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Witty Librarian Resistance

@paulwartenberg.bsky.social

Blogger, Reference Librarian, Short Story Writer. Owned by Krazy Kat. Long-time Floridian, so YES I am crazy as well. #trumpisevil Buy my books! https://t.co/Qndd0QIucD

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Witty Librarian Resistance@paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 28m ago

if our law enforcement agencies were serious about going after child sex abusers, they'd be arresting the Meta upper management for creating these ads in the first place, let alone RUNNING THE DAMN ADS. /rage

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 4h ago

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

not an art thief@famousartthief.bsky.social · 23h ago

there are no trans players in the wnba. the highest estimate is that maybe 0.9% of the us population is transgender. this is just people crushing the most vulnerable humans in america and if you don’t stand up against this you are a fucking piece of shit. what are we doing here.

Witty Librarian Resistance@paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 1h ago

This was never about capitalism - which has liberal roots and is amenable to regulation - it was about oligarchy / mercantilism where the elites run every aspect of business and enforces it with brute force.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2h ago

Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/

CECO Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism share.google
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 7h ago

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h ago

The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"

GunnyJKJ@gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 8h ago

A republican senator said there’s nothing they can do, in their majority, to reign in the President. Congress is the most powerful branch of the three, what a fucking cowardly thing to say. Certainly not alpha male speak.

Witty Librarian Resistance@paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 9h ago

My understanding is that voters know we need taxes, its a question of tax *fairness*. They'll support lowering tax rates on themselves because its their own income. But they want to see the uber-rich pay their share as well.

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 10h ago

Attention anti-tax politicians: even in red states voters know the money has to come from somewhere. They even understand the difference between progressive and regressive taxation. I mean REALLY.

NYT election results Last updated 7:32 a.m. E.T. Missouri Amendment 5 Election Results: Eliminate Income Tax This amendment would eliminate state income taxes, which would make Missouri the 10th state in the country without them. In fiscal year 2025, money from individual income taxes made up more than 60 percent of the state's general revenue. Latest results from 1:26 AM ET >95% OF VOTES IN AP Answer Votes Pct. V No 1,165,594 83.3% Yes 233,432 16.7 Total reported 1,399,026 6 hours ago Bayliss Wagner Politics reporter Voters overwhelmingly rejected the measure, which would have authorized lawmakers to replace lost income tax revenue by driving up sales taxes. The result is a loss for Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican who prioritized the measure, and the Republican-led Legislature, which put it on the ballot.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.

Witty Librarian Resistance@paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 22h ago

where I am in Florida: the price of eggs with trump and the GOP in charge are NOT under $1, the price of milk is DEFINITELY not under $2. I wish we had a way to stop these elected officials from LYING to us on a daily basis.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tom Emmer on Republicans trailing Dems by 8 points in the generic ballot: "Right now there are great things happening in our economy. Nobody wants to talk about 78 cent eggs, nobody wants to talk about milk that's under $2. No no. They want to focus on gas prices."

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h ago

The same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”

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Witty Librarian Resistance@paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 24h ago

"follow the money" matters as much as releasing the names of every person who supported Epstein's sex trafficking ring and who raped those young women (and men). For CBS to kill this story violates serious journalistic ethics: newrepublic.com/post/213927/...

60 Minutes Ended Story About Epstein’s Shady Bank Transactions

Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.

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Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · yesterday

Just one disputed area of Trump's reported business losses could be worth more than $100 million in back taxes, interest & penalties, according to legal analysts reviewing the deal. That's before counting the more than $2B Trump reported earning last year, largely from crypto ventures… | Forbes

Todd Blanche’s Latest Trump IRS Immunity Deal Is No Concession At All

This latest agreement would continue to assure that Trump and his sons would benefit from special tax treatment no other taxpayer has received.

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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South Florida Sun Sentinel@sun-sentinel.com · yesterday

BREAKING: The property tax proposal pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t appear on the ballot the way his office wrote it, a judge ruled. The ruling said the proposed constitutional amendment uses language “more akin to a political slogan” rather than being clear and neutral, which state law requires.

Florida judge rules property tax amendment misleading, orders rewrite

The property tax proposal initially pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t appear on the ballot the way his office wrote it, a Tallahassee judge ruled late Monday night.

sun-sentinel.com