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Tim W.

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Library of Congress

#readingroom #books #library #libraryofcongress #congress #WashingtonDC #travelphotography #travel #photography #architecture #interior #buildings #eastcoastkin #bluesky #blueskyphotographers #canon

November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM

Lydia Hamessley

@lydiahamessley.bsky.social

Ru roh I’m gonna be spending a lot of time exploring these! 🎥📚 #TCMParty #LibraryOfCongress

FilmBuffRich @filmbuffrich.bsky.social · 14d

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online

The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.

www.filmbuffonline.com

October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM

Project Gutenberg

@gutenberg.org

Nobody Would Edit Shakespeare, Right? Right?

by: Neely Tucker via @libraryofcongress

blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/...

Shakespeare at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature

SHAKESPEARE sources, or from the familiar stock in English books of the period. The historical materials of his plays are evidently from a very limited number of English authorities, like Holinsheds Chronicles and Norths Plutarch; and in the use of these he often makes mistakes ofwhich an average scholar could never be guilty. It should be understood that the notion that Shakespeare was a learned man is of comparatively modern date. In the references to the dramatist in the literature of his day and for a century after his death (as carefully collected by the New Shakspere Society of London) there is no hint of it, while expressionsof the contrary opinion are frequent.

https://archive.org/details/americanaunivers14newy/americanaunivers14newy?view=theater#page/n264/mode/1up

September 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM

Colleen [Redacted]

@librarycolleen.bsky.social

Snakeskin Bookmarks (Yes, Really) 📜
#LibraryofCongress #Conservation
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/...

Snakeskin Bookmarks (Yes, Really) | Timeless

Linnea Vegh was working at a large, well-lit workspace in the Conservation Division on a recent day, considering an unusual problem in an 1869 Persian-Arabic dictionary published in India: Snakeskin. ...

blogs.loc.gov

September 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM

STOP DISINFORMATION Desinformación

@disinformationstop.bsky.social

La libertad de expresión pierde su sentido cuando se desconecta de la posibilidad de ser escuchado
Este es un artículo desgarrador de @alondra.bsky.social sobre la regresión del progreso científico y por qué renuncia a la NSF y la #BibliotecadelCongreso The LibraryofCongress
time.com/7285045/resi...

September 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM

bellacrash.bsky.social

@bellacrash.bsky.social

😥😭😢😱🤬😡 #libraries #librarian #libraryofcongress

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government

Carla Hayden, first woman and first African American to hold post, dismissed in terse email on Thursday night

www.theguardian.com

May 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM

Tera Pussyruiner

@xdresstera.bsky.social

So i looked it up and then Google gave me various tweets as well including the most recent from the Library of Congress account. Included headlines cut off by the crop include; "Final Victory Over Germany Is Proclaimed" and "German Surrender Reported" 😐

Twitter account @libraryofcongress
It's the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day, the day the WWII Allied powers formally accepted Germany's surrender. Here are some of the front pages from that day, from the Library's Chronicling America historical newspaper archive. (Hyperlink) https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/?loclr=twloc

May 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM

DaniGraceWrites

@danigracewrites.bsky.social

This is another level of pisstivity for me.

*Truth rant*

My grandmother integrated the #LibraryofCongress as a black Assistant Librarian.

This is not okay, and it never will be.

Auntie Bev. @auntiebev.bsky.social · May 11

Don’t be NESCIENT about the Library of Congress #auntiebevspeaks #vocabulary #wordoftheday

May 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM

donnayoungdc

@donnayoungdc.bsky.social

@rollingstone.com
"This is going in the inviolate congressional space to access their information," the expert says. "We know that when Trump and the DOGE people have gone elsewhere, the first thing done is they exfiltrated their data."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
#LibraryOfCongress

Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library

Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.

www.rollingstone.com

May 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM

💙Stan the Jokeman💙

@stanthejokeman.bsky.social

Meanwhile the meat headed s**t sack has been 'trumped' BY America Law and told "NO" as the fit throwing brat attempts to TAKE OVER the Library of Congress!
ENTIRE COPYRIGHT STAFF FIRED!
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@libraryofamerica.bsky.social #libraryofcongress
#trump @repjasmine.bsky.social

Donald Trump BITCH SLAPPED DOWN by Law - Unable to Take Over Library of Congress

The convicted felon rapist forced upon decent law abiding American people, MADE HIS MOVE to take over THE Library of Congress! I'll give you the scoop! DID YOU USE YOUR DONALD TRUMP BIBLE TODAY ON THE

rumble.com

May 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM

Lead Stories

@leadstories.com

Fact Check: U.S. Constitution's Article 1 Sections 9 And 10 WERE Deleted From Congress Website -- Library Of Congress Blames 'Coding Error'
#CheckTok #FactCheck #USConstitution #LibraryOfCongress #HabeasCorpus #Congress
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

August 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM

The Other Pages (Steve)

@spanoudis.bsky.social

#Truthiness

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-- Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910)

#historical photo by #MatthewBrady from the #LibraryofCongress collection

#MarkTwain #twain #author #quote #quotation #truth #veracity #law #politics #news #newspapers #memory

August 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Toshio

@toshio04.bsky.social

Seeing the sights around Washington, DC. #Capital #capitolBuilding #libraryofcongress #supremecourt #washington #dc #washingtondc

December 6, 2024 at 1:12 AM

Bethany Berger

@bethanyberger.bsky.social

Anyone else have trouble with the #LibraryofCongress website now? I’m try to get free links to the Congressional Globe on reconstruction and when I try to flip to a page it’s telling me they don’t exist in their collection. This feels deliberate ….

March 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Robin Pens Nonsense #UseAltText 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸

@robinpensnonsense.bsky.social

This is a truly frightening thought.

What protections are in place to keep the Library of Congress safe? Are there measures in place for *this* type of threat?

#LibraryOfCongress
#Library
#Libraries
#UseYourLibrary
#LibrariesAreForEveryone

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Feb 13

How long until the Library of Congress faces a purge? Should historians be getting what resources they can now? I'm imagining anything related to the civil rights movement, anti-fascism, and even public health could be gone soon.

February 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Arty-san

@arty-san.bsky.social

Trump/DOGE sent a curt impersonal email firing the Librarian of Congress, who has a Ph.D. in Library Science and who has been described as a significantly contributing federal worker by many who know her.
#libraryofcongress #library #literacy #books #reading #archives
www.ibtimes.com/trump-fires-...

Trump Fires First Female Librarian Of Congress, Draws Backlash From Democrats: 'Disgraceful'

President Trump has terminated Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden from her position, with a year left before her term ends, drawing backlash from Democratic leaders who said the GOP leader's "ignorant...

www.ibtimes.com

May 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Eduard Mangal

@honestpolitician.bsky.social

#Trump is doing his own #EthnicCleansing:

Trump ontslaat per direct hoofd van grootste Amerikaanse bibliotheek #CarlaHayden #LibraryOfCongress
www.trouw.nl/buitenland/t...

De #American kolonel #BreeFram is #transgender, maar weigert gedwongen ontslag #military
www.trouw.nl/buitenland/d...

Trump ontslaat per direct hoofd van grootste Amerikaanse bibliotheek

Ze was de eerste vrouwelijke en Afro-Afrikaanse voorzitter van de grootste Amerikaanse bibliotheek. Deze week ontsloeg Trump Carla Hayden omdat ze volgens de president ‘te woke’ zou zijn.

www.trouw.nl

May 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Universitätsbibliothek TUHH

@tub.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy

Zur Entlassung der renommierten Direktorin der Library of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden

Was wir nie hätten teilen wollen 🖤
#carlahayden #libraryofcongress […]

Original post on openbiblio.social

openbiblio.social

May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM

Nonilex

@nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

Since January 2025, scientists & librarians, program officers & policy analysts at the #nsf, the #libraryofcongress, & other federal offices & agencies have focused on their work, despite an increasingly hostile political environment. We’ve also seen civil servants fired & accused of not making […]

Original post on masto.ai

masto.ai

May 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Bongolian

@bongolian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

Ramon Antonio Vargas: Fired US #librarian of Congress details callous dismissal in new interview: Carla Hayden, first woman and African American to serve in role, details firing by #Trump administration to CBS

#libraries #libraryofcongress #Racism […]

Original post on mstdn.social

mstdn.social

June 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM