☆☆☆ 2025 TOP READS ☆☆☆
What were Buffalo & Erie County Public Library cardholders reading in 2025? Check out our Top Reads of the year in adult fiction & non-fiction, children's, young adult and teen!
What was your favorite book that you read this year?
My statement on mass starvation in Gaza.
Image of an large cat walking on top of a long snake, with caption OH LAWD HE TREADIN'
My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today.
#wipolitics
On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/
#WeFeedYou
Farm workers union says ICE detained worker leaders
www.wgrz.com/video/news/l...
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
I personally manifested this. Please clap.
Feeding our neighbors is NEVER a waste of our resources. The program being cut also helps out our farmers.
www.wgrz.com/article/life...
How do you have an entire Wharton degree and not know tariffs are bad? How do you spend an entire career in real estate development, an industry notoriously susceptible to commodity price fluctuations, and not know tariffs are bad? The creation of economic strife is intentional.
Sometimes, capitulation is indistinguishable from complicity.
Becca and Alvaro are two of the smartest, most dedicated public servants I know. This is illegal, a travesty, and a serious harm to our polity.
I can’t help but feel that even those of us who expected the worst (so, our current timeline) have been devastatingly caught on our heels, except for like 4 people. 🫠
Let me ask you to remember a second word: "No." All lawyers want to tell their clients yes. What is much harder is to tell your client no. We all recently learned about two groups of lawyers in the Justice Department. Both groups included Yale Law School graduates. One group was asked by the White House to approve an illegal program, at the hospital bed of the ailing Attorney General. Their answer, and the Attorney General's, was simply "No." A few years earlier, another group of Justice Department lawyers - again including graduates of this school--were asked to write an opinion asking whether American officials could lawfully torture detainees. Instead of saying no, they answered, "here's how." That was the wrong answer. Their job was to say no, what you are asking violates the law, and we should not do it. It is illegal, and it is wrong.
I often think of this excerpt from Harold Koh’s speech to our YLS graduating class:
I know there is a lot going on, but we haven’t had a really good Pride and Prejudice film adaptation in a while and I think we could all really use one. 🥹
Se informa ampliamente sobre la actividad de ICE y la Patrulla Fronteriza en todo el condado de Kern. Conozca sus derechos.
NO TIENE QUE CONTESTAR PREGUNTAS.
Puede decir: Estoy ejerciendo mi derecho a no responder a sus preguntas.
www.rapidresponsekern.com/es/
The response from LA’s network of community organizations has been a sight to behold. In these wild times, I hope we take a moment to learn from them because (sadly) our communities will need these skills sooner or later. My heart is with you LA!
www.npr.org/2025/01/11/n...
