Historians, scholars and artists are working to unearth, record, preserve and share Maryland’s LGBTQ+ history— work they say is all the more urgent as the Trump administration and conservative legislatures try to roll back the rights of queer people www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer
@librariesftp.bsky.social is currently running our 3rd cohort for people who want to run for or seek appointment to their library boards. In just the past few years, we've seen interest ebb and flow in terms of these positions. Leftists should be focused on library governance. Seriously.
I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.
We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.
SHE GOT GAME WEEKEND!!!
Join us at 5:30pm ET for a discussion of Organize Your Library! Building the Collective Power of Library Workers ! This event is part of the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies Research in Praxis discussion series.
Register and hop in the zoom!
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Hating women, more American than the sport of hockey.
Always the women athletes doing the right thing, always always.
Just disgusting. But I guess hating women is indeed the American Way.
SCANDAL
Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
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Gesundheit.
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Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
Definitively impossible to think of any other solution.
Higher ed faculty in Maryland should have the right to organize their workplaces! If you agree, please send a letter to our state legislators in support of our bill to extend bargaining rights to adjunct and NTT faculty! actionnetwork.org/letters/coll...
A temperature of around minus 10 degrees did little to slow Minnesotans around the Twin Cities on Friday, with businesses closing, workers and students staying home, and demonstrators demanding that federal immigration agents depart. nyti.ms/3Zu4tiB
On a similar journey
Dude. I watched the first half. Obscene.
He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
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In which I ride my bike to the Y even though it's cold outside. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/20/a...
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In which I take my bike to BBW to schedule a tune up and reminisce about my first ride in the city, on a three speed, up Fulton Avenue and over on North, in the heat of a July afternoon. I'm glad I pick my own routes now. That was a lot of cars. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/17/t...
Obscene
'Everyone Deserves A Second Chance!' - Gabrielle Angelique Perry, MPH, Founder & Executive Director The mission of The Perry 'Second Chances' Scholarship is to annually provide fiscal resources to formerly incarcerated women and the daughters of anyone who has been impacted by incarceration. women who are currently enrolled or recently accepted into an accredited 2-to-4-year educational institution will be given a one-time, $10,000 scholarship, paid directly to their institutions, to support their education & needs in order to thrive in their educational endeavors. Applications open 11.15.2025 and close 2.27.2026, at www.theperryscholarship.org Learn more at thurmanperryfoundation.org
Hey y’all! REMINDER:
I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org
Oh my god
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.
