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Library Bear 📚
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Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️‍🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her.

Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
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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
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do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Art History will continue to be seen as an elitist discipline if the public apparatuses for communicating it refuse to acknowledge the scholarship that has drawn attention to art's role in serving and subverting power.

Read the righteous review by Sherry Lindqiust here. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry - Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
The Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated
hnanews.org
February 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Celebrities and talent who do shows for Apple TV should publicly ask the company when SAVANT will be released and why they pulled a show about white supremacists and domestic terrorism? (We know why but pressure them.)

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Whatever Happened to Jessica Chastain's Show on Domestic Terrorism?
Five months after 'The Savant,' Jessica Chastain’s show on domestic terrorism, was set for release, its fate is still uncertain, and no one is talking
www.rollingstone.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Ignoring black content until it's successful and only talking about it in February is the lamest kind of support.

Be better then that.
February 15, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year.

youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU
February 15, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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I’ve seen the critique that making these hats isn’t “doing anything” but I’d say raising 3/4s of a million for their local food shelf and rent assistance org seems like doing a lot.
There were only three left in the basket at Needle & Skein until the knitters fill it up again, but I snagged one! The total raised is now over $750,000.
February 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Today is the last day to get your hands on Feb's monthly yarn or roving colorway: Petals & Presence. The story of our figure of inspiration was one I really enjoyed researching bc she was a little outside my area of expertise. Twas a win win bc I learned so much along the way too! 🧶

#yarnsky
February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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"Kalaallit are also very much aware of the living circumstances for the majority of Indigenous peoples in the U.S. ... Indigenous peoples in the U.S. have a higher percentage of poverty, worse access to health care, and overwhelmingly horrifying statistics on missing and murdered Indigenous women."
"The Kalaallit Nunaat population was planning on literally turning its back against the vice-presidential couple to show them and the world that they were not welcome. The Vances had to deviate from the original plan and only visit the American military base."
Greenland Is Not for Sale: An Indigenous Activist Speaks Out Against the US
The people of Greenland have stated: “We don’t want to be American, we don’t want to be Danish, we are Greenlandic.”…
truthout.org
February 14, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Fam, it is DONE. 4 months of work & 7 different colorways, including gorgeous ones from Cesium Yarn, Tangled Pixie & the ever superb @isasaxonists.bsky.social Republic of Yarnia. The best part? I now know I LOVE making quilts & have already started quilt 2! 🧶 #knitting #craftsky
February 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.

Will DHS retract the prior claims?
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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May this one day happen to them.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer are also at the Munich security conference, but it's very clear that AOC is the real draw.
February 14, 2026 at 4:45 AM
MADAME PRESIDENT
AOC💪at the Munich Security Conference: “In a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability...kidnapping heads of state, threatening allies, colonizing Greenland, or looking the other way on a genocide”
February 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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It is purely anecdotal but AOC got like five hundred times the coverage for her appearance at Munich than Newsom has so far
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Can’t wait for the tribunal.
February 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.

As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.

She replied: “To get out of here.”
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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A couple days prior, 4 students locked down to the doors of Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota. The students demanded that the uni cut ties with ICE and refused to leave without speaking to President Rebecca Cunningham. 3 were arrested.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/minneso...
Minnesota Students Arrested After Locking Down to Morrill Hall, Demanding Sanctuary Campus - UNICORN RIOT
Students at the University of Minnesota were arrested for locking down to the administration building demanding the campus become a sanctuary without access for federal agents.
unicornriot.ninja
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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On Monday, Indigenous activists began an occupation demanding a return of their historical land at Fort Snelling, where the Whipple Federal Building now sits. They set up tipis and have been holding the space since, demanding that state leaders speak with them.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/indigen...
Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT
Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...
unicornriot.ninja
February 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The Hague for Musk is the moderate position. 😡
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
For what it’s worth: ICE sighting confirmed in South Station Boston this morning. Just one in Gestapo wear but maybe more plainclothes. Stay toasty fam. 🧊🔥✊
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Working on something and am reminded of the words of revolutionary Assate Shakur:

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

#showmeyourknits #craftivism #yarnsky
February 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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"A whistle will not stop a bullet, or many. But it can do away with isolation. It cannot shield a body, yet it can draw bodies near, transforming vulnerability into presence and presence into power."
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM