Lindsay DiCuirci

Keep thinking about how this acetaminophen announcement is about blaming women for not “toughing out” their pain. Especially after listening to two seasons of Susan Burton’s excellent podcast “The Retrievals,” which is all about how women in pain are rarely heard, believed, or appropriately treated

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

I wish this headline didn’t take up space in my brain, but alas….

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

Second federal judge rules against dismantling IMLS. In response to a lawsuit from 21 state Attorneys General, a federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services is likely illegal. This is the second federal court to rule against the slashing of the agency, following a ruling in ALA’s separate legal case in Washington. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association.

NEW: A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the gutting of the Institute of Museum & Library Services is likely unlawful. This is the SECOND federal court to rule against the slashing of the only federal agency dedicated to library funding.

Learn about ALA's own legal case: ala.org/IMLS-lawsuit

Fascinating (horrifying) to watch RW media sell people on American manufacturing jobs and leave out the parts where there’s no unions or health benefits, no OSHA or FMLA or ADA compliance, no child labor laws or whistleblower protections. Welcome to The Jungle, I guess.

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And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.

URGENT: Save the NEH

Save the NEH, my job, and the jobs of thousands of culture workers who are supported by NEH funds and programming.

This link takes you to a SUPER simple form to email all of your reps.

It took me 15 seconds and I got email replies from my congressman and both senators.

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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.

2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Reach out to our friends and colleagues at NEH who are shocked and hurting but still doing everything they can to save this indispensable agency!

🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday

a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near ALT: a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near

This morning’s opening bell
#stockmarket

starting to think that centering your campaign around the most viscerally offputting man in history isn’t a reliable winning strategy

WISCONSIN 🫡

For nearly 70 years, a segregationist held the record for the longest the filibuster in order to block civil rights.

Today @booker.senate.gov broke that record to advance justice and defend democracy.

Grateful for your leadership, Senator.

Thinking of dear friends and colleagues at NEH 💕💕

Me looping my husband into the national security group chat

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As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1

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Schumer (202) 224-6542 no vm
Hassan (202) 224-3324
Peters (202) 224-6221
Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm
Schatz (202) 224-3934
King (202) 224-5344
Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542
Gillibrand (202) 224-4451

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

People have to shout this down and walk out. One brave Dem removed is about 259 too few