Rachel Jones
@rvljonesing.bsky.social
Writer & Librarian. Should know better by now.
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Rachel Jones
@rvljonesing.bsky.social
· Aug 7
Post 5 is up at Portfire. Yeehaw! portfire.org/.../i-cant-w...
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Y’all, I finally read @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s book “There is No Place for Us” and it was one of the most important, devastating books I’ve read in a long time. It reminds me so much of Barbara Ehrenreich’s work. Everyone in America needs to read this book.
#booksky #skybrarian
#booksky #skybrarian
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Y’all, I finally read @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s book “There is No Place for Us” and it was one of the most important, devastating books I’ve read in a long time. It reminds me so much of Barbara Ehrenreich’s work. Everyone in America needs to read this book.
#booksky #skybrarian
#booksky #skybrarian
So I worked for an international law professor for years, and the most interesting part of all that for me was the Law of the Sea. Just fascinating. Also maybe something that the United States should obey???
The notion that the shipwrecked calling for help is a "hostile act" b/c it might enable salvage of part of the cargo (supposedly a military objective) strikes me as absurd. And would risk gutting the protection of the shipwrecked.
(This is not an armed conflict.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
(This is not an armed conflict.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So I worked for an international law professor for years, and the most interesting part of all that for me was the Law of the Sea. Just fascinating. Also maybe something that the United States should obey???
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We're fundraising for Black Zine Fair and applications for exhibitors will be released at the end of this week.
Have you heard the good news? Black Zine Fair is coming back to NYC on May 9, 2026—and we need your help to have a successful event.
gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
We’re raising $20,000 to keep the fair free and accessible. If you can, please give $5, $15, $50, or more.
gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
We’re raising $20,000 to keep the fair free and accessible. If you can, please give $5, $15, $50, or more.
Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
gogetfunding.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We're fundraising for Black Zine Fair and applications for exhibitors will be released at the end of this week.
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Did you know several issues of Factsheet Five are available over at the @archive.org? The corpus isn't complete & the process of cleaning and OCR'ing images can be slow/painful, but the hope is that this allows more folks to read & research 80s-90s zine culture. archive.org/search?query...
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Did you know several issues of Factsheet Five are available over at the @archive.org? The corpus isn't complete & the process of cleaning and OCR'ing images can be slow/painful, but the hope is that this allows more folks to read & research 80s-90s zine culture. archive.org/search?query...
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I was so happy to contribute a teen gift to this toy drive that my friend @prisonculture.bsky.social is co-organizing. Everything is SO EXPENSIVE right now. Let's brighten the holiday for some young folks during this tough time.
Toy link: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
Toy link: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I was so happy to contribute a teen gift to this toy drive that my friend @prisonculture.bsky.social is co-organizing. Everything is SO EXPENSIVE right now. Let's brighten the holiday for some young folks during this tough time.
Toy link: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
Toy link: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
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And this is why we need science AND the arts
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
And this is why we need science AND the arts
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It's increasingly clear that the US needs to ratify UNCLOS and become party to the Convention on the Law of the Sea for not just economic and diplomatic reasons, but as an urgent national security issue.
We cannot be a rogue nation on the high seas.
We cannot be a rogue nation on the high seas.
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's increasingly clear that the US needs to ratify UNCLOS and become party to the Convention on the Law of the Sea for not just economic and diplomatic reasons, but as an urgent national security issue.
We cannot be a rogue nation on the high seas.
We cannot be a rogue nation on the high seas.
This is what that D-list grifter Karlyn Borysenko is up to. Targeting professors and librarians with hate for money.
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is what that D-list grifter Karlyn Borysenko is up to. Targeting professors and librarians with hate for money.
More looting.
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
More looting.
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Imagine how much contempt you must have—for the rule of law, for human life, for your fellow citizens—to respond in this way
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Imagine how much contempt you must have—for the rule of law, for human life, for your fellow citizens—to respond in this way
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Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia
The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia
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Has anyone read any mea culpa's from the people who insisted that using the term WHITE SUPREMACY was not "productive" when addressing this regime? There is ZERO way to ever the U.S. without actually addressing RACISM and WHITE SUPREMACY. These are facts.
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Has anyone read any mea culpa's from the people who insisted that using the term WHITE SUPREMACY was not "productive" when addressing this regime? There is ZERO way to ever the U.S. without actually addressing RACISM and WHITE SUPREMACY. These are facts.
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Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law
Everything
Everything
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law
Everything
Everything
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tennessee just kept 140+ books banned until at least next year. beloved. catch-22. on pause because lawmakers panic at paper. students are literally the collateral damage.
how is this still happening?
how is this still happening?
U.S. Book Challenges Update: November 2025 Edition
Libraries and schools across the country are experiencing unprecedented levels of attempts to ban or remove books from their shelves. I Love Libraries will continue to raise awareness by highlighting…
ilovelibraries.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
tennessee just kept 140+ books banned until at least next year. beloved. catch-22. on pause because lawmakers panic at paper. students are literally the collateral damage.
how is this still happening?
how is this still happening?
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posting the classics
Leslie Jones Stops Your Annoying Relatives from Ruining Thanksgiving | The Daily Show
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November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
posting the classics
I spend far too much time resetting forgotten passwords.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I spend far too much time resetting forgotten passwords.
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
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LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
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Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says anti-Blackness is an essential tool in Trump’s authoritarian playbook.
Thank you, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social!
Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihF...
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says anti-Blackness is an essential tool in Trump’s authoritarian playbook.
Thank you, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social!
Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihF...
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says anti-Blackness is an essential tool in Trump’s authoritarian playbook.
Thank you, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social!
Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihF...
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says anti-Blackness is an essential tool in Trump’s authoritarian playbook.
Thank you, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social!
Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihF...
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Join a national call to debrief this past weekend’s viral ICE Scraper action, strengthen our nonviolent strategy, and coordinate safe, visible actions nationwide.
Learn how communities are organizing ...
www.mobilize.us
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago