Rachel Jones
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Librarian & Writer. Should know better by now.
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Chase Madar
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When did they start?
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Kevin M. Kruse
1 day ago
Remember when all the hand-wringing centrists were saying how Mamdani was tied to Uganda, how Mamdani was a Muslim, how Mamdani had all these suspect foreign loyalties?
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NYC Public Library Action Network
3 days ago
A promise made, a promise broken. NYCPLAN is disappointed @mayor.nyc.gov isnāt keeping his promise to end the budget dance and fund our library systems at a minimum of 0.5% of the city budget. Tell him our our libraries deserve better:
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Mayor Mamdani responds to the public libraries budget question
YouTube video by Mariame Kaba
https://youtube.com/shorts/_90PGqnrrnM?feature=share
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Bruce Wilson
3 days ago
Here's a real life example of how AI is destroying scientific knowledge. This is scary b/c it's happening so fast. How soon before we can no longer trust any "facts" b/c what we once called facts have been replaced with fraudulent AI slop?
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Karl Bode
3 days ago
this would be less transparently pathetic if the focus on "costs, corruption, and affordability" actually included meaningful and consistent challenges to unchecked corporate power, which they're ALSO too feckless to do
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Leah McElrath
3 days ago
ā ļø Speaker of Iran parliament says negotiations will not begin until there is a ceasefire in Lebanon and blocked Iranian assets are released:
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Matt DeLong
3 days ago
Automatic repost anytime I see the Virginia battle flag
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Prisonculture
4 days ago
"Sixty-five percent of registered voters support a millionaire's tax, while 20 percent oppose and 15 percent are not sure."
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Talk Mayor to Me: First 100 Days
Hell Gate hit the streets to poll New Yorkers on Mamdani's tenure so farāplus more police reform stalling, and a child care chat.
https://hellgatenyc.com/talk-mayor-to-me-first-100-days/
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I volunteered for the Zine Pavillion a few years ago, and had an excellent time. Wish I could go this year...FOMO!
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Rebecca Nagle
5 days ago
Tribes are fighting federal funding cuts again. Trumpās budget for 2027 proposes deeps cuts for tribal housing, health programs, and economic development, while increasing money for war.
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Trump 2027 budget boosts defense spending to $1.5T, proposes cuts across tribal housing, lending and other key programs
Trumpās FY27 budget increases defense spending while proposing cuts to tribal housing, Native lending and key programs, even as IHS funding rises. Congress is expected to reshape the proposal.
https://tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/policy-and-law/15560-trump-2027-budget-boosts-defense-proposes-cuts-across-tribal-housing-lending-and-key-programs
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Ryan Goodman
5 days ago
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for
@icrc.org
to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
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Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.
https://www.icrc.org/en/news-release/lebanon-icrc-outraged-deadly-strikes-densely-populated-areas
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Reactor Magazine
5 days ago
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is finally getting a movie:
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Warner Bros. to Adapt Octavia Butlerās Parable of the Sower Into a Feature Film - Reactor
Melina Matsoukas is set to direct
https://reactormag.com/warner-bros-adapt-octavia-butler-parable-of-the-sower-film/
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CHOAM Economics
5 days ago
pobodyās nerfect!
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Kelly Barnhill
5 days ago
Holy shit.
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Saeed Jones
5 days ago
My nervous system is shot.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
6 days ago
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
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Laleh Khalili
6 days ago
It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.
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Joshua Erlich
6 days ago
i cannot fucking believe we're doing 'we'll be greeted as liberators' again. are you fucking kidding me.
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Prisonculture
7 days ago
Unfortunately this is the norm for children and youth who are incarcerated anywhere.
abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
- people accept it as part of incarceration.
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Child immigrant suffered alleged sexual abuse in federal custody, family says
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/3-year-immigrant-suffered-alleged-sexual-abuse-months-131738741
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Prisonculture
7 days ago
Thank you to every single person reminding
@mayor.nyc.gov
to keep his promise to fund the public libraries at 0.5% of the city expense budget.
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Heba Gowayed ŁŲØŲ© Ų¬ŁŁŲÆ
7 days ago
People cast border abolition or ICE abolition or prison abolition as unhinged ideas of leftist professors, but right now reality is taxpayer money funding corporations that turn a profit on incarcerating kids & keep margins down offering no healthcare, education, or good food. But I'm the crazy one.
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Molly Jong-Fast
7 days ago
Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable
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Virginia Scharff
8 days ago
Melville saw it coming.
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Aaron Rupar
8 days ago
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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I sent this article to my mom, because she is a Scorpio and sometimes harsh. I'm currently under-employed and looking for full-time library work.
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Martha Crawford
9 days ago
āCognitive surrenderā is the archetypal theme of the era. To normalization To misinformation and psyops and propaganda campaigns To forced dependency on LLMs To lies and wishes. How stubborn are you? How long can you hold out when people you love surrender all around you?
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Eliot Higgins
9 days ago
We call this "ISIS-posting"
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Claire Willett
10 days ago
I do not wish to profit off stolen valor but Claire Wilmotās article here - about Titus Andronicus, Jeffrey Epstein, and the terrifying efficacy of discrediting accusers - is excellent
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jesse
10 days ago
if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships
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Neil Flanagan š§±šļø
11 days ago
After being suckered and humiliated by Trump, classical architecture impresario Catesby Leigh is ready to return to his true passion: rehabilitating slavery's revenge monuments.
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Confederate Monumentsā Uncertain Future
Some have been banished or destroyed, and others are threatened, while one is slated for reinstallation.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/confederate-monuments-statues-cancel-culture
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
10 days ago
What a time to be alive
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time ā regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
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kelly jensen
10 days ago
Here we go again. Here we go still.
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Kim Kelly
10 days ago
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service š² āOne hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests⦠just handed, on a silver platter, to the people whoāve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.ā
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263?utm_source=Sidney+Hillman+Foundation&utm_campaign=e77cdc573d-SP_2025_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-73a8db7644-197674633
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quiabo the exhorter
11 days ago
destroy the ex libris offices in the malha technology park, iran, make the librarians happy
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Violet Fox š¦
11 days ago
Check out the new website for the Library Freedom Journal, published by the folks at the Library Freedom Project.
journal.libraryfreedom.org
They're looking for submissions for articles, reviews, hot takes, zines, & artwork focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, information democracy, & more! š
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librarypunk
10 days ago
163 - Organize Your Library Weāre joined by the authors of the new book Organize Your Library to talk about library labor, the future, the ALA union drive, and more!
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163 - Organize Your Library | librarypunk
Weāre joined by the authors of Organize Your Library to talk about library labor, the future, the ALA union drive, and more! Ā Media mentioned Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of...
http://librarypunk.gay/e/163-organize-your-library/
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
10 days ago
wrote about how rage at America's wealthiest, particularly in tech (Musk, Zuck, Thiel), and the inequality of a new gilded age is powering a wave of efforts to tax the rich ā out of organizing and anger that's built from Occupy to the 2016 Bernie campaign to Zohran's election.
@us.theguardian.com
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Billionaire fortunes have reached all-time highs under Trump. So has the movement to tax them
Residents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/tax-billionaires
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Silverlark Media
10 days ago
The sad thing is, American engineers and companies probably helped with this project, too. Meanwhile, back in the old U.S.A. ... š
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Paul Gowder
10 days ago
Also they will get voted on the instant that we take the house back
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Leah McElrath
10 days ago
Israel has destroyed two churches in Lebanon.
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Athena Akrami
11 days ago
Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombingš It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now goneš A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl
#War
#PasteurInstituteIran
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Matt Seybold
11 days ago
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Eileen Clancy š§æ
11 days ago
Vitally important work exposing massive misconduct and violence by DHS agents. Crucially, names are attached to events. More than 60 BORTAC and BORSTAR agents were identified by
@wired.com
from documents and video turned over in litigation. 78 incident reports indicate 144 discrete uses of force.
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Anna Bower
11 days ago
In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.
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Kevin M. Kruse
11 days ago
Hegseth wants a cis white man fired? That's a departure.
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Shannon Mattern
11 days ago
"NYC DSA co-chairs Grace Mausser + Gustavo Gordillo went a bit farther: 'Meninās plan is DOGE-lite for New York City. Why does she think she can fill a $5.4 billion gap through āsavingsā alone?... Working-class people will payājust so millionaires like her donāt have to contribute to our city.'"
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The council released its budget rebuttal. Mamdani slammed Menin personally.
Jarring some council members, the condemnation came swiftly and straight from the mayor.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/04/council-released-its-budget-rebuttal-mamdani-slammed-menin-personally/412568/?ref=hellgatenyc.com
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Naomi Kritzer
11 days ago
If there is one thing that I think the two Trump administrations have truly, conclusively proven, it's that the Evangelical right in this country would 100% fall for the antichrist, would line up to get the mark of the beast, would force their neighbors at gunpoint to get the mark of the beast, etc.
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones
12 days ago
This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
gofund.me/f7704eb98
Read what happened to this hero:
www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...
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Rutherford County Library Board fires director after she refuses to relocate 132 children's books
Dr. Lu-anne James called the board's order to move books with LGBTQ+ themes to the adult section an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherford-county-library-board-fires-director-after-she-refuses-to-relocate-132-childrens-books
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Leah McElrath
11 days ago
Iran responds to the rhetoric by Trump and Hegseth about bombing them āback to the Stone Ageā:
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A.J. Bauer
11 days ago
Probably shouldnāt have nominated the kangaroosā¦
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