Library Bear 📚
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Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her.
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US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
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Support the freedom to read by patronizing your local library and/or independent bookstore 📖
#libraries #librarians #FreedomToRead #bannedbooks
#indiebookstores
#libraries #librarians #FreedomToRead #bannedbooks
#indiebookstores
What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Support the freedom to read by patronizing your local library and/or independent bookstore 📖
#libraries #librarians #FreedomToRead #bannedbooks
#indiebookstores
#libraries #librarians #FreedomToRead #bannedbooks
#indiebookstores
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My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
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Rob Reiner was a supremely gifted icon who forever influenced the course of American cinema. He was also kind-hearted, open-minded, curious, and a fierce advocate for what he believed in. Let us all strive to be more like this fine man.
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Rob Reiner was a supremely gifted icon who forever influenced the course of American cinema. He was also kind-hearted, open-minded, curious, and a fierce advocate for what he believed in. Let us all strive to be more like this fine man.
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Rob Reiner was famous for over 50 years and made several beloved movies. Charlie Kirk was a sniveling little podcaster who yelled at college students and most of the country never heard of him. They are not the same
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Rob Reiner was famous for over 50 years and made several beloved movies. Charlie Kirk was a sniveling little podcaster who yelled at college students and most of the country never heard of him. They are not the same
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A lovely customer sent in a pic of a gorgeously crocheted hat she made w/ 'Rainbow Magi' & these are a huge hit so they're becoming gifts she's making. I think it's a basketweave stitch w/ a gorgeous ribbing on the bottom.
Always a love letter to receive pics of your projects. 🧶🫶🏾
#yarnsky
Always a love letter to receive pics of your projects. 🧶🫶🏾
#yarnsky
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A lovely customer sent in a pic of a gorgeously crocheted hat she made w/ 'Rainbow Magi' & these are a huge hit so they're becoming gifts she's making. I think it's a basketweave stitch w/ a gorgeous ribbing on the bottom.
Always a love letter to receive pics of your projects. 🧶🫶🏾
#yarnsky
Always a love letter to receive pics of your projects. 🧶🫶🏾
#yarnsky
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This is the wave that swept up my book The Breakaways, and it was pissing me off because it felt like such a blatantly fake misdirection for organizing resources. But it's a canary in the coal mine, right? So keep banging the drum to protect books, but bang the bigger drum to protect communities.
What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is the wave that swept up my book The Breakaways, and it was pissing me off because it felt like such a blatantly fake misdirection for organizing resources. But it's a canary in the coal mine, right? So keep banging the drum to protect books, but bang the bigger drum to protect communities.
What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 is pulling from the cuteness vault to help us all out today; these Sandhill Crane colts were super adorable, and I enjoyed getting some of these unique interactions on camera from an ethical distance 🪶📸 rhenyard.darkroom.com/products/rad...
December 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 is pulling from the cuteness vault to help us all out today; these Sandhill Crane colts were super adorable, and I enjoyed getting some of these unique interactions on camera from an ethical distance 🪶📸 rhenyard.darkroom.com/products/rad...
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It’s pretty fucked up to go to bed during a mass shooting with 2 dead then wake up in the morning and learn the death toll has risen to 12 except it was a different mass shooting.
December 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It’s pretty fucked up to go to bed during a mass shooting with 2 dead then wake up in the morning and learn the death toll has risen to 12 except it was a different mass shooting.
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Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
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stopped me in my tracks
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
stopped me in my tracks
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Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 is a noble Red-Winged Blackbird, singing a farewell at the end of the season atop cattails covered in hoarfrost; you can see his breath in the cold morning 🪶📸
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 is a noble Red-Winged Blackbird, singing a farewell at the end of the season atop cattails covered in hoarfrost; you can see his breath in the cold morning 🪶📸
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this. i remember when it was created along with DHS (also can be eliminated).
Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
this. i remember when it was created along with DHS (also can be eliminated).
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My fiber/academic sister's new book on Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode just came out, & my copy arrived so I have to big up her. If you want to learn more abt the history of fairy tales & race, etc, grab a copy. Also look at the separate special order of mini skeins!
December 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My fiber/academic sister's new book on Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode just came out, & my copy arrived so I have to big up her. If you want to learn more abt the history of fairy tales & race, etc, grab a copy. Also look at the separate special order of mini skeins!
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
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there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
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what about the somali customers? good chance they were working class too. do they not deserve to live in a world where they can buy a snack without an assault on their dignity?
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
what about the somali customers? good chance they were working class too. do they not deserve to live in a world where they can buy a snack without an assault on their dignity?
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Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.
Srsly I only know that @vanhollen.senate.gov exists bc of this ✊
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Srsly I only know that @vanhollen.senate.gov exists bc of this ✊
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
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AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
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Truly the bromance of the century 🤩😍🤩😍
Thrilled to welcome the endorsement of my friend (and NYC Mayor-elect) @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as we continue to fight for the city that we love.
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Truly the bromance of the century 🤩😍🤩😍