Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist

USAID staffers describe colleagues abandoned in violence in Congo as DOGE ends assistance programs Newly filed affidavits of U.S. Agency for International Development workers describe a lieutenant of Trump ally Elon Musk and other outsiders directing the immediate termination of hundreds of U.S. ai...

"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..."

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Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is credited with saving 25 million lives worldwide and has long enjoyed bipartisan support.

"'It’s hard to imagine a bigger public diplomacy win for China than going forward with this kind of clumsy destruction of U.S. credibility'...”
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• Get a library card
• Use your library card
• Support indie booksellers
• Read banned books
• Read diverse authors
• Resist
• Repeat

#booksky #resist

She’s so lucky to have no idea what is going on in the world. 😫

#rescuepup

This face cheered me up quite a bit today. She’s not a big fan of her chicken 🐓hat but we have to keep Dolly Pawton warm in these freezing 🥶 Chicago temps.