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Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

submitted 7 hours ago • 21 comments

Last week, the California State Libary announced that every Californian with an email and internet connection can now access over 300,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks—free of charge. No need for a library card. Start reading anytime, anywhere. Learn more: www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

For the people who used to ask 'Why do you have to be so political?' I hope that it's now obvious why. Healthcare is political. Housing is political. Education is political. The air we breathe, the water we drink —it's all shaped by policy and power. Ignoring that is a political choice.

submitted 59 days ago • 18 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 2 days ago • 725 comments

Me, a 25 year broadband policy expert: Ezra Klein's complaints about rural broadband suggest he didn't do his research because he misrepresents some programs, and ignores others that accomplished exactly what he's asking for. Klein fans: you just don't understand what he's saying! (repeat 40x)

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

People keep saying, "Back it up, legal or not," but it looks like a 1 petabyte drive costs ~$15,000, so unless you've got spare cash, it's not that simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA: https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569 If you can contribute, please consider doing so. #NOAA #SafeguardingResearch #Data #Weather

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Three states were told their federal library grants have been terminated. Several others told @usatoday.com they are halting some programs, like ebooks access, in case their grants end too. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was in 1911. Company scrip was being issued instead of pay. Upton Sinclair had published The Jungle a handful of years before. 1913 sucked for regular people.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

In a way, inventing numbers to pretend other countries are charging us imaginary tariffs is of a piece with the tried-and-tested MAGA strategy: Pick someone you want to hurt, and make up some way they are attacking you to rationalize the harm you inflict on them.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 4 days ago • 1128 comments

1/2 Enslaved field workers like Judy Collins were forced to sow the fields in the month of April. Most of what they planted was corn, and they likely planted over 1,400 acres in the span of a few days. All other work stopped during this span. #History #AcademicSky

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

submitted 4 days ago • 326 comments

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

It's been obvious for a long time that the Republican Party coordinates votes so that Sen. Susan Collins can appear moderate without ever having to actually derail any of Trump's agenda. But here's reporting that confirms it:

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

DO NOT GIVE YOUR CATS RAW FOOD OR RAW MILK.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Can someone please explain why journalists have stopped pointing out that the executive branch has no constitutional authority to end these programs?

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

Israeli forces murdered 15 paramedics & ambulance/civil defence workers in Gaza & buried the bodies alongside their wrecked emergency vehicles. The UK govt is supporting, arming & militarily assisting Israel to commit these war crimes.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

There’s a reason law enforcement officers have to identify themselves Every time an ICE agent approaches someone masked and without a badge shown, they are risking the lives of other law enforcement officers by eroding any sense of trust in the rule of law

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

If you have a republican, I’m not talking about Senate or the house. I am talking about state legislature. I am talking about mayor I am talking about city Council. I am talking about county supervisor. Call their office daily. Tell your story and make them listen. 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 8 days ago • 680 comments

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

submitted 8 days ago • 247 comments

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 8 days ago • 991 comments

journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

submitted 11 days ago • 305 comments

All the focus on white-shoe law firms isn't just about abstract ideals or scales falling from people's eyes. They're preemptively bailing on clients who can't find representation elsewhere because actual civil society doesn't have the resources. Sounding the alarm. www.offmessage.net/p/elite-lawy...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

Pluto did not appreciate being disturbed for photos

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

submitted 13 days ago • 140 comments

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

submitted 18 days ago • 111 comments

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments aren’t deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.

submitted 20 days ago • 174 comments

This should be one of the biggest stories in the world right now. Millions of people are either directly or indirectly dependent on the Kafue river for their survival. This is crazy.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

The whole point is we don’t know if they are ‘foreign alien terrorists’! That’s the whole point of due process, and evidence, and a courtroom. We don’t take the government’s say so, especially a government with a history of relentless mendacity.

submitted 21 days ago • 335 comments

Feels like the main thing you should know about the Democratic Party is that three years ago they controlled a trifecta after Trump tried to launch a coup, and they dismissed everyone who said they should impose accountability and said “no, we know how to beat him at the polls: kitchen-table ads”

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments

We're doing these racists a big favor when we pretend their project is in any way based on actual grievance with modern DEI policy. They just want to promote the belief that no non-white person has ever been worthy of any praise or qualified for any honor or position

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

One reason this government can so easily frame protesters as terrorists is that others—including some at universities—have already laid the groundwork. When we treat students engaged in constitutionally protected speech like criminals, we make it easier for authoritarian governments to do the same.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is not obscure, it's essential. There is a 100% chance that whatever your local library or museum is they have benefitted from IMLS money in the past, they are the largest grant funder of local libraries in the US.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

Librarian criminalization bills are growing in numbers across the US, but they're not new. Get to know what they are, how they began, what they mean, and what states are proposing them in 2025. That, plus this week's book censorship news: bookriot.com/librarian-cr...

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Horkheimer and Adorno, THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (note/sketch #1)

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

1. Impoundment is illegal 2. Why would Dems approve funding legislation that Trump can unilaterally veto? What's the point of having a Congress at all if the president controls the purse strings?

submitted 24 days ago • 202 comments