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Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

submitted 4 days ago • 161 comments

"I will not yield to disrespectful men." —Rep. AOC

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

In any other administration, this would be the biggest scandal of their presidency and would prompt immediate calls for a special prosecutor.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

The more I've been reading this year, the more I wake to a former self. A younger me filled with curiosity and joy Filled with passion and love for written worlds. Each book that has within it magic libraries and tomes Helps time turn back. #booksky 📚💙 #readingchallenge2025 #joyofreading

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

nice to finally agree with RFK Jr on something

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

"Do you think it would've been better if the president hadn't announced the bribe? If he'd just accepted it secretly?"

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

Trump is a classic bully. Give in, he bullies more. Stand up to him, he backs down because he's a coward who wants to LOOK tough. When other countries, Dems, GOP understand his primitive malignant narcissist psychology and act accordingly, better off we'll all be. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

submitted 9 days ago • 476 comments

“After library officials resisted, the DOJ officials departed without resolving the conflict.” One of those sentences that tells you who and where we are as a country in 2025: librarians are braver than law firms and CEOs.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

submitted 11 days ago • 290 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 138 comments

“National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, is expected to lose upwards of 900 employees — the vast majority of its staff — by the end of June as a result of the mass firings carried out by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr” www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

When Germany is telling us we're off the rails, pay attention.

submitted 19 days ago • 234 comments

Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

submitted 23 days ago • 85 comments

I went to Liftbridge Bookstore in #Brockport, then to Archivist Books in #RochesterNY and got great books from both!

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As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 30 days ago • 1243 comments

Trump has gutted food inspection programs at the FDA and USDA — including the committee that investigated last year's fatal Boar's Head listeria outbreak. The USDA is also rolling back safety regulations to “streamline” meat processing. How is this Making America Healthy Again?

submitted 30 days ago • 278 comments

As some elements of my job threaten to drag me under, I bake. Bread, cakes, rolls and pies. Because you can't fret about work while measuring ingredients.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this incredible news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 31 days ago • 812 comments

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 31 days ago • 129 comments

When the replies don't realize the point of the NYT Pitchbot...

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 701 comments

Ooof

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“We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. … “We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result.” —Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

submitted 36 days ago • 191 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 37 days ago • 166 comments

University of Rochester is on this list as well, thank goodness.

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My last four. “Moms for Liberty” tears fuel my library. The more they ban, the more we read. ✊🏼📖 #booksky

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

If you were thinking of taking a cruise, reconsider!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 42 days ago • 1796 comments

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

submitted 41 days ago • 258 comments

lemme tell you i study fascism for a living and this one got me staring at the screen gobsmacked for a good five minutes

submitted 43 days ago • 29 comments

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 42 days ago • 744 comments

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 52 days ago • 282 comments

My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

This clearly needs ongoing amplification, because way too many people seem fixated on the Goldberg element of the story, when the real story is wanton disregard for the fundamentals of national security and one party apparently being totally okay with that.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

We’re lucky it wasn’t Bob Woodward in the group chat; we wouldn’t know about this fiasco til after the next election when his next book would come out.

submitted 58 days ago • 102 comments

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

submitted 63 days ago • 224 comments

Trump closing Social Security field offices in: Alabama Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Montana N. Carolina N. Dakota Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Texas West Virginia Wyoming Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here: apnews.com/article/soci...

submitted 62 days ago • 640 comments

oopsy @schumer.senate.gov failed to avoid a government shutdown

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Solidarity with all the IMLS staff today.

submitted 63 days ago • 23 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 64 days ago • 3322 comments

Sheer insanity. Can you imagine this in any other industry? Not only giving content away for free, but paying billions for the privilege of doing so, and then paying yet more billions in order to access the content we paid to give away. Make it make sense. 📚

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment