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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

24.07.2025 19:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

16.04.2025 20:10 — 👍 66591 🔁 17514 💬 1802 📌 687

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling.

People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯.

America, we have a problem!

04.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 42072 🔁 9767 💬 1763 📌 516

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

02.04.2025 01:09 — 👍 136288 🔁 20237 💬 10618 📌 1608

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

31.03.2025 20:40 — 👍 4271 🔁 2674 💬 362 📌 488

Map of the US with icons representing books on fire. U.S. Book Challenges Update: March 2025 edition. I Love Libraries. The latest book ban news from Alabama, Iowa, and Texas, plus Khaled Hosseini's response to The Kiter Runner being pulled from a Minnesota school district.

Texas threatens jail time for school librarians over classic books.
In a Minnesota school district, "The Kite Runner" is pulled — and author Khaled Hosseini is speaking out.
Read our latest report on book bans and challenges—and the growing movement to fight back. ilovelibraries.org/article/u-s-...

28.03.2025 15:06 — 👍 68 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 0

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.

Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

26.03.2025 15:39 — 👍 72069 🔁 15134 💬 2329 📌 564

Trump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALA Trump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALA

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17.03.2025 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

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15.03.2025 16:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right now it’s really hard to keep the noise / news from causing swirl in my head. Listening to this album loud is a great way to stay present like the yoga teacher tells you to (which I fail at).

12.03.2025 11:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk President makes statement in support of Musk’s ‘baby’ as company shares fall hard and owners sell vehicles

Boycotting Tesla is not "illegal", as Trump claims.

The purpose of a boycott is to send a clear message: We the people have the power and choice to not give our hard-earned cash to billionaire oligarchs.

11.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 7588 🔁 1658 💬 454 📌 114

I’m so grateful to have parents who made sure I got vaccinated.

11.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 23933 🔁 2030 💬 504 📌 168

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.

Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.

We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

11.03.2025 18:28 — 👍 23174 🔁 5982 💬 438 📌 265

11.03.2025 18:31 — 👍 28739 🔁 6673 💬 756 📌 256

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

11.03.2025 21:08 — 👍 32933 🔁 5862 💬 1327 📌 447

Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

Unbelievable

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11.03.2025 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

05.03.2025 02:47 — 👍 82010 🔁 11411 💬 1837 📌 212

Started watching the SOTU... but had to switch to Yellowjackets because it was more calming.

05.03.2025 02:29 — 👍 1621 🔁 70 💬 70 📌 4

Oh, now we're dragging people out of the SOTU.

Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.

05.03.2025 02:26 — 👍 6873 🔁 1122 💬 126 📌 45