Jen Lue

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What better day to launch a Bluesky account than our birthday? We turn 225 today! 🎂 🥳 Here's a brief summary of the Library's history, courtesy of Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress.
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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

March 6, 2025 This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary lega...

March 6, 2025:

Trump’s firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem The National Archives and Records Administration does more than just preserve documents: It’s the scaffolding of the American political system.

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Let me know if there is anything I can do here. I can stop in or drop something off.

Things to cover with the same depth and breadth as the price of eggs - our dive into fascism, the blatant rascism and misogyny that is being cheered, the government purge, the absolute incompetence, and lack of qualifications of every Trump political appointee.

February 14, 2025 On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...

February 14, 2025

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

February 3, 2025 - Coups, Lies, and the Dumbest Trade War in History

February 2, 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

February 2, 2025

January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

January 30, 2025

Please shut him up.

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If you voted for him, you know. You are complicit. His white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted oligarch cronies and policies are yours. You are okay with it. I am not okay with you.

a man running in a park with the words " don 't say it don 't you say it " ALT: a man running in a park with the words " don 't say it don 't you say it "

People: "So, where do you stand, politically?"
Me:

I dread the daily drama. The government run by tweets. The oligarchy plundering the country. The ignorant masses making excuses for the imbecile they exalted.

I’m embarrassed.

I’m ashamed.

#LetsGoDonkeys

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