Martha Hickson
📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
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- today’s tech barons get compared to the robber barons (I’ve done it myself) but it’s notable how the current generation has responded to the philanthropic and cultural legacy of Carnegie et al with their own campaign of wanton destruction of cultural institutions
- Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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- Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.
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- New: Thanks to advocates from across the country, library funding was not only included in the FY26 federal budget, it was increased. Your advocacy made a difference for libraries! Share your appreciation for the library funding measures: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag... #FundLibraries
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- Okay, look, I wanna say something about this, because I know a lot of people are like "oh look the weird nerds are having a Day" and yes, we are. But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
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- Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
- If you work in a high school and your students are walking out for a righteous cause: Don’t get in their way, you’re going to look like an asshole
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- Happy book birthday to @mychal3ts.bsky.social and Lorraine Nam's I'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy!
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View full threadFrom a photo by @hceedee.bsky.social of a very pretty pigeon, with a spotless record, which is more than Matt Groening can say.
- A bonus pigeon, who does not mind a reasonable amount of trouble. From a photo by @outseide.bsky.social
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- Some important context for anyone writing about that Texas special election shocker
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- This isn't “parental choice.” It’s shelves emptied, stories erased & students cut off from ideas that help them learn, question & grow. Every removed book is a reader who won't see themselves reflected & narrows the world a little more. FL students deserve libraries full of possibility, not fear.
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- I am so happy that Liam is home!!! @comixaction.com put out the call and @ethansacks.bsky.social gave me inspiration and the words — a good community is everything 💫 #Comics4Liam / comics4liam.com FREE ALL THE CHILDREN caged in these horrifying detention centers… ABOLISH ICE!
- Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
- After his Grammy win, Bad Bunny starts his speech with ‘ICE OUT’ and receives a standing ovation.
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- CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:
- People who were born the day I met Flight of the Conchords are old enough to drink.
