Imagine being too imperialist/neocolonial/openly rapacious for the Catholic Church

The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

New from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In court filings, prosecutors have cited protesters’ all-black clothing, zines and flyers they possessed, their use of the encrypted messaging app Signal, even possession of first aid kits and Faraday bags to argue that they were part of a criminal conspiracy.

Academic Librarian folks, I have a survey about genAI for you! If you: - hold an MLIS/MLS degree - or your primary job responsibilities include providing reference, instruction, cataloging, collection development, or other information services maybe check it out?

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

This is the final drop! 📣 Collect these limited-edition Black History Month library cards at the West Oakland Branch ONLY! In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, we're re-releasing a limited number of these three Black Panther inspired library card designs one last time.

Trans rights are a great litmus test for candidates - Do they believe in bodily autonomy? Do they believe in science? Do they like women and believe women are capable adults? Do they have weird religious hang ups about sex and gender? Are children people? Etc

“You have to buy a day of childhood at Disney World, and this is not remotely right. But on the other hand, where else can you go, in America today, to buy such a thing?”

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files: Donald J. Trump Melania Trump Howard Lutnick (Commerce) John Phelan (Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center) RFK Jr. (HHS) Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom) Mehmet Oz (CMS) Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE) Steve Bannon (Fmr WH) Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor) Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

So, to wrap up today's insanity: President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...

😕 www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

📚 #PubLibs 🚫🧊

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

That was hands down the best halftime show ever. It was filled with so many references to Puerto Rican culture and history. The sugarcane fields, the casita, the streets of NYC, and the power lines. All of it resonated so much. Boricua por siempre. Seguimos aquí. 🇵🇷

"75 million Americans."

well wishes to christopher "kid" reid who recently underwent a heart transplant... stay up.

Fun Super Bowl fact to throw out at your party: When Green Day took “American Idiot” to Broadway in 2010, Donald and Melania went to the premiere.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ grant application process has taken a political turn under Trump. “It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story,” said a Republican who led the agency from 2019 to 2024. “And that’s wrong.”

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):

At the time this aired, Kid Rock was 29 years old, and Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were 13.

like i love this story and I think it reveals something important. the atari is encoding a ton of information about the rules of chess explicitly in a very small amount of data, and the associational model, despite a much larger amount of data & computation, does not effectively model the game

they are seriously taking out their angry divorced dude energy on a little kid

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

Dr. Oz: Look, I've made you a shiny on-line robot with which to replace human knowledge and contact! Rural people: ... Rural people: ... Rural people: ... Librarians at the only library within 50 miles: No, sir, you may not take off your pants to show the on-line robot your rash.

thank you for sharing this! printable version with alt text

Men publicly performing this kind of deference and submission to other men is the male equivalent of getting mar-a-lago face in this essay i will—

We are live! 25 Seahawks/Seattle sports items that I have collected over the years are up for grabs, with every cent going to @abortionfunds.bsky.social :) Seahawks fans, let's show 'em how much we love reproductive rights! Tell a friend to tell a friend... www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?s...

Feminist Theory Intro to Conflict Resolution Sociolinguistics Writers on Writing Math for Liberal Arts

We can honor Catherine O'Hara through buying, renting, and streaming her filmography over the next few days, so that the revenue is more than the box office receipts for "Melania" on opening weeken--oh, excuse me... [puts finger to ear] ...okay, yes, I'm being told that's already happened.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Around 2020 or so, this design, from artist Ben Sawyer, was a limited edition in Ilhan Omar's merch store:

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

Here's a map of solidarity rides if you're looking! bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

Rockwell Kent, "Moonlight in the Adirondacks", 1960, Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

Every time I talk to someone outside of Minnesota, we always spend time on *really* basic things they have don’t understand about what is happening here. So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

"So then I said, 'we can do this the easy way or the hard way.'"

"Once in the old neighborhood, when he was seven or eight, he’d fallen off his bike, his helmet splitting cleanly in half like a cantaloupe. He showed the halves to all the neighbor kids as a way to warn them to never ride without one." - @kristenradtke.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/86856...