📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
Hey all,
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The 511 flying down Bathurst today with the new dedicated lanes (hi @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social!) I used to be able to physically outrun the streetcar on this stretch, and now it takes me just 15min to get to a doctor appt at Toronto Western by streetcar 🥹
YESSSSSS!!!!
Is there a HELL NO option?
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Depending on your personal situation, if you are able to donate some or all of it - some charities will repurpose fractional or whole gifts cards for folks in need.
Example from Toronto:
fixthe6ix.ca/regiftcard/
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Trans youth who are hurting in Alberta right now, please know SO many of us see you, care about you, and know you deserve to be protected.
We’ve got your back and will do everything we can to keep you safe in the face of attacks from craven, pathetic politicians ❤️
This article was SO GOOD. Thank you for writing it.
Two kicks at being contemptuously notwithstanding in three weeks. This time on the backs of trans youth.
The notion that human rights protection must above all be there for the most vulnerable in society means nothing in Danielle Smith's Alberta.
#ResistanceEarth
What if you could take a waste product and make a biodegradable material with the qualities of plastic? That's what MIT senior Jacqueline Prawira has done with fish scales. She also helped develop a low-carbon process for making cement.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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A poster depicting a lighted candle on a blue square over the colours of the trans flag, with the words: Trans Day of Remembrance November 20th 7:00 pm Vigil and Prayers St. Simon’s 1450 Litchfield Road, Oakville
St. Simon’s will be hosting
the Diocese of Niagara Vigil
marking Trans Day of Awareness.
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 7pm
St. Simon’s Anglican Church
1450 Litchfield Road, Oakville ON
More of this please. ALL of this please.
TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents
From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.
Heck yes!!!!
Open source revolution here we come.
Ms. Brown speaking the truth 🔥
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
Whoa. This is major. :(
Here's an obvious, easy, fun move: Every day, Dems should stage a mini-press conference showing video of Karoline Leavitt's latest lies, and then providing the corrections and the truth. It's like solar power--an infinite resource. It needn't be a Congressperson, but an official Dem spokesperson.
Katie Wilson, a longtime progressive organizer and founder of Seattle’s Transit Riders Union, has been elected as Seattle’s next mayor. She defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell.
Wilson campaigned on expanding affordable housing, improving public transit, and enacting fairer taxation policies.
#HigherEd, please read this. Resist and regulate. #AI #AcademicSky
"Occasionally, when King lingered on the downstream effects of his work, he felt like Dr. Frankenstein looking at his monster."
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
🗣🗣🗣BUT HIS EMAILS
I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
A banner which read "Stop killing children - Stop killing civilians" was displayed by Uefa before the Super Cup final between Tottenham and Paris St-Germain on Wednesday.
The sign was shown on the pitch in front of the players as they lined up before kick-off at the Stadio Friuli in Udine, Italy.
