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submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

So what’s the political takeaway from these poll results? They suggest that Bernie Sanders is on the right track in criticizing the superrich in particular—the top 1 percent as opposed to the top 10 percent. https://trib.al/qKjSJ0r

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health. - Albert Camus

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

If 102-year-old Kurt Goldschmidt, a survivor of the Holocaust, says "no kings" you'd best get up and stand up for your rights before it's too late. Mr. Goldschmidt knows all too well what he's seeing in Trump's America. It was an honor to stand with him today. #NoKingsInAmerica

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

VIDEO: Here is the Regime treating a duly elected U.S. Senator like a farm animal because he had the temerity to ask questions of Kristi Noem. Fascism is here. The jackboot of Big Government is pressing down on all our faces, and the only question is what we do next.

submitted 8 days ago • 267 comments

New interview up on my blog! I talked with author Annette LeBlanc Cate, picture-book author/illustrator of several excellent titles! www.benjaminludwig.com/blog/interview-with-author-annette-leblanc-cate

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

submitted 14 days ago • 109 comments

once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 14 days ago • 236 comments

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!" We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

Benjamin Ludwig Interviews Meg Eden Kuyatt Benjamin Ludwig and Meg Eden Kuyatt talk about her new book, THE GIRL IN THE WALLS. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/05/27/b... @tltkaren.bsky.social @megeden24.bsky.social @benjaminludwig.com

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The news cycle may have moved on from Dr. Carla Hayden’s unjust firing from her position as Librarian of Congress, but I haven’t. I suspect you are feeling the same way.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

"The fake summer reading list is dated May 18, two months after the Chicago Sun-Times announced that 20% of its staff had accepted buyouts" www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 31 days ago • 689 comments

Great job everyone

submitted 48 days ago • 42 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 40 days ago • 2242 comments

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

submitted 41 days ago • 985 comments

For Sir David: 🎂

submitted 43 days ago • 185 comments

Commentary from Megan Tuttle, @neahn.bsky.social : "We can’t afford to let them turn funding for public school students and teachers into private school vouchers. We can’t afford to let them slash programs like Medicaid and children’s health insurance that keep students healthy and ready to learn."

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Marc Brown is the creator of the iconic PBS KIDS character, 'Arthur.' Please take a few moments to learn about what eliminating funding for @pbs.org and @npr.org will mean for kids and everyone. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Judge Sessions DENIES the govt’s request to keep Rümeysa Öztürk in Louisiana as it appeals the court’s jurisdiction and reiterates that ICE must transfer her to Vermont by May 1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 57 days ago • 31 comments

It's that time! Til 4/25, preorder THE GIRL IN THE WALLS, or the GOOD DIFFERENT paperback, and save 25%!!!!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

My expert analysis of this order: Judge Xinis big mad

submitted 58 days ago • 103 comments

Here we go. US born citizen in ICE custody.

submitted 64 days ago • 56 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 64 days ago • 1923 comments

In the dark times Will there be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times. - Bertolt Brecht 🧵

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

In the ruling, Judge George J. Quist said these books do not qualify as being “harmful to minors.” Whenever someone reads the books, they realize the book banners were lying the whole time. www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Judge Boasberg has the tools he needs to prosecute Trump officials for criminal contempt and punish them if they’re found guilty. He sure sounds prepared to use them. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 65 days ago • 53 comments

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

submitted 66 days ago • 1642 comments

AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

submitted 66 days ago • 534 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 66 days ago • 1632 comments

I am begging my fellow librarians to just stop. Stop it. ChatGPT isn't our friend, it is making you worse at your job, and patrons are going to lose faith in us if this doesn't stop.

submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

submitted 70 days ago • 1059 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 72 days ago • 1501 comments

I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries

submitted 75 days ago • 34 comments

WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)

submitted 76 days ago • 477 comments

Montclair, NJ

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me

submitted 76 days ago • 424 comments

🚨Judge Xinis orders the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego, the Maryland father who was deported to El Salvador, the one place it was outright illegal for the United States to deport him to. Now the question of compliance comes up. How will the admin respond? How will Bukele respond?

submitted 77 days ago • 32 comments

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.

submitted 78 days ago • 1511 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 80 days ago • 1017 comments

"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

submitted 80 days ago • 309 comments

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

submitted 81 days ago • 150 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 83 days ago • 665 comments

When the vice president uses the exact same language as a white supremacist mass murderer www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 82 days ago • 9 comments

I think spring has arrived in our neck of the woods. #Bears #NHwildlife

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

dismiss him.

submitted 85 days ago • 9 comments

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

submitted 88 days ago • 1961 comments