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Madison!

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"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison

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The #HandsOff Rally in Madison was GARGANTUAN and ELECTRIC. Heartening and energizing!!!

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RIP, National Endowment for the Humanities

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Today, all staff at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were placed on administrative leave, raising questions about how the agency will disperse congressionally appropriated funds to museums and libraries across the US. Just how much of the federal budget goes to IMLS? 0.0046%

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Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free. - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks. - All workers get pensions.

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@darthbluesky.bsky.social Hi Darth, we missed you!

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Do you value your library? Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries. Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.

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The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

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February 1 marks the end of the hunting season in Spain, which means that thousands of galgos—Spanish greyhounds bred for hunting—will be abandoned on the streets today… if they’re lucky. 🧵

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Buy your favorite non-profit employee a drink today. They’ll need it.

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Please send this information to any trans writer you know. We need their voices now more than ever.

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My mother: “The meteorologist said we’re supposed to get 6-8 inches of snow, but you know men, they say 6-8 inches when they mean 3-4.”

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I referenced the gif of “that giggling cartoon dog” and none of my friends knew who I meant. Rotten little millennials, how dare you not get my pop culture reference from… quick google… 1968???

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Writing alt text makes me feel like a Martian. “A human creature wraps its limb around another human. They experience joy?”

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The ratio of Days I Am Getting a Massage to Days I Am Not Getting a Massage is really out of whack.

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Overheard at the airport: “I wish I could find a red-headed au pair!”

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What a gift that one of my favorite authors is also one of my favorite people. Can’t wait to get my hands on the finished version of this!

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Oh no I just googled Lady Miss Kier and somehow she’s sixty American years old ☠️

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This is the worst sentence I’ve read since I stopped teaching freshman comp.

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Me: After you die, you can send me two dollar bills to let me know you’re still around. My dad: Okay, but how will I send them to you? Me: I don’t know, use your ghost powers!

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Alfie tried to use his witchy powers to bring all the children to our house but the cold seems to have kept them away ☹️

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Okay I redeemed myself by identifying a child as a Gryffindor. (The parent called “you’re the first person who’s gotten that right!” & I said “hi Mrs. Weasley!”)

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Oh geez, I just called a kid a shark but I think he was actually a pterosaur. I RUINED HALLOWEEN!

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“Quokkumentary” was RIGHT THERE

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Spending my one wild and precious life trying to wrap my head around the Monty Hall problem

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The other night I left my mom alone with my boyfriend for less than five minutes and when I came back she was telling him about sneaking pot brownies into a 3D porn theatre in the 70s

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