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Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

submitted 17 hours ago • 254 comments

They aren't overlooking it. They just don't care and don't expect their audience to think about it or care, either.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

fascsm and nazs are ok but teaching Black History is a bridge too far? Challenge accepted. When I get back from TX, I'm going to plan my calendar so I can start my #BlogCast on Black History here in #Indiana, focusing on Free Black Schools & the Teachers. +

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

Their #psyops is ridic. Everything is going to be dumb shit to gum up our boots and piss us off. It will be hard to not be reactive. Take a breather and remember: they’re stupider than you. Come back to it later, you got this. #bullsonparade #fightoverflight

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 1 day ago • 625 comments

Why buying banned books for yourself is not the way but getting your ass in a library board meeting is.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe the empire is going to fall because one rich dude wanted to get out of going to jail and another rich dude wanted to look cool to of a bunch of 19 year olds.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 11 hours ago • 209 comments

If you ever wondered who you would be when That Time Came, this is it. This is the person.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

Something to note. The Proud Boys are at the Capitol today and Trump wore a yellow tie. Black and yellow are proud boy colors. It's very clear that he views them as his personal militia that will mete out political violence. "stand back and stand by."

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

#ACAB means tone police, too.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

… what are we doing here @thedailybeast.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

After significant outrage and blowback, Whitman Walker has restored their trans healthcare page. They've changed the terminology from gender affirming care to transgender healthcare. www.whitman-walker.org/health-servi...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

It'll be a continuation of the Comstock laws, so of course abortion medications, abortion information, "pornography" that will include any books current being banned anywhere that they deem pornographic definition be damned, and on and on. This one was laid out pretty clearly pre-election.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hey folks, when I tell y’all that shitting on people in “red states” is white supremist classist bullshit because for the most part we’re practically hostages, this is what the fuck I mean. THIS is why “vote harder” doesn’t fucking work, here. #BlackSky #LeftSky

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

1. On Friday Night, it became apparent that historic LGBTQ+ clinic Whitman-Walker in DC had erased trans care and resources from it's website. The stated reason is harmful to us all. I make my case against it, and other orgs, erasing us for federal dollars. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Never normalize the seig heil. Nazis are evil genocidal monsters and must always be destroyed.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Certified school librarians boost test scores, grad rates, & critical thinking, yet their numbers are declining. When we fight for school libraries, we fight for the future of education, & when we fight for the future of education, we fight for a better future PERIOD. #Skybrarians #TLChat #EduSky

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Here are the states proposing anti-book ban bills in 2025 so far. These are where you need to direct phone calls and letters–and there are a lot of unexpected states included. That, plus this week's extensive book censorship news: bookriot.com/anti-book-ba...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 1 day ago • 546 comments

Only monsters cut literacy funding. I said what I said. Are we great yet? “The beauty of the Imagination Library is that it unites us all—regardless of politics—because every child deserves the chance to dream big and succeed." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I've been seeing lots of super compelling videos of park rangers and federal lawyers and other federal workers telling their stories. Talking about what they did at their job, how it helped the American people, and why they want to keep doing those jobs. This is the way.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

We need a work requirement for the Missouri GOP. They plagiarize bills, scroll on their phones all day, disrespect the voters, work 90 days a year, and walk away with taxpayer-funded healthcare and a state pension.

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page. www.nps.gov/people/marsh...

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

The qanon guy? This will go well.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data 📚 libguides.butler.edu/archiveddata...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely incredible piece of reporting here that makes the story completely unimpeachable. They sat in the back of an immigration courtroom and watched the guy pull out his personal phone and post to his racist account DURING the hearing!

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 1156 comments

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Exactly what I was thinking might happen. Their anti-trans animus is infecting other cases. Trump is biting off too much too fast. My hope is that all of this factors into some of the fence-sitting justices on SCOTUS for big upcoming cases.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

So can we all agree that if people start losing their homes to a recession we are all gonna band together and buy it back at the auction for a penny while threatening any rich person who tries to come buy it up? Like, this has been done before. We can do it again.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Trump will be hanging his political opponents in the streets and there will still be people who are like “Now, there’s no need to panic or exaggerate…”

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Indiana just pulled funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program for the state. This program gifts all children, across the state, free books from birth-age 5. This one's just fucking cruel. www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 573 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1000 comments

these fucking fascist motherfuckers www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Has anyone written about how while we don't have many books with trans or nonbinary main characters in speculative fiction as it is, the ones we do get are more often trans men or nonbinary and rarely trans women? Or that most of the trans or nonbinary rep is white? Because it's bare out there.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

It appears irony is not dead after all.

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

I have ancestors who fought a literal war so they wouldn’t have to.

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Residents in #Ohio held a caravan and protest against the Evandale police and their role in helping to facilitate an armed neo-Nazi demonstration on the I-75 overpass. Residents are furious after video showed police staging with the Nazis in a Uhaul at a school before leading them to the overpass.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I too would like to be a fifth place finisher and blame my mediocrity on a trans woman. It's called Riley Gainesing

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I'm making the point that Tr*mp is actually UNPOPULAR and if there were an ACTUAL opposition party [which some of you argued with me in my mentions for 2 days & cried when I said there is no opposition party in the U.S.] he would be even more unpopular.

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

The cruelty is the point.

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Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

"It might seem like firing half the factory’s employees would lead to lower-quality work, but simple math shows that if you make half the number of people work twice as long, you get the exact same output."

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