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The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

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"sunrise on the reaping": so far, v good

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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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The IMLS??????

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The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico does really great work. They have an Amazon wishlist for their transitional housing center if you feel like doing some Friday night gift shopping. There are other ways to donate on their website too. tgrcnm.org/donate

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Perfect example of where "Parable of the Sower"/"Parable of the Talents" provides a useful framework of understanding. Change is inevitable, but must be actively shaped.

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"[T]omorrow is the child of our today. Through thought and deed, we exert a great deal of influence over this child, even though we can’t control it absolutely. Best to think about it, though. Best to try to shape it into something good. Best to do that for any child." commongood.cc/reader/a-few...

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Andrea Dworkin said this in 1995 and it could be this week nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin...

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

why did the texas state library take down the CREW manual??

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I am in training to be a volunteer doula. One of my assigned readings is “The Birth Partner”. In it, Simikin (RIP) talks about the difference between pain and suffering and how pain does not need to inevitably lead to suffering. To paraphrase her, “when knowledge replaces fear, pain diminishes”.

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"THERE IS NO END TO WHAT A LIVING WORLD WILL DEMAND OF YOU" - Earthseed, The Books of the Living

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We live in a time of despots and grifters and the frightened, confused, desperate people finding and settling for them. Screenshot from the reading group guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Talents".

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the "parable of the sower" has a really good audiobook. i love the narrator's voice and her performance

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

So true

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Musk killed these people.

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Hey #booksky, didja hear what I said? I said…

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rereading "parable of the sower" for a book club. anyway, you can print off these books about how to provide medical care when medical care is too far away to be of help languages.hesperian.org/pages/en/pdf...

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BELIEF INITIATES AND GUIDES ACTION OR IT DOES NOTHING - Earthseed, Books of the Living

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Want some native ecosystem art for your walls? I've made a hobby of collecting Robert F. Eschenfeldt's Illinois DNR posters and I wanted to share the ones I do have so more people can see his beautiful art. Download full resolution ones for yourself flickr.com/photos/19985...

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“Your power is relative, but it is real. And if you do not learn to use it, it will be used, against you, and me, and our children. Change did not begin with you, and it will not end with you, but what you do with your life is an absolutely vital piece of that chain.” - Audre Lorde

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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We're all upset about the Musk/Trump regime's war on science. My friends, let me tell you about a science they cannot kill — an immortal science, as it were

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

the rapists running the nation took down the CDC page on resources for victims of sexual violence

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sending 30k people to the torture factory???????????

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