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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

If you want to show your contempt for Trump and solidarity with Ukraine, this is Zelensky’s direct defence fundraiser. Please give what you can and spread the word; I’m donating every dollar I might have been tempted to spend on an American business, because fuck them: u24.gov.ua

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

I think he's vastly more dangerous than Trump. Both men share the same odious contempt for humanity, but Vance is adept at giving his malice the veneer of "statesmanship" to legitimize our most craven and brutish impulses.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“Why don’t you say thank you”

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 4 days ago • 606 comments

Starting an anti-fascist book club! Gonna get the ball rolling on our first meeting for early March, so DM me if you're interested in joining or have questions! #booksky

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Some “moderate” Republicans flipped & ended up supporting this evil budget resolution. They voted to cut Medicaid & services their constituents depend on. The budget fight isn’t over. But if you are represented by any of these people that voted yes.. make sure they hear from you.

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

No one despair. This is not “law.” This is a House budget resolution. It has to go to the Senate, which would have to pass an identical budget – and they’ve already passed their own, which is very different. A lot of steps to come, and a lot of chances for it to fail. Keep pressuring your GOP reps.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Minnesotans-- have you called and left a message for Senator Smith yet today? (I think of that each time one of these posts flies by.)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Sheriff said he was "not acting in his official capacity," which means he gave up any claim of qualified immunity for battery and deprivation of rights.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Spent the last week finally getting back in the swing of things.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I understand that their goal is to harm a lot of marginalized people. We each need to do what we can to protect the vulnerable. I really get this and ALSO I just need as many people as possible who are able to do so to notice that these people are pathetic. They truly are. Just ridiculous.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

The Nazis and fascists wouldn’t be running a massive demoralization campaign, coupled with a terror campaign online if they thought they had the power to pull off what they were trying to do without a fight. They are weaker than we are and we outnumber them 100 to one. They will reap the whirlwind

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

A violent and murderous white supremacist gang is organizing on Bluesky.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 15 days ago • 302 comments

Loved hearing Charles Burnett get impassioned while talking about independent filmmaking as a vital corrective to the ongoing erasure of eclectic, multicultural histories in America. Man's got more vigor at 80 than the lion's share of his peers.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

For @screenslate.bsky.social, my thoughts on Matthew Rankin's UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, now playing in select theaters across the country.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

And before that it spent thirty years languishing in near-total obscurity. Extremely gratifying to see this masterpiece get the treatment it so richly deserves.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Hey @schumer.senate.gov maybe instead of recording videos where you say “President Trump campaigned on bringing down prices, well the EGG is on his face!” maybe work an extra weekend and get everyone on message saying Trump and Musk want to make civil servants homeless

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Holy Shit. They're burning through people pretty fast now. After Sassoon refused/resigned, the next two people - heads of Public Integrity Section (DC) and the Criminal Division also refused/resigned. This all JUST happened. And these are all 'actings', so they're people the Trump crew chose.

submitted 17 days ago • 228 comments

One of the schools I teach at gave me a card today that I'll need to display every time I check in so they know I'm not ICE. The kids in my class are 5-7 years old.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Something that is as indisputably true as gravity is that authoritarians, fascists, and bullies take exactly as much space as you give them. Caving on the stupid issues doesn’t prevent the serious ones, it enables them.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is SO SO BAD. Are you the parent of a kid with an IEP or a 504 Plan? You better be on the phone to your rep and Senators RIGHT NOW.

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

submitted 20 days ago • 128 comments

Reminder that while the “He Gets Us” ads pretend to be “inclusive”/care about everyone, up until 2024, the group that ran them (The Servant Foundation) donated over $60 million to an anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-LGBT rights conservative legal advocacy group (Alliance Defending Freedom).

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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They’re deleting websites while we watch the Super Bowl This one for CHILD TAX CREDITS

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

A lot of people are looking for guidance right now. I've come up with a list of guides which new - and even experienced! - folks might find helpful. spencersunshine.com/2025/01/27/g...

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

Happy Super Bowl Sunday, everyone

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

Took an impromptu trip to the Norton Museum of Art and got to see some very cool pieces.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The doc crowd must begin its Zac Snyder esque campaign

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

🚨FUNDRAISER TIME!!!🚨 Donate to any of the trans support organizations in the attached note and YOU can win one of four gift certificates to the Criterion website. Details in the note below, which I will pin to my profile

submitted 26 days ago • 126 comments

Practical, actionable advice for anyone concerned about saving government data.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

We are in the midst of a coup. Here are the two basic principles of anti-coup defense, from Gene Sharp’s “The Anti-Coup” “If both legitimacy and cooperation are denied, the putsch may die of political starvation.”

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

We've heard reports of Elon's crew barging into areas they shouldn’t be. If you want to talk to a reporter, reach out confidentially via @signal.org: dell.3030

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

A new year, a new thread for favorite first-time watches! Here were January's highlights: 7TH HEAVEN (Borzage, 1927) LAURA (Preminger, 1944) WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Makavejev, 1971) ONCE UPON A TIME, CINEMA (Makhmalbaf, 1992) THE POTEMKINISTS (Jude, 2022)

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

submitted 28 days ago • 131 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 29 days ago • 232 comments

We're witnessing a fascist takeover of our government, and this is the best response you can come up with, you useless, cheesecake-guzzling patsy?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments