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Retired librarian whose goal is to continue keeping books in the hands of our community.
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Celebrate Women's International Day

Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey. Defiantly, ME

Since we’re debating Rep. Al Green’s method of dissent this week, here’s a quick reminder: tone policing is a form of suppressing opposition. When someone objects to the tone of criticism, they are trying to set the terms of debate in a way that is favorable to them. Fuck. That. Noise.

Well said!

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

I saw folks protesting at my local Tesla service center. Right on ✊🏾 I’m convinced unelected co-president Elon Musk is going to devolve the United States government into a version of what Tesla has become. Hear me out. 🧵

Yesterday was a clusterfuck of epic proportions! For anyone sane, it is clear to see we have lost our standing as the leader of the free world. Disgraceful! Our (possibly former) allies clearly stand on the right side of history. ⬇️ Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 h/t @twaaustin.bsky.social for the graphic

British PM Starmer: Zelensky has the full backing across the United Kingdom. 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Simon Harris Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland 👏

Posted by Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, tonight 👏

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen 👏

Petteri Orpo Prime minister of Finland 👏

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

I don’t know if I have ever in my lifetime felt more embarrassed to be an American than I feel at this very moment…

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

This is what courage looks like. While so many stay silent, these people took a stand. We need more of that—right now. 📌 21 civil service employees resigned from DOGE

A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

Army Choir surrounded the MAGA hierarchy dining in White House East Room to sing "Do You Hear The People Sing" It was lost on Trump but Vance was super fidgety "Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again" #DisruptTheCoup

My latest. Please read + share: "Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump" MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Illinois respects the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine — now and always.
 Three years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine without warning or provocation. Peace and freedom requires resistance to tyranny and oppression. 
 Slava Ukraini!

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

Let’s be honest. Trump embracing Moscow and selling out Ukraine has NOTHING to do with the war … Trump wants revenge against Zelensky for the Impeachment phone call. Because he has been a Russian asset for decades. Read all about it in this 2018 book:

www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues.... This letter is from a Trump voter, who worked for our government and was fired by Musk & Company this past week. Taking a hatchet to our government will give us long term economic issues. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

Remember they want you scared. They are desperately trying to terrify us into submission. Federal employees? Yep. Opposition? Yep. Their own Congress? Yep. Figure out what you stand for and stand the fuck up for it.

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

On MLK Day, let us remember his message. Let us not give in to fear. We are the light which can drive out the darkness. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” - Rev. King

@ahsfx.bsky.social ~ The most terrifying season yet. Brace yourself.

🧵 I live in Los Angeles. We have not had to evacuate and are safe, but like many people here, I have friends who have lost everything. I realize I can't combat the firehose (see what I did there?) of bullshit spewing about this disaster from internet and media sources, but I'll say this:

Chris Crisson Sr is a famous sand castle artist who lives on Balboa Island in Newport Beach, CA. He weekly constructs a new sand castle on Balboa that salutes a holiday or a season BUT this week he's erected a work sending 💙 to the LA communities affected by the #LAfires #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

Whether religious or not, we can all seek to learn lessons of the scripture read at President Carter’s funeral service today. We can all seek to live our lives through the example of Jimmy Carter. Difficult as it may be, we should always seek to love thy neighbor as ourself, for we are all equal.

I’m so tired of him as well.

I needed this today.

Great day to watch "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President" RIP 🙏

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory This is Buckingham Palace today

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

Love my local library district! www-ksmu-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.ksmu...