, and academic libraries.
Reach out to your representative NOW 👇🏽
Library patrons everywhere, rise up!
The most recent EO targets federal funding of libraries.
This will impact grants, interlibrary loans, statewide databases and collections, and systems of support for public, school, and academic libraries.
Reach out to your representative NOW 👇🏽
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Democracy dies in decorum.
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Democracy dies in decorum.
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If you are a current or former federal worker in New Jersey, we at NJ Spotlight News want to hear about what you're experiencing and how cuts to the federal government are going to impact your work in NJ. My signal is msoldub.06
In total, more than 200,000 federal workers have been fired since Elon Musk and DOGE, the unofficial government agency in charge of reducing government spending, began mass layoffs.
Federal workers in NJ among those targeted by DOGE | Video | NJ Spotlight News
Mass firings of federal workers under the Trump administration have included some from New Jersey, including two interviewed by NJ Spotlight News.
www.njspotlightnews.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If you are a current or former federal worker in New Jersey, we at NJ Spotlight News want to hear about what you're experiencing and how cuts to the federal government are going to impact your work in NJ. My signal is msoldub.06
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For those banned on Reddit:
New Passport Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Passport Renewal Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Name Change/Data Correction www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
New Passport Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Passport Renewal Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Name Change/Data Correction www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
February 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
For those banned on Reddit:
New Passport Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Passport Renewal Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Name Change/Data Correction www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
New Passport Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Passport Renewal Application: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Name Change/Data Correction www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases.
“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…
propub.li
February 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases.
“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
“We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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Excellent—Find and support Black farmers in your area. Many will ship to you.
blackfarmersindex.com/the-index
blackfarmersindex.com/the-index
Black Farmers Index
blackfarmersindex.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Excellent—Find and support Black farmers in your area. Many will ship to you.
blackfarmersindex.com/the-index
blackfarmersindex.com/the-index
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hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks.
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February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Read this again: the MULTIRACIAL working class. Poor/working class people have more in common with each other than anyone has with the wealthy and super wealthy. Understand how class works, and who has designed the system that keeps most folks sick and struggling.
Read this again: the MULTIRACIAL working class. Poor/working class people have more in common with each other than anyone has with the wealthy and super wealthy. Understand how class works, and who has designed the system that keeps most folks sick and struggling.
February 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Repost @joyannreid.bsky.social:
Read this again: the MULTIRACIAL working class. Poor/working class people have more in common with each other than anyone has with the wealthy and super wealthy. Understand how class works, and who has designed the system that keeps most folks sick and struggling.
Read this again: the MULTIRACIAL working class. Poor/working class people have more in common with each other than anyone has with the wealthy and super wealthy. Understand how class works, and who has designed the system that keeps most folks sick and struggling.
Coriolanus, II:ii. Apt for today.
We must suggest the people in what hatred
He still hath held them; that to ’s power he would
Have made them mules, silenc’d their pleaders, and
Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,
In human action and capacity,
Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
Than camels in their war
He still hath held them; that to ’s power he would
Have made them mules, silenc’d their pleaders, and
Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,
In human action and capacity,
Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
Than camels in their war
January 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Coriolanus, II:ii. Apt for today.
Important thread for folks monitoring exec order on healthcare for trans folks under 18 y.o.
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Important thread for folks monitoring exec order on healthcare for trans folks under 18 y.o.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
✅ DEI Action of the Day™
Join Costco
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Yesterday, 19 Republican attorneys sent a letter to Costco:
"Within 30 days, please either notify us that Costco has repealed its DEI policies or explain why Costco has failed to do so."
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Join Costco
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Yesterday, 19 Republican attorneys sent a letter to Costco:
"Within 30 days, please either notify us that Costco has repealed its DEI policies or explain why Costco has failed to do so."
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According to new guidance from the Utah State Board of Education, students are prohibited from bringing their own copies of banned books to school.
Utah students barred from bringing banned books to school
Free speech groups argue the ban violates constitutional rights.
wapo.st
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
According to new guidance from the Utah State Board of Education, students are prohibited from bringing their own copies of banned books to school.
ACT-UP, reactivate.
I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
January 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ACT-UP, reactivate.
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Thinking of the vast number of s*xual assault survivors in the Department of Defense with this Hegseth confirmation.
I want them to know that is people still believe them and support them.
I want them to know that is people still believe them and support them.
January 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thinking of the vast number of s*xual assault survivors in the Department of Defense with this Hegseth confirmation.
I want them to know that is people still believe them and support them.
I want them to know that is people still believe them and support them.
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Local decision-makers need to hear why school libraries matter. Join us on January 16 for an #AASLgathering that will focus on spotlighting your school library stories and services by crafting a compelling op-ed. Register at: bit.ly/4fITffW
January 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Local decision-makers need to hear why school libraries matter. Join us on January 16 for an #AASLgathering that will focus on spotlighting your school library stories and services by crafting a compelling op-ed. Register at: bit.ly/4fITffW
Dems gambling with Trans peoples’ survival on yet another front is craven, cynical, callous, and unconscionable.
NEW: When the 1st Trump admin proposed a rule allowing homeless shelters to turn trans people away, congressional Dems were furious
Now, it’s unclear how much Dems would push back if it happens again
It’s “a complicated issue,” one senior House Dem told me
www.notus.org/policy/trans...
Now, it’s unclear how much Dems would push back if it happens again
It’s “a complicated issue,” one senior House Dem told me
www.notus.org/policy/trans...
January 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dems gambling with Trans peoples’ survival on yet another front is craven, cynical, callous, and unconscionable.
Once again, excellent reporting from ProPublica.
“I managed to get my shit together and accept them,” the operator of a local towing company said about the city’s immigrants. “We got lucky here in Whitewater...These people came here to work and raise their families.”
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @maryamjameel.bsky.social
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @maryamjameel.bsky.social
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
What Happened in Whitewater
How immigration is affecting one small Wisconsin city.
propub.li
January 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Once again, excellent reporting from ProPublica.
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Here’s a New Year’s Resolution:
Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.
Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.
January 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution:
Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.
Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.