The country is at war but Trump is still out here ranting about his ballroom

Dem Senator Trashes ‘Sham’ Meeting Of Trump’s Kennedy Center Board

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rips Trump's "sham" Kennedy Center board meeting today:

"Current management has so severely looted the Center through self-dealing, favoritism + waste that it now seeks to cover up those failures by shuttering the Kennedy Center altogether.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Has Breast Cancer

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019.

Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate.

Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes.

Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves • Missouri Independent A Jackson County Circuit Court struck down a 2022 law that criminalized school employees for providing "sexually explicit material."

!!! Missouri just killed the law that prosecuted school employees for providing "sexually explicit materials" to students.

missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do The abrupt early recess in the House of Representatives means the future of IMLS funding remains a question mark. Use this time to act.

The early recess called in the House of Representatives means that the Appropriations committee didn't yet markup the budget related to the future of the IMLS.

What this means & what you can do to save public libraries & museums across the country: bookriot.com/imls-funding...

State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records The White House search for partners in its global gulag has grown to 64 nations. Most of them are notorious violators of human rights.

Trump administration is creating a Global Gulag

The U.S. has sought deals with 64 nations to accept 3rd-country nationals

58 were rebuked for human rights violations by the U.S. That's 91%!

More than 8,100 people have been expelled in this manner since January 20

theintercept.com/2025/07/29/t...

Supreme Court Protects Federal Broadband Funding | American Libraries Magazine The ALA applauded today's Supreme Court 6–3 decision to uphold the Universal Service Fund, which funds the E-Rate program.

NEW: The Supreme Court has ruled to protect the Universal Service Fund, the E-Rate broadband discount program's funding mechanism!

This is a seismic win for communities that rely on the E-Rate program at their libraries and schools: americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #ForOurLibraries

A screen shot of five sessions from a library conference

WHY are all these sessions at the same time?! 😭

Has a time machine been invented yet?

#ALAAC2025

Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention

Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.

why am i not surprised he doesn’t understand that no means no

No Dem is the worst of the worst right now. That honor belongs to the MAGAs. This lib 💜s you, but this characterization is beyond silly.

Incredible stuff

www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The Democracy Index This week’s edition of The Democracy Index is especially important.

This week’s edition of The Democracy Index is especially important. We write every week with people who have less time to engage with the news in mind. Our goal is to make sure everyone has access to information about what’s happening to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Job standing in front of a car

Bradford, job and two friends hanging at dodger stadium

Bradford and job sitting in his car

Bradford, Job and two friends hanging

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity.

ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

Publish an op-ed in your student newspaper advocating for human rights?

You’re a national security threat, and should be abducted and imprisoned for months.

Write a capstone paper arguing the Constitution only protects and empowers white people?

You’re a free speech champion worthy of an award.

CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

NEW ANALYSIS: Red states spent their legislative sessions stealthily restricting ballot access.

Here are the most important new voting laws that will shape elections in 2026 and beyond:

By:
‪@yuniorarivas.bsky.social‬ and @jenrice.bsky.social‬

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/red...

The newest issue of The Political Librarian includes "A Love Letter to Libraries in Our Darkest Hour" by special Guest Editors Allison Jennings-Roche and Paul T. Jaeger.

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‘“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge to the #Trump admin!

In America, we have no Kings, no Queens, no nobles, no dictators, and no emperors. We have no slaves, no serfs and no subjects.

Just us—‘We the People.’

#nokings

A few hundred Americans of all ages standing in dappled sun with flags and signs

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

Today, the U.S. Army plans to roll tanks and march troops through the streets of Washington, D.C., in a massive parade to celebrate its 250th anniversary.

Here are five things $45 million could pay for instead of a massive military parade: www.splcenter.org/resources/ho...

I encourage people protesting to be non destructive and non violent. And I remind: Proud Boys like infiltrating crowds, whipping up normies (this is what happened on 1.6) and creating chaos. Putting you, using your 1a, in peril. Distinguish yourself from these goons always. Heads on swivels, folks.

Why are people so triggered by the Mexican flag at the LA protests? | Daniel Peña The flag serves as a reminder of a fundamental truth about Mexican Americans: we are from here; we are also from there

Why are people so triggered by the Mexican flag at the LA protests? | Daniel Peña