The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didnβt have his hearing aids when he was detained.
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The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didnβt have his hearing aids when he was detained.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
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ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheβs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
Theyβve already sent her to Louisiana.
"Members of Trump's Board [of Peace] are ... among the worst human rights violators on the planet."
I mean that to me the article isn't the analog of the album, but of the song, i.e. issue=album and article=song.
The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books.
Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable.
Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Upcoming FREE UKSG webinar "Why we all need to #DefendResearch" starring alicemeadows.bsky.social,
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and @lschiff.bsky.social dub.sh/csknxSv.
Isn't the issue the album?
Zenodo is great!
The Texas Supreme Court just blocked the judgeβs order that would have kept Democratic polls open until 9 p.m.
But don't let them trick you: anyone who was in line by 7PM STILL has the legal right to vote and have it counted. Anyone after will have their vote collected, but counting isnβt certain.
Israel/US killed 167 schoolgirls in Iran in an Illegal unprovoked attack.
And never mind being condemned, the Media won't even mention it.
#TheAmericanHolocaust
Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.
It's arriving in a country once again waging warβa country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.
Let's take stock of where we are.
Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war.
The viral video below claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight.
But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.
Please vet your sources.
As proud as Iβve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!!
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I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
The question here is whether ICE agents broke the law by pretending to be police officers and lying by saying they were looking for a missing child to gain entry to a residential building.
If the law allows this, how are people to trust any official if one can easily be impersonated?
FYI, there is still time to register for the March 5th #DefendResearch webinar with Nina Jankowicz of the American Sunlight Project on " #Censorship, #Disinformation, and the Fight for Academic Freedom" and how we can resist censorship and its consequences. www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...
Corporate Media destroy Biden over US military deaths in necessary & overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan (his approval numbers never recovered) but sits there and laughs with Trump as he talks about drapes as US military dies over Iran in war of choice that he has not even bothered to justify to US.
TONIGHT: Join activists, foreign policy experts, and Members of Congress who are calling for immediate de-escalation in Iran and demanding immediate action to rein in Trump.
This call will cover actionable next steps and launch a nationwide push to tell every elected official no more endless wars.
Weβre live in 20 minutes to discuss new research revealing biases in AI.
I was there for that. It was horrific.
If you are a #journalist or #researcher who has experienced harassment or intimidation because of your work, the amazing organization @righttobe.bsky.social has a new program to offer direct support: expertvoicestogether.org
I am ready to #StandUpForScience and #StandUpAgainstWar this Saturday, March 7th. I hope many, many of us are out there! www.standupforscience.net/march7
This video by @michaeldgreen.phd is a powerful expose of the type of #censorship and #racism the Trump administration is applying to #science and knowledge production. Fighting back is the only solution! We have toolkits that help you do just that! #DefendResearch www.defendresearch.org/take-action
Fighting for my First Amendment rights.
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A line plot with the numbers of NSF awards for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is quite a bit lower than those for 2021-2025 while the curve for fiscal year 2026 (in red) is much lower than all through the same date.
But, as they say, there is no time like the present
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
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Something for all of us to bookmark and ask our local officials to put into place! #NoICE