📚 🦸🏻‍♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.” Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee. Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries

“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

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Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

The 511 flying down Bathurst today with the new dedicated lanes (hi @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social!) I used to be able to physically outrun the streetcar on this stretch, and now it takes me just 15min to get to a doctor appt at Toronto Western by streetcar 🥹

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NJ GOP congressman's former staffer indicted in staged MAGA attack

Natalie Greene worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew and had body modifications to make it appear she'd been assaulted.

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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson

Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books

Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.

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Trans youth who are hurting in Alberta right now, please know SO many of us see you, care about you, and know you deserve to be protected. We’ve got your back and will do everything we can to keep you safe in the face of attacks from craven, pathetic politicians ❤️

Two kicks at being contemptuously notwithstanding in three weeks. This time on the backs of trans youth. The notion that human rights protection must above all be there for the most vulnerable in society means nothing in Danielle Smith's Alberta.

Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on three bills affecting trans and gender-diverse youth

Legislation limits gender-affirming care and bans trans participation in womens’ and girls’ sports

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#ResistanceEarth What if you could take a waste product and make a biodegradable material with the qualities of plastic? That's what MIT senior Jacqueline Prawira has done with fish scales. She also helped develop a low-carbon process for making cement. news.mit.edu/2025/mit-sen...

MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic

MIT student Jacqueline Prawira’s invention, a biodegradable plastic made from fishing industry waste, tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges and was recently featured on CBS...

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

St. Simon’s will be hosting the Diocese of Niagara Vigil marking Trans Day of Awareness. Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 7pm St. Simon’s Anglican Church 1450 Litchfield Road, Oakville ON

More of this please. ALL of this please.

Catomama 🇨🇦@catomama.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excellent

TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.

Heck yes!!!! Open source revolution here we come.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 9mo ago

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Ms. Brown speaking the truth 🔥

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Here's an obvious, easy, fun move: Every day, Dems should stage a mini-press conference showing video of Karoline Leavitt's latest lies, and then providing the corrections and the truth. It's like solar power--an infinite resource. It needn't be a Congressperson, but an official Dem spokesperson.

Katie Wilson, a longtime progressive organizer and founder of Seattle’s Transit Riders Union, has been elected as Seattle’s next mayor. She defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell. Wilson campaigned on expanding affordable housing, improving public transit, and enacting fairer taxation policies.

#HigherEd, please read this. Resist and regulate. #AI #AcademicSky "Occasionally, when King lingered on the downstream effects of his work, he felt like Dr. Frankenstein looking at his monster." web.archive.org/web/20251112...

‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’

AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

🗣🗣🗣BUT HIS EMAILS

I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.

A banner which read "Stop killing children - Stop killing civilians" was displayed by Uefa before the Super Cup final between Tottenham and Paris St-Germain on Wednesday. The sign was shown on the pitch in front of the players as they lined up before kick-off at the Stadio Friuli in Udine, Italy.

Uefa displays 'stop killing children - stop killing civilians' banner before Super Cup final

Uefa displays a banner which reads

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I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

hannah gais@hannahgais.bsky.social · last yr.

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Corn maze in Vankleek Hill, Ont. celebrates Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope #TerryFox #MarathonOfHope #Ontario #Canada #CornMaze www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Corn maze in Vankleek Hill, Ont. celebrates Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope

Ouimet Farms in Vankleek Hill is honouring Terry Fox with a corn maze to celebrate the 45th anniversary of his Marathon of Hope.

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Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...

Federal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump's vow to crack down on crime

President Trump promised a weekend crackdown on Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.

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HUNG YEN — Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just US$3,200 and rice provisions in return. #TrumpGrifters www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for US$1.5 billion Trump golf club

Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just US$3,200 and rice provisions in return.

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Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in digital locks used in multiple physical safes, including one marketed as “America’s #1 heavy-duty home and gun safe manufacturer.” With help from EFF, they disclosed the research at Defcon. www.wired.com/story/secur...

Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.

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