Rebecca Yowler

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.

YouTube video by The Telegraph Dolly Parton sings 'vaccine, vaccine' Jolene rewrite as she gets Covid-19 jab

Celebrating the goodness of the world by honoring Dolly Parton (@realdollyparton.bsky.social ). Her support of biomedical research is greatly appreciated, from donations to support scientists to encouraging folks to get vaccinated. Let’s all #MakeDollySmile today! youtu.be/OU6lpOf7Wjc?...

Wow! That seems more than extreme!

I'm so glad I was able to find you here. So sorry this is happening.

The Economist really sums up the situation well.

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

I'm a proud Alum of Transylvania University! And this bat is specifically the Rafinesque's big-eard bat named after the former professor of who cursed the university and is allegedly buried in the crypt inside the admin building.

Athletes Among Us This article explores the intersection of librarianship and athleticism, focusing on the author’s personal experience as a figure skater and the broader context of adult athletes in the United Stat...

I just had a column published in the Journal of Library Administration~ doi.org/10.1080/0193...

BE CAREFUL WHO IS IN YOUR GROUP CHATS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE OTHER DAY, I TEXTED "GONNA KILL HERAKLES AFTER 12 TRAGIC LABORS" AND INCLUDED NONE OTHER THAN HERAKLES. AN HONEST MISTAKE. I WILL KILL HERAKLES'S WIFE INSTEAD.

Thwarted by their own big mouths… again

Unauthorized Disposition of Federal Records Federal agencies are required to "notify the Archivist of any actual, impending, or threatened unlawful removal, defacing, alteration, corruption, deletion, erasure, or other destruction of records in...

Fellow feds - if you’re being directed to destroy records, report it to the National Archives Office of Records Management Oversight and Reporting. www.archives.gov/records-mgmt...

*whispers* Nuremberg

Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.

This is who we have always been, but quietly, behind white hoods and closed doors. Now it's out in the open and people still don't care.

Meanwhile, there were all sorts of cries of "why didn't those terrible democrats clap for the cancer kid at the president's address"- apparently children with cancer only matter if they can make the orange menace look good. Noted.

Judge Reyes is a badass.

The Honorable Ana Reyes is back at it today. So proud to know her.

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Wow www.wired.com/story/treasu...

The University of Minnesota has put out a very handy guide for finding government information as sites get scrubbed or go dark only to reappear with less information. Please use and share widely. This is an excellent resource.

libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449...

A hand-drawn old school doge meme, it's quite good Text: fake agency, much illegal, very data breach, such treasury, unelected, very cool, wow

Favorite sign so far

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.