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As to the Colbert/CBS thing.... The good news is that unlike the Smothers Brothers back in 1969, there are a gazillion opportunities now to get the message out and he can't be blackballed by a mere 3 national networks.

YouTube video by King's College, Cambridge Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig

I listened to the 2025 Alan Turing Lecture and highly recommend it.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGu...

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty" James Madison

If I was Maxwell I'd have the whole story written down, notarized, and under lock and key at her lawyer's office.

Kansas City’s largest safety-net hospital braces for Medicaid fallout under Trump's new law The new federal law is expected to eliminate $1 trillion in federal spending on Medicaid over the next decade. University Health in Kansas City, which counts on Medicaid for more than half of its pati...

www.kcur.org/health/2025-...

UNEMPLOYED LIBRARIAN

Will do evidence-based searching for gift cards.

Yep, I have become a victim of the current political/financial climate. My library has been closed and after 20 years of dedicated service I have been unceremoniously kicked to the curb.

Book cover of ain't i a woman by bell hooks

How does a wyt woman honor Juneteenth? I am reading this book. I'm an OG feminist from the 60s - 70s. Recently I realized my ignorance when I started to look for the Black female voice in the movement. I discovered it was there all along from the 19th century but it had been surpressed by wyt women.

Image of N Korean leadership laughing

This

I wouldn't call that "marching". Parade walk, parade stroll, but definitely NOT MARCH.

Image of the Statue of Liberty waving a NO KINGS banner.

I protested and marched for nearly the same issues in the 60s and 70s but we did not continue our vigilance and engagement. So here we are doing it all over again in our golden years. I hope lessons are being learned today.

What is really there is bad enough we don't have to make it up.

These Hidden Provisions in the Budget Bill Undermine Our Democracy President Donald Trump’s so-called “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” includes two provisions that would severely harm voters and threaten the rule of law.

Read the first two sections of this legal analysis of what's in the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House - campaignlegal.org/update/these... It's really bad.

And saddle the family with humongous medical debt.

Painting The Burden by Honore Daumier, 1865.

I am thinking about refugee/immigrant mothers. Those that have risked everything to come to this country for security and a future for their children. I honor them, their struggles and their sacrifices .

The Burden by Honore Daumier, 1865.

My phone just updated and I immediately went through and disabled all the AI garbage. I wish social media required it to be tagged. I've stopped sharing all media unless I am sure it's not AI.

I remember May Day as a kid. We made decorated cones with handles out of construction paper at school. On the way home I detoured through the woods picking sweet william to fill them up. I'd hang them on my neighbors doors, ring the doorbell and dash. For my mom too. Those were innocent times.

They want to go back to the social constructs in the 50s but I want to go back to the tax structure of the 50s.

Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'

As a medical librarian I am concerned by this.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

For more grievances that seem painfully relevant todey...
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

The Declaration of Independence has a list of grievances against the British king. I thought I'd review them.

Grievance 1

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...

Interesting article you can read for free at PubMed.

The Brain That Understands Diversity: A Pilot Study Focusing on the Triple Network.

Otsuka T, Kokubun K, Okamoto M, Yamakawa Y.

Brain Sci. 2025 Feb 23;15(3):233. doi: 10.3390/brainsci15030233.

PMID: 40149755 Free PMC article

Support Your Radical Militant Librarian

April 6th is the beginning of Library Week. Now more than ever it is important to support libraries. iflsweb.org/support-your...

They rewrote a ton of exhibit text his last term in office. I'm expecting closure of women's history, Black history, and indigenous history spaces this time.

Angel Paternina-Caicedo, Oscar Espinosa, Sangini S. Sheth, et al. Excess Mortality Rate in Black Children Since 1950 in the United States: A 70-Year Population-Based Study of Racial Inequalities. Ann Intern Med. [Epub 25 March 2025]. doi:10.7326/ANNALS-24-02794

Black Americans Twice As Likely To Die During Childhood As Whites WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Black babies and children are more than twice as likely to die as white kids, and that gap has grown since the 195

This is the kind of data and research I fear will be lost with the current mindset in gov.

www.healthday.com/health-news/...

I left years ago when they had a vote about changing the name and tossed out the result and did what they wanted over the vote of the membership. I dropped my membership and refused to participate in anything with which they were associated.

I think both the World Cup and the Olympics should be pulled from the US as soon as possible.

Surely I am not the only one thinking that other countries should be considering withdrawing the World Cup and Olympics from the United States and that it should be done soon.

Mark Twain referred to the time period as gilded which is not real gold but drek and corruption covered by gold paint meant to deceive. Thus the Gilded Age was a period of flashy materialism and overt political corruption in the United States during the 1870s. Sounds familiar.