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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Which is my way of saying that I fully affirm your suggested requirement. Taking out just a couple books a year is super-low effort. If they can’t even meet that measure… how can we expect them to put the effort in to lead well?

In addition to having interesting stuff on hand, it serves a couple purposes:
1. Usage numbers help make the case for library funding.
2. The library (here at least) depends on items circulating—they don’t have the physical space to hold everything at once.

For most of this century, I’ve made a point of trying to have a dozen or more items (books, DVDs, comics, ebooks, magazines, CDs) out from my library at all times (my hold queue is usually around 50 items—especially “on order”).
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“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

screenshot from linked to essay that reads: What is new is that, starting around 2015—in the wake of increased trans visibility in the media (sometimes called the “transgender tipping point”) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell legalizing same-sex marriage—social conservatives began shifting their efforts toward targeting trans people instead. The attacks have since grown into a highly coordinated and well–funded movement that churns out both anti-trans and broader anti-LGBTQ legislation at unprecedented levels. This is the real reason why Republicans have become obsessed with “fairness in women’s sports,” “biological sex,” “social contagion,” “restrooms,” “grooming,” and other soundbites that didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.

...btw I link to evidence that the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated and well–funded (especially via right-wing orgs) movement in this essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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For real. A day to especially *loudly* embrace renewable energy, and to celebrate the end of the fossil fuel industry.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.

The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

A literal death cult. No exaggeration.

NO WORK NO SCHOOL NO SHOPPING MAY DAY 2026

We’re excited to join May Day Strong, labor groups, and other allies to flex our economic power in a massive day of economic disruption on May 1.

There are many ways you can take action, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: www.mobilize.us/mayday/?utm_...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.

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White Supremacy is so strong that even on the edge of a nuclear cliff, leaders fail to act. War crimes and nuclear destruction are not enough of a threat. Everyone asking the question“what will it take?” now knows the answer— there is absolutely no price White Supremacy is unwilling to pay.

Whatever country you’re in, this is as good a time as any to demand a halt to all arms trade with the US.

In canada, Liberal MPs just refused the first step of closing the Israeli arms trade via the US.

*Call your MP now*
Don’t think about it:

www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...

It’s okay to be outraged and scared and tired and admit we don’t know what to politically do... and to still try to do something.

Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) I have been hesitating to hit send on this one, because across the world we are all under the shadow of Trump's threat to commit war crimes that will "eradicate a whole civilization" in Iran while Ira...

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Cityscape image of cyclist at an intersection with the text "April 16 @ 7pm EST, Bystander intervention to end street harassment."

We don't have to treat sexual harassment in public spaces as an inevitability.

Bystanders *can* intervene and change the narrative.

Join me this Int'l Anti-Street Harassment Week for a FREE training!

Open to anyone, anywhere. Cameras/mics off, so very chill!

Register:

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This is a big part of why traditional capitalist hierarchies (among any other structures) are unconscionable.

Any circumstance (aside from obvious situations like medical emergencies where the subject is incapacitated) where someone is making decisions affecting other people’s lives, without their *meaningful* input and consent, is immoral.

Abolish the fossil fuel industry or watch the extinction of our species.

I get that the delusional political advisors and commentators believe that we have to accept the continued domination by the oil industry—but that is a deadly lie.

I want the NDP to work for a good future, not industry.

An economy built on killing people and other destruction is not an economy that can be allowed to continue.

We can either manage the transition to the end of fossil fuel use now, or there will be no one left to have “an economy”.

How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion.

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Cityscape of people on bikes waiting at an intersection with the text "April 16 @ 7pm EST, Bystander intervention to end street harassment"

Spring is in the air which for many of us, means a return to being on high alert for street harassment.

Help create safer community spaces by getting training in effective bystander intervention!

It's FREE and focused on practical skills of de-escalation.

Don't miss out!

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Men need to women up and know when to help.

This is the domestic violence hand signal.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days.

A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

“Antifa” is a verb, not a noun. But it is not a “term that was coined by the other side”. It dates back to the 1920s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fa...

Which term are you referring to?

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”