I want to do a family feud style thing. Please reply with the first Greek God that you think of. Please reskeet for increased sample size.

For no particular reason, here's a murder ballad:

"House Republicans on Wednesday released a trove of 23,000 pages of documents... shortly after Democrats released several emails included in the trove that suggested that President Trump knew more about Mr. Epstein’s sex trafficking than he has previously acknowledged."

1. I don't think anybody argues that... INFANTICIDE... should be irrelevant in college admissions. 2. Conflating SEXUAL ASSAULT with "hit on" is the problem. 3. People who won't use proper capitalization in their emails are telling you they're selfish and lazy. FEEL FREE TO REPEAT THESE INSIGHTS

I take it all back!!! UTF-8 was a mistake! A miiiiiistaaaaaake!!!!!

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

"Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartments—many of them affordable units—have been built in complexes that combine new housing with new libraries. These projects can both address a communities’ housing needs + improve local infrastructure by replacing aging library complexes..." (see also: Inwood)

A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara Library and Dust-to-Digital Foundation https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

When interviewing people for jobs at the public library, we often ask them about a favorite book, or one that means a lot to them. Answering with the name of a book from the assigned reading list, or a wildly-off-base interpretation of a well-known text, is at least a yellow flag.

Looking to call Chuck Schumer? Trying to find a live person? Here's every number he's got. 202-224-6542 212-486-4430 631-753-0978 518-431-4070 607-772-6792 716-846-4111 914-734-1532 585-263-5866 315-423-5471

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Well, guess it’s time to read a book

just found out that if you listen to his whole spiel at his capitol office, press 4 to speak to someone, listen to his other spiel, and THEN press some other button, you can leave him a voicemail there. better than fucking nothing I guess

King Otto and Mike the 2600 King's 'Things Kings Do.' '50s and '60s pop tunes, in a hip-hop quickmix style, from 2007:

Back in 2017, Trump revealed, in a friendly interview with the NYT, that he literally did not understand how health insurance works. The NYT editors bailed him out instead of following up. I wrote about it then, and I still think about it all the time: www.commonwealmagazine.org/man-who-knew...

Here's an oldie but a goodie from 2019, Nathan J. Robinson on Pete Buttigieg:

Target executives getting ready to blame the retail workers for not smiling enough instead of blaming themselves for not honoring their own DEI commitments.

Hear me out, maybe libraries ... don't need AI for anything? This is a solution in search of a problem.

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

Um, @variety.com? That’s…not what that means. 😳 variety.com/2025/music/n...

radass library card.

I wish this could be blasted on every single tv and radio station and blared in the streets of every city.

Three questions: 1) Why was it possible for him to do this? 2) Why have her fellow House Democrats said nothing about this? 3) What is the plan for applying consequences to this filth?

To get the money, he'll need to build 1m humanoid robots, 1m robotaxis, get 10m paid auto-drive subscribers, sell 20m cars/year, increase the valuation of the company 6x... This seems less like a giant giveaway and more like a Ricky Williams rookie contract kind of situation.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

“That Alice Coltrane, an African American woman from Detroit, died a Hindu guru in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains is a story no less extraordinary than her husband’s.” —Adam Shatz

The “beaver moon” over Lake Michigan

Well, as long as you don't eat it.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks

Zohran says you’re trans now

ICE is now at food banks in Chicago. I just can’t with this cruelty. It’s relentless. Fucking monsters and goons.

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

I think a well-written set of guidelines can avoid being most of those things, but the classism might be built in.

oh they're calling NJ for sherrill

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

"The impunity Trump enjoys is another aftereffect of Obama’s decision to forgo accountability for the War on Terror.... (All it earned the Democrats was an endorsement from Cheney of Kamala Harris that she seemed not to understand was grotesque and self-discrediting.)" That's a hell of a stray.

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Is your library or institution still on Twitter? Why? 📚

Trump returned to CBS News’ 60 Minutes program for the first time since he corruptly leveraged a nuisance lawsuit to force the network’s parent company to shell out millions of dollars as the price for securing federal approval for a merger.

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

Join us for #Noirvember, a month-long celebration of film noir, by watching Kanopy’s curated collection of Hollywood classics and modern-day noir films. All you need is your library card! Watch at: https://bit.ly/4oPRh2S.

Neon Big Boy Sign at No Reserve