a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...

Incredible that ‘What’s the point of standards?' is a thing someone asked seriously. How about quality for starters?

I'm learning that Debra Messing has gone off the rails. Bummer. I know she's been problematic for awhile now, but she's done a next level crash-out since Mamdani was elected. smh www.instagram.com/reel/DQu7OP1...

Join Library Trends for a webinar with authors from our two-part series “Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics.” Authors will share highlights of their work discussing how librarians are grappling with the effects of genAI on the field. Register at go.illinois.edu/GenAIandLibr...

Pollen-pocalypse! 🤧

Executives at my local public library are cutting jobs and devaluing librarians and other staff, and this book display reflects that 🔥 lol #librarysky (zoom in or check alt text for titles)

The operators of Camp Mystic, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic flooding, failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached, families of the victims allege in a lawsuit.

Digital Defenders: Social Media Street Teams | Tuesday, Nov 11, 7PM CT | In this Digital Defenders training, WM is showing you how to be part of the Women’s March’s Social Media Street Team — sharing memes, countering disinformation, and staying connected... act.womensmarch.com/signup/DDNov...

Dr. Roger Marshall. An embarrassment to medical professionals anywhere.

The only people who hate the Dem base more than Republicans are elected Dems. We exist solely to facilitate them getting richer in office.

A #Houston Food Not Bombs #volunteer has lost her daughter to #addiction. If you are able to send financial support to Beth, it is appreciated. Thank you friends, comrades, and allies. <3 #TX #Texas #FoodNotBombs #activism #community #support #aid #assistance #crisis www.gofundme.com/f/helping-be...

Houston Food Bank and Catholic Charities are expanding their services to help Texans who have lost access to food or money as a result of the government shutdown.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

If you think civility is more important than decency or morality, you're LIFEing wrong.

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

We're celebrating the release of Houston author @irenewritesthings new book THIS PLACE IS HOME ✨ book 2 of her K-pop romance series. You can choose to paint book 1 or 2 or bring your own copy of Irene's book from home. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-edge-...

Hi Houston! Have you ever wanted to learn book edge painting? No artistic experience necessary! At my book edge painting party Nov 16th 10am at @qamariahouston I'll teach you how to create beautiful gradient edges

🚨 SNAP benefits will now be fully funded— as they should’ve been in the first place. If you are still in immediate assistance at this time, please reach out to Nevada 211: nevada211.org

“When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining.”

Every M/W/F/Sun, #Houston Food Not Bombs serves vegetarian & vegan food to the unhoused + hungry at 7p. 11/9 we'll be giving out winterwear (all ages, sizes). A cold snap is coming Sun. overnight as temps dip below 40°. If you can help serve, drop off ready2eat food & apparel, the help is NEEDED! 🩵

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

I have been boycotting them for years, but i'm glad to see others are finally on board.

BREAKING: Book banning extremist group “Moms For Liberty” LOST ALL 31 of their races. Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023. This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!

THEYRE CLOSING THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THIS SYSTEM TO BAN BOOKS BECAUSE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TOLD THEM TO. This is a big fucking story. They won't be the only ones.

Black Queer Book Club Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:00 PM 4:00 PM The Rose Garden 2310 Elgin Street Houston, TX, 77004 #BookClub #BlackBookClub #FictionBook #Novel #Houston #TX #Texas #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TheMahoganyProject www.themahoganyproject.org/events/black...

Congressman Al Green's Eve of Filing Rally 8686 Kirby Drive Nov 7 from 6pm to 8:30pm CST www.eventbrite.com/e/congressma...

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

I’ll be on Egberto Willies' Politics Done Right tomorrow morning, 11/6, from 6-7 for the Houston Democracy Project weekly hour. You can listen on KPFT 90. 1 FM radio, stream from KPFT or on Egberto’s YouTube. @egbertowillies.com

3 new trustees elected to Cypress-Fairbanks ISD school board

Given the number of Dem & lib candidates that have won locally in #HTX but the overwhelming passage of the #TX propositions, tells me that the voters who supported throwing out the GOP & Far Right in office did not understand those propositions at all and voted for them down the line. smdh

Not yet populated, but a link to keep handy. #HarrisCounty #Houston #TX #Texas #election #results #Nov2025 www.harrisvotes.com/Election-Res...

If you're in the area, Kindred Church on Waugh and Missouri just a few blocks away from the Multiservice Center is a voting center. This map supposedly has wait times on it and it can direct you to the closest one. You don't have to vote at any particular location:

Creative Action Call - November 5th 7pm CT | Register to attend at www.backbonecampaign.org/creativeacti... #protest #creative #resistance #HighVisibility #HighVIs #HiVis #campaigns

That train is never late. youtu.be/poqoClsEhR4?...

Two of the media organizations that have really "met the moment" in national coverage are Teen Vogue and WIRED. Along with student-run college newspapers in general. And scores of local start-ups. The main hope for journalism (in its dark times) is the next wave of journalists.

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.

Please support these great candidates (Camarena, Guilmart, Lane) for #CFISD #Texas School Board Nov '25 by going to cyfairvoices.com The only way that happens is if everyone does something --and anything is better than nothing. #BESOMEONE #Election

The Trump administration is trying to weaponize Public Service Loan Forgiveness with an illegal rule that would disqualify borrowers who work for governments and nonprofits the administration disagrees with. Boston is filing suit with cities, unions, and nonprofits across the country to stop them.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

And to this point, a drum I've been beating since 2021, library databases like Opposing Viewpoints never created a research topic page for the January 6 insurrectiom due to sheer cowardice and are complicit in this erasure for college & high school students. www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...

The intersection of books being banned by people outside the library and those engaged in quiet censorship within the library is the outright banning of Banned Books Week.

See our new Loo Boo pins 2 show your support for #Trans community members. All earnings are donated to the grassroots activism & community work of #50501Houston #CommunitiesAtWork #HoustonCoalition in #Houston #TX #Texas #50501Movement #Activism #Resistance #LGBTQ #TransRights square.link/u/8SPVRnki

Our academic library system made AI a bullet point requirement of our annual performance review last year but it was very broad. Mine ended up being a libguide that covered its pitfalls, problems, and failures. I refuse to "incorporate it" into my workflows.

The extent to which AI FOMO is warping people's decisions is rather stunning, actually. I can see why the Anthropics and Googles would want this, but the other tech co managers going along with it ...

THE LIBRARIANS has been longlisted for the @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social Audience Choice Award! Vote thru Nov 3rd as many times as you like: cinemaeyehonors.com/audience-cho... @njasl.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social