I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Don’t for one second, not one millisecond, say babies drowning in Texas is justified because of their parent’s vote.

Jesus Christ. Be better.

#booksky

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

Once everyone decided to kill disabled people so they could eat at a restaurant, there was no going back.

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

For years, folks looked the other way as millions died or became disabled by Covid. They shouted “your health is not my responsibility” or “only the vulnerable” were at risk.

This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.

Accurate.

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

'Explicit' Sex Claims ‘Exaggerated,’ Black and LGBTQ+ Characters Overwhelmingly Targeted, New Book Ban Analysis Finds A new PEN America analysis of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year shows which stories were disproportionately removed from shelves — and debunks “exaggerated” claims about books that feature...

36% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...

Patients have been saying these are a problem for yeats,yet many pain doctors require them before they'll give out pain meds

I think it’s not helpful to repeat claims that the administration is working on eliminating “DEIA” as though it’s some kind of corporate strategy; just say explicitly that they’re trying to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and explain how.

All these attacks on scientific research means progress towards finding treatment that can improve many chronically ill people's quality of life is slowed down.

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

If you snitch to ICE, you would have also snitched on Anne Frank.

• Get a library card
• Use your library card
• Support indie booksellers
• Read banned books
• Read diverse authors
• Resist
• Repeat

#booksky #resist

Today feels like the point in 2020 when COVID was ripping through the population and it became strikingly clear that as a society, no one was going to give a shit about chronically ill, immunocompromised, and disabled people.

Except now it’s all the marginalized groups.

This Houstonian is planing a trip downtown right now. I need these in my life.

Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support

Becoming disabled is *the* most radicalizing thing that can happen to you because it happens atop whatever marginalizations you already have, amplifies them into a laser focus.

For cishet white men, it can be the first time they've *ever* experienced marginalization.

In case you didn't know, librarians are educated professionals with a master's degree and don't just willy nilly buy any old books for their libraries.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Woman with ‘unmanageable’ pain from Lyme disease chooses to die. She wasn’t always believed | Globalnews.ca Stéphanie Lavoie spent her adult life facing escalating symptoms from Lyme disease that left her bedridden and barely able to eat. Her family says the medical system failed her.

For those who say assisted dying is a “choice”… consider the case of Stephanie Lavoie

She had untreated Lyme Disease. Canadian system failed her - she went to U.S. for diagnosis.

even after dx - she was refused a feeding tube & left to starve. When she did MAiD she was 59lbs. That’s not a “choice”

💯

I often think I should've gotten a degree in social work to be a librarian.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like