FYI the library committee hearing on the preliminary budget has been moved from March 12 to March 18. I think you have to sign up anew if you signed up previously to testify in person or via zoom. docs.google.com/document/d/1... - I just signed up again but this time for March 18.
The looting of African resources by outsiders & its tragic consequences for African people is an old story. Gold, diamonds, ivory, rubber... And now coltan, so that we can have fancy phones. apnews.com/article/cong...
Chicagoans, joined by 3 former presidents, gathered to say goodbye to the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The People’s Celebration is expected to be the largest gathering to honor Jackson’s life, as it’s being held in a church with seating for 10,000. blockclubchi.co/3OSSdpZ
AND WE ARE!!! LIVE!!!!
GO WILD GO BID GO BUY
#fandommarket
www.32auctions.com/fandommarket...
blanket pardons is definitely likely.
Flor de hibisco color durazno con centro rojo brillante iluminada por el sol de la mañana entre hojas verdes tropicales. Peach-colored hibiscus flower with a bright red center glowing in morning sunlight among tropical green leaves.
¡Buenas y feliz viernes! 🌱🌴💕
#naturaleza
Hoping prison abolitionists will bite and share this one: research-informed, Palestinian-led mental health support for nearly a hundred kids who suffered in occupation detention.
You support goes towards materials & facilitation. We have FOUR WEEKS: chuffed.org/project/hmg
By design
Guardian US opinion: Good riddance to Kristi Noem. Her replacement won’t be an improvement.
I wrote about Kristi Noem’s exit from DHS. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ah yes, Trump will help Iran rebuild...
The interesting thing about AI is how committed executives are to using it after it measurably fails catastrophically at its goals. Like there seems to be no limit to how badly it can fuck up and still be heralded as the future of technology
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
CNN's Dana Bash reports on a conversation she just had with Trump: "He quickly turned to Cuba. He said without being asked, 'Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.'"
Retail sales declined 0.2% in January from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Friday, the biggest decline since May.
https://cnn.it/3N8aRcH
This will be a test re: whether the U.S. population knows who to be mad at.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
A screenshot of an article from the New York Times, dated November 23 1997: EAST VILLAGE; Fax Attack Puts Garden Defender in Legal Paper Jam by Jesse McKinley
(Okay, it was a LOT of faxes. The district attorney declined to prosecute.)
www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/n...
I was arrested at home by NYPD detectives and charged under a stalking law for sending faxes to New York City's chamber of commerce
Late last year, I wrote about the new tactic to defund libraries, which is through state-level tax reforms (see here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...).
Guess what libraries are worried about now in Ohio? Exactly that. State already changed their budgeting last year.
thecourier.com/news/799947/...
Congratulations!
…this arrived and it’s thick!
I've seen lots of coverage including in the international press. What I haven't seen is Democratic electeds bringing it up daily therefore driving coverage.
It would
#BREAKING Around 50,000 Syrians living in Lebanon have fled back over border into Syria in past week: UN migration agency
Tehran
The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.
In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.
And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
They know that many people in the US will accept the killing of civilians overseas but will draw the line at high gas prices.
Quite an opening paragraph.
