Amma Linda
@mslinda.bsky.social
Ex-yooper. OK for now.
Amma, Mama, Gramma
❤️ libraries, lakes, and lifelong learning
Amma, Mama, Gramma
❤️ libraries, lakes, and lifelong learning
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Celebrating killing the Department of Education by misspelling “Department” couldn’t be more on brand.
March 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Celebrating killing the Department of Education by misspelling “Department” couldn’t be more on brand.
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
snyder.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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Timothy Snyder: "It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. So choose an institution you care about and take its side."
Are you a journalist, genealogist or historian who has ever used records from the National Archives? It's time to step up and take some simple steps to preserve federal records. And save our nation's history. Please visit this website. And share widely.
fundnara.com
fundnara.com
fundNARA.com - Congress must fund the National Archives at the current level!
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides core government functions necessary to preserve, protect, and make accessible records from all three branches of the federal government...
fundnara.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Timothy Snyder: "It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. So choose an institution you care about and take its side."
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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“My take on what we need to do right now is this: stay informed about what’s happening nationally, and get engaged locally.” joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...
The Courts Aren’t The Cavalry; We Are
So, what are WE going to do?
joycevance.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“My take on what we need to do right now is this: stay informed about what’s happening nationally, and get engaged locally.” joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...
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"If you want to control people, you interfere with their access to information. That's why we're telling people to come together and #UniteAgainstBookBans."
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom @oif.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/02/08/e...
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom @oif.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/02/08/e...
Book bans could escalate after Department of Education dismisses censorship complaints
Education Department pulls back on book bans, raising censorship fears
www.axios.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"If you want to control people, you interfere with their access to information. That's why we're telling people to come together and #UniteAgainstBookBans."
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom @oif.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/02/08/e...
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom @oif.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/02/08/e...
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
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I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.
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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Protesting for change? Be bold, but also be prepared. Here's your guide to staying safe and making an impact.
A Liberal's Guide to Protesting: Effective Strategies for Safety and Action
How To Safely Stand Up for Justice
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Protesting for change? Be bold, but also be prepared. Here's your guide to staying safe and making an impact.
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“A lot of journalists argue that their role isn’t to advocate—that that’s not their job. But if your job isn’t to inform people in a way that will help them, then I don’t really understand what your job is.”
Read my chat with @columjournreview.bsky.social:
Read my chat with @columjournreview.bsky.social:
Q&A: Marisa Kabas on Scooping the World on the Federal Funding Freeze
www.cjr.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“A lot of journalists argue that their role isn’t to advocate—that that’s not their job. But if your job isn’t to inform people in a way that will help them, then I don’t really understand what your job is.”
Read my chat with @columjournreview.bsky.social:
Read my chat with @columjournreview.bsky.social:
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Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
February 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
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Issuing a #BookChallenge to the world asking not to challenge books!
Decide not to read books in your own homes, it’s a decision between library grown-ups & library kids. Allow books to be books on bookshelves to show one they belong 💛
Every book isn’t for everyone, but every book is for someone ✨
Decide not to read books in your own homes, it’s a decision between library grown-ups & library kids. Allow books to be books on bookshelves to show one they belong 💛
Every book isn’t for everyone, but every book is for someone ✨
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Issuing a #BookChallenge to the world asking not to challenge books!
Decide not to read books in your own homes, it’s a decision between library grown-ups & library kids. Allow books to be books on bookshelves to show one they belong 💛
Every book isn’t for everyone, but every book is for someone ✨
Decide not to read books in your own homes, it’s a decision between library grown-ups & library kids. Allow books to be books on bookshelves to show one they belong 💛
Every book isn’t for everyone, but every book is for someone ✨
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January 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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“Make good trouble.”
~ John Lewis
~ John Lewis
January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Make good trouble.”
~ John Lewis
~ John Lewis
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JUST NOW: @aoc.bsky.social tells people to stick together and not underestimate what tech billionaires will do/suppress to “placate” Trump - pointing to the lack of coverage of Elon’s salute on major media outlets as an example.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFHHmP_...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFHHmP_...
January 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
JUST NOW: @aoc.bsky.social tells people to stick together and not underestimate what tech billionaires will do/suppress to “placate” Trump - pointing to the lack of coverage of Elon’s salute on major media outlets as an example.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFHHmP_...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFHHmP_...
This action will deliver a devasting blow to America's commitment to preserving museum and library services.
We know this won't end here.
action.everylibrary.org/trump_has_al... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
We know this won't end here.
action.everylibrary.org/trump_has_al... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Trump Has ALREADY Attacked Libraries
This action is the first step in dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services and eliminating federal funding for libraries.
action.everylibrary.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This action will deliver a devasting blow to America's commitment to preserving museum and library services.
We know this won't end here.
action.everylibrary.org/trump_has_al... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
We know this won't end here.
action.everylibrary.org/trump_has_al... via @everylibrary.bsky.social