Some good news for once.
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New report from UCLA Williams Institute School of Law: "Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections, January 2025 to January 2026" More: https://myumi.ch/jJ8Qg
I’m reading War is Coming by Sami Hermez this week. About violence, duration, and event as lived in Lebanon. Strong recommend.
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REMEMBER THIS? Here's a look back at Trump's newly named DHS Secretary, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, in 2023 when he stood up and tried to fight labor leader Sean O'Brien at a senate committee hearing after reading O'Brien's tweet saying he'd take him "any time, any place."
Primary them all.
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
I get asked a lot about how you become a game preservationist. Almost none of us set out to do that! I hope stories like Flori's show all the interesting and unusual ways you can end up working with games in cultural heritage
It’s an absolute dereliction of duty that the Trump Administration didn’t have a plan in place to get Americans out of danger.
A patchwork quilted jacket made out of blue, green, and purple fabrics
Someone very proudly, but also sleepily, wearing the patchwork data jacket they just finished sewing
I still need to build the companion website, but I finished the data jacket!!
The circle on the cuff is an NFC tag that will direct folks to a website that helps explain the visualizations.
#DHmakes
Great explainer on the problem of ebook pricing for libraries.
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“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam
No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List
YEP!
No war.
As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!!
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The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
International Studies Metadata Librarian at U. Michigan. "...including but not limited to: Hindi, Urdu,
Sanskrit, Bengali, Panjabi, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, or Tagalog."
#LISJobs
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New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
Announcement of another death in an ICE concentration camp.
Another person has died in ICE custody. A person with health problems held for a year WITHOUT CARE.
Boo.
Some New Yorkers receiving food stamps must prove they are working, studying or volunteering for at least 80 hours per month or risk losing the benefit under new federal rules beginning on Sunday, March 1.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/27/s...
How am I supposed to teach govdocs in the fall.
Hyeseong Kim. That’s it. That’s the skeet.
Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.
Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible For 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ
"good stewards of the American people's tax money" like Minnesotans were out all night partying with the hockey team and using two private jets to get there.
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Reading Frantz Fanon
Join us for the fourth session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social.
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I get why they want a private elevator--I waited forever. Next time I'll just put a little rope around one and call it mine I guess.