Budget Battle Breaks Billionaire Bromance Publishers Roundup 21

Budget Battle Breaks Billionaire Bromance
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Bald eagle with long eyelashes, pink talons, trans pride colored tail feathers, trans and gay pride colored wings, and wearing a harness, while flying over a rainbow road. The human rights campaign name and logo are bottom right with pride colored stars at the bottom.

This image from HRC goes so hard

What It Actually Looks Like When Trans People Follow Bathroom Bans Uncloseted Media documents two trans people using the bathroom legally in states with bans.

Bathroom bans are dumb.

What It Actually Looks Like When Trans People Follow Bathroom Bans www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/what-it-ac...

Tom the Dancing Bug Q-Nuts: "All Hail the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

Tom the Dancing Bug
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How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia Officials were developing a plan to get him back to the United States. Why did they stop?

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How EveryLibrary and Allies Stopped the Defunding of the New Hampshire State Library Within 90 minutes, EveryLibrary launched a full-scale rapid response campaign—and within 24 hours, lawmakers reversed course.

Within 90 minutes, EveryLibrary launched a full-scale rapid response campaign—and within 24 hours, lawmakers reversed course.

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Georgia Woman Arrested for How She Disposed of Miscarriage 3.25.25

Georgia #Woman Arrested for How She Disposed of #Miscarriage. #abortion #women #womenrights #georgia

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Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students The investigation, which will take place under the Department of Education, threatens to pull California's funding over not outing transgender kids to their parents.

Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students
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Sunday thought Comedy and tragedy

Sunday thought
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Capitulation: RAINN, NSVRC, and NCMEC Remove Nearly All Mentions of Trans and Nonbinary People Three sexual abuse nonprofits have removed all or nearly all mentions of trans people from their blogs and articles. All three receive federal funding, but are independent organizations.

Capitulation: RAINN, NSVRC, and NCMEC Remove Nearly All Mentions of Trans and Nonbinary People
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10 more reasons for modest optimism Friends,

10 more reasons for modest optimism
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Iowa lawmakers pass bill removing trans civil rights protections, sending it to governor Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

While you're boycotting today, add the entire state of Iowa to the list. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Students of Military Parents Deserve the Freedom to Read While fighting abroad, their children's freedoms are being eroded at home.

Members of the military are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home.

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We Should All Be Paying Attention To What's Happening to the National Archives Guest post from Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: Open knowledge advocate | Dedicated to building community and serving the public interest via data & tech.

The quality of the reporting on this has been disappointing, to say the least, with only the most basic understanding of what the National Archives does.

This is bigger than a little spat with a small agency.

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Libraries Make Life Better—And Now We Have the Data to Prove It Want a better quality of life? Use your library!

For those of us who love libraries, it's no surprise that they make our lives better.

But thanks to a groundbreaking new study from the New York Public Library (NYPL), we now have the data to prove it.

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Trump Just Fired the National Archivist! We can expect more retaliatory attacks on our institutions throughout this administration.

Trump fired her in retaliation for the stolen documents case.

The only problem is that she wasn't in charge of the national archives at the time!

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I was trying to think what was Trump/Musk true agenda. This is it. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Tomorrow night...

Every sunday, I will post the egg prices at my local Stop and Shop. Lowest Price: 6.99.

We're giving you the power to fight for your library! We built the tools you need to fight for your library!

EveryLibrary gives you the power, resources, and tools to fight for your library!

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Florida Republican says deportation effort should spare some migrants Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar represents a majority Hispanic district in South Florida.

"I didn't think the leopard would eat my face", says congresswoman who campaigned with leopard.

Statement on Proposed Elimination of the South Dakota State Library and HB 1041 Enacting Legislation

EveryLibrary—the national political action committee for libraries—strongly opposes the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget cuts to the South Dakota State Library.

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What's Happening to Libraries in Texas Another bad year for libraries in Texas? Will more states follow their lead?

Texas is one of the country's testing grounds for anti-library legislation and many states have attempted to duplicate their legislation.

We're tracking 14 anti-library bills in the state.

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Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

Arresting Librarians Has NEVER Led to More Liberty and Freedom.  History has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime.

history has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime that seeks to control knowledge and suppress dissent.

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Egg prices skyrocket and Trump appears not to give a cluck Egg prices have surged to an all time high in the new year. As Donald Trump and his billionaire cabal enter the White House, the increasing grocery prices highlights how disingenuous the hand-...

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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025