Elle
@rhymeswithhell.bsky.social
Collecting reasons to avoid cynicism
Designer by day, illustrator by moonlight.
Like all the best people, not a fan of crypto/ai/capitalism. Big fan of pro-wrestling, books, art, DND, and eating the rich.
Designer by day, illustrator by moonlight.
Like all the best people, not a fan of crypto/ai/capitalism. Big fan of pro-wrestling, books, art, DND, and eating the rich.
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The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.
DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help
The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.
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The crisis is here.
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
'Move Fast': Inside Team Trump's Furious Defiance of the Courts
Donald Trump's advisers are attacking judges for daring to “control” him. Trump wants the one objecting to his deportation plans to be “IMPEACHED!!!”
www.rollingstone.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The crisis is here.
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I worry about the normalization of cruelty, and not just among Nazis.
March 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I worry about the normalization of cruelty, and not just among Nazis.
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This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
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they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now
March 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now
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How to support your library:
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How to support your library:
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
I’m really excited to be getting into sewing. I like trying to figure out how to make the clothes I want
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’m really excited to be getting into sewing. I like trying to figure out how to make the clothes I want
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It is easy to overlook the small, but in incredibly important changes, Trump is making in our country
RIP libraries? 📚
In a new EO, Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, & archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
In a new EO, Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, & archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
www.everylibrary.org
March 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It is easy to overlook the small, but in incredibly important changes, Trump is making in our country
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I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed
March 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed
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A woman protesting wealth inequality in North Carolina, c. 1930s.
March 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A woman protesting wealth inequality in North Carolina, c. 1930s.
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I need people to understand that DOGE people -- all these transfers from Tesla, etc -- are making policy and program decisions that are inherently political. They are not just the claimed wunderkind tech support with laptops.
March 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I need people to understand that DOGE people -- all these transfers from Tesla, etc -- are making policy and program decisions that are inherently political. They are not just the claimed wunderkind tech support with laptops.
Opus was an interesting movie with interesting characters that could not really stick the landing. The plot felt eggshell thin
March 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Opus was an interesting movie with interesting characters that could not really stick the landing. The plot felt eggshell thin
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Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
March 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
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love when ai prompt jockeys say they're artists because how much adjusting and rephrasing and fine tuning it takes to get the result they want. buddy you are describing a Problem Client
March 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
love when ai prompt jockeys say they're artists because how much adjusting and rephrasing and fine tuning it takes to get the result they want. buddy you are describing a Problem Client
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This is the way…
March 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the way…
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One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.
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Continued analysis from @chrischirp.bsky.social on how the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities follow the authoritarian playbook. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on science and academic freedom."
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Continued analysis from @chrischirp.bsky.social on how the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities follow the authoritarian playbook. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on science and academic freedom."
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🚨 Cloture vote on the CR is scheduled around 1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT.
The vote count is still fluid. Keep calling your Senators!
👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
The vote count is still fluid. Keep calling your Senators!
👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
No DOGE Blank Check Federal Funding CR: Senate Vote Friday ⭑ 5 Calls
UPDATE (03/13/25): Senate Republicans are playing chicken with their Democrat colleagues by teeing up a Friday vote for the House passed CR. Democrats …
5calls.org
March 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨 Cloture vote on the CR is scheduled around 1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT.
The vote count is still fluid. Keep calling your Senators!
👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
The vote count is still fluid. Keep calling your Senators!
👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
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Whether you like or dislike what’s said at universities, free speech is at the core of our democracy, and protecting it should be one of the core missions of universities.
Which is why America needs a new Free Speech Movement, similar to the one that broke out on college campuses 61 years ago.
Which is why America needs a new Free Speech Movement, similar to the one that broke out on college campuses 61 years ago.
Why we need a new free speech movement
And why universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students
robertreich.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Whether you like or dislike what’s said at universities, free speech is at the core of our democracy, and protecting it should be one of the core missions of universities.
Which is why America needs a new Free Speech Movement, similar to the one that broke out on college campuses 61 years ago.
Which is why America needs a new Free Speech Movement, similar to the one that broke out on college campuses 61 years ago.
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BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.