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yes, you have a right to privacy in the library! the mission of public libraries is to afford everyone, in the broadest sense of the word, free access to the products of culture, in the broadest sense of the word—where “free” means both “you don’t have to pay” and “you are left the fuck alone.” 📚

UPSET IN ANSONIA, TYSKA DEFEATS CASSETTI - Valley Independent Sentinel ANSONIA — Democrat Frank Tyska declared victory over Republican incumbent Mayor David Cassetti Nov. 4. The incumbent mayor conceded in a speech made a short time later. This story will be updated.

Upset in Ansonia #NutmegSky valley.newhavenindependent.org/2025/11/04/u...

To local grocery stores and restaurants, don’t throw out your overstock!

The state of CT passed protections to protect you from any liability on donations.

We can have volunteers pick up overstock & donate them to families in need. Write it off both as a loss & donation!

Please reach out or email

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Slashing Beyond Prisons Is a Political Choice The University’s budget cuts to the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture will end the educational initiative by the end of the quarter.

worth noting that the University of Chicago budget cuts mean they are abruptly shutting down their prison education program chicagomaroon.com/48983/viewpo...

The Gleaner writes that the Jamaican ambassador in Washington is coordinating relief efforts. The article also says the NY consulate is coordinating donations in New York.

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? Libraries have been doing this for many years.

Pre-order graphic with book cover art, title, author, and information about when pre-orders open from post.

PRE-ORDER WEDNESDAY!! ❤️‍🔥 Pre-order the 2nd printing of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social starting Wednesday, 10/29, 3p Eastern USA. www.weherepress.org

The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders:
1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month.
2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?

Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social

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One thing I’ve observed in recent wks: it’s important, even for public-facing political education — re: democratic process, civic institutions, etc — to *cite your sources*; citation is a political practice and it acknwldges the value of the resources your work builds upon, + which need support too!

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

Cool. Who was the audience? I wish I could do the same.

A pedestrian path where ZERO pedestrians have been killed. It is paved. There are some leaves on the pavement, but not enough to interfere with movement. A calming woods surrounds the trail.

Map showing where drivers killed pedestrians on New Haven's Route 10 since 2015. This is the northern portion of a two-part map.

Map showing where drivers killed pedestrians on New Haven's Route 10 since 2015. This is the southern portion of a two-part map.

Recap of the pedestrian deaths in CT during September (and earlier) that engineers could've chosen to prevent.

Drivers have killed 43 pedestrians/cyclists so far this year in Connecticut.

www.realhartford.org/2025/10/12/s...

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Orbital by Samantha Harvey, or North Woods by Daniel Mason.

First Class of Incarcerated Students Earn Degrees From Northwestern University Dignitaries turned out for the commencement ceremony honoring 16 men who earned bachelor’s degrees from Northwestern University through the Northwestern Prison Education Program.

“What you have accomplished here flies in the face of all the assumptions and stereotypes that have been heaped upon you,” Gov. Pritzker said. "To that I say: Don’t ever stop defying those expectations."

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care — Interrupting Criminalization What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You by Kely Hayes and Mariame Kaba is a practical and imaginative resource for activis...

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

Oh no! I am so sorry!

This is the ONE THING my beloved UCLA lacks 😭🍦

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Priced Out of Phone Calls Home - Bolts The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

NEW: The FCC under Biden passed rules to make phone calls from prison easier, to help keep people connected to their communities.

Trump's FCC has now blocked that change.

Phillip Smith, a man incarcerated in North Carolina, reports for Bolts on what this means for people behind bars:

FCC blocks ban on prison phone price gouging, benefiting top Trump donors The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

1. The FCC has suspended a rule, schedule to go in effect this year, that would have banned prisons from price gouging on phone calls.

Right now, at some jails, a 15-minute phone call can cost over $11.

The decision benefits some of Trump's top donors.

Worker hoeing in a field

"Lety" is hoeing, removing weeds from the lettuce plants in CAs Central Coast. She literally walks miles through the fields every day. She shares, "I'm tired from all the walking. The rows are extremely long. At the end of the day my hands hurt from hoeing." #WeFeedYou

The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers. "The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

This thread will dive into its activity.
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A large crowd marches in New Haven, CT against Trump, ICE and the GOP.

Great crowd here in New Haven #nokings

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

Trump pardons John fucking Rowland, former governor of Connecticut. A guy so crooked that after serving time for collecting bribes in office managed to get his ass in jail AGAIN for campaign finance violations. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/trump-pardons-new-york-connecticut-00373462