I'm so glad this brave law enforcement officer is OK after being violently smirked at. Praying for him and his family

it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position

It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.

Femicide is an epidemic that is currently directly affecting our society and ruining lives. But nobody wants to talk about it cause a bunch of men are finding it hard to date and are lonely😢

People got real weird at me the last time I said you should take yourself and your kids to the library, but I’m gonna say it again: take yourself and your kids to the library!

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts. A trans woman enters the room. Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts. Fucking clowns.

it gets extraordinarily tiresome to have the focus on men’s “loneliness” and “frustration” instead of “women now have agency and standards and the men are not actually rising to the occasion”

Did I hear additional funding for NYC?? Sounds like a great opportunity for @mayor.nyc.gov to keep his campaign promise, and fund NYC Library systems at a minimum of 0.5% of the city’s expense budget.

I understand this impulse to help people see that immigration is a net positive for society. But immigrants’ value is not in what they contribute but in them being human beings and having inherent human rights.

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Men who go into female-dominated fields do incredibly well. They’re almost invariably fast-tracked to management in teaching, nursing, and social services. The only exception to this rule afaik is sex work.

It would happen less if coming forward didn't have such a high chance of destroying your life, so you'd speak when the stakes were lower. If you want less suspicious timing, don't participate in an accuser's destruction.

If all you want is a D and you don't hold these people to higher standards, you'll get nothing but new Newsoms and Cuomos to stab you in the back. Purity testing to keep out predators is fantastic. More please.

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

The Trump administration has DROPPED its appeal in Rhode Island v. Trump, meaning that the victory for the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the case STANDS. Let's celebrate the win and then work like hell to restore IMLS funding in 2027: bookriot.com/rhode-island...

Palestinian writer Omar Hamad founded the Phoenix Library—the Gaza Strip’s first public library—built in the wake of Israel’s ongoing genocide. Read his tale of displacement, weighed by worry and book stacks, and support the Library as a place of refuge: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...

I can't do much about anything but I could do this. Get some (specifically requested) books into the hands of incarcerated folks at Rikers & support an indie bookstore at the same time. (+ I ordered @chanda.blacksky.app's The Edge of Space-Time for me bc why not have faith that tomorrow will come)

Well NYC, this is the next step in the budget process! The NYC City Council released its preliminary report, and we have thoughts 🧵

Meanwhile as a Black woman I’m actively tripping over myself to mask my diagnosis or condense how my habits may effect others just so I’m not perceived as rude, angry or difficult to work with

All this on top of the court upholding the legality of Trump’s request for a list of Jews at Penn…

The US was a racial dictatorship until 1965 and a not small measure of US politics since then has been an attempt, or resistance against the attempt, to return us to being one

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The point is they are still racist and doing worse to brown and Black people.

sabias palabras Kirby

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

He's either a nazi, and not fit for office, or he's too dumb to realize the significance and connotations that any of these images have in modern times, which would also (in my opinion) make him unfit for office.

I'm blaming Andrea Dworkin & every radfem that came after. When your feminist icon believes that ALL forms of cis het sex are exploitation, you get these kind of un-nuanced shit takes about how "sex bad" while leaving out any notion of personal choice. It's just patriarchy & misogyny w/ extra steps.

People smarter than me have said all that needs to be said about Harry Potter, but I want to note how irritating it has been to live in a world where billionaires purchase artificial popularity to try to prevent works of art from naturally falling off due to being out of tune with the culture.

This was me and why I don’t care what my children read as long as it isn’t the manosphere

Good news

The only correct response.

Well, time for this sign to be tapped again: Never forget, white people would rather be white than be human. 🫩🫩

Not doing this during the beginning of the Biden admin is part of why we are here. It can not be business as usual after this regime topples.

So much of domestic news in the US since last January is just reporting on the consequences of drastic policy shifts reverberating through complex systems with terrible first, second, and third order effects.

Here’s a NIMBY I can agree with

#CivilRights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was given a “Mississippi appendectomy” after going in for surgery to have a fibroid removed—surgery she underwent in hopes of increasing her chances of having children after she experienced multiple miscarriages. www.neh.gov/article/swea... #BlackWomen

Suddenly dawning on me that he put ICE in airports right before several major Spring Break weekends Think about the sheer number of International students that are going to be traveling. This is so deliberate

I think one other thing that allows American wars to carry on is that Americans don't feel fear of attacks, which change political outcomes and add pressure

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Mueller absolutely saved Trump’s ass. He’s just too stupid to realize it. That’s the irony that’s screwing us all. The institutionalists keep institutionalizing while Trump sets about destroying them.

If I seem to be talking about water a lot this week, here's why

I am baffled by the people who are saying this would be hilarious and that he should do it. Did you read it? Do you think ICE agents harassing brown and Black people at airports would be fun and funny? Because I don't. We shouldn't be intimidated by his threats, but we shouldn't be callous either.

I served a nurse in the restaurant I worked at the day before everything shut down in Philly saying to her friend that she wasn’t afraid bc she washed her hands!

The cops are not your friends

"communities with vegetable bans had 30.4 percent fewer Black, 28.5 percent fewer Asians, 7.8 percent fewer Hispanics, and 12.6 percent more white people than the population of their state. Those communities were also richer, with a 73.5 percent higher median income."