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community outreach librarian fleeing the hellscape of X #libraryjoy #bethe change #localpoliticsareeverything
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If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities. Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful: Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

submitted 16 days ago • 104 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

submitted 16 days ago • 179 comments

Better safe than sorry… 🚨Heavy ICE Presence Expected in Los Angeles on Sunday. A bilingual warning is being shared with the community — including areas to avoid. Stay alert. Protect each other. Know your rights.

submitted 16 days ago • 260 comments

The first official Memorial Day observance was in Arlington in 1868, three years after the Civil War ended—but the first recorded such observance was less than a month after the war’s end in 1865, when formerly enslaved Black people in Charleston commemorated the Union soldiers who helped free them.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

(1,2) Since the Parkland shooting, my wife & I struggle with details & names. Not sure why, but not uncommon after personal tragedy. I say this because I am tired of the misdirected coverage of President Biden. Back in September of 2023, I saw him at the White House. In the midst of this crowd

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

This has been more widely circulated than any edited comments on television in quite some time Perhaps it should be circulated further still ?

submitted 68 days ago • 18 comments

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

submitted 70 days ago • 448 comments

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

submitted 70 days ago • 235 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 133 days ago • 3812 comments

Pro tip: If the people who make their money by preying on the working class are happy, then you should be worried.

submitted 218 days ago • 239 comments

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

submitted 220 days ago • 295 comments

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submitted 554 days ago • 877 comments