I interviewed someone that was detained at Delaney Hall and then suddenly deported. This comic follows some of their story. thank you to my patrons for the suggesting this topic, and E for willing to be interviewed.

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

Sounds like the Council and the Mayor did not come through with significant funding for our libraries.

Lmao

cops, capital and conservative cultural values are not a new platform in either party, lol

Some thoughts on political education, the printed word, & the threat of the Prairieland convictions. Cabral caption trans: 'think more to for better action. Act more for better thought.' 1/

📢 New zine announcement: “Zines Are Back! : The Perennial Reemergence of the Zine Scene” is a collection of news headlines featuring all the cliché “zines aren’t dead” stories that you’ve grown accustomed to (or resentful of). violetbfox.info/zines-are-ba... #zines

fomo!

Yooo

he doesn’t know passports are given to people who already live here does he

this is amazing 😭

BIG update + good news following email ending volunteers to Jail & Prison Services: NYPL affirms JPS will continue with *same* number of volunteers, just from central NYPL, not branches. Per source, internal email which provoked the uproar among librarians should have never gone out.

Carville wants to secede and form the Confederate Consultants of America.

With a little help from Chuck Schumer's wife.

As a group of fourth graders told their teacher, “AI ain’t it.”

NYC COME THROUGH! Saturday is the closing of the immersive abolitionist exhibit The Warehouse in Brooklyn. You simply must check it out before it's gone! More info: thewarehousenyc.com

Clever girl

REPORTER: Trump is not making life easier for you guys MIKE JOHNSON: I run a different branch of government. We're doing our job.

"Gracie, who is estimated to be about 3.5 to 4 years old, is a reticulated giraffe, a type known for its smooth, clean coat pattern, he said. The ranch did not disclose her height or weight." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

This is crybaby shit. It’s a primary. Other people get to run. If the incumbent loses, tough shit. Members of Congress should not be in the business of protecting their colleagues’ incumbency. Voters are supposed to decide.

People do not realize that the NYS assembly, overwhelmingly run by Democrats, has become a graveyard of social progress. But now, there are several left/progressives entering. HUGE

DOGE deaths, itemized.

In case you missed it, I wrote about how Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk hijacked billions of dollars in taxpayer money intended to provide future-proof fiber internet access

This statement is extraordinary and it makes me feel both sick to my stomach, knowing what has happened to him, and deeply sorrowful.

Hospitalgae tents

@mayor.nyc.gov your Executive Budget released last month falls 97 million short of the 0.5% you promised during your campaign. @council.nyc.gov we’re counting on you to secure necessary funds for NYC’s public libraries and allocate at least 0.5% of the overall budget to our three library systems.

this is unbelievable.

You know what underfunded public services need? More beige.

@council.nyc.gov NYC needs you to allocate at least 0.5% of the overall budget to our library systems. The complex technical work they do, both behind the scenes and socially in our communities,is essential for NYC. Don’t take our libraries for granted! 📸 Roxas Timmons w/Human Flower Productions

Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

The Regilded Age

Grateful to NYC based writers, authors and scholars who have signed on to An Open Letter to @mayor.nyc.gov urging him to adequately fund our public libraries. I see some @bsky.app mutuals on here as well as some fave writers. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

AI has been foisted upon us, for sure, but one reason it lands with so many is that LLMs *feel like* a solution for loneliness/estrangement/isolation: People who crave feedback and iteration but lack the courage or social capital to get it. Showing a first draft to someone is exposure. /1

Kalshi and Polymarket are turning catastrophe into a financial product. Users can place wagers on wars, natural disasters and nuclear detonation, while institutional investors profit from a growing pool of people searching for a way out of economic insecurity.

I’m sorry i couldn’t download this one for y’all. I hope the link lets you see it even if you don’t have Instagram. But, THIS is exactly the bullshit you get when you insist that libraries should be neutral. LIBRARIES. ARE. NOT. NEUTRAL. They are not “beige.” www.instagram.com/reel/DZornbH...

Calling all NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to sign this open letter to the Mayor re: public library budget docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @nycplan.org

this is a grim thread

Feds just cited the phrase “we must become ungovernable” as evidence that Minnesota activists being charged are dangerous.

thinking of this graph for no reason

bunch of bullshitters who all spooked themselves with their own bullshit

Absolutely worth your time. Anastazia really killed it.

I'm watching the School Library chat and you know it fucking sucks how few schools have librarians.

They're here, y'all! Give 'em a follow: @ltrainbrassband.com!

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Almost like putting the fate of challenged books solely into the hands of a handful of politically appointed parent volunteers was a bad plan. 🙄 www.dallasnews.com/opinion/edit...