Jen
@libroloverjen.bsky.social
Book and coffee lover ☕️, Owned by a sassy cat 🐈, Libraries bring me joy 📚
Visit your library📚
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Visit your library📚
There aren’t words to describe how depraved this is. The full statement is so much worse than the small excerpted piece. You don’t have to watch it. You can read what he said on the linked site.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
There aren’t words to describe how depraved this is. The full statement is so much worse than the small excerpted piece. You don’t have to watch it. You can read what he said on the linked site.
What an image.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 PM
What an image.
What’s depicted in the film has now occurred in school districts and public libraries across the country. Help librarians defend our right to read freely. 🇺🇸
Stream @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social starting TODAY on Independent Lens on PBS.
Watch the full documentary here: https://bit.ly/4rdp8nm
Watch the full documentary here: https://bit.ly/4rdp8nm
Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary | Independent Lens
YouTube video by PBS
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
What’s depicted in the film has now occurred in school districts and public libraries across the country. Help librarians defend our right to read freely. 🇺🇸
Heartbreaking and so, so wrong.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Heartbreaking and so, so wrong.
Self-driving isn’t, it turns out, so self-driving after all…and they use outsourced, cheaper foreign labor to boot!
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Self-driving isn’t, it turns out, so self-driving after all…and they use outsourced, cheaper foreign labor to boot!
The people who “don’t co-parent with the government” sure are handing over a lot of power to said government now.
“We already know what happens when FL passes vague censorship laws. When a federal judge struck down parts of…statute in 2023 for violating the First Amendment, the ruling did not slow lawmakers down…this new slate of proposed legislation pushes even harder.”
www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...
www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...
Florida’s lawmakers want to ban more books. Here’s why they should stop | Opinion
As a lifelong Florida resident and fervent reader, I understand how stories shape our world. Access to books allowed me to cultivate empathy and curiosity. | Opinion
www.miamiherald.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The people who “don’t co-parent with the government” sure are handing over a lot of power to said government now.
An important thread.
Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
February 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
An important thread.
Any other product causing this harm would have been removed from the market. No consumer protection when it comes to LLMs.
New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok.
The chatbot still produces sexualized images —
even when told the subjects don’t consent.
even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation.
even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
The chatbot still produces sexualized images —
even when told the subjects don’t consent.
even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation.
even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
Exclusive: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent
Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Any other product causing this harm would have been removed from the market. No consumer protection when it comes to LLMs.
Local journalism shines a light on local decision makers. Please subscribe to local papers.
We dropped our paywall for this new piece.
Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism
‘Dockets Die In Darkness’
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism
‘Dockets Die In Darkness’
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
The Rabbit Hole: Dockets Die in Darkness
Among the 17 counties in Georgia that don’t have a single local news source, 12 of the counties are in the Middle District of Georgia’s jurisdiction. This week, we sought to highlight the dockets dyin...
www.courtwatch.news
February 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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It’s actually gotten worse and more widespread since the documentary was completed! Don’t let others limit your freedom to access information!
Gather up a group of friends for the online premiere of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social on PBS February 9th! Or check it out on their app and watch it on your own timetable that day! It's a powerful look at the attacks on school boards and the freedom to read. www.pbs.org/independentl...
The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens
The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.
www.pbs.org
February 2, 2026 at 5:54 PM
It’s actually gotten worse and more widespread since the documentary was completed! Don’t let others limit your freedom to access information!
I can’t imagine having to drop off a child in this place, go home and be okay. This had to tear them up. No children should be in detention.
"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
January 30, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I can’t imagine having to drop off a child in this place, go home and be okay. This had to tear them up. No children should be in detention.
I have no words😔
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
January 29, 2026 at 3:08 AM
I have no words😔
Chilling. The Bill of Rights means nothing to them.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Chilling. The Bill of Rights means nothing to them.
Truly reckless.
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
www.propublica.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Truly reckless.
Unconscionable
“It’s like call of duty! So cool huh?”
Trump’s goons treat shooting at and tear gassing protestors like a video game, caught on national TV on a hot mic
One even clapped after Alex Pretti was killed
abolish ICE
Trump’s goons treat shooting at and tear gassing protestors like a video game, caught on national TV on a hot mic
One even clapped after Alex Pretti was killed
abolish ICE
January 25, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Unconscionable
Read the witness’s words.
The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti.
Read their words:
"I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me.
Read their words:
"I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me.
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Read the witness’s words.
Disgusting.
Breaking MS NOW:
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources
A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.
www.ms.now
January 24, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Disgusting.
Unconscionable.
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Unconscionable.
Shocked I tell ya. Just shocked. So eager to fire employees to save money. Their greed is biting back.
January 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Shocked I tell ya. Just shocked. So eager to fire employees to save money. Their greed is biting back.
Stop watching. I ❤️ the CBS Sunday Morning show and stopped watching a few weeks ago. It makes me so sad, but I can’t support their news division.
CBS is now the go-to media outlet for the Trump regime to launder their propaganda.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
January 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Stop watching. I ❤️ the CBS Sunday Morning show and stopped watching a few weeks ago. It makes me so sad, but I can’t support their news division.
A distributed election system keeps us safer.
The Justice Department’s push to collect voter data nationwide is an attempt to take control of election administration — a job the Constitution leaves to the states, not the federal government.
bit.ly/49HOmCY
bit.ly/49HOmCY
Trump Administration Has Sued More than 20 States for Refusing to Turn Over Voter Files
The Justice Department’s attempts to collect sensitive voter information are part of a plan to interfere with elections.
www.brennancenter.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
A distributed election system keeps us safer.
Unconscionable. They lie constantly.
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Unconscionable. They lie constantly.
I would say unbelievable, but nothing is anymore. New lows daily
January 16, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I would say unbelievable, but nothing is anymore. New lows daily
Standing up to a pressure campaign.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Standing up to a pressure campaign.