“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

I really believe *it is that deep* If you struggle to empathize with complex, messy characters who have cruelty in their hearts, how are you going you react when you find cruelty in your own? Will you stuff it down and lie? Will you shame spiral? Or will learn to love the horrid parts of yourself?

If the contents of the 'Save America Act' actually matched its name, it would contain Articles of Impeachment

Authoritarian regimes are always good for exactly one group: Mediocre, small-minded, petty little garbage men.

A dog whose person is snacking on beef jerky

An epochal change has almost silently swept over the American workplace. This trend affects workers and customers alike and can, in part, help explain a range of factors that have made American life increasingly chaotic.

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

« Today is the Equinox at Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, when sunlight and shadow create the famous illusion of Kukulkán, the feathered serpent, descending the steps of El Castillo. It remains one of the most iconic astronomical spectacles associated with the ancient Maya » By Architecture & Art

I don't know how book banning is a thing. The minute a librarian or teacher is asked to remove a book they should ask for that request in writing, with names attached, and go straight to the socials with this fuckery

the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Have you found yourself looking at the current candidates for U.S. Senate in Maine and wondering if any of them show up for workers then they aren’t campaigning? I’m the only elected union officer in this race and I’ve been speaking up for workers for years. Check it out: www.andreaformaine.com/news

Edina High School students develop app to connect patients receiving infusions Full story: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/edina-high-school-students-develop-app-to-connect-patients-receiving-infusions

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

People are saying the expected things here, but also “why is this scientist‘s politically inconvenient research being ignored by the public” is kind of an ancient story in this country

📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did. The fight against book bans is about democracy. We can’t take our values for granted. 📖 #Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy

I really appreciated this @startribune.com long fact check of statements made by the Feds before during and after their occupation of Minnesota. The results will not surprise you.

Even if the tech giants get the AGI they're hoping for, we have to make it completely unprofitable for them. They forget the fundamental force of the market is the consumer; we have the power to make it fail.

good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.

Free answer for the mayor for next time: "You know, that's a great question for the mayor of [relevant city]."

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

The two parties are not the same

Sign up for 30 prompts to write poems in April, a fundraiser to benefit the City of Refuge, a group that supports new immigrants in Columbia, Missouri. #writing #amwriting #poetry #refugees cityofrefugecolumbia.org/event/poem-a...

It’s that time again…

You know how your iPhone prompts you, every time you download an app, to decide whether it should be able to track you? This is why.

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

Virologist Charlotte Friend (b. #OTD in 1921) proved viruses could cause cancer (1957) & revolutionized virology (& helped define modern retrovirology). She later pioneered differentiation therapy, showing cancer cells could be "reverted" to health, defining a new path to treat cancer. #WomenInSTEM

Turns out it’s only a lot of reading if you do it.

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Different sizes of oil tankers. A VLCC can carry around 2 million barrels of oil. ULCC between 3 to 4 million barrels. Current price per barrel around 90usd

i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

we have saved daylight but at what cost

Taking a break with a watercolor class

When I voted for Biden, it wasn’t because I thought Biden was PERFECT. I knew he would attract a first class team for the agencies. Good people would want to be in his Administration. Many of the same people would have served under Kamala. Look at the morons & kooks Trump attracts. It MATTERS.

GOP-held Senate seats that were on the map in March 2025: North Carolina Maine GOP-held Senate seats that are on the map in March 2026: North Carolina Maine Ohio Alaska Texas Iowa Nebraska Montana A lot can change in a year. A lot more can change in 8 months. Organize. Donate. Register. Vote.

As I was saying: A great night to consider running for office.

I need liberals to do the same as MAGA; stop bringing up presidents that are no longer relevant.

Fascists aren't doing one horrible thing to distract from another. They are just doing lots of different horrible things because that's who they are.

The very idea that after the last year the US has been through we’re supposed to think some other government is more of a threat

If you live in Louisiana, click this link from @la-cac.org to send a letter to your U.S. Representative. Say NO to book bans. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... @ydlouisiana.bsky.social @lademos.bsky.social @ifrt-ala.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social @aabbri.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social

It’s amazing to see Gavin Newsom, Rahm Emanuel, etc running the same playbook that has Labour in shambles here and people refuse to see how it’ll play out just the same.

Gonna be honest. The books we read when we were young are incredibly important to us. But…that’s books. Plural. It buys us margin to let some of them go.

My brain doesn’t know how to process watching the USA women hockey players singing the national anthem wearing their gold medals while Republicans in Washington are trying to take away their right to vote.

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

All the "don't say gay" crap in schools is always billed as inappropriate for small children, so now that the 10 commandments are mandated in Texas K-12, I'm over here 🍿 🍿 waiting for folks having to explain adultery and fornication. (With apologies to teachers, I know it sucks for you)

'At a moment when your government is rounding people up and building camps to concentrate them — and you know *everyone in the world knows it* — some ambivalence when you’re at an international competition is not just understandable but unavoidable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Eileen Gu will never be the traitor JD Vance wants her to be: defector.com/eileen-gu-wi...

This country needs a Revolution not the Book of Revelation.