Library Bear 📚
@adklibrarybear.bsky.social
Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her. Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
Wondering what’s been going on with Ben & Jerry’s and the Magnum Corporation? They’re illegally dismantling the independent board, they are preventing them from speaking out about Gaza, Trump and more. We’re asking them to sell to a group of social investors that support the values.
A first reading from the Free Ben & Jerry's Poet Society. Keep buying Ben & Jerry's to stay cool this summer. #FreeBenandJerrys
Ben Cohen says his ice cream company has been silenced by corporate ownership – and a boycott of Magnum brands could force a sale
‘It ain’t the same’: inside the bitter battle to free Ben & Jerry’s
theguardian.com
Clean, dry hands. Wash your hands with soap qnd dry thoroughly. No lotion, no touching your face or hair or other things that can leave substances on your fingers.
Archivists and librarians in movies and TV wearing white gloves for handling old documents and books. We don't do that! It's bad for the documents! Also, when a character takes an old book off a library shelf and blows dust off it. No no no!
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Gloves, especially the thick cloth gloves lower dexterity so people tend to be unintentionally rougher with material - you have to work harder to puck up a photo or turn a page. Fingers let you react to damaged and delicate material faster, such as feeling it tear.
Thank you @cairnational.bsky.social for this thoughtful endorsement!! 🙏 @pazforthepeople.bsky.social will be the rep MA05 needs to truly represent ALL constituents ❤️☪️🇵🇸
Jonathan Paz@pazforthepeople.bsky.social · 5d agoENDORSEMENT ALERT! We're honored to earn the endorsement of CAIR Action! Together, we're building a coalition committed to confronting Islamophobia, defending religious freedom and advancing dignity for every person - here and abroad. Thank you to CAIR for your trust. ✌🏽
A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
theguardian.com
The “AI era” has generated some of the most insufferable trolls. & your bear was alive for gamergate. Now the Nazis and idiots are like religiously convinced they’re smarter than you, along with the usual genocidal intent 😬😬😬
"Although arrests spiked at the outset of both Trump presidencies, the share of arrested individuals with criminal convictions fell significantly... A shift in ICE tactics partly explains this pattern, but even conditional on tactic, the share with a criminal conviction declined as arrests rose."
Chloe N East (she/her)@chloeneast.bsky.social · last wk.My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
thehandbasket.co
My two cents People are going to get so fucking sick and not know why. Some people are going to die.
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
Is it worth bothering to rebut all of these lies & manipulations of science? Send me a ❤️ if you want a break down of everything wrong with the Nazi eugenics evil masquerading as science in the below link…
Library Bear 📚@adklibrarybear.bsky.social · last wk.Holy shit this is real. Woooow is it eugenics on steroids. The fucking Nazism, in govt colors & fonts: www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
I’ve been in the forest all week & I’m not caught up. What the fuuu—
The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry what
Holy shit, Carrie-Ann Moss AND Hudson Williams?? As the kids say, I am pretty damn seated: youtu.be/TLikr_BwHKo?...
YAGA | Official Teaser Trailer ft. Carrie-Anne Moss & Noah Reid | Coming This October | AMC+
YouTube video by amc+
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Per the police shooting in Madison, WI today, this bears repeating: ICE, CBP, local cops; their violence is all connected. ICE represents an escalation of that violence to be sure. But we wouldn't be here here without years and years of collectively tolerating "regular" cops killing people.
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last mo.This normalization is taking place more easily precisely because we've also normalized a carceral system that has fed on millions, disproportionately Black and brown people. U.S. police killed 11K+ people in the last decade alone. And we are collectively numb to it:
Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
wired.com
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...
Absolutely unconscionable. I want ask NoCo locals: how do you think the economy here will survive without immigrant labor? www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/5... #AbolishICE #NY21 #Adirondacks
'Now I go outside feeling afraid': Lake Placid worker recounts ICE detention
A Venezuelan man describes his arrest during an immigration raid, as advocates say fear is spreading through the North Country's immigrant community.
northcountrypublicradio.org
We’re so excited to stand with these candidates. Just like our friends in the NYC chapter did with @bradlander.bsky.social, it will take all of us chipping in, in ways big and small. If you want to help, sign up at bit.ly/INNB4MA (promise we won't spam you!)
INN Boston Endorsements Action Form
INN Boston is officially endorsing Erika Uyterhoeven (for State Senate, 2nd Middlesex), Evan Mackay (for State Rep 25th Middlesex), & Jonathan Paz (for US Rep, CD-5). We will knock doors, make calls,...
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