Katie (she/her)

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

I don't have something I can link y'all to yet, but I have some very credible and important information I need to share.

The American Library Association laid off what I've heard is 15 people this week.

Among them was the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA has no OIF anymore.

Acq/ER folks, have you heard anything about how publishers are going to make journal articles and ebooks compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA level? #CripLib #libraries

"Tear the party apart" is editorializing. It's also a tenor that suggests it's bad to primary a sitting senator. Remember how i say the media is biased to the status quo?

Can confirm.

but also, I think a lot of the ~discourse~ is a result of the conflict machines (like tiktok) elevate the hot takes for the engagement because the album did break the highest record for the first week, even just in streams 🤷

As a fan, I think the way the newest album was hyped up falls short with what it actually is - wouldn't say terrible but also not a major pop smash as people were expecting plus making an album between 3 hr concerts 3 days in a row probably meant she couldn't really focus on it like past albums

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

Oh good a new way to tell chronic pain patients it’s all in their head/they just want drugs

You can't quantify pain this way. I live with chronic pain - my daily is a 4, and that 4 is most people 6 or 7. I don't express any of thr signs listen, even on my worst days. Even when I went to the ER a few years ago.

"Gonzalez-Garcia is 15 but has the cognitive ability of a 5-year-old, Espinosa said... 'We want to push back on the narrative that HPD has said that during these 4 hours, they determined that Emmanuel was an unaccompanied minor because he told them. Emmanuel cannot hold a conversation for 4 hours.'"

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

He was considered horrific BY THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THE SPANISH INQUISITION

"Trump and MAGA are the reason your child lost their special education services" is the message, that's easy. Distribution is going to be hard.

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Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

These people don't want us to have affordable healthcare in the USA, but they know affordable healthcare is extremely popular with Americans.

So they're making up scenarios (complete with tired, racist imagery) to distract you from advocating for what actually benefits you and all your neighbors.

"The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize their lives."

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Telegraph Club is the 4th most banned book in America — Malinda Lo Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book...

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

I'd just like to see AI try to put hundreds of photos in acid free sleeves in acid free, labeled folders which go on the corresponding finding aid (a thing I did as an actual processing achrivist)

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social better have that lawsuit ready

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

Reminder that the AI companies pay for articles like these to make it seem like GenAI is sentient, when it's largely just really fancy predictive text with sci-fi branding. It's what keeps the valuation bubbles from bursting

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.