Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Library workers are warning of the consequences of cuts to federal funding. Members of @afscme.bsky.social, the largest union of cultural workers, are speaking up about what could be lost if funding goes away: www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-... Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries

An Attack on One Is an Attack on All. Stand Up. Speak Out. Defend Workers. Protect Immigrants. Fight for Our Freedoms. 📍 Find an action near you and show up to demand:
 ✊The release of David Huerta
 🛑 An immediate end to ICE raids
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

borders and states aren’t real, anybody who wants to stroll into the U.S. should be able to do so whenever they want, I don’t fuckin care

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

The jerk store called. They voted 11-3 to unionize! Everyone welcome Jerks Local 217

This is it. Having unionized my library you'd be surprised (or you wouldn't) by how many librarians opposed unionization and specifically opposed our contractual protections for trans and BIPOC staff. Library workers are just people, and just as bigoted as every other person.

I think a clear concrete question people who are worried about the present political trajectory can ask themselves is "how can I support AFSCME and AFGE?"

In These Times is proud to announce the inaugural Labor Organizer of the Year award. Three recipients will be individually awarded a one-time, ​“no-strings-attached” cash award of $25,000, with an additional $25,000 to be distributed to each of their respective organizations, campaigns or unions.

As always.

Angie K just posted a shady video directed at a former #RHOSLC who once sat in the same seat she is currently sitting in 🤭

👀the butterfly piece

Touching to have Spotify celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my layoff by demonstrating that they could not, in fact, still do Wrapped just as well without me.

I’ll go further. A child in the library is a patron, and, as such, is no one’s property. In my network, when we issue a library card to a kid, we make a point of telling that kid that no one else can use it *or* find out *how* they used it. We are not parents’ deputies. 📚

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now

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FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE GET ALL OF YOUR VACCINES NOW.

when we get new mcr music tomorrow. then you will all see

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

ok hi trying to use this app more !! tell me something good

@autumnbottom.bsky.social youre so right abt iwtv

can you not be like,, locked on here lol