This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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There are no unintended consequences. The damage is the objective. They are nothing more than vandals.
This is carnage.
Libraries are an important spot, to relax, learn and enjoy yourself. Without the boundaries of - for example - teachers, who tell you what or what not to read.
I think @cranebird22.bsky.social & @lukermartin.bsky.social will agree.
Or why payphones went away. They don't want ppl to be off the grid, they want everyone tracked. And a lot of homeless are off the grid bc they are targeted.
MY relatives live in a trumpy area so backward that it's common for adult women to not be "allowed" to drive a car. Notwithstanding that, my relatives are the most UNtrumpy people alive. As I said, not a monolith.