Today I’m staffing the self check out area at the internet’s least favorite retailer and if I never post again, know that its because I didn’t survive
Cheese Queen
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Abolition|Immigration|Literature|Other NYC
A protest organized by @jvp.bsky.social has just blocked traffic on First Avenue at 39th Street to protest today’s speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Politely reminding people about *right wing* infighting, which the internet doesn’t spend nearly as much time laughing about www.wflx.com/2026/04/16/s...
Some Moms for Liberty leaders resign, claiming group’s focus has shifted to donors and Donald Trump
Former members of Moms for Liberty are speaking out, claiming the Florida-born organization is plagued with infighting, membership turnover, and leadership focused more on photo ops with Trump
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Week 3 of job at internet’s most hated retailer I think the secret to success in retail is to be a 19 year old who doesn’t give a shit and does everything wrong I bring my 40 yr old sticktoitivness to this like I do everything and I am burning the fuck out
Six families have lost someone they loved at the hands of federal immigration agents. TODAY at 3:30 PM ET, Congress will listen to their stories and hold DHS accountable. Join us in bearing witness, because these families deserve to be heard, and they are not alone: facebook.com/SenBlumenthal/
“It’s rude when NYCers complain about transplants” If your main concern isn’t the displacement of Black NYers, go fuck yourself
NEW: Tues 9/22, Sen Blumenthal & Rep Garcia will hold their 5th public forum on DHS abuses with witness testimony from family members of Ruben Martinez, Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, & Johan Durán Guerrero—who were all fatally shot by federal immigration agents
In the breakroom, overhearing my coworkers who are in their early 20s, talk about Jennifer's Body - nature is healing
Looking for media representation of librarians In MLS school, the Parkey Posey classic Party Girl has been mentioned several times, and some assigned reading mentioned Kathryn Hepburn's Desk Set (1957) I'd love to know if there's more!
At my awful new job at the internet’s least favorite retailer, I learned that they’ve lost 10mil more in theft per year since adding self checkout And are “developing technology” to ensure ppl pay at self checkout My guy, we have the tech - it’s called a human employee
I got to ask some repro health and law experts to help make sense of what's going on with legal challenges to mifepristone—and what's next (non-spoiler: more attempts to expand abortions bans across the country)
The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States
In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But they want the same thing.
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I had to read this for homework (in library school) and it was excellent and you should read it too Author Fobazi Ettarh was a queer Black librarian and PhD student who sadly passed earlier this year www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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“Salvadorans were the first immigrant group granted temporary protected status (TPS), initially in 1990 to those fleeing the country’s civil war, and again in 2001 after two massive earthquakes.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
TPS expires for an immigrant group shielded from deportation for decades
Immigrants from El Salvador were the first group granted temporary protected status. The Trump administration has been canceling it for scores of immigrants fleeing war and disaster.
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Brian was born in Denver, but he was pulled over by a Texas state trooper, handed over to Trump’s goons, & deported to Mexico. No one is deserving of ICE’s ongoing rampage against our immigrant & refugee neighbors - including those of us who were born in the U.S.
Born here but deported. A Texas man's harrowing ordeal.
A traffic stop in Texas landed Brian Morales García, a U.S. citizen, in immigration custody. After he was deported to Mexico, a lawsuit helped bring him back.
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did some reporting on a new tool that shows you how much union-busting campaigns cost employers. it's a lot! prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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"This was someone who ...did all of the following: oppose the war in Vietnam, quash a resolution proposed by anti-Zionist feminist women at the UN, attempt to prevent the decriminalization of sex work, march alongside Dolores Huerta and the UAW, join the DSA, and campaign for Hillary Clinton"
Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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Started working at the internet's least favorite retailer this weekend and I am fucking exhausted
A note: the highway/expressway question should include an option for I Don’t Drive as an answer, immediately identifying the respondent as a NYer mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Standard Language Quiz — Dialect Map Quiz
Take the Standard Language Quiz to see your regional US speech profile on an interactive dialect map. Based on the Harvard Dialect Survey.
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I’m learning I’m not the only one at grad school for a second time Forget a literacy crisis, we’ve got a crisis of over education and unemployment
I'm so unsettled by the pro-AI sentiments of one of my classmates I have to calm down by listening to some great, informative media Beyond Back to Normal podcast with Ejeris Dixon, episode with Marisa Franco www.fascismbarometer.org/podcast-epis...
Beyond Back to Normal with Marisa Franco — The Fascism Barometer | Podcast and Learning Hub hosted by Ejeris Dixon
Ejeris sits down with organizer, strategist, and Mijente co-founder Marisa Franco for a layered conversation about Latino communities, rising fascism and authoritarianism, and the political failures t...
fascismbarometer.org
New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. https://cnn.it/4iGlH79
“The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.”
LAUSD Bans Students From Using AI on School Devices
LAUSD has blocked about 378,000 students from accessing generative AI tools on district-issued laptops and tablets.
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A fellow MLS student appears to be pro AI, how is this possible
sex trafficking panics have always been about criminalizing a racialized other
This is my first week of library school and I will be joining the fight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds
PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans
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