Lydia of Swords
@lydiaofswords.bsky.social
Faaaaaacts.
So does how they save the day, I think. No spoilers.
So does how they save the day, I think. No spoilers.
Gotta hand it to Marvel: the 2012 Avengers mood vs. the 2025 Thunderbolts mood perfectly nails the times they exist in.
May 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Faaaaaacts.
So does how they save the day, I think. No spoilers.
So does how they save the day, I think. No spoilers.
We're going to need a new one.
Having zero clue what the Declaration of Independence means, Trump told ABC’s Terry Moran it stands for “unity and love.”
No. It’s the exact opposite.
Here’s an actual excerpt from the document.
Who does it remind you of?
#NoKings #Voices4Victory
No. It’s the exact opposite.
Here’s an actual excerpt from the document.
Who does it remind you of?
#NoKings #Voices4Victory
May 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We're going to need a new one.
I wish the general public understood the stock market is not "the economy."
Demand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freight
https://www.ft.com/content/967a0c1a-6ae5-4d72-bd78-b7a8bdabccea
https://www.ft.com/content/967a0c1a-6ae5-4d72-bd78-b7a8bdabccea
Demand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freight
Bookings plunge as importers hold off on shipping goods to America in hope of Beijing-Washington deal
www.ft.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I wish the general public understood the stock market is not "the economy."
Don't flinch.
I asked @mariaressa.bsky.social what advice she has for Americans, based on what she experienced under Rodrigo Duterte.
One thing she told me: You can’t flinch in a game of chicken with an autocrat. And, she observed, too many Americans are now flinching.
One thing she told me: You can’t flinch in a game of chicken with an autocrat. And, she observed, too many Americans are now flinching.
April 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Don't flinch.
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📚 Criminalizing Librarians: Threats and Realities
Learn about the history of assaults on librarians, threats today, and examples of library workers pushing back as we continue the long haul of protecting our libraries and those who work in them: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
Learn about the history of assaults on librarians, threats today, and examples of library workers pushing back as we continue the long haul of protecting our libraries and those who work in them: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
April 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
📚 Criminalizing Librarians: Threats and Realities
Learn about the history of assaults on librarians, threats today, and examples of library workers pushing back as we continue the long haul of protecting our libraries and those who work in them: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
Learn about the history of assaults on librarians, threats today, and examples of library workers pushing back as we continue the long haul of protecting our libraries and those who work in them: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
bit.ly
April 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:
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Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Libro.fm = Audible replacement
Bookshop.org = Amazon replacement (yes, even for eBooks)
Break up with Sky Daddy*, go full indie. (When you're not library-ing,.that is. Which you ought to also do. Gratuitously.)
*Sky Daddy is what my baby sis calls that Jeff guy. It's stuck in my brain now.
Bookshop.org = Amazon replacement (yes, even for eBooks)
Break up with Sky Daddy*, go full indie. (When you're not library-ing,.that is. Which you ought to also do. Gratuitously.)
*Sky Daddy is what my baby sis calls that Jeff guy. It's stuck in my brain now.
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
April 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Libro.fm = Audible replacement
Bookshop.org = Amazon replacement (yes, even for eBooks)
Break up with Sky Daddy*, go full indie. (When you're not library-ing,.that is. Which you ought to also do. Gratuitously.)
*Sky Daddy is what my baby sis calls that Jeff guy. It's stuck in my brain now.
Bookshop.org = Amazon replacement (yes, even for eBooks)
Break up with Sky Daddy*, go full indie. (When you're not library-ing,.that is. Which you ought to also do. Gratuitously.)
*Sky Daddy is what my baby sis calls that Jeff guy. It's stuck in my brain now.
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
Rn On Tyranny travels w/ me everywhere I go. The book's def having a big moment. Friends/family get to hear me respond with "Lesson [insert # here]" regularly.
At the same time another Timothy Snyder book, Black Earth, shouldn't be overlooked. Esp after the latest Oval Office fascist bro love-fest.
At the same time another Timothy Snyder book, Black Earth, shouldn't be overlooked. Esp after the latest Oval Office fascist bro love-fest.
April 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Rn On Tyranny travels w/ me everywhere I go. The book's def having a big moment. Friends/family get to hear me respond with "Lesson [insert # here]" regularly.
At the same time another Timothy Snyder book, Black Earth, shouldn't be overlooked. Esp after the latest Oval Office fascist bro love-fest.
At the same time another Timothy Snyder book, Black Earth, shouldn't be overlooked. Esp after the latest Oval Office fascist bro love-fest.
Make Orwell Fiction Again
"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom."
You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov
You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov
April 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Make Orwell Fiction Again
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The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
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Last July, Project 2025's Kevin Roberts said “the second American Revolution ... will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
It was a declaration of war against the American people, a demand for our surrender. Some cowards in law, academia and business have submitted. Many of us never will.
It was a declaration of war against the American people, a demand for our surrender. Some cowards in law, academia and business have submitted. Many of us never will.
April 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Last July, Project 2025's Kevin Roberts said “the second American Revolution ... will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
It was a declaration of war against the American people, a demand for our surrender. Some cowards in law, academia and business have submitted. Many of us never will.
It was a declaration of war against the American people, a demand for our surrender. Some cowards in law, academia and business have submitted. Many of us never will.
I'm pretty sure I learned about this the first time I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Anyone? Anyone?
In 1930, 6 months after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were enacted by President Hoover, world trade decreased by SIXTY PERCENT (60%). Because of policies like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs contributing to the Great Depression in the 1930's, Hoover is considered one of our WORST president's.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
April 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm pretty sure I learned about this the first time I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Anyone? Anyone?
Activist, advocate, agitator.
Organizer, strategist, advisor.
Caretaker, mediator, educator.
Saboteur, whistleblower, spy
Storyteller, archivist, witness.
And more.
Organizer, strategist, advisor.
Caretaker, mediator, educator.
Saboteur, whistleblower, spy
Storyteller, archivist, witness.
And more.
April 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Activist, advocate, agitator.
Organizer, strategist, advisor.
Caretaker, mediator, educator.
Saboteur, whistleblower, spy
Storyteller, archivist, witness.
And more.
Organizer, strategist, advisor.
Caretaker, mediator, educator.
Saboteur, whistleblower, spy
Storyteller, archivist, witness.
And more.
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There is not a single more useless post on al gore's internet than someone at home on their phone complaining that millions in the streets are doing it wrong
April 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There is not a single more useless post on al gore's internet than someone at home on their phone complaining that millions in the streets are doing it wrong
THIS.
I've been asked on here what the military's obligation is around following unlawful orders, & what resources are available to them.
This article explains the obligation to refuse an unlawful order, with UCMJ citations, & provides a template for doing so.
This article explains the obligation to refuse an unlawful order, with UCMJ citations, & provides a template for doing so.
April 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
THIS.
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If you have (or had) and IMLS, NEH, or NSF grant you need to talk to your campus leadership now about what happens when you get doxxed.
April 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If you have (or had) and IMLS, NEH, or NSF grant you need to talk to your campus leadership now about what happens when you get doxxed.
"They are not coming for the books."
(H/t to one of my library comrades for unearthing this one.)
youtu.be/zZ74kvofH1k?...
(H/t to one of my library comrades for unearthing this one.)
youtu.be/zZ74kvofH1k?...
"When They Come for the Libraries" by David James Hudson
YouTube video by David James Hudson
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"They are not coming for the books."
(H/t to one of my library comrades for unearthing this one.)
youtu.be/zZ74kvofH1k?...
(H/t to one of my library comrades for unearthing this one.)
youtu.be/zZ74kvofH1k?...
This is about turning libraries & museums into propaganda machines. Make federal funding for State Library Agencies contingent on bending the knee. I'm crossing all fingers & toes that the Chief Officers of those SLAs have the fortitude to refuse. And that state governments will fill their $$ needs.
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
bookriot.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is about turning libraries & museums into propaganda machines. Make federal funding for State Library Agencies contingent on bending the knee. I'm crossing all fingers & toes that the Chief Officers of those SLAs have the fortitude to refuse. And that state governments will fill their $$ needs.
Shit.
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Shit.