When did they start?

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?

A promise made, a promise broken. NYCPLAN is disappointed @mayor.nyc.gov isn’t 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: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... youtube.com/shorts/_90PG...

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?

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

⚠️ Speaker of Iran parliament says negotiations will not begin until there is a ceasefire in Lebanon and blocked Iranian assets are released:

Automatic repost anytime I see the Virginia battle flag

"Sixty-five percent of registered voters support a millionaire's tax, while 20 percent oppose and 15 percent are not sure." hellgatenyc.com/talk-mayor-t...

I volunteered for the Zine Pavillion a few years ago, and had an excellent time. Wish I could go this year...FOMO!

Tribes are fighting federal funding cuts again. Trump’s budget for 2027 proposes deeps cuts for tribal housing, health programs, and economic development, while increasing money for war. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/pol...

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

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is finally getting a movie:

pobody’s nerfect!

Holy shit.

My nervous system is shot.

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.

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.

i cannot fucking believe we're doing 'we'll be greeted as liberators' again. are you fucking kidding me.

Unfortunately this is the norm for children and youth who are incarcerated anywhere. abcnews.com/US/wireStory... - people accept it as part of incarceration.

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.

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.

Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable

Melville saw it coming.

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.

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.

“Cognitive surrender” 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?

We call this "ISIS-posting"

I do not wish to profit off stolen valor but Claire Wilmot’s article here - about Titus Andronicus, Jeffrey Epstein, and the terrifying efficacy of discrediting accusers - is excellent

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

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.

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Here we go again. Here we go still.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

destroy the ex libris offices in the malha technology park, iran, make the librarians happy

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! 📚

163 - Organize Your Library We’re joined by the authors of the new book Organize Your Library to talk about library labor, the future, the ALA union drive, and more!

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 — out of organizing and anger that's built from Occupy to the 2016 Bernie campaign to Zohran's election. @us.theguardian.com

The sad thing is, American engineers and companies probably helped with this project, too. Meanwhile, back in the old U.S.A. ... 🙄

Also they will get voted on the instant that we take the house back

Israel has destroyed two churches in Lebanon.

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran

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....

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.

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

Hegseth wants a cis white man fired? That's a departure.

"NYC DSA co-chairs Grace Mausser + Gustavo Gordillo went a bit farther: 'Menin’s plan is DOGE-lite for New York City. Why does she think she can fill a $5.4 billion gap through ‘savings’ alone?... Working-class people will pay–just so millionaires like her don’t have to contribute to our city.'"

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.

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...

Iran responds to the rhetoric by Trump and Hegseth about bombing them “back to the Stone Age”:

Probably shouldn’t have nominated the kangaroos…