Judith Blankman
@dreamfishseb.bsky.social
Sculptor, installation artist, retired accessibility consultant & digital designer. Swimmer, foodie, gardener, traveler. Lover of all these things plus cats, architecture, interior design, historical fiction, French, Italian, & Spanish languages & culture.
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
Reposted by Judith Blankman
NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
June 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
Today’s harvest: snap peas, snow peas, broccolini
May 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Today’s harvest: snap peas, snow peas, broccolini
Yes!
BREAKING: In a major civil rights victory, a federal court today issued a preliminary injunction barring Border Patrol from using stop-and-arrest practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
They can’t target people just because they’re Brown, or day laborers, or farm workers.
They can’t target people just because they’re Brown, or day laborers, or farm workers.
April 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Yes!
The manipulation and likely meddling of the Orange POS strikes again. No clear info about DEI, but the timing makes it pretty likely.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They’re Closing.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The manipulation and likely meddling of the Orange POS strikes again. No clear info about DEI, but the timing makes it pretty likely.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Thankfully every day for the ACLU. If you don’t donate, now’s the time. If you already donate, double or increase it however you can. Too much is at stake.
apnews.com/article/trum... Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
apnews.com/article/trum... Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools.
apnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thankfully every day for the ACLU. If you don’t donate, now’s the time. If you already donate, double or increase it however you can. Too much is at stake.
apnews.com/article/trum... Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
apnews.com/article/trum... Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
The new regime’s supporters are like a Medieval mob, willing to turn against anyone and rising to condemn and punish with the wave of a hand, the utterance of a word.
Due process, rule of law, what’s that? They go after whoever the Orange Combover thinks is bad, without proof.
Due process, rule of law, what’s that? They go after whoever the Orange Combover thinks is bad, without proof.
April 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The new regime’s supporters are like a Medieval mob, willing to turn against anyone and rising to condemn and punish with the wave of a hand, the utterance of a word.
Due process, rule of law, what’s that? They go after whoever the Orange Combover thinks is bad, without proof.
Due process, rule of law, what’s that? They go after whoever the Orange Combover thinks is bad, without proof.
I may be late to the party, but am Shari g this in case anyone else may have missed it. Spot on. Pads it on, please.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I may be late to the party, but am Shari g this in case anyone else may have missed it. Spot on. Pads it on, please.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Google is tough to give
up. Its war contracting is a good reason to. I may start using Safari again.
up. Its war contracting is a good reason to. I may start using Safari again.
NEW— @thenation.com op-ed by Google worker & #NoTechForApartheid organizer Emma Jackson, going public for the first time www.thenation.com/article/soci...
April 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Google is tough to give
up. Its war contracting is a good reason to. I may start using Safari again.
up. Its war contracting is a good reason to. I may start using Safari again.
Infuriating.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Infuriating.
Happy Earth Day!
There’s no planet B.
There’s no planet B.
April 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy Earth Day!
There’s no planet B.
There’s no planet B.
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Heart wrenching, infuriating, terrifying account of what it’s like for federal workers.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Federal Workers Are Facing a New Reality
The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos.
www.theatlantic.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Heart wrenching, infuriating, terrifying account of what it’s like for federal workers.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
MAGA =
Morons At Gouging Americans
Miscreants Attacking Good Americans
Maniacs Are Gutting America
Morons At Gouging Americans
Miscreants Attacking Good Americans
Maniacs Are Gutting America
April 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
MAGA =
Morons At Gouging Americans
Miscreants Attacking Good Americans
Maniacs Are Gutting America
Morons At Gouging Americans
Miscreants Attacking Good Americans
Maniacs Are Gutting America
Disgusting. Donate to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to support the legal fight.
April 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Disgusting. Donate to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to support the legal fight.
Excellent
A jury in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.
Chevron Must Pay $745 Million for Coastal Damages, Louisiana Jury Rules
The verdict will likely influence similar lawsuits against other oil companies over coastal damage in the state.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Excellent
This, grrrr.
“Presented as an attempt to protect Jews on campus, these threats are actually part of a much wider war against American higher education, which Trump and his allies perceive as a citadel of hostile cultural power.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“Presented as an attempt to protect Jews on campus, these threats are actually part of a much wider war against American higher education, which Trump and his allies perceive as a citadel of hostile cultural power.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Jewish Cover Story
The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This, grrrr.
“Presented as an attempt to protect Jews on campus, these threats are actually part of a much wider war against American higher education, which Trump and his allies perceive as a citadel of hostile cultural power.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“Presented as an attempt to protect Jews on campus, these threats are actually part of a much wider war against American higher education, which Trump and his allies perceive as a citadel of hostile cultural power.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I saved seeds from this recently purchased grocery store heirloom grape/cherry tomato. Anybody know the name of the variety? I’m hoping the one I plant taste better picked ripe.
#gardening #tomatoes
#gardening #tomatoes
March 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I saved seeds from this recently purchased grocery store heirloom grape/cherry tomato. Anybody know the name of the variety? I’m hoping the one I plant taste better picked ripe.
#gardening #tomatoes
#gardening #tomatoes
Yup
This is the immigrant taking away American jobs
March 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Yup
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
2nd generation lupine, big gorgeous blue flowers. Grown from gathered seeds from someone’s yard.
March 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
2nd generation lupine, big gorgeous blue flowers. Grown from gathered seeds from someone’s yard.
Hopeful
Some federal workers are going back to work.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
March 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hopeful