Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.

He just washed his hair and can’t do a thing with it!

Love this movie!

How many wars have we fought since these programs were put in place (Medicare and Medicaid)? Pretty sure one of them lasted multiple years. And yet Medicare and Medicaid survived mostly intact.

Not a lot of Hormuzing going on lately

She does realize these are her grandcats?

This substack is totally worth it!

Jacaranda trees in bloom lining Fairfax in South Hollywood, CA I consider this a very mediocre picture but I’m posting it today in contrast to yesterday’s amazing pic as a test. I paired yesterday’s with Malcolm X and those pics never do numbers. Methinks the folks on this platform need a lot more Malcolm in their lives. Ninnys.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker

Pic of the day
#photography

Congratulations!

I think every state AG should attend.

Just finished Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt. Really prophetic book from the Nixon era about how left-wing movements can move on when there is no clear political agent for progressive change and far-right authoritarianism is on the rise.

THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer YouTube video by The Librarians Film

Looks good
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I wonder if the pardons were signed by auto-pen? As we know, that would make them invalid.

US posts record $145b budget deficit for December.

I miss my dog, especially in the season she left me ...

every January
between the crocus carpets
I find sticks to throw
although my dog died years ago
she still fetches memories

#tanka #haiku #dog #dogs #vss365 #micropoetry #

40% of Americans don’t even have $1000 saved to put to any kind of emergency www.usnews.com/banking/arti...

Pretty sure the 78 rpm record is still in my parent's basement. Time to dig it out.

But how does that affect them? Unless they stand to lose $$ and power, they don't care.

#ICE is improperly labeling their vests. They are not the police.

This is one of those things that more people should know about, right @msmedicaid.bsky.social ???? The same applies at SSA to be honest. If you feel like we fucked up, appeal it every time. 👏👏👏👏

Since some are confused:

1. SCOTUS did not hold that Trump is immune from prosecution for anything at all that he does.

2. Even if it had (and it did not) we must name all his crimes.

3. Nothing SCOTUS has or could hold prevents Congress from impeaching and removing any President, for any reason.

I went into the Army after college. I think we had an inkling of what an illegal order might be if it came from our immediate chain of command. An order coming from the Secretary of Defense - not so much. Our chain of command was supposed to protect us from those types of orders.

Then we'll have the weekend to recover!

Me too. Hoping it will be catching up on emails and wishing people a HNY.

Add to this hot-desking and hoteling for the perfect work experience. Sigh.

But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Michael Crichton Lost World