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Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

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Pop off queen

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The PRISM Project – Library Research Service

A study just came out of Colorado looking at prison libraries' contributions to pro-social behavior / reentry success, and I am very much looking forward to diving into it this evening to see their findings! 📚📜

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The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For | Los Angeles Review of Books Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado explains why humanities scholars need to articulate a more robust defense of their disciplines.

periodically, i post this utterly incandescent essay by @isanchezprado.bsky.social. it reminds me about the kind of work i’d like to pursue, the kind most worth pursuing, i think. and my gooooood, the prose. the prose, y’all.

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All I want for Christmas is a livestream of @michaelhobbes.bsky.social reading The Atlantic. It would be like Mystery Science Theater for poor writing.

This post is inspired by Thomas Chatterton Williams' latest Atlantic article.

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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

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FINAL DRAFT, How to Archive a Protest Zine.pdf

🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +

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Nature Is Always Listening: The Wondrous Science of How Mushrooms Respond to Music What playing music has to do with the happiness of the forest.

Nature is always listening – the wondrous science of how mushrooms respond to music www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/m...

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Imagine being so pathetic that all you can do is wail about evil socialist librarians as part of your try-hard, pick-me f@sc!st performance.

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Digital Dada or Futurist slop? An investigation into brainrot as art - Plaster Magazine Brainrot is a trend that has been plaguing the internet for a while, but is there darker intentions behind its popularity?

Günseli Yalcinkaya has so perfectly encapsulated how I think of brainrot. Dadaism In 25 years scholars will be writing about brain rot as Dadaist art.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

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Zine Librarians unConference 2025 | zinelibraries.info

The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚

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An unwrapped tamale.

An unwrapped tamale.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

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For anyone who got a feedback request from Clarivate (Ex Libris) today - zine from Librarians & Archivists with Palestine

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Our carceral system is the product of choices. We should, and could whenever we want to, make radically different choices. #abolish

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Get Your Copy Zines are available by donation, with all profits going directly to the authors.

www.coastallinespress.com/p/get-your-c... Buy zines from Gaza to get the creators' work out there and to support them financially. Please add Coastal Lines zines to your library collections! 🇵🇸 📚

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Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms “Imagination is the precursor to policy, the precondition to action. Imagination, like wonder, allows us to value something.”

"Peter Rabbit" creator Beatrix Potter's little-known scientific studies of mushrooms (which help mycologists identify species to this day) and of lichens (the mysterious reproduction of which she discovered, revolutionizing their place in the kingdoms of life) www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/b...

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Fans say handmade paper zines more relevant than ever in an age of digital surveillance “Zines bring people to the table and they can move people beyond, toward action,” says Cynthia Hanifin, founder of Zine Club Chicago.

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Alarming Criminalization of Green Card Holder Based on “Antifa Materials” - National Lawyers Guild As the federal government’s repression of dissent expands, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is increasingly alarmed at the situation evolving in Johnston County, Texas, in relation to the Prairieland ...

Frightening.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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Let it be known that I now know how to find the correct terms to catalog zines on farts.

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From the ZineLibraries community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the ZineLibraries community

I'm already compiling a ton of resources from the zine conference. Here is a list of free zines, www.reddit.com/r/ZineLibrar...

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Yellow website banner with colorful zine making supplies for zine libraries

Yellow website banner with colorful zine making supplies for zine libraries

Resurrecting my Bluesky account to post about the Zine Librarians Unconference!

Showering, assembling coffee, and then away we go!

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My father passed yesterday.

He had gastric bypass 15 years ago and has had health issues since.

He died from complications from that surgery. The underlying colon issue was exacerbated by Ozempic. The doctor said the inside of his colon looked like ground beef.

Skinny doesn't mean healthy.

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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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