Gina Murrell
@ginamurrell1.bsky.social
Librarian. Copy Editor. Writer. Zine and Graphic Novel Enthusiast. View-Master Reel Collector. Burrito Eater. Reader. Bi. Femme. She/her. All Black Lives Matter✊🏾🌈
15-year-old Joniah Walker took an Uber from Milwaukee to Chicago to meet a man who she’d been communicating with online for several years. Investigators say he had been holding her captive in Virginia ever since.
Teen girl kidnapped in Chicago is found alive in Virginia after being held captive for 4 years
The case involves a 15-year-old girl who left home in Milwaukee, came to Chicago and vanished. Now she’s been found alive and a man has been charged with kidnapping.
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1. Alexi Giannoulias promising 1000 more cops but not saying crap about libraries says a lot. 2. A single year of police abuse lawsuit payout would cover an expanded library staff for far longer than that.
Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 5h agoThousands of books are piling up in Chicago libraries due to staffing shortage. blockclubchi.co/3TFy5Kj
I am so excited that we are 30% funded after just one day!! 😭 This is only my second fundraiser and I'm just astonished what we can achieve together. Thank you to everyone who's donated or shared!
Violet Fox 🦊@violetbfox.bsky.social · yesterdayA friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Zohran Mamdani...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...Rashida Tlaib. How long before this progressive/DSA push becomes a non-white culture versus "American" (read: white) culture narrative? I'm sure its already in dog whistles. The inflection point will be when the quiet part is said out loud.
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong during a recording session at RCA Victor Records in New York City, 1946
I overheard someone call our library staff outdoor photo shoot “A Great Day in Harlem,” which I found incredibly generous 😂 (Though I understand the parallels: outdoor pic of a group of majority Black library workers standing on/in front of a stoop in Harlem.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great... #NYC
Gina Murrell@ginamurrell1.bsky.social · yesterdayThe one day we have a staff photo taken outside (this morning) is the ONLY day this week there’s no rain in the forecast. In fact, it’s clear and sunny. The gods (or goddess) must be smiling on us lol 😆🌞 #libraries #NYC
Count Brad Paisley, Tanya Tucker, Gavin Adcock, and Willie Nelson among those voices, RS reported. “It would be an enormous monstrosity, an absolute eye sore and detract in every way for not only that zoo, but also that area,” Paisley posted, supported by Jack White, Sheryl Crow, and Margo Price.
Country Music Is Coming Out Strong Against Data Centers
Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Tanya Tucker are among the country artists speaking out against data centers in both rural and urban communities.
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White people hate data centers so much that even racism won't take their minds off of it. The tech bros have to be panicking at this point.
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
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I've covered local government meetings for over 20 years, in a city where the mayor notoriously makes up rules to curb anything critical of city hall, especially clapping. So, it's worth a quick🧵 on how governments use rules of decorum to intimidate the public, even to throw opponents in jail.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.😬
Yeah I actually hate ai *and* capitalism. I can do both.
#tdih 1981, PATCO on strike. Pres. Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who ignored order to return to work & banned them from federal service for life. The DC area airport is named for him. Who is honored in history paves path to today. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pa...
Aug. 3, 1981: Air Traffic Controllers Strike
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike.
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The 22 new books out today include titles by Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more! buff.ly/gonryRL
Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today!
The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. T…
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If Emmett Till had lived, he would be just over 85 years old today.
“If Emmett Till Lived”: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emm...
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The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions
The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.
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‘For various reasons – racism being one of the important ones – the narrowest reform was made in 1870. So that’s the 15th Amendment. That amendment was openly evaded for decades.’ Randall Kennedy on voter suppression, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The long history of Black voter suppression in the US
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 31 July · 1hr 2min
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The towering literary genius and fierce social critic James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society, as well as leaving behind a dynamic cinematic legacy.
Do yourself a favor and watch Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday (1980). 👀🎞️
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d agoGuys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
⚡️BREAKING: A Kansas state court just permanently struck down a long list of abortion restrictions, ruling that they violated the fundamental right to abortion, and health care providers’ right to free speech under the state constitution.
I’ve had like 13 COVID shots and I’m not perimenopausal, skill issue
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for a Trans Librarian, organized by Violet Fox
Hello! My name is Violet Fox and I'm raising money for a friend, a trans librarian who rece… Violet Fox needs your support for Support for a Trans Librarian
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somebody posted this in a bike discord I'm in and thought it was handy: amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev
Amtrak Bicycle Access
Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.
amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev
Mandela Station developer is holding a meeting tomorrow at 6:30pm Developer has not advertised this meeting, no signs at BART, no notices to neighbors, and our local neighborhood group found out just now 😔 I am trying to get the word out so people know to join! www.eventbrite.com/e/mandela-st...
