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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

submitted 39 days ago • 152 comments

GOP response to every scandal, incompetency, hypocrisy, lie, & racist/bigoted edict. Our MSM is the wife…wait for it. #IYKYK

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Oklahoma is forcing the Supreme Court to choose: Either the justices can allow more religious control of public schools, or they can respect the wishes of the Founding Fathers, writes Adam Laats.

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One thing that is interesting/perplexing to me, an author whose books have been banned, is that I'm constantly being asked to talk about how the book bans affect libraries and readers. This is important, but why not ask me, an author, how book bans affect authors? This could be relevant.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

submitted 57 days ago • 121 comments

"House Republicans, in the middle of a financial crisis, when Donald Trump is ruining our alliances...the thing that the House Republicans spent time on is to try to disenfranchise millions of voters." Watch more from @marcelias.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS8a...

submitted 61 days ago • 18 comments

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

submitted 70 days ago • 363 comments

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

submitted 71 days ago • 45 comments

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

submitted 78 days ago • 51 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 80 days ago • 1525 comments

Hello #DNC - ya' listening? @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social Also, if Commerce Sec. Lutnick was my son-in-law I'm thinking he could probably cover my missed SS checks and I wouldn't need to call SS - I'd just call him (because he's my son-in-law).

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Here’s the @oif.bsky.social News for the week of March 21 www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 84 days ago • 1679 comments

Call your reps & senators, tell them to vote NO on SAVE Act-GOP/MAGA bill will make it harder to vote, disenfranchise millions of citizen voters & that’s the goal, it’s the how they will stay in power. @michaelbennet.bsky.social @hickenlooper.bsky.social @joeneguse.bsky.social

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This is the way… “This Polish example potentially has wider relevance for democratic politics, showing that when a “cultural backlash” against progressive change is aggressively institutionalised, it may provoke an answering “reverse backlash” accelerating the very change it seeks to block.”

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 101 days ago • 3274 comments

“You know, we have - our imagination of a coup or a regime change is that there are tanks and violence…nowadays, that's not how democracies fail. They fail through attacks on institutions coming from within.” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Poland’s tactics to combat authoritarian swing needed here.

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ok i like this one

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments

Revelatory interview w/D. Filkins @nprfreshair.bsky.social - obesity & inaptitude NOT DEI responsible for military recruitment crisis. Support @npr.org & @pbs.org - they need our $$s as FCC Chair Carr has them in his sights.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Nominating Al Franken for Senate in MN would put a necessary and long overdue end to the idea that Democrats exist to set a good example for Republicans.

submitted 117 days ago • 10 comments

Cleared committee- let’s get this approved Colorado!

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To see the fiercest warriors on film today, skip Gladiator II. Instead, watch The Librarians, a new documentary that debuted at Sundance, where the librarians who appeared in the film received a standing ovation from the festival's Salt Lake City audience pen.org/the-libraria...

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

JPMorgan knows what's coming & so should the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” #questionconfrontresist Texas lawmaker Matt Krause targets 850 books he says could make students uneasy www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1...

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Remember this day. The last full day with a Democratic President. We don’t know when or if we’ll ever live another day like this. 🥺

submitted 142 days ago • 1861 comments

GOOD.

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Is it “lack of change” or lack of support & protection from the constant drumbeat to take on more/do more to justify our worth? Librarians are information professionals,collection development experts, literacy teachers & guardians of intellectual freedom-value & support librarians, that is change.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

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