Emily Drabinski
@edrabinski.bsky.social
PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
There’s so much grinning in romance novels.
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
There’s so much grinning in romance novels.
Hello from the raffle.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hello from the raffle.
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I continue to beg y’all to utilize your public library. I just took the boys to a circus class where they walked a tight rope, juggled, spun plates, etc. they had so much fun and it was FREE!! But we were the only ones there
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I continue to beg y’all to utilize your public library. I just took the boys to a circus class where they walked a tight rope, juggled, spun plates, etc. they had so much fun and it was FREE!! But we were the only ones there
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A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
This is a photo of our cat Gary taking up the top spot on the cat tree.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is a photo of our cat Gary taking up the top spot on the cat tree.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“I’ve given pretty much my whole life to that place,” she said. “I was not allowed to say goodbye.”
Baltimore County Public Library lays off 14 librarians, many of whom had been in the system for decades.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Baltimore County Public Library lays off 14 librarians, many of whom had been in the system for decades.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Baltimore County Public Library lays off 14 part-time employees
The positions were due to be phased out since 2018, when the library decided to no longer hire part-time librarians.
www.thebanner.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“I’ve given pretty much my whole life to that place,” she said. “I was not allowed to say goodbye.”
Baltimore County Public Library lays off 14 librarians, many of whom had been in the system for decades.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Baltimore County Public Library lays off 14 librarians, many of whom had been in the system for decades.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Told my Yankee-fan child (could not talk him off the team, have these people who think you can prevent a kid from reading a book ever met a kid) that Raleigh should have been MVP. “Check the stats” is all he would say. 🤷
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Told my Yankee-fan child (could not talk him off the team, have these people who think you can prevent a kid from reading a book ever met a kid) that Raleigh should have been MVP. “Check the stats” is all he would say. 🤷
Out and about in my Zohran hat and Dodgers sweatshirt. My all-we-do-is-win getup.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Out and about in my Zohran hat and Dodgers sweatshirt. My all-we-do-is-win getup.
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one reason for "elite" as a category of analysis is to account for this flavor of thing. Nuzzi may not herself be a titan of industry or heiress to a ketchup fortune or whatever, but she's getting the impunity treatment because she's invited to those people's parties
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
one reason for "elite" as a category of analysis is to account for this flavor of thing. Nuzzi may not herself be a titan of industry or heiress to a ketchup fortune or whatever, but she's getting the impunity treatment because she's invited to those people's parties
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Broadview.
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Broadview.
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The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
James Van Der Beek Sells Dawson’s Creek Merch to Pay for Cancer Treatment
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way
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Excited to preorder this important collection edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with pieces by writers, scholars, librarians, and teachers including freedom to read hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. also it has a great subtitle: www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
Banning Books in America
This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Excited to preorder this important collection edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with pieces by writers, scholars, librarians, and teachers including freedom to read hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. also it has a great subtitle: www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
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Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
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today's unprecedented foreign terror designation of Antifa has resulted in exactly zero (0) cable news segments 👍
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
today's unprecedented foreign terror designation of Antifa has resulted in exactly zero (0) cable news segments 👍
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Personally I haven’t had respect for the New York Times’ editorial judgement since it systemically lied our way into the Iraq War.
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Personally I haven’t had respect for the New York Times’ editorial judgement since it systemically lied our way into the Iraq War.
A third of Queens College students are immigrants and another third are children of immigrants. I am so proud to make this my professional home. #GoKnights #CUNYstrong
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A third of Queens College students are immigrants and another third are children of immigrants. I am so proud to make this my professional home. #GoKnights #CUNYstrong
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"There’s an iconic image of Hillary Clinton on the 2016 campaign trail looking out of place and conspicuously uncomfortable in an East Harlem working-class apartment. Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor was the exact opposite of that, all the time."
I'm on this team
I'm on this team
The relentless negativity and performative cruelty of American politics is exhausting.
Following Zohran Mandani’s lead, leftists can distinguish ourselves with a concrete political program paired with genuine enthusiasm for ordinary people.
Following Zohran Mandani’s lead, leftists can distinguish ourselves with a concrete political program paired with genuine enthusiasm for ordinary people.
The Zohran Mamdani Model of Exuberant Good Cheer
The relentless negativity and performative cruelty of American politics is exhausting. Following Zohran Mandani’s lead, leftists can distinguish ourselves with a concrete political program paired with genuine enthusiasm for ordinary people.
jacobin.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"There’s an iconic image of Hillary Clinton on the 2016 campaign trail looking out of place and conspicuously uncomfortable in an East Harlem working-class apartment. Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor was the exact opposite of that, all the time."
I'm on this team
I'm on this team
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Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!
I had a fifteen year old living in my house with me a couple years ago and can confirm that is a child.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I had a fifteen year old living in my house with me a couple years ago and can confirm that is a child.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.