Chilaquiles
@selinakyel.bsky.social
Librarian. Researching international libraries, archives in Mexico. Actually Indigenous. All of my opinions belong to my employer.
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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I’m listening to NPR standards explain when it uses euphemisms for racist in regard to Trump. It’s on Code Switch, streaming for me on satellite radio.
It’s incoherent but it is an attempt at transparency.
It’s incoherent but it is an attempt at transparency.
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m listening to NPR standards explain when it uses euphemisms for racist in regard to Trump. It’s on Code Switch, streaming for me on satellite radio.
It’s incoherent but it is an attempt at transparency.
It’s incoherent but it is an attempt at transparency.
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ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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The white guys regularly shooting up churches, schools, malls, movie theaters etc... are not *terrorists* and there are no calls to deport them and their families. Interesting.
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The white guys regularly shooting up churches, schools, malls, movie theaters etc... are not *terrorists* and there are no calls to deport them and their families. Interesting.
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This is a friendly reminder to place your order at akpress.org by 9am PST TOMORROW—Wednesday, December 17—if you need it to arrive by the 25th (shipping within the US).
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is a friendly reminder to place your order at akpress.org by 9am PST TOMORROW—Wednesday, December 17—if you need it to arrive by the 25th (shipping within the US).
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MyTaxReceipt shows you a breakdown of how your U.S. federal taxes get spent — enter your Zip code and the amount you paid in Federal taxes (or you can use the default average for your Zip code). It generates a receipt-style summary showing what portion goes to defense, healthcare, interest on debt..
MyTaxReceipt.org
See exactly where your federal income taxes go — and message Congress about it in one click.
my-tax-reciept.vercel.app
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
MyTaxReceipt shows you a breakdown of how your U.S. federal taxes get spent — enter your Zip code and the amount you paid in Federal taxes (or you can use the default average for your Zip code). It generates a receipt-style summary showing what portion goes to defense, healthcare, interest on debt..
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I've been exposed to enough peer review that I think we can look at two classes of reviewers:
1. Constructive peer review
2. Adversarial peer review
I'm looking at this mostly from a psychology/methodology perspective (but wonder what other fields experience)
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1. Constructive peer review
2. Adversarial peer review
I'm looking at this mostly from a psychology/methodology perspective (but wonder what other fields experience)
🧵 1/
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I've been exposed to enough peer review that I think we can look at two classes of reviewers:
1. Constructive peer review
2. Adversarial peer review
I'm looking at this mostly from a psychology/methodology perspective (but wonder what other fields experience)
🧵 1/
1. Constructive peer review
2. Adversarial peer review
I'm looking at this mostly from a psychology/methodology perspective (but wonder what other fields experience)
🧵 1/
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"Santo Pollero", a new screenprint from Carlos Barberena is in the shop today! justseeds.org/product/sant...
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Santo Pollero", a new screenprint from Carlos Barberena is in the shop today! justseeds.org/product/sant...
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In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
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Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
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I can’t remember who said it, but like 10 years ago someone said “if public libraries didn’t already exist, the concept would be treated today as preposterous left-wing gobbledygook,” and I think about that a lot
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I can’t remember who said it, but like 10 years ago someone said “if public libraries didn’t already exist, the concept would be treated today as preposterous left-wing gobbledygook,” and I think about that a lot
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Finally grabbed my copy of this new book. I’m incredibly honored to be part of this work, many thanks to those who came before me, and to those organizing all across the country (and beyond)! Go grab your copy now it’s on sale at @haymarketbooks.org
How to End Family Policing
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Finally grabbed my copy of this new book. I’m incredibly honored to be part of this work, many thanks to those who came before me, and to those organizing all across the country (and beyond)! Go grab your copy now it’s on sale at @haymarketbooks.org
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Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
www.krqe.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
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I will add that I discovered last week that UCLA IT administrators had brought Palantir to campus. When I pressed, the details were sparse and the leader who invoked it demurred. This is what Palantir thinks of higher ed. Why are they at UCLA?
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.
Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization
www.wsj.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I will add that I discovered last week that UCLA IT administrators had brought Palantir to campus. When I pressed, the details were sparse and the leader who invoked it demurred. This is what Palantir thinks of higher ed. Why are they at UCLA?
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
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“When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining.”
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining.”
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Few people care about this, I know. It's just another way that Black people are USED to grow the prison industrial complex by claiming that we do mainly want more cops. No nuance ever. Just more cops.
Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Few people care about this, I know. It's just another way that Black people are USED to grow the prison industrial complex by claiming that we do mainly want more cops. No nuance ever. Just more cops.
Day 4,586. My library manager called 911 because there were people across the street from the library smoking marijuana.
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Day 4,586. My library manager called 911 because there were people across the street from the library smoking marijuana.
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Solving the housing problem, one racist cop at a time
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Solving the housing problem, one racist cop at a time
Every time I talk to someone outside of the library profession about the outright racism from ⚪️s in libraries, their jaws always end up on the floor. But talking about it inside, even amongst coworkers who are also people of color, I just get a blank stare.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Every time I talk to someone outside of the library profession about the outright racism from ⚪️s in libraries, their jaws always end up on the floor. But talking about it inside, even amongst coworkers who are also people of color, I just get a blank stare.
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Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’
Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section.
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section.
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
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An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts.
The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance.
(Published June 2022)
By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social
The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance.
(Published June 2022)
By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social
White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...
www.propublica.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts.
The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance.
(Published June 2022)
By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social
The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance.
(Published June 2022)
By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social