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ACLU of Washington @acluwa.bsky.social · 21h

Losing access to a library can be just as damaging as outright censorship🧵

Navy blue background with a quote from ACLU-WA's Integrated Advocacy Director, Vanessa Torres Hernandez: "Libraries are a critical institution for the health of a democratic society. They must be protected. Federal efforts to defund and dismantle the Washington State Library, amidst a significant state budget shortfall, have resulted in its closure to the public. threatening access to knowledge and educational materials for many who rely on its services."

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 20h

Link to Propublica's reporting ↘️
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 12h

Open your networks & your checkbook.

Offer direct support to those who seek help via #TransCrowdFund #SettlerSaturday #DisabilityCrowdFund & your local mutual aid society.

#MMIWG2S #LandBack
#BlackLivesMatter

#TransPowerNow #SayGayAnyway

We all deserve lives of play, peace, love, & belonging.

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 12h

If you live in the US, put your elected representatives' phone numbers in your "favorites" list on your phone.

You can also start w/ the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121

Don't know what to say? follow @celestepewter.bsky.social here or sign up for
susanrogan.substack.com/subscribe
Get loud!

Subscribe to Rogan's List

ways we can help save our democracy. Click to read Rogan's List, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

susanrogan.substack.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 12h

Need reproductive healthcare by mail? aidaccess.org

Need an abortion?
ineedana.com, abortionfinder.org, heyjane.co

If you're worried your abortion or pregnancy outcome could be criminalized:
reprolegalhelpline.org

To support providers, donate to
keepourclinics.org & abortionfunds.org

Aid Access

Get abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are.

aidaccess.org

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 12h

Good night, good people.

Be kind, be curious.

Begin again.

(I write at least - and usually just - one #haiku I can stand to share every day. Some days I post them here. Eventually they get archived at butwait.blogspot.com/search/label.... Please poke around there and find your favorites.)

But Wait, There's More!

Every day, at least one haiku I can stand to share. Sometimes, stuff about lesbian parenting or social justice activism.

butwait.blogspot.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 12h

the world was better
(I want to say to strangers)
when he was in it

💔

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23h

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago is giving me all the hopecore I need these days.

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 20h

Frances found an apartment! That they can actually afford! Just needs to get over that first month hump... c'mon, y'all!

Where are my rich white settler friends at?

Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 22h

Bread and Jam for Frances #MUTUALAID💸💕

I've been housing insecure for months. I found an apartment but need help for rent/deposit. I can handle monthly if I can get the first $1500 payment. Anything helps. I'll hug you the next time I see you. Pay QR codes below. Mvto!
#settlersaturday #helpsky

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 1d

Oversight Democrats have one message for Speaker Johnson: Stop the Shutdown, Release the Files!

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 1d

Have lost count.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Hey by the way, if you're into peer pressure, this person signed up for my newsletter. Doesn't it make you want to sign up for my newsletter too?

Of course it does!

This week you'll get a recipe for a lovely fall soup.

Please sign up! Make this Black Lady—and her editor—happy!

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

Open your networks & your checkbook.

Offer direct support to those who seek help via #TransCrowdFund #SettlerSaturday #DisabilityCrowdFund & your local mutual aid society.

#MMIWG2S #LandBack
#BlackLivesMatter
#TransPowerNow #SayGayAnyway

There is one boat. You'd best believe we are all in it.

Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in the US, put your elected representatives' phone numbers in your "favorites" list on your phone.
You can also start w/ the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121
Don't know what to say? follow @celestepewter.bsky.social here or sign up for susanrogan.substack.com/subscribe
Get loud!

Subscribe to Rogan's List

ways we can help save our democracy. Click to read Rogan's List, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

susanrogan.substack.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

Need reproductive healthcare by mail? aidaccess.org

Need an abortion?
ineedana.com, abortionfinder.org, heyjane.co

If you're worried your abortion or pregnancy outcome could be criminalized:
reprolegalhelpline.org

To support providers, donate to
keepourclinics.org & abortionfunds.org

Aid Access

Get abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are.

aidaccess.org

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

Good night, good people.

Be kind, be curious.

Begin again.

(I write at least - and usually just - one #haiku I can stand to share every day. Some days I post them here. Eventually they get archived at butwait.blogspot.com/search/label.... Please poke around there and find your favorites.)

But Wait, There's More!

Every day, at least one haiku I can stand to share. Sometimes, stuff about lesbian parenting or social justice activism.

butwait.blogspot.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

Had to break the news of D's death by suicide to three more people today.

I am so tired.

#TransLivesMatter
#PleaseStay

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

fewer flowers now
with hardly any bees
and our friend gone, too

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

TL;DR = too long, didn't read

AI;DR = AI, didn't read

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 2d

our(AI)boros

anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections.

Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs

A network diagram showing relationships between major AI, cloud, and hardware companies. Two arrow types indicate relationships: blue arrows mean “A funds or invests in B,” and yellow arrows mean “A is a client of B.”
• NVIDIA funds Lambda, CoreWeave, Intel, OpenAI, and Crusoe, while being a client of Lambda, CoreWeave, and Intel.
• Lambda is funded by NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Ventures, while being a client of Dell, Supermicro, and NVIDIA.
• CoreWeave is funded by NVIDIA and OpenAI, while being a client of Supermicro, Dell, and NVIDIA.
• Crusoe is funded by NVIDIA, and has Oracle as its client.
• OpenAI funds CoreWeave, and is funded by Microsoft, NVIDIA, and AMD, while being a client of NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AMD, and CoreWeave.
• Microsoft funds OpenAI, while being a client of Lambda and CoreWeave.
• GV/Google funds Lambda while being a client of CoreWeave.
• Oracle is a client of NVIDIA and Crusoe.
• Dell is a client of NVIDIA.
• Supermicro funds Lambda, while being a client of NVIDIA.
• AMD funds OpenAI, while having OpenAI as its client.
• Intel is funded by NVIDIA, while having NVIDIA as its client.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 2d

So @ftrain.bsky.social came and sorted out how to fix AI on the latest @flaminghydra.com podcast. Whew! we should have asked him on sooner

AND @sirosenbaum.bsky.social breaks down the worst anti-trans amicus brief you ever heard of in your life, you won't believe it

flaminghydra.com/issue-418/

Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

flaminghydra.com

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the voices of families being torn apart by this administration's draconian practices.

Then tell these stories to anyone who will listen.

Hell, tell them to people who seem like they don't want to listen.

Call your electeds, make a plan to get into the streets for #NoKings on 10/18...

Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen anything like this in the history of American Families United. 💔

Please read this heartbreaking story of one of our deeply loved members and leaders, Julie Moreno, who just landed back in New Jersey this afternoon from a trip to Mexico.

Here's her story... 🧵 (Then please amplify.)

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