Jen
@libroloverjen.bsky.social
Book and coffee lover ☕️, Owned by a sassy cat 🐈, Libraries bring me joy 📚
I can’t comprehend how people can be so cruel.
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I can’t comprehend how people can be so cruel.
Why are we acting like students MUST have access to these tools!
Not interested in arguing about the toxicology of caffeine so here are the ChatGPT numbers:
Over 1 million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, new OpenAI data reveals
An estimated 1.2 million users reportedly talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, according to a newly released report from the A.I. giant. This latest revelation comes as the company races to strength...
abc7news.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why are we acting like students MUST have access to these tools!
Really good news for students and educators. Perhaps people are tired of chaos agents running school boards.
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Really good news for students and educators. Perhaps people are tired of chaos agents running school boards.
They had excellent reporting. This is depressing.
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
They had excellent reporting. This is depressing.
Hope people are checking the portal to see what’s happened to their premiums 😔
It’s kinda fitting to wake up the morning after Halloween to find my health insurance premium doubled.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Hope people are checking the portal to see what’s happened to their premiums 😔
Some heroes wear capes. Some wear pajama pants.
Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.
And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
October 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Some heroes wear capes. Some wear pajama pants.
Influencers are now spreading misinformation about mammograms. 😡
Some of the mammogram myths we keep hearing:
❌ "Mammogram radiation causes breast cancer"
❌ "The compression can make cancer burst and spread"
❌ "The radiation is dangerous"
None of this is true!
❌ "Mammogram radiation causes breast cancer"
❌ "The compression can make cancer burst and spread"
❌ "The radiation is dangerous"
None of this is true!
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Influencers are now spreading misinformation about mammograms. 😡
If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would reject it as too unbelievable.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would reject it as too unbelievable.
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Plus, students don’t need plain language summaries. They need to start grappling with the vocabulary and discourse in their intended fields.
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Plus, students don’t need plain language summaries. They need to start grappling with the vocabulary and discourse in their intended fields.
Herman Wells and Ernie Pyle would be distraught.
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Herman Wells and Ernie Pyle would be distraught.
I don’t have adequate adjectives to describe the horror.
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don’t have adequate adjectives to describe the horror.
If they’re going to collect tariff money, it should be used to help our citizens. Maybe fund healthcare by extending the premium subsidies that made ACA plans affordable?
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If they’re going to collect tariff money, it should be used to help our citizens. Maybe fund healthcare by extending the premium subsidies that made ACA plans affordable?
Truly excellent news for the educators and students of OK.
BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.)
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
www.koco.com/article/ryan...
September 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Truly excellent news for the educators and students of OK.
😔
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
😔
What starts in TX spreads. These are wonderful works of literature. 😔
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
What starts in TX spreads. These are wonderful works of literature. 😔
An excellent explanation of how data in future autism studies under this administration can be manipulated.
A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.
September 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
An excellent explanation of how data in future autism studies under this administration can be manipulated.
Good visuals.
🔥COACH @sullydawg2.bsky.social on who’s really getting deported. (not violent criminals)
“You made a big deal about ‘coming in the right way’ —they’re waiting for asylum hearings and getting arrested, as private prisons get rich… Share in the shame of your vote.”
Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6C7xKgr/
“You made a big deal about ‘coming in the right way’ —they’re waiting for asylum hearings and getting arrested, as private prisons get rich… Share in the shame of your vote.”
Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6C7xKgr/
August 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Good visuals.
There aren’t words to express my horror.
Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.
www.rollingstone.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
There aren’t words to express my horror.
Please go ask a young adult librarian for suggestions. Readers advisory IS part of their job!
Over on Reddit someone is asking for science fiction for their precocious young reader and the people there are suggesting books that were old when that kid's grandparents were the same age as the kid, for fuck's sake if you didn't know any SF books from this millennium maybe sit this question out
August 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Please go ask a young adult librarian for suggestions. Readers advisory IS part of their job!
Mark Cuban has done some good things. However, the idea that business leaders need to be incentivized to pay a good wage is sad, especially when working class people are punished for not finding a job or don’t get adequate, or any, health coverage at a job they do find.
Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.
Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
August 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Mark Cuban has done some good things. However, the idea that business leaders need to be incentivized to pay a good wage is sad, especially when working class people are punished for not finding a job or don’t get adequate, or any, health coverage at a job they do find.
PBS isn’t going away! Join your local station ❤️
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
PBS isn’t going away! Join your local station ❤️
Cancellation means we’re behind if bird flu takes off.
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding for mRNA vaccines has alarmed scientists. But it is also a matter of national security, experts say.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/07/k...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/07/k...
Kennedy’s rejection of mRNA vaccines thwarts scientific progress — and threatens national security, experts say
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding for mRNA vaccines has alarmed scientists. But it is also a matter of national security, experts say.
www.statnews.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Cancellation means we’re behind if bird flu takes off.
A preventable tragedy of epic proportions 😔
UN experts say the US government is fueling a global humanitarian catastrophe after reports suggest "close to 100 people are dying every hour since President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14169" in January www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
US Government fuelling global humanitarian catastrophe: UN experts
GENEVA – The abrupt suspension of United States of America’s foreign aid has fuelled a global humanitarian catastrophe – made worse by the administration’s failure to publish a review it committed to ...
www.ohchr.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A preventable tragedy of epic proportions 😔
ESAs and vouchers rob money from the public school system.
Arizona!
We voted against the ESA so Republicans created this monstrosity anyway. It’s out of control w/$124 MILLION in taxpayer dollars handed out with ZERO OVERSIGHT—funding luxury items & vacations! AZ teachers pay out-of-pocket for supplies while rich kids go to San Diego
shorturl.at/M4E6z
We voted against the ESA so Republicans created this monstrosity anyway. It’s out of control w/$124 MILLION in taxpayer dollars handed out with ZERO OVERSIGHT—funding luxury items & vacations! AZ teachers pay out-of-pocket for supplies while rich kids go to San Diego
shorturl.at/M4E6z
Over 1 million ESA reimbursement requests have been automatically approved since December
12News finds several questionable ESA purchases as Superintendent Tom Horne's office is approving everything less than $2,000, with plans to audit later.
shorturl.at
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ESAs and vouchers rob money from the public school system.