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Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

This is amazing! @mychal3ts.bsky.social is fantastic!
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New Mexico becomes first state to offer free childcare for all: ‘model for the nation’ Move is expansion of existing program that has helped lift tens of thousands of people out of poverty

Some positive news!
New Mexico becomes first state to offer free childcare for all: ‘model for the nation’ | New Mexico | The Guardian share.google/9sTZab5ozhTh...

There are different ways to control internet speech as highlighted by this 20-year old comic.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

How was THAT the "Nevertheless" sentence?!

A social media post reads, “Emotions aside, these are the real cold facts about this conflict. Clearly, Pakistan won overwhelmingly” and features an image bearing the CNN logo that purports to show various statistics related to the recent conflict between Pakistan and India. The News Literacy Project added a label that says “IMPOSTOR CONTENT.”

❌ NO: This is not a CNN graphic & the stats comparing military & civilian losses between Pakistan & India are not accurate.

⚠️ Presenting a falsehood as if it came from a reputable news source is a common way to spread misinformation.

RumorGuard post: go.newslit.org/FakeGraphic

#ImpostorContent

One of the greatest travesties of this administration so far. Absolutely appalling.

Its also fascinating because it uses enormous amounts of government subsidies to make it possible

The Anxious Generation If Books Could Kill · Episode

@ifbookspod.bsky.social had a great episode on 'The Anxious Generation'!

USF study reveals how smartphones may benefit kids, risks of posting publicly to social media These findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

“We went into this study expecting to find what many researchers, teachers and other observers assume: smartphone ownership is harmful to children. Not only was that not the case, most of the time we found the opposite – that owning a smartphone was associated with positive outcomes."

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

Elon Musk thinks senior citizens should get their information on Twitter only.

What could possibly go wrong… www.wired.com/story/social...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that resists fascists, By Some Fascist

Feels like it's all just oligarchs playing games...

Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Scorched Earth The precarity of living on a burning planet.

“It’s difficult to believe the degradation of our information systems is by accident. If we’re unable to accurately report how and why we’re in this disaster, the people responsible won’t be held accountable. Their net worth continues to increase exponentially at the same clip as public ignorance.”

Trying to organize the various newsletters I subscribe to and realizing I've essentially gone back to reading regular blog posts.

Breaking the norms of death A healthcare CEO was shot dead. Many are glad. What now?

“The public reaction to the coldblooded killing of a CEO should serve as a wakeup call to other practitioners of corporate greed: While your wealth and status may garner respect in life, the same guarantee cannot be made in death.”

My latest:

Remember in 'A Christmas Carol' how gleeful everyone was at Scrooge's death in the future that could have been? Yeah... Unfortunately, personal ghosts and guilt aren't great ways to enact systemic change.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Gilmore Girls really missed an opportunity to partner with Costco instead. Come on, "Kirk"land! Always happy to pop back into Stars Hollow though.

Because the below skeet went viral here, and people are arguing over it, I'm going to share some more info about it from a thread I did at the other place. I really need to just do an article about it but haven't done that yet. Until then, I hope readers find this thread useful. 🧵