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@libraryjosh

Librarian. Jaguars fan. Orioles fan.

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ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

“Think about that for a moment: a six-year-old child with a disability suddenly in a different country, separated from the country he has come to know, now surrounded by silence. The horror stories from this White House continue from ICE.”

09.03.2026 22:07 👍 460 🔁 249 💬 15 📌 13

Reminder: The Trump admin shut down the FREE IRS tax filing tool Direct File.

This program helped make life more affordable by making it easier for families to claim benefits.

This almost literally takes money straight from our pockets and shoves it to tax prep companies.

09.03.2026 19:46 👍 99 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 1

This legit bums me out. Glad he gets to play back home though, that’s got to be cool for him.

09.03.2026 18:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

09.03.2026 08:34 👍 10603 🔁 2567 💬 60 📌 76

#Florida is currently experiencing its worst drought in 25 years and several cities are considering moratoriums on new development.

08.03.2026 21:36 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

This whole table is my Arya prayer list

06.03.2026 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!

06.03.2026 19:50 👍 2314 🔁 258 💬 118 📌 16

So, obviously this isn’t true. But if the CEO actually believes this nonsense, it implies he thinks maybe he’s enslaving a sentient being that has the capacity to feel emotional distress. And he hasn’t immediately halted operations to suss out how to resolve that?

06.03.2026 17:33 👍 636 🔁 127 💬 24 📌 13

Wait but Trump made American soldiers get on their knees to roll out the red carpet for Putin! I thought that would surely make him respect us

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 284 🔁 64 💬 3 📌 3
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 👍 9846 🔁 4703 💬 559 📌 635

… I GUESS???? I GUESS?!?!!?!

06.03.2026 00:58 👍 1404 🔁 249 💬 44 📌 6

DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.

05.03.2026 18:56 👍 3859 🔁 477 💬 27 📌 33

This might not resonate with anyone who's never lived in the South, but do you know how *hard* it is to get BANNED from Waffle House?

05.03.2026 14:57 👍 161 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 0

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

05.03.2026 03:28 👍 20124 🔁 5699 💬 512 📌 220

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

05.03.2026 13:07 👍 9559 🔁 2761 💬 472 📌 112

I don't have a problem with Tim. But I do think it is deleterious that so many smart people spend so much time on X, which has essentially become an algorithmically and AI-optimized far-right MAGA message testing and propaganda machine. People assume X posts represent the masses, but they don't!

05.03.2026 03:19 👍 1543 🔁 178 💬 53 📌 10

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

04.03.2026 22:52 👍 6041 🔁 1814 💬 100 📌 39

um...yeah.

04.03.2026 22:25 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

We mixed it up a little in 2021 because that president was born in 1942.

04.03.2026 01:49 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

03.03.2026 23:07 👍 9141 🔁 3041 💬 430 📌 163
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'Constitutional trainwreck': Florida lawmakers seek surveillance crackdown The legislation, which has come under fierce criticism from civil-rights and free speech advocates, represents another expansion of Florida’s security apparatus under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

New @thefloridatrib.bsky.social | Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has spent three-quarters of a billion dollars creating a kind of parallel national security apparatus. A controversial series of surveillance and domestic terrorist bills will add to that accounting.

floridatrib.org/2026/03/03/c...

03.03.2026 19:40 👍 10 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1

If they had DEI they’d know it was Targét not Tarzhay

03.03.2026 13:27 👍 3892 🔁 620 💬 59 📌 17

If the Rightwing and some liberals successfully dismantle public libraries, they will not be replicated again in the U.S.

03.03.2026 16:10 👍 411 🔁 133 💬 6 📌 0

Congressional Dems are in a tough spot. On one hand, they could gain incredible advantage in the upcoming midterms by vigorously denouncing Trump's reckless war. On the other hand, they like it.

03.03.2026 15:17 👍 716 🔁 193 💬 8 📌 5

a 70+ year history of regime change and sanctions etc etc etc every part of iran's current regime was built on the backs of US intervention.

but 99% of american students will never learn pre-1979 iranian history.

28.02.2026 18:13 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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average person cheering for war in iran

28.02.2026 16:13 👍 12138 🔁 2177 💬 107 📌 22

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

28.02.2026 16:00 👍 4311 🔁 1579 💬 120 📌 63
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

28.02.2026 17:18 👍 19033 🔁 8136 💬 44 📌 119

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 26298 🔁 8894 💬 290 📌 334