SB
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she/her. Archivist, rabblerouser, general life enthusiast
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"Minnesota is showing the rest of the country that we can build political, social and economic structures that pose actual alternatives to the horrors the current system produces"
www.forever-wars.com/your-leaders...
www.forever-wars.com/your-leaders...
Your Leaders Were Lying. Now The People Are Driving
The depravity of ICE, the enthusiasm of Republicans and the cowardice of Democrats is breaking through hypernormalization
www.forever-wars.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:07 AM
"Minnesota is showing the rest of the country that we can build political, social and economic structures that pose actual alternatives to the horrors the current system produces"
www.forever-wars.com/your-leaders...
www.forever-wars.com/your-leaders...
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Virginia Oliver, lobster lady, has died at 105, after having been a licensed & practicing lobsterwoman until age 103: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...
Old Maine ladies, I tell ya.
Old Maine ladies, I tell ya.
Virginia Oliver, Maine’s legendary ‘lobster lady,’ dies at 105 - The Boston Globe
“When I first started, there weren’t any women but me,” Mrs. Oliver told the Globe in 2021, when she was still lobstering at 101.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Virginia Oliver, lobster lady, has died at 105, after having been a licensed & practicing lobsterwoman until age 103: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...
Old Maine ladies, I tell ya.
Old Maine ladies, I tell ya.
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Does anyone know what Minneapolis library staff need right now? How do we support them? I know libraries are open & have been warm places for protestors. What can we do? #librariea
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Danielle Steele def has named chair money, a million times over
What I'm asking is that my romance book love makes me a perfect public policy professor. I'm certain someone is just waiting to endow the Romance Book Chair of Getting Public Policy Done for me.
January 27, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Danielle Steele def has named chair money, a million times over
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"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 AM
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
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They will try to sacrifice a few people to protect the project. But the project is the thing.
January 26, 2026 at 11:52 PM
They will try to sacrifice a few people to protect the project. But the project is the thing.
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Every inch won should lead you to demand more.
January 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Every inch won should lead you to demand more.
ESPECIALLY his attempts to pretend this shit was never his idea
Tide might be turning. Keep pushing. Keep calling, donating, protesting, all of it. Don’t stop, especially if Trump starts throwing them overboard. Don’t stop until they’re all gone
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 AM
ESPECIALLY his attempts to pretend this shit was never his idea
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
the president can't just, like, ctrl+f+replace the little ICE man with Homan and be done with what has been wrought in Chicago, MSP, DC, LA, and countless other places
As seen on r/nursing
Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him
Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
the president can't just, like, ctrl+f+replace the little ICE man with Homan and be done with what has been wrought in Chicago, MSP, DC, LA, and countless other places
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The medium is the message. Book Riot's reporting of the Youth Media Award winners is legible, clear, and has links to all the titles (on Amazon, no one's perfect). I tried three different library association award lists and none had all three. Enjoy this list. Buy some good books. Thank you, Kelly.
Here are all of this year's Youth Media Award winners and honorees. What a great day to celebrate something, and how nice that it is youth literature.
bookriot.com/2026-youth-m...
bookriot.com/2026-youth-m...
The ALA Youth Media Awards Are Here: Meet the Latest Award-Winning Books for Young Readers
Here are the 2026 Youth Media Award winners and honorees, highlighting the best of the best in youth literature.
bookriot.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The medium is the message. Book Riot's reporting of the Youth Media Award winners is legible, clear, and has links to all the titles (on Amazon, no one's perfect). I tried three different library association award lists and none had all three. Enjoy this list. Buy some good books. Thank you, Kelly.
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Reading this makes me think of when John Fox was the Bears coach. He broke his razor when his wife was out of town. He ended up growing a beard because he didn't know where to buy the razor. So many coaches brag about their hours, but there's almost always a woman who enables this.
I have seen this pretty often
Here’s to the invisible laborers 🥂
Here’s to the invisible laborers 🥂
January 26, 2026 at 11:24 PM
w h a t
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literally yes
is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?
A lot of the Male Loneliness Epidemic can be traced back to the fact that most cis dudes don’t participate in communal logistics.
January 26, 2026 at 4:32 AM
literally yes
A legend, who will be 89 when she leaves office
The 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection. n.pr/3O4GxQj
DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is ending her reelection campaign for Congress
The 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection.
n.pr
January 26, 2026 at 11:33 AM
A legend, who will be 89 when she leaves office
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"Again and again, I heard people say they were not protesters but protectors—of their communities, of their values, of the Constitution." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 AM
"Again and again, I heard people say they were not protesters but protectors—of their communities, of their values, of the Constitution." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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I keep thinking about the Target corporation headquarters in Minneapolis and how given the venal nature of this administration they're likely a phone call away from stopping thus, so is Home Depot, so is every other major corporation that buys politicians for tax breaks and legal loopholes
January 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I keep thinking about the Target corporation headquarters in Minneapolis and how given the venal nature of this administration they're likely a phone call away from stopping thus, so is Home Depot, so is every other major corporation that buys politicians for tax breaks and legal loopholes
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It is absolutely not hyperbole when I say that released detainees could very well die from exposure if it weren't for these folks. www.gofundme.com/f/safe-haven...
January 26, 2026 at 1:36 AM
It is absolutely not hyperbole when I say that released detainees could very well die from exposure if it weren't for these folks. www.gofundme.com/f/safe-haven...
TIL most pro sports teams have chaplains probasketballchaplains.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM
TIL most pro sports teams have chaplains probasketballchaplains.org
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What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.
Minnesota CEOs issue joint letter urging de-escalation after shooting
Minnesota CEOs issue joint letter urging de-escalation after shooting
More than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies including Target, Best Buy and UnitedHealth signed an open letter on Sunday calling for state, local and federal officials to work together.
myfox8.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM
What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.
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“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”
How convenient for ICE
How convenient for ICE
Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’
After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:20 PM
“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”
How convenient for ICE
How convenient for ICE
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someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.
the nail polish girlies are going absolutely feral and it’s so good
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.
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I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.
It also is just a downer - I ordered fries from a fake-lady robot today at Bojangles and I sure as shit ain't going back
Commercial AI is dehumanization. It is evasion of accountability. It is the machine which has been chosen to smuggle totalitarianism into democracies.
January 25, 2026 at 3:14 AM
It also is just a downer - I ordered fries from a fake-lady robot today at Bojangles and I sure as shit ain't going back
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What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
Damn, Mark Warner
Moderate Dems watch: Mark Warner just posted he “cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.”
The package with ICE funding will be in the Senate this week and will need Democratic votes to advance.
January 25, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Damn, Mark Warner