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HAPPENING NOW: Watch today’s @NYCCouncil hearing about funding for @NYPL, @BKLYNlibrary, and @QPLNYC and the millions in proposed cuts to libraries! #NoCutsToLibraries Tune in here: council.nyc.gov/livestream

@Barbaradee2 Yes please! My seventh graders are reading maybe he just likes you right now!

NPR Books We Love is out! Over 300 recommendations. Including a blurb from Yours Truly about one of the best books I’ve read in ages — The Covenant of Water by @abe_verghese #view=covers&year=2023" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">apps.npr.org/best-books/#vi…

just a girl, begging the Washington Post to remember that I am signed in on this device, have always been signed in on this device, and will likely die signed in on this device

@1Chillwind @missmulrooney I was a docent at the John Jay homestead when I was in high school back in the mid 80s. It was a cool place!

@missmulrooney NY state has colonial sites/museums, like the John Jay Homestead, and Sleepy Hollow, but most of the field trips were to New York City museums and Broadway shows.

People who didn’t grow up in a colonial New England state, where did you even go for your 3rd grade field trip? How did you even learn to churn butter?

14% of librarianship is pushing in chairs

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. (Bears need fat to survive winter hibernation, & 151 Walker is clearly set up well here.) Vote for these fine specimens at fatbearweek.org by 5PM AKDT. NPS Photo/K. Moore

what's even the point of being on this god-forsaken web site if there's no fat bear week? The right wing of the U.S. Congress wants to restrict our freedom to read AND our access to fat bears? Unacceptable.

Nooooo

@johnjparker12 Public education does not exist to benefit parents, or for that matter students. It exists to benefit the social order. As a social order, we pay experts to determine curricular and library content. The experts are not congresspeople or parents; they are teachers and librarians.

Who is the greatest fictional driver of all time?

With smoke blowing in from northern wildfires, air quality on the National Mall is not great. This week could be a good opportunity to spend some time indoors with our friends at the @smithsonian museums. See alerts & current air quality data at nps.gov/features/ard/w…

We have better audio and don't ban books.

2023 Banned Books Update: Banned in the USA pen.org/report/banned-…

Teachers: "AI is a disaster, how am I going to know who is cheating?!" Students:

Stop glamourising “hustle culture” and start glamourising the Frog and Toad lifestyle.

@inclement_ivy @lindaholmes The podcast where you lie back…relax…and get…sleepy