@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 14 Blade: Sen. Markey (MA), Reps. Jayapal (WA) and Jacobs (CA) reintroduce Trans Bill of Rights. Co-sponsors in Senate: Warren (MA), Hirono (HI), Wyden (OR), Heinrich (NM), Padilla (CA), & VT's Sanders & Welch. In House: Takano (CA) + ~100 other Representatives.

‘Suicide is only one option': Social Security staff newly assigned to phone duties raise concerns over training www.govexec.com/management/2...

What are all these jobless people going to do after?

Art gift ideas for Mother's day, Easter or a spring birthday. Small original artworks at a small price that can be sent direct as a gift with a message and will easily fit in a standard letterbox. folksy.com/shops/thewee... #MothersDay #Easter #Spring #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork#GiftIdeas #bsnm

ICE took a severely disabled mans caregiver away, and it killed him. Wael Tarabishi was dependent on his father to be his arms, his legs and his lungs. His dad went for his regular immigration check in and never came home. He’s rotting in a camp, and Wael died. The cruelty is the point:

Made Tofu Musubi Bake for dinner and I would show a picture but we all ate it too fast because it was so good

Excellent thread but also, representation makes me love the show more.

Delighted to be included in the next Infected By Art book ~ thank you to the judges and IBA! And, an ✨Honorable Mention✨ in the Sculpture category for "Hungry For Knowledge"!!! 🥰

Surya Bonaly: Why Is Her Name Important In This Moment

I'm just going to go stare into the sun until I explode

Redlining links Black women & higher rates of breast cancer, @shapersyris.bsky.social reports. Recent research shows that living in redlined neighborhoods not only increases the risk of breast cancer for Black women, but also shapes their survival rates & broader health outcomes.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Assuming a machine trained on a massively cultural database shot through with inequality will not reproduce that inequality is magical thinking on a level that I’ve rarely seen.

There's still time to take action for Mexican gray wolves.🚨 Congress is considering a bill (H.R. 4255) that would end Endangered Species Act protections for Mexican gray wolves, based on misinformation. 📣Take action now: https://engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocacy?page=UserAction&cmd=display&id=217

Tag yourself. I'm "I am very tired, very stomachy &hate nearly the whole world"

This map is also a map of where the people are in America. It's important.

Happy Valentines Week fellow book lovers, enjoy! Feel free to screenshot our literary themed Valentines to send to your loved ones. And if you’d like the whole PDF to download and print, you can find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1KzV_fTC6FfPgn-ZD6s7bJ0If-PtpSCw2/view?usp=drive_link❤️📖💕💌📚💘

I guess he got Trump Media after all

We’re excited to share that iCivics is joining the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations! iCivics is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization and the largest provider of civic education curriculum in the US. Learn more about their work: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2026/02/09/f...

It always is about misogyny

Crickets from all the "law & order" people on the right

I don't think that test was supposed to be open note

Gallup has measured Presidential approval ratings for 88 years. Their last report on Trump had him with the lowest rating for any President record in history. Today they announced they won’t measure approval ratings anymore. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

If you can't make your own energy, store bought is fine. :adds extra shot of espresso to morning coffee:

Elizabeth Warren was called out as "impugning" Jeff Sessions for reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King but Bondi comes with insult flash cards & that's apparently fine now.

"What must be done? We must abolish ICE and the entire DHS. We must proclaim a general amnesty to all undocumented immigrants currently residing in America. We must decriminalize unauthorized immigration. And we must enshrine freedom of movement in the constitution."

Great news for @librarianjones.com: “The appellate court said Jones has a right to argue that the comments ‘were knowingly false or made with reckless disregard of the truth, and caused Ms. Jones injury, including harm to her reputation, contempt, ridicule, anxiety, and emotional distress.’”

Because I am receptive to (albeit pretty skeptical of) the technology if it works, I recently tested out an expensive new legal generative AI product. The solve? Table of Authorities generation: a time suck that has simple rules and doesn’t require “thinking.” The product? A complete failure.

#DailySkeletor #Affirmation

ME SCREAMING THIS AGAIN!!!! STOP SAYING "CLEAN" BOOKS CONTENT IS NEITHER CLEAN NOR DIRTY

I'm gonna beat this cold the New Mexican way by eating as much green chile as I can in a single sitting and burning all the germs from my system.

Artificial Intelligence some questions and answers from a Librarian’s perspective 📚📜 teenlibrarian.co.uk/2025/01/28/a...

Oh gods. She had cue cards

Y'all need to stop taking health advice from the Food Babe

What I can say definitively about the El Paso airport closure is that there was not a threat to the El Paso airport or its airspace and there was no legitimate reason to shut it down. Now we need answers about why airspace in New Mexico still remains closed.

A vivid example of "mission creep" and "libraries aren't essential services except when they're told to be" that are creating a mental health hellscape for library workers. bookriot.com/the-state-of...

NGL when Ake sat in the captain's chair like this I was happy ST: Starfleet Academy had a bisexual captain. IYKYK

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

Alums, time to organize LOUDLY on behalf of your educators. And alums with any access to donor cash— all the more so.

We all — hopefully — have a story about a moment in library when something wonderful happened to light a love of reading in our hearts.

No such limitation on Mexican airspace as far as I could tell. So wtf is going on?

As soon as Trump declared a "change in tone" by replacing Greg Bovino with Tom Homan, the dutiful media took his word for it and stopped paying attention to what's really going on in Minneapolis.

“The Federal Aviation Administration issued unexplained notices late Tuesday closing airspace over El Paso and a large patch of southern New Mexico west of Santa Teresa for 10 days. El Paso International Airport is closed to all flights, the city said.”

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No, AI written romance novels are not inevitable: aftermath.site/ai-romance-nov...

Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal

This article is from 2023. In 2025, a Georgia hospital did it. Adriana Smith. Say her name. ER staff misdiagnosed a clot in her brain. She was 9 weeks pregnant & brain dead. They kept her alive as an incubator without consent of the family. They experimented on a Black woman.

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This was going to be my contribution as well

I'm prepared to answer questions about Gay but my kids never asked me because they have gay, enby, and trans friends.