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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · Nov 6

It's more important than ever to support your public library. #Libraries are community. They are about opening minds and opening doors. Get a library card, and check out books. Download Libby. Libraries need the stats for funding, which is now uncertain. And thank your librarian.

We love you.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 3h

7 Books About the Precarity of Urban Life

7 Books About the Precarity of Urban Life - Electric Literature

These authors examine wealth disparity, property ownership, and the collision of lives in shifting neighborhoods

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 6h

New word: infascistation.

Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 7h

On this day in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

And he, of course, deserved it.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 17h

That’s an extra bag of Sun Chips for you, Mister.

Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 18h

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, 1993.

Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 20h

'We Survived the Night' tells a story of survival and the Indigenous experience

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 21h

Get up. Stand up.

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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Stop in regularly and let them know we need them. www.libraryjournal.com/story/concer...

Concerned but Committed: Small and Rural Libraries Feeling the Impact of a Defunded IMLS

Since the release of the March 14 executive order calling for the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), libraries across the country have been managing the immediate…

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Let's get one thing straight...then we can go for another thing, and then another, and then another.

And then maybe everything won't be so damn crooked.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching is the only job where you nick things from home to take into work rather than the other way around. #EduSky

In related news I'm taking one of my giant pumpkins into preschool next week. 😂🌱