Plenty of food for thought and positive action in a question Jay Samit asks in his latest Substack post (June 19, 2026): “What problem breaks my heart enough that I’m willing to do something about it?” #advocacy #juneteenth jaysamit.substack.com/p/the-1400-m...

The 1,400-Mile March That Proved It’s Never Too Late to Change the World

At 89 years old, most people are told to slow down.

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Looking forward to a fun, productive one-year term (July 1, 2026-June 30, 2027) as President of the Daily Bruin Alumni Network -- @dailybruinan.bsky.social. Grateful for the peers on the Board who selected me. alumni.ucla.edu/alumni-netwo... #ucla #alumni #journalism #DailyBruinAlumniNetwork

Board of Directors - UCLA Alumni

The DBAN Board of Directors  2026-27 President Paul Signorelli '76 VP, Reunions & Events Marilyn Chavez-Martinez '22 VP, Membership & Networking Matthew Royer '24 VP, Learning & Professional Developme...

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Happy beyond belief to have received confirmation that I will be facilitating/co-facilitating three library-advocacy sessions at the California Library Association 2026 Annual Conference in Riverside in October: www.cla-conference.org. Hope to see you there. #libraries #advocacy #cla

California Library Association Conference | Register Today – Empower Libraries

Join the California Library Association Conference 2025 in Riverside, Oct 23-25, for inspiring sessions, networking, and stories that showcase library impact.

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New California Library Association library-advocacy training video--"Teach Me: Exploring Learning for Library Advocates"--now available on the CLA YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5NI.... Includes Joyce McIntosh & Beth Wrenn-Estes as my co-facilitators. #libraries #advocacy #learning

Posted a new set of reflections on "Nurturing and Celebrating Social Connections in Times of Solitude" on my Building Creative Bridges blog: buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/o... #communitiy #connections #socialisolation #socialnetworking

On Nurturing and Celebrating Social Connections in Times of Solitude

It did not matter that the note I received from my doctor recently was probably a note routinely sent to all of her patients (or even to all the patients by all the doctors within the Kaiser-Perman…

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Daily Bruin Alumni Network is having a DB reunion on Oct. 11! I unfortunately can't go but it's a great way to meet with the current DB students, get to know more about the newsroom and UCLA and also to reunite with all the alums. Would love to have you there! -> giving.ucla.edu/Standard/Net...

Celebrating the ATD South Florida Chapter's recognition as "Chapter of the Month" (March 2026), I've written a piece about #belonging and #collaboration for trainer-teacher-learners...and what we can learn from ATD SFL. #learning #community #atd buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/b...

Belonging and Collaboration: Chapter of the Month for ATD South Florida

Reading that the South Florida Chapter of ATD (the Association for Talent Development) is the ATD March 2026 Chapter of the Month comes as no surprise to me. It’s a community of learning that is dy…

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"Protest brings joy...It dispels the loneliness we might experience when we are alone or online. When we realize that we are with millions of others, we feel we can make a difference, because we are making a difference: in the world, & in ourselves."~Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

No Kings, Freedom!

Gather on March 28th.

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Enjoyed serving as substitute host for @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social's "T is for Training" podcast this week. The topic: “Persevering or Pulling the Plug in Training-Teaching-Learning.” Hope you enjoy the conversation: app.talkshoe.com/conf/summary.... #learning #training #perseverance #Tisfortraining

Great advice and encouragement to writers, from Writer-Teacher-Education Innovator George Couros: georgecouros.com/want-to-writ... #writing #blogging #creativity

Want to Write a Book? Start a Blog - George Couros

I didn’t start blogging to share my voice, I started to learn. Nearly 2,000 posts later, it has shaped my thinking, career, and opportunities.

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Posted a new set of reflections on writing and the creative process: "Write or Die: Diving Into the Rabbit Hole," inspired by Sue Monk Kidd's "Writing Creativity and Soul" and Ray Bradbury's "Zen in the Art of Writing" buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/w... #writing #creativity

Write or Die: Diving into the Rabbit Hole

“Not to write, for many of us, is to die.” –Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing, p. vii, 1996 I have, for close to a year now, felt dead. It’s not that life wasn’t full of joy, pleasure, …

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“Not to write, for many of us, is to die.” ~Ray Bradbury, "Zen in the Art of Writing," p. xii #writing #creativity

A visual response to those who intentionally misrepresent the No Kings Day marches as hateful... www.theatlantic.com/photography/... #SilenceIsComplicity #ResetTheNarrative #NoKings

Photos: More ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.

Organizers estimated that millions of Americans attended rallies in cities and towns across America, protesting the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

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Now playing at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, on Market Street, October 18, 2025 #NoKings

Beautifully inspiring writing from Carlo Iacono, on Substack. #CivicEngagement #Government #Community #Collaboration open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

Now on the California Library Association's YouTube channel: the archived recording of the "Library Directors: Advocating From a Position of Leadership” workshop (8/13/25) featuring Genesis Hansen, Michael Lambert, and Patty Wong: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #libraries #advocacy #leadership

Ursula Meyer Advocacy Training - YouTube

Session 1 held on September 8, 2021 - The California Library Advocacy Landscape Introduction to Advocacy

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" ...despite the myths spread by Trump and his allies, there is no evidence that mail-in voting is linked to fraud." ~Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 8/18/25 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump's "Truth" About Voting

It’s one of those days with so much going on that it was clear to me early in the day I needed to do a standalone post on the topic of Trump’s most recent attack on our elections to give that topic th...

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"...many of San Francisco’s most valuable tech companies...[i]nstead of demanding that employees be in the office a certain number of times or on certain days of the week...are sticking with remote work...extolling its virtues." @sfexaminer.bsky.social, 8/9/25 www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

Many SF tech companies sticking with remote work

Dropbox, Pinterest, Figma and more remain committed.

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"Now we can add museum curators to the list of people Trump is trying to crush into submission and force into alignment with his worldview...These are the people who are entrusted with telling the story of our nation’s history..." ~Joyce Vance, 8/12/25 #museums open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Living in 1984

The headline tonight reads, “White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision.” It’s in The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of liberal views.

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"This is a grave day for America, but let’s be clear that we should not and must not remain silent about this dangerous and unnecessary escalation. This is a time for solidarity among Americans who oppose this disgraceful abuse of power." ~Steven Beschloss, 8/11/25 open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Trump's Assault on Washington, D.C

Trump is now pursuing his fever dream of a federalized police state in the nation's capital. We cannot remain silent.

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Latest addition to our California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy Training recordings: @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social on "Building Technology Into Library Advocacy": www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLcO.... More at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... #libraries #advocacy #technology

"But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification..." ~Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger" #anger #advocacy #AudreLorde

Our latest California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy workshop featured a dynamic, highly-interactive session about raising funds for libraries through ballot initiatives. To view the archived version (and others): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #libraries #advocacy #fundraising

"Storytelling is integral to what it is to be human....there is power in stories. A strong narrative can bring people to action at your side." ~@rdlankes.bsky.social, with Jain Orr & Qianzi Cao, "Triptych: Death, AI, and Librarianship," p. 16 #libraries #community #storytelling #advocacy

Reflections, from historian Heather Cox Richardson, on the Fourteenth Amendment...and contemporary attacks upon it: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

July 9, 2025

On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S.

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Congrats to @mychal3ts.bsky.social for making the inaugural #TIME100Creators list! Influence comes in many forms, but Mychal’s is the kind that lifts people up. He’s a force for good in the world, spreading kindness, curiosity, and library joy. 📚💙 time.com/collections/...

Mychal Threets: TIME100 Creators 2025

Find out why Mychal Threets is on the list

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"...it appears that officials in the Trump administration are using immigration as a way to establish a police state...as a way to work around the laws in place to prevent a dictatorship." ~Heather Cox Richardson, 7/7/25 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

July 7, 2025

At about 10:30 this morning local time, heavily armed masked agents in trucks, armored vehicles, a helicopter, on foot, and on horseback, accompanied by a gun mounted on a truck raided the MacArthur P...

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 "As Abraham Lincoln put it in 1859 before his election, 'We…the people—the people— are the rightful masters of both Congresses, and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.'” ~Steven Beschloss, July 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Can We Still Believe in America?

A Saturday Prompt

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Contemplating that fire hydrant while waiting for the traffic light to change. #SanFrancisco #InnerSunset

"Celebrating the 4th of July this year may feel a bit strange to some. The day represents our moment of final rupture and rebellion from a king; our current president proudly (and only half-jokingly) doffs monarchical regalia and titles online." ~The Democracy Index open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The Democracy Index

July 1, 2025

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