Deborah Kops

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen.

Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

Which US senators and representatives are working to stop the government from sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until it ends this genocidal war? And which US political groups on the left are most effective at trying to do the same? #GazaWar

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will lose $1.1 billion if the House approves this package. Please call your representatives and demand they vote No.

Avadeh!

Wow, that makes two klezmer festivals in one month in little old Massachusetts!

Never heard of it! Glad you posted. Just got on their mailing list.

Happy Bastille Day!

Supreme Court blocks part of Florida's immigration law Immigrant rights organizations sued the state arguing that its new law conflicts with federal immigration law, and under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, states must bow to federal law in the eve...

#SCOTUS blocks Florida's law banning undocumented people from crossing into the state. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.

The author "reveals Morison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

No matter where you live, there’s likely an Indivisible group near you that’s organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power.

Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups

Or let us help connect you with your nearest organizers: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...

Justices Let Parents Opt Children Out of Classes With L.G.B.T.Q. Storybooks

Justice Sotomayor called the decision a "myopic attempt to resolve a major constitutional question through close textual analysis of ‘Uncle Bobby’s Wedding’" and laments its failure to accept L.G.B.T.Q. people.
Kudos to the book's author @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

The Thrilling Evidence of Jane Austen’s Imagination

A wonderful exhibit at the Morgan Library to commemorate Austen’s 250th #JaneAusten250
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...

It's #Bloomsday

I Tried to Avoid Administrative Work. Writing a Novel Was a Poor Way to Do So.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/m...

Yes, it is!

Tomorrow at 9 AM on TNT.

An image of a public library sitting atop the wicked witch (aka HB 3225) with a caption that says “ding dong! HB 3225 is dead!”

HB 3225 is dead. Texas teens maintain the right to read freely in their local libraries.

Grassroots organizing, coalition building, and individual Texas students, authors, parents, librarians, & public library supporters using their voices WORKED.

Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90

RIP Susan Brownmiller: feminist author, journalist and activist. Her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape "helped define the modern view of rape, debunking it as an act of passion and reframing it as a crime of power and violence." #feminism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

Your voice is needed TODAY to protect Texas school & public libraries Email from Chris Barton SB 13 & HB 3225 are up for final votes SOON View as a web page Please contact your state senator and state rep today about HB 3225 & SB 13 When I returned to the Texas Capitol

I know it's a Sunday.

I know it's a holiday weekend.

But Texans, please contact your state senator and state rep TODAY about HB 3225 & SB 13. myemail.constantcontact.com/Your-voice-i...

Yotam Ottolenghi finds, I think, the right words.

Oh wait! Forgot to add these.

I saw a bird fly into our begonia plant and investigated. Apparently it was Mama house finch, returning after a snack at the bird feeder.

Fooled me! I thought probably somewhere in France. Or maybe the Upper East Side. lol

@emkantor.bsky.social So where is that window full of tasty morsels that I see behind your profile pic?

SEND AN EMAIL: Tell Congress to Reinstate the Librarian of Congress! President Trump has crossed another dangerous line by abruptly firing Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause!

Send an email to your representative to stop Trump's attack on the Library of Congress.

action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Is Indivisible going to oppose the "Trump Plan" to remove all Palestinians from Gaza? I would really like to see the organization speak out against the genocide going on there, and the role of the US in funding it.

Jeremy Bowen: Goodwill running out as UK, France and Canada demand Israel end Gaza offensive France, the UK and Canada are among nations that have sharpened their criticism of Israel's ground offensive.

About time!

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(next to an image of Trump wearing a crown that has been crossed out) NO KINGS MASS PROTEST JUNE 14, 2025

June 14 is Trump’s birthday and his military parade in DC — but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Join our nationwide day of defiance to show that organized people power is stronger than Trump’s authoritarian aspirations: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...