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SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

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I asked a number of people who study democracy and history where they thought the U.S. would be in 5 or 10 years. Gift link: wapo.st/44bN4i6

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Nature documentary

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This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

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SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

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And now we move to the dismantling and defunding of museums, libraries, & any remaining public space that promotes education, joy and togetherness, or an evidence-based sense of history without having to spend money. The destruction of community culture itself for the enrichment of a despicable few.

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One for @billymills.bsky.social and all the other poets out there...

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😚 💖 #muppets

submitted 28 days ago • 77 comments

this is the best pov i've seen on this so far tbh, i am v much seeing this thing today as opening the door to people who otherwise might not have realized how varied activism actually is and how many opportunities there are to participate

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Don't buy shit, write your book

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

This is not sustainable and it's just absolutely RIDICULOUS that someone hasn't just given $1 million to this fund. They CANNOT continue to have to raise money IN ADDITION to all the work they have to do. This is a fund run by VOLUNTEERS. And I'm sorry but the Left(s) talk about mutual aid a lot &

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I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 42 days ago • 48 comments

Over 150 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in February 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

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Mother will be arriving on February 27th and staying until the 29th. 🙏

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gritty has seized control of the federal government

submitted 54 days ago • 200 comments

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

submitted 55 days ago • 44 comments

Me: maybe I can set aside that petty grievance Also me:

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

submitted 54 days ago • 228 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 56 days ago • 143 comments

if I had the Glaive from KRULL, I’d use it for everything from cutting sandwiches to spreading mayo on sandwiches

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 66 days ago • 131 comments

Concentration camps are back, baby! You can read about America’s past innovations in these horrors in @andreapitzer.bsky.social book One Long Night. Highly recommended. andreapitzer.com/home/

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This month’s Leopard Aesthetics Book Club pick is The Parachutist by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social I think that’s three Sundress publications in a row. All winners so far. sundress-publications.square.site/product/the-...

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Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹

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The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

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Could you imagine trying to find a therapist right now?

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It’s snowing again

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me, revisiting life's decisions

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So many midwesterners in ATL today. 😂

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runklestilskin: you may have custody of this Creature, but you are never allowed to move again because she’s sitting on you; also, she will throw up in your toolbox every night me: gimme that thing you old no-name-ass-having bitch

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Jesus this is so bleak: "“(Some people) do bad things on purpose and get caught so that they can come to prison again, if they run out of money,” said Yoko, who CNN is identifying by a pseudonym for privacy reasons." www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/a...

submitted 76 days ago • 19 comments

What the ABSOLUTE FUCK??

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Publix is forever overpriced and understaffed.

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I am very very jealous that this family on Prince Edward Island (Canada) had a small meteor hit their sidewalk and managed to catch it on their door cam in what is likely the first audio and visual recording of a meteor strike! youtu.be/F_1xInfNMok?...

submitted 78 days ago • 52 comments

American teens are flocking to a new video app

submitted 79 days ago • 612 comments

If you are in line to sack Sam Darnold, stay in line. If you are in line before the end of the game, they have to let you sack him.

submitted 81 days ago • 56 comments

Me and the 3 folks who read my posts.

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

STOP ORDERING BISCUITS 😡

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View from my window... this is the first time it's snowed in metro Atlanta in years.

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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