Christi of the Library
@librarychristi.bsky.social
Librarian by day, social justice ninja by night. Co-host of This Podcast is Overdue.
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Here's ICE in Lynn, Massachusetts, throwing a worker from his van and handcuffing him. It happened right outside a school as kids were arriving. Fucked up.
Story: archive.ph/a3nkr
Story: archive.ph/a3nkr
June 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Here's ICE in Lynn, Massachusetts, throwing a worker from his van and handcuffing him. It happened right outside a school as kids were arriving. Fucked up.
Story: archive.ph/a3nkr
Story: archive.ph/a3nkr
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.
April 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.
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If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
April 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
I was at this game! And yes, totally the wildest thing I have ever seen at a baseball game.
What's the craziest thing you ever saw happen at a baseball game?
April 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I was at this game! And yes, totally the wildest thing I have ever seen at a baseball game.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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Data doesn’t lie. Work requirements don’t help people work — they just take away their healthcare and create more bureaucratic paperwork.
Follow the link to tell your representatives: #HandsoffMedicaid
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Follow the link to tell your representatives: #HandsoffMedicaid
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April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Data doesn’t lie. Work requirements don’t help people work — they just take away their healthcare and create more bureaucratic paperwork.
Follow the link to tell your representatives: #HandsoffMedicaid
ow.ly/rM2Q50VAoNM
Follow the link to tell your representatives: #HandsoffMedicaid
ow.ly/rM2Q50VAoNM
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
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Cult of personality watch. These are not the habits of a democratic movement.
April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Cult of personality watch. These are not the habits of a democratic movement.
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why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
So gross and ableist
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
So gross and ableist
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Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.
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"Our circulation software is entirely IMLS funded. Many of our digital databases are funded through IMLS. We are not allowed to discuss the bills and shutdowns in our library or on the library's social media for fear of being perceived as 'political.'"
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
April 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Our circulation software is entirely IMLS funded. Many of our digital databases are funded through IMLS. We are not allowed to discuss the bills and shutdowns in our library or on the library's social media for fear of being perceived as 'political.'"
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
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I’m so sick of this shit. Our history is real, whether you like it or not. It may be horrific, but we must tell it exactly like it happened, not some whitewashed version.
MAGA Republicans desperately want to rewrite American history
Do not let them get away with it!
www.wmur.com/article/list...
MAGA Republicans desperately want to rewrite American history
Do not let them get away with it!
www.wmur.com/article/list...
Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge
Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U...
www.wmur.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m so sick of this shit. Our history is real, whether you like it or not. It may be horrific, but we must tell it exactly like it happened, not some whitewashed version.
MAGA Republicans desperately want to rewrite American history
Do not let them get away with it!
www.wmur.com/article/list...
MAGA Republicans desperately want to rewrite American history
Do not let them get away with it!
www.wmur.com/article/list...
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Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
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Breakdown of library cuts here in Massachusetts due to the decimation of IMLS shared by @librarychristi.bsky.social. The return on libraries is incredible, so we all know this isn't about efficiency: it's about destroying knowledge and access to information.
April 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Breakdown of library cuts here in Massachusetts due to the decimation of IMLS shared by @librarychristi.bsky.social. The return on libraries is incredible, so we all know this isn't about efficiency: it's about destroying knowledge and access to information.
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In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
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A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...