Now that's what I call good news! A more than deserved win!

God Anna is so missed, and this is a lovely way to remember her today 💕💕 📚 📜

If you like this linocut, can I also recommend the work of Ben Wildflower? benwildflower.com/products/mir...

There's been absolutely no public hearing on this bill, no chance for D.C. residents to weigh in on whether it should be left to their elected officials to determine tax policy or unaccountable members of Congress. (The bill was quietly introduced on January 22.)

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Of course this policy looks good, compared to academic freedom culling happening elsewhere. Grateful for the work of the state Fac Assembly

Can’t literacy ourselves out of this one, I’m afraid.

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did). That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later. This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.

Damn you, Chuck Schumer

Workday Expense Reports coming ICE’s way

Yessss this is the way. Kinda curious about Yale's 990 anyway actually...

Teaching exercise that is helpful with my policy students. Based on the solution, hiring this fella to a fancy position and giving him $$$ in this environment, what is the root of skepticism with higher ed that Yale is attempting to solve? Whose skepticism do they seek to assuage?

all while cutting PhD spots. loser stuff. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Dominique: Oh I don't have enough higher ed expertise to be on a state board [Reads this] Dominique: I could be Secretary of Education

There is a lot of smol bean in referring to where they are as a “theater,” as in a theater of war, and then whining that some local residents refuse to serve them lunch

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

The DNI? So we don’t see her for Venezuela strikes and grabbing a head of state, or imperialist threats against Greenland (allegedly for our national security), but she’s on the scene for THIS? Hmmm.

“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

In 2023, mean hourly salary for home health & personal care attendants in the US was $16.05, per BLS. Meanwhile, private equity has been buying up home health agencies. What exactly is driving those costs up then? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Thanks to Kali Uchis (shout out to Alexandria VA) and Bad Bunny, I am listening to a lot of music that I cannot begin to comprehend rn 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Answers to this are fascinating! I live in a generally humid area and had accepted the humidity makes it colder but now I know the science why 😂

Publishers have been milking public libraries for all they can, while painting them as thieves--meanwhile, amazon screwing publishers (and of course, small presses and indie authors) over for all they're worth, yet publishers just go along with Bezos. Fucking baffling.

The replies to this are *chef's kiss*

The state will spend $575 million this year with the majority of private school students getting a voucher. It won’t say how they’re doing.

"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.

It's a well placed fear. Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Did not know the author so I looked to see what else they had written: It’s Time to Turn the Page on DEI March 11, 2025 Higher ed needs to take a hard look at what went wrong with DEI and consider new models, Lane A. Glenn writes. Thanks current president of Northern Essex CC in Haverhill, MA!

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Liam Ramos is still in a Texas prison. It's been 5 days

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

I am glad she is physically okay. She should not have to be this calm, some people are allowed to never be this calm

"Minnesota is showing the rest of the country that we can build political, social and economic structures that pose actual alternatives to the horrors the current system produces" www.forever-wars.com/your-leaders...

Virginia Oliver, lobster lady, has died at 105, after having been a licensed & practicing lobsterwoman until age 103: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m... Old Maine ladies, I tell ya.

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Danielle Steele def has named chair money, a million times over

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

They will try to sacrifice a few people to protect the project. But the project is the thing.

Every inch won should lead you to demand more.

ESPECIALLY his attempts to pretend this shit was never his idea

This hit so fucking hard today.

the president can't just, like, ctrl+f+replace the little ICE man with Homan and be done with what has been wrought in Chicago, MSP, DC, LA, and countless other places

The medium is the message. Book Riot's reporting of the Youth Media Award winners is legible, clear, and has links to all the titles (on Amazon, no one's perfect). I tried three different library association award lists and none had all three. Enjoy this list. Buy some good books. Thank you, Kelly.

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literally yes

A legend, who will be 89 when she leaves office

"Again and again, I heard people say they were not protesters but protectors—of their communities, of their values, of the Constitution." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I keep thinking about the Target corporation headquarters in Minneapolis and how given the venal nature of this administration they're likely a phone call away from stopping thus, so is Home Depot, so is every other major corporation that buys politicians for tax breaks and legal loopholes