#JoyScrolling
Sharing because this teenage Bronze Age sheep-ankle-bone gaming champion girl deserves to be known.
#SheepAnkleBoneGamingGirl
#PSA: if you are autistic, DO NOT TELL YOUR SMARTWATCH
#Austism #Fascism
Via nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqycqf7370s5pgnt9rwx9sfzykzlkfwkskvhfcea3exmsfrrxgtuyqdck09v, a Mariland bookstore takes the place of the Naval Academy library: Old Fox Books is organizing Operation Caged Bird to provide students at the Naval Academy all 381 books removed from the library, free of cost.
*Everything* is politics.
#Libraries #BannedBooks #DEI
Everything those fuckers touch withers and dies, including democracy.
"There are some countries around the world in which fewer than one quarter rule for their own purposes but they’re not very good countries, never mind not the United States."
#KennedyCenter #Trump #USPolitics
https://politizoom.com/kennedy-center-bottoms-out-ticket-sales-plummet-no-donations-cancellations/
Behold, a new genre romance bookstore opening today in Charlotte
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https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2025/02/28/trope-bookshop-romance-plaza-midwood
A reason to break the government is to convince the public that privatization will "save" those services--when in fact, it would just cost you more and be worse.
Example: social security administration/Medicaid/Medicare.
#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-social-security
Trump's latest loyalty test: banning the Associated Press from Oval Office access with the rest of the White House Press Corps, because AP has not bend the knee (they are not misnaming the Gulf of Mexico). The rest of the "free" press of the U.S.? already licking ass.
#PressIsComplicit #USPolitics #GulfOfMexico
https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/
nostr:npub1yksyuunpf3xfwmumrn4g9pgpta00n3d0252hsez354a7r7txfeasprrgk5 oh shit, I'm so sorry!
Fingers crossed it remains very mild and leaves no sequelae.
An Indiana public library is moving 1300 young adult titles to the adult section--making them unavailable to the readers the books were written for, many of whom need those books to survive their lives.
The library is spending over $300,000 just to deny teens the right to read books written for and about them.
#Libraries #EastHamiltonIN #BannedBooks #MomsOfLiberty
"Efforts to restrict stories are efforts to restrict empathy"--John Green
Found via Joshua P. Hill on twitter: "I think a lot of us who grew up in this era where unions have been weakened literally don’t know that strong unions can do stuff like reverse you getting fired. And we should."
#SupportUnions #SupportWorkers
So-called "pregnancy crisis centers"; are pro-forced pregnancy spaces that pretend to be medical clinics and are design to attract people who are exploring their abortion options, in order to both brainwash them against abortion and take up previous time before the deadline for the procedure hits. They tend to get millions in tax dollars all over the U.S.
#Pennsylvannia is finally done with that shit.
#AbortionIsHealthcare
https://jezebel.com/hell-yes-pennsylvania-finally-ends-state-funding-for-c-1850707490