Alana Kumbier
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Zines, libraries & archives, making things with paper. End genocide, arms embargo, now and forever.
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Prisonculture
3 days ago
If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.
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Kate
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ilu Merriam-Webster
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about 2 months ago
In a society, survival is collectivized Thereās no society without that
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Polly Atkin
about 2 months ago
One of the many small bits of writing I'm doing this month is academic essay on
#NatureWriting
and disability, but not working in academia now I feel out of the loop about new scholarly work in the area. I know
@louisekenward.bsky.social
is working on this area, but who else should I be aware of?
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Dorothy Berry
2 months ago
Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.
www.weherepress.org
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Shannon Mattern
2 months ago
I was glad to learn tonight about the
@sealibrary.bsky.social
project, which reminded me of these š āļøšš
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Erica Ifill
2 months ago
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
I was re-reading Tiya Miles's book about Harriet Tubman. And I was reminded again that we are all called to take action within our capacity to address injustice in our own time. And that Tubman was embedded within a COMMUNITY which is what enabled her to do+
tiyamiles.com/books/night-...
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People - Tiya Miles
With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman's life into the fabric of her world.
https://tiyamiles.com/books/night-flyer-harriet-tubman-and-the-faith-dreams-of-a-free-people/
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Annalee Newitz
3 months ago
There are people everywhere. Look around.
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Phil Lewis
3 months ago
Home Depot and Lowe's share data from hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras with law enforcement
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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/
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Wild Ramp Publishing
3 months ago
Also, disability justice zine microgrants are back for fall! This time I'll be giving out three $250 grants. Any kind of zine is welcome but I am giving a priority to perzines this time.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Disability Zine Microgrants
Wild Ramp Publishing offers four $250 grants to cover printing costs for zines with a disability justice focus. Our grants support zine production and distribution, focusing on marginalized and underr...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3QYobrgaV149iD0sCQhh2UYYWDbEBOo3bR-6RuHYEDNJYCw/viewform?usp=header
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Senator Bernie Sanders
3 months ago
The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israelās illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people. The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children. Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.
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Disability in LIS journal
3 months ago
We are now open for even more submissions! In addition to book reviews, we will now also be publishing academic articles and Notes from the Field (less formal, more blog) about library/archives work and disability
cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...
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Letter from the Editor v2
2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/iss2025/21/
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
3 months ago
Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries ā leading to even more deaths. ENOUGH. I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
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Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve
Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gaza-starvation-senate-democrats-urge-u-s-to-stop-funding-ghf-resume-support-for-un/
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ā¶ Anarchist Federation News š“
3 months ago
Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
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Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.
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@massivebookshop.bsky.social
is matching donations to the Sameer Project up to $1300. Can you join me in contributing to their campaign?
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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[W4G] $1,300 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 22: New match! The wonderful people of Massive Bookshop have offered to match the next $1,300 in contributions!Ā (The $500 match from writer and professor Christina Sharpe has been met!) Today is...
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-poets-matching-campaign
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Colin Yeo
3 months ago
In the United States people are treated like animals.
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
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āYou Feel Like Your Life is Overā
The 92-page report, āāYou Feel Like Your Life is Overā: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,ā documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration
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Roopika Risam
3 months ago
Here's a write-up of my keynote from
#DH2025
, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now.
roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
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Anna Kornbluh
4 months ago
we can have nice things
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Sophia Babai
4 months ago
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdaniās dad (same like āmy stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmatesā) and apparently the New York Times doesnāt understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my momās people!
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Sunny Moraine
4 months ago
It has a very real chance of failingāand *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than youād think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
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Called my Representative, Richard Neal, to thank him for his earlier No vote and to encourage the same today. Took less than a minute. If heās your rep, too, call 202-225-5601.
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Bony Skeletino š
4 months ago
librariesā services and resources amount to a drop in the bucket for most public budgets. the bang-to-buck ratio is huge. killing the IMLS alters the federal governmentās fiscal situation not one bit. cruelty is the *only possible* point. š
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Moira Birs
4 months ago
Safety planning & preparation for organizers & community leaders in this moment of growing authoritarianism in the US is essential. And, as I learned as an international accompanier in Colombia under an authoritarian government, we must also bring our values of community, care, & joy to that work.
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Emily "Babe" St. James
4 months ago
I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._
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David Ho
4 months ago
Weāre wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
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Only two years left of worldās carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Shannon Mattern
4 months ago
Last semester a staff member from a historic preservation lab audited my methods class and decided to create a series of zines highlighting the archival resources that inform preservation projects. She submitted a prototype in Dec ā and today I received in the mail a hard copy of the first issue!
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Gillian Branstetter
4 months ago
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DONATE TO THE TRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY PROJECT
Your donation helps families of transgender youth nationwide navigate cruel bans and restrictions on gender-affirming care. The Trans Youth Emergency Project is the largest national program of its kin...
https://southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/37
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United Farm Workers
5 months ago
We feed you. They hunt us.
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Zaki Hasan
5 months ago
The galaxy is watching.
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Orkney Library & Archive
5 months ago
Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.
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Death Panel
5 months ago
Now unlocked:
@reallandsend.bsky.social
&
@vickyacab.bsky.social
on the holes in the Trump administrationās grip on power and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself
on.soundcloud.com/LOH0A3aRSSuI...
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Sick Sad World w/ Vicky Osterweil (Unlocked)
Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released April 28th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time in solidarity with the protests in Los Ang
https://on.soundcloud.com/LOH0A3aRSSuIVrV3zF
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Miriam Posner
5 months ago
Horrible for every person in the United States.
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Prisonculture
5 months ago
Warren's report is here:
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
- It's 14 pages and could likely be turned into a 5 page artful zine that can be printed and distributed across the country.
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dan sinker
5 months ago
For more than a year, Iāve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time Iāve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it.
dansinker.com/posts/202ā¦
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my views do not represent those of my employer
5 months ago
Today in
#ZineCataloging
Burning Knowledge, Shattering Lives: Ranganathan's Five Laws in the Shadows of Genocide by Omar Al-Samadi
www.abandonedaffair.com/projects/bur...
Al-Samadi demonstrates how each of Ranganathan's laws are violated by Israel's war on Gaza. ššš
#Ranganathan
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Burning Knowledge Zine
https://www.abandonedaffair.com/projects/burning-knowledge-zine
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Jesspooka Kant š
5 months ago
In addition to calling your senators on the daily as we brace for the gutting of Medicaid and the ACA, I want to encourage people to start connecting with others about how to defend healthcare in an environment where every insurance carrier is rushing to shed as many types of coverage as possible. š§µ
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Fobazi M. Ettarh
5 months ago
I only just came across this essay, but itās exquisite! Katherine Rundell (one of my fav childrenās authors) nails the importance of childrenās books, imagination, & the info lit skills necessary to absorb them. Itās why all the stats about the growing illiteracy of children/teens are so scary to me
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Saeed Jones
5 months ago
This is one of the most profound essays Iāve read in years. You donāt need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
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In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesnāt have to be so.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/in-defense-of-despair
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Dorothy Berry
5 months ago
At the request of
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
, here is a fun panel I was on last week my good friends and colleagues Steven Booth and Savannah Woods of
@afrocharities.bsky.social
I ran home from the New Haven train and logged in about 5 before showtime!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLF...
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Backstage: An Unfurling of the Johnson Publishing Company | Black Archives & Memory
YouTube video by Getty Research Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLFLCBocNU&pp=ygUSZ2V0dHkgc3RldmVuIGJvb3Ro
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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm
5 months ago
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
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Regulations.gov
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001
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Inspired by Guyās thread on developing transmasc style in dialogue with personal desire, embodiment, aesthetics, historical examples (to adapt and resist), cultural context. Imagining moving beyond my untuckable button downs.
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Blue Heron Farm
5 months ago
Y'all.
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Milo
5 months ago
Hey-o!
@chrisqzap.bsky.social
and I sound almost intelligible in this interview with
@caboosezine.bsky.social
for the new issue of
@razorcake.bsky.social
. Pick up a copy and read our blather about zines, history, queer community building, and the world we'd like to live in. š¤š©·š¤
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Asawin Suebsaeng
6 months ago
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Erin Grievances
6 months ago
As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable. Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
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Robert Maguire
6 months ago
So, if Iām reading this right: They gutted the office that runs the governmentās award-winning, in-house HR and staffing software, and now theyāve inked a sole-source, no-bid contract so that a private company on proprietary software can do what the office of civil servants did on in-house software
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Workday gets contract from US agency behind DOGE's staff cuts without competitive tender
The federal HR agency at the heart of billionaire Trump advisor Elon Musk's efforts to slash the federal workforce says it has awarded a contract for a new cloud-based HR platform to Workday without seeking bids from rivals.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/workday-gets-contract-us-agency-behind-doges-staff-cuts-without-competitive-2025-05-08/
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