sam 🖤
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crazy cat lady. research librarian. knitter. music snob. and above all evil hag.
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In an antifeminist age, feminists have to be much more willing to make people angry and offended if we’re ever going to say anything of substance.
April 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In an antifeminist age, feminists have to be much more willing to make people angry and offended if we’re ever going to say anything of substance.
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A little less, “I choose my choice; all choices are valid; your choice is valid!!!” And a little more “The ‘choice’ you want me to make sucks.”
April 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A little less, “I choose my choice; all choices are valid; your choice is valid!!!” And a little more “The ‘choice’ you want me to make sucks.”
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Need a little more of this kind of cheeky feminist provocation: a frank and unapologetic assertion that the lives patriarchy prescribes for women are in many ways joyless, claustrophobic, and intellectually vacant.
April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Need a little more of this kind of cheeky feminist provocation: a frank and unapologetic assertion that the lives patriarchy prescribes for women are in many ways joyless, claustrophobic, and intellectually vacant.
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Terrible news, IMLS maintains and helps to build new infrastructure for libraries and informational access. I’ve had the pleasure of working with them many times and they are super important and great colleagues.
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Terrible news, IMLS maintains and helps to build new infrastructure for libraries and informational access. I’ve had the pleasure of working with them many times and they are super important and great colleagues.
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If you live in Texas, please know that SB 412 has passed the Senate and is on its way to the House.
SB 412 removes the affirmative defense to prosecution language from Section 43.24 (c) of the Texas Penal Code, which covers providing harmful material to minors.
SB 412 removes the affirmative defense to prosecution language from Section 43.24 (c) of the Texas Penal Code, which covers providing harmful material to minors.
April 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you live in Texas, please know that SB 412 has passed the Senate and is on its way to the House.
SB 412 removes the affirmative defense to prosecution language from Section 43.24 (c) of the Texas Penal Code, which covers providing harmful material to minors.
SB 412 removes the affirmative defense to prosecution language from Section 43.24 (c) of the Texas Penal Code, which covers providing harmful material to minors.
the leaders of the “free world” can leak classified information on signal but i can’t use the words “women” or “diversity” in emails sent from my job’s WOMEN’s network address
March 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
the leaders of the “free world” can leak classified information on signal but i can’t use the words “women” or “diversity” in emails sent from my job’s WOMEN’s network address
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The Board of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has written a letter explaining its core functions cannot be cut.
www.wordsandmoney.com/in-letter-im...
www.wordsandmoney.com/in-letter-im...
In Letter, IMLS Advisory Board Says Its Core Activities Cannot be Slashed by Executive Action
In a letter to the agency's new acting director, the National Museum and Library Services board said it stands ready to help "support and strengthen" the agency's mission as mandated by law.
www.wordsandmoney.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Board of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has written a letter explaining its core functions cannot be cut.
www.wordsandmoney.com/in-letter-im...
www.wordsandmoney.com/in-letter-im...
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There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
every single day is heartbreaking
March 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
every single day is heartbreaking
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I think we’re already there.
March 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I think we’re already there.
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Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
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They’ve lost Ann Coulter on this
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
They’ve lost Ann Coulter on this
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I’m sure the esteemed leaders of the New York delegation, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, will have absolutely nothing to say about a green card holder with an 8-months-pregnant American wife being arrested in his dorm for exercising his first amendment rights upon returning from Iftar
It’s honestly worse than Columbia doing nothing because they invited ICE into one of their own residential buildings to detain a legal green card holder whose American citizen wife is eight-months pregnant. I would not feel comfortable attending or sending a kid to Columbia rn.
March 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’m sure the esteemed leaders of the New York delegation, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, will have absolutely nothing to say about a green card holder with an 8-months-pregnant American wife being arrested in his dorm for exercising his first amendment rights upon returning from Iftar
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"We need to bring the rapists and pimps back into the fold" is a prescription for who you're going to push out of it.
March 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"We need to bring the rapists and pimps back into the fold" is a prescription for who you're going to push out of it.
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Seems like the proposed solution here is the standard one for all of women's complaints about gendered violence, insult, and indignity: that we shut up and take it.
March 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Seems like the proposed solution here is the standard one for all of women's complaints about gendered violence, insult, and indignity: that we shut up and take it.
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One thing I don't understand from this finger-wagging is how women are supposed to forgive these young men for their immediate recourse to misogyny.
If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.
March 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
One thing I don't understand from this finger-wagging is how women are supposed to forgive these young men for their immediate recourse to misogyny.
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When people talk about wanting to see more people in the streets, I honestly think about the Palestine solidarity marches of the last year. We had so many people in the streets, but no real leverage. I'm not saying symbolic action is bad, bc it's not, but it's not a strategic plan either.
March 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
When people talk about wanting to see more people in the streets, I honestly think about the Palestine solidarity marches of the last year. We had so many people in the streets, but no real leverage. I'm not saying symbolic action is bad, bc it's not, but it's not a strategic plan either.
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The far-left are disproportionately influencing policy and messaging? Coulda fooled me!
New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
March 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The far-left are disproportionately influencing policy and messaging? Coulda fooled me!
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The right wing woman is not insincere in her politics, but she *is* tactical: she believes that sexual and reproductive service to right wing men will earn her their protection, affection, and material support. She is wrong.
February 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The right wing woman is not insincere in her politics, but she *is* tactical: she believes that sexual and reproductive service to right wing men will earn her their protection, affection, and material support. She is wrong.
I hope we’ll call it what it is: the Trump/Musk recession
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
February 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I hope we’ll call it what it is: the Trump/Musk recession
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This also describes libraries, except they don’t run on plagiarism and potable water
I have to admit that I've been surprised at the level of hate at AI LLMs.
There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to
There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to
Nag. Sorry. I can't abide the pocket lining any more. You've been a better billionaire than most, but at the end if the day, it's all just a meal ticket for you. Gross.
February 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This also describes libraries, except they don’t run on plagiarism and potable water