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If you love your library, listen up…

YouTube video by The Financial Diet You're Being Gaslit By Generational Wealth

Solid video essay explaining the class differences between living paycheck to paycheck and living with access to family wealth, which many people who consider themselves “middle class” have. Highly recommend it, it was useful for an essay I’m working on right now.

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Oh, it absolutely was. Many times.

Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.

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Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!

Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

The image is a screenshot of an X post from The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln ). The post features a manipulated photo of two individuals inside a red car. The person on the left, wearing sunglasses and a black outfit, is depicted as driving and smiling, while the person on the right, dressed in a suit with a red tie, appears to be a passenger. Superimposed text over the image reads, "Get in, we're gonna crash the economy."

And straight into a tariff wall at that.

Happy International Women's Day

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A wax figure of former President Donald Trump, dressed in a black suit, white shirt, and red tie, stands in front of an American flag. The headline below the image states, "San Antonio Wax Museum Removes Trump Figure Because Visitors Kept Punching It.

How to deal with fascists 101.

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

Don’t let this administration take away your joy. Yes, what they’re doing is wrong and terrifying, but don’t let them take away the one thing that’s yours. Surround yourself with community. Do things you love. Yes, things look bleak, and you also need joy. Don’t let them take that away.

Musk plans to fire 7,000 Social Security Administration employees while calling Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” However, Americans have paid into the system their entire working lives!

Seems like a pretty important detail

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Surprised they didn't rename it American.

a man in a suit is playing a violin while another man plays a double bass ALT: a man in a suit is playing a violin while another man plays a double bass

The reality is that it's unreasonable to expect ourselves (and others) to carry on as if everything is normal when there is so much chaos around us. That would essentially be doing this. 2/

Five alarm fire.

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Released on February 25, 1985: Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears #vinylrecords

Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE | The Verge We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.

https://www.theverge.com/news/617014/federal-workers-we-the-builders-website-doge

Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

An orange stereum mushroom that has been curled up more or less into the shape of an ice cream cone, except the front is still a bit open. Through that front, a tuft of moss has grown into the mushroom, and it looks like the moss is embraced by it.

Stereum mushroom sharing a dance with its hair moss friend.
#fungifriends #iseemoss