📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did.
The fight against book bans is about democracy.
We can’t take our values for granted. 📖
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy
Shoutout to all the money that was invested in this, that could have powered a coast-to-coast network of midsize metro dailies until the heat death of the known universe.
I saw a yank recently talk about how in America Transphobia is absolutely being led by a small bubble of centrist establishment journos, opinionists & politicians & in the same post basically go 'not like the UK, where everyone is just naturally a bigot' and MACKENZYE YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO GETTING IT
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.
anthropic: I have made AI
tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
american century of humiliation incoming
"UBI is not a ceiling that holds us down. It is a floor. And when you give human beings a solid floor to stand on, they don’t lie down.
They reach for the stars."
Israel collects tens of billions in American subsidies, treats the trillion-dollar American military as its personal plaything, and contemptuously ignores U.N. resolutions to halt annexations of Palestinian land. In return, America gets its international reputation tarnished.
If you wanted any clearer evidence that Shield has been infiltrated by Hydra
As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.
Сut оff hаnds of every developer who worked on “Claude” and then isolate every user of this piece of shit for life
Tenure protects faculty’s right to teach & students’ right to learn. It's integral to the pursuit of knowledge and research, and to free speech and expression. Scrapping tenure silences educators & stymies medical research. @AFT.org & @AAUP.org are fighting this www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...
I think we should just go ahead and formally abolish the Senate, because this current thing where they don't do their jobs but draw a paycheck isn't really working for me
this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
We could do $12,000 every year, or better yet, $1,000 every month (or better yet $1,300/mo per person instead of per household of four). And we could do it for everyone instead of only households under $150,000 in annual income and call it universal basic income instead of direct payments.
Insane.
The anti-trans movement wants an absolute right of parents to control their children, from the kids' religion to their gender. The state must obey the parents.
Except when the parents want to affirm their children as transgender. Then the state can do whatever the fuck it wants.
man if only a massive green energy infrastructure package had been passed like five years ago
boy it sure is strange that they never write op-eds about how the fash regularly calling various sitting members of congress anti-american commie terrorists is disrespectful to the people who voted for them
Democrats should promise that every refugee, asylum seeker, and green card holder illegally deported, arrested, sent to CECOT, or sent to a third country can come back to the U.S. with a fast track to citizenship.
The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.
Please understand this is not an Epstein distraction, Israel has been wanting this for 50 years and trump did not need to be blackmailed to do this. This is American imperialism.
When legislators and their staffers post whiny rants like this, it's a sign that they're in distress because your tactics are working. A wonderful moment to hit them even harder.