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One radical thing you can do right now to protect marginalized people is to figure out how to keep our businesses and our families alive. This crashing economy will effect us all. We WILL have to fight for each other. 🧵

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

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I know what you mean but this isn’t in fact an impossible position, and it shouldn’t be a difficult choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

The People and The Library Graphics pack - Justseeds Five cut paper black-and-white graphics celebrating the role of the library in our everyday lives, inspired by the example of the Coalition to Save the Libraries, a multi-class, multi-racial, multi-ne...

Just gorgeous #librarysky graphics from @erikruin.bsky.social

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Text reads: Happy National Library Workers Day! There are all different kinds of library workers. They may not all be librarian in title, but they are just as vital. They serve the community with extraordinary compassion. They keep the library open. They are overworked, burnt out, under attack, stressed... yet they still show up each day. They show up for library kids, library grown-ups, for us! They are the helpers the mother of Mister Rogers spoke of. Thank you is not enough... but thank you We love you!

Mychal smiles at Fords Theatre with librarians

Mychal smiles with Milwaukee Library workers

Mychal smiles with Brooklyn Public library workers

Happy National Library Workers Day! You mean the world to us! Thank you for working, for volunteering, for helping, for your presence! We love you! 💛

Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex Another front in the war on American greatness

"We don’t know how many Americans will die prematurely because public health is now being run by a man who rejects medical science, but it’s likely that the number will eventually run into the millions." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-...

How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick North Carolina Republicans are closing in on a brazen heist.

New in PN: How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick

"Republicans succeeded in changing the rules not midgame but literally after they lost. Nothing will stop them from doing this again and again, making a mockery of elections and injecting confusion into results."

Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

Let’s be clear: Trump’s plan to fine migrants $998 a DAY and steal their property is NOT about border security. It’s about pushing fear-based rhetoric—and it’s giving fascism.

A sad week for public health in the US The latest mass firings in critical US health services are short sighted, cruel, and ignorant, writes Esther Choo This week is National Public Health Week in the United States and perhaps the saddes...

It's National Public Health Week, the saddest one in memory.
We have lost a generation of scientists and public servants, whose institutional memory and works in progress will be lost to our nation with their abrupt dismissals www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!

This has been studied extensively: Regret rates for gender affirming care, including for children, are extremely low.

A core tactic of conspiracy theorists is to ignore existing bodies of research and demand further study until they get the result they want.

To get a Real ID you must show your birth certificate so Real ID is enough

We don't need the Save Act

If you think fascism is only going to go after the Important People Speaking Out, you're wrong. That doesn't happen until full power is secured.

That's why it's EXTREMELY important for Democrats and any opposition to Trump to be as publicly vocal and loud as possible.

the law, in its magnanimous wisdom, forbids protests outside the homes of justices while blessing deportations with legality if conducted fast and sloppily enough

One of these students was thrown into a detention center where they've now been detained for 10 days. Beyond unconscionable.

Trump Administration Debuts Legal Blueprint for Disappearing Anyone It Wants This case is not just about one deportation. It’s a blueprint for how to make anyone disappear.

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This is probably the most sinister thing to come out of this whole mess so far imo, because Lutnick (almost accidentally) makes the vision here crystal clear — using a combination of automation and precarious, immiserated American labor to mass produce products that profit tech oligarchs.

Most people in the United States who have never faced housing insecurity have no idea how easy it is to evict someone in this country.

Before the pandemic, every US state evicted more people annually than all of mainland Europe COMBINED.

Many states don't even allow counterclaims in evictions.

what a visual

Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸

We could fund the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for 150 years for the same amount as this assault on humanity and decency will cost.

Could AI replace your therapist? New research suggests the technology could play a role in mental health care A chatbot created by Dartmouth University researchers significantly reduced symptoms for people with major depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

“Community and a sense of belonging are essential. Technology fueled by consumerism cannot replace grounded and vulnerable human connection, which is what I think apps like this are trying to do."

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like SCOTUS just said the government is allowed to disappear anyone it wants from the street and throw them into a Central American torture pit as long as they give the victims a chance to say "wait, what" before the most conservative district court in the system?

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.