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Several rural states changed child labor laws beginning around 2021 so that they could force (Brown and Black) kids into jobs no one else would take.

Nebraska, just weeks ago, voted to cut minimum wage requirements for minors.

This party cares about child labor and exploitation, not children.

Yes it is because 1. it doesn't, and 2. AI hasn't rotted my brain. It did, however, STEAL MY ACTUAL WORK.

Thinking about this in context of growing up in the era where child rapists were **creating** the thin-is-everything culture makes it even harder to rest. Those of us of a certain age have never been left alone about our bodies.

RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved posting a thread 🧵🧵🧵 (1/95)

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

yummmm

Favorite candy that isn't your typical supermarket/drugstore find?

why not just be less poor? jeeezzzz.

/HEAVY SARCASM FOR THOSE IN THE BACK

BECAUSE I DO NOT OWN A CAR AND I HAVE A JOB TO GET TO

This is what we mean by carbrain

Those teens are also more likely in underfunded schools, without access to school libraries or professional librarians, and they likely have a harder time accessing their public libraries.

The right has been itching for this outcome and they're getting it.

Damn! The raw numbers!

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes*

Arkansas state house special election.

Flip from R to D.

Real uptick in marketing and promoting children's books both directly to me and in my own research as "wholesome." The fuck do you *actually* mean by that because I bet I know...

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

Resharing this, since it posted during Bluesky Doomsky time.

Here's some more good news.

A little criticism leverages at the IMLS leadership-thats-not-actually-in-charge? Change.

In or near Cache County, Utah? You need to be at the board meeting today to continue rallying to save your library.

www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/local-a...

Serious celebrating. We need it.

LCSD1 affirms decision to retain 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' in libraries CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In a move that tests the boundaries of Laramie County School District 1’s new content standards, the Board of Trustees on Monday declined

It comes a day after one of the Laramie County schools refused to ban a book that was charged as "sexually explicit." There's big pushback happening, even and especially (as you know!) in places people like to write off.

capcity.news/local-school...

Escambia pick for library director not a librarian, raises questions Library board members say the county administrator's choice for the six-figure library director is steeped in cronyism and goes against their wishes.

The Escambia, Florida, Administrator has decided to put forward a candidate for library director of the county's public system who has no librarianship experience and is married to someone who has campaigned for republicans.

It overrides the board's preferred candidate.

www.pnj.com/story/news/l...

Wyoming lawmakers' proposal to ban 'explicit' books from libraries falters as clock runs out The Legislature was advancing a bill that backers saw as a common sense way to keep "sexually explicit" books out of kids hands. Critics saw it as a book ban, and Teton County librarians have lined up...

THE HORRIFIC BOOK BANNING BILL IN WYOMING WAS KILLED.

IT'S DEAD!!!!!!

If your knee-jerk right now is "yeah but so many other ones," cool. *Not right here or right now.*

Celebrating advocacy and hard work matters.

www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/state/w...

Just a real reminder every time you think you're good because you're in a "blue" state, you're ignoring this republican legacy of actively harming voters for their own gain. Because it's the only way they retain power.

Republicans have power through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and lying, not through the will of the people.

Condoms, gift cards and wedding gifts: Arizona parents allegedly misspent $10 million in ESA funds The Arizona Department of Education records obtained by 12News show misspending could be 20% of all purchases in the $1 billion voucher program.

1 out of 5 of the parents who got voucher money in Arizona–taxpayer cash stolen from public schools to fund private education–used it on things they were illegal for them to use it on.

Not shocking in the least. Scammers, thieves, and liars.

www.12news.com/article/news...

Loudmouth is so gooooddddd

I don't have a reddit account!

Yes, indeed, the IMLS home page is back to what it was before they spit out AI slop on it last week.

Guess what works? Exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back.

www.imls.gov

The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do Nearly a year after the Institute of Museum and Library Services was dismantled, what's happening at the agency? What can we do to help out?

Yesterday, I highlighted all of the ways that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has been enshittified with the installment of the new regime.

One of those updates was a new AI slop homepage that went up late last week:

Guess what's been reverted?

bookriot.com/the-enshitti...

I have a helluvan update I've been itching to post but then Bluesky went down...

"Smith said he is unsure of how Dominic escaped but heard that they took away the donkey’s girlfriend."

Search underway for donkey that escaped in Bull Valley, was spotted running around Woodstock A team is searching for a donkey that remains on the loose as of Tuesday after it escaped from its owner in Bull Valley and began running around the Woodstock area Sunday.

FYI, anyone looking for an update on the donkey story--the donkey is still MIA, though the owner is known.

www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/03/03/s...