Laura Pearle
@vennlibrarian.bsky.social
Then: Director of Library Services
Now: Archivist
Always: Reader, researcher, tea-drinker, friend
Now: Archivist
Always: Reader, researcher, tea-drinker, friend
Now excommunicate him.
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Now excommunicate him.
Is this even legal?
Turning America into a place no one with half a brain wants to live in! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Is this even legal?
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Today in Oh Hell No
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
buff.ly
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Today in Oh Hell No
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
Not inspiring confidence in Dem plans for 2028!
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Not inspiring confidence in Dem plans for 2028!
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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Genuinely find this upsetting to watch.
It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men
It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Genuinely find this upsetting to watch.
It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men
It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men
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This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
Emergency cat reporting for duty (maybe… its nap time)
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Emergency cat reporting for duty (maybe… its nap time)
Please, can’t he just… stay at MAL with no wifi? Or something like that? Give him all the ballrooms and arches to design if he just stops {{waves hands vaguely around}}
The new year is shaping up to be a consequential one, from control of power in Washington to the agenda President Trump pursues. n.pr/3Libakq
What will Trump do next? 13 questions for politics in 2026
The new year is shaping up to be a consequential one, from control of power in Washington to the agenda President Trump pursues.
n.pr
January 3, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Please, can’t he just… stay at MAL with no wifi? Or something like that? Give him all the ballrooms and arches to design if he just stops {{waves hands vaguely around}}
January 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Can tv people please stop saying he wrote “shoots”? @jonathanlemire.bsky.social and @ms.now: at least mention you’re correcting his message.
January 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Can tv people please stop saying he wrote “shoots”? @jonathanlemire.bsky.social and @ms.now: at least mention you’re correcting his message.
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great news, everyone! turning a 5 into a 6 because you forgot the year is one of the easiest ones to fudge! turning a 6 into a 7 won't be so simple
January 1, 2026 at 5:08 AM
great news, everyone! turning a 5 into a 6 because you forgot the year is one of the easiest ones to fudge! turning a 6 into a 7 won't be so simple
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I'm not one for making New Year's resolutions
But I believe as individuals we need to start engaging in small acts of kindness
We have too many politicians telling us not to care about each other
We should do the opposite
Buy a can of food for the food bank, hold the door for someone
Small things
But I believe as individuals we need to start engaging in small acts of kindness
We have too many politicians telling us not to care about each other
We should do the opposite
Buy a can of food for the food bank, hold the door for someone
Small things
happy new year written in gold balloons on a purple background
ALT: happy new year written in gold balloons on a purple background
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm not one for making New Year's resolutions
But I believe as individuals we need to start engaging in small acts of kindness
We have too many politicians telling us not to care about each other
We should do the opposite
Buy a can of food for the food bank, hold the door for someone
Small things
But I believe as individuals we need to start engaging in small acts of kindness
We have too many politicians telling us not to care about each other
We should do the opposite
Buy a can of food for the food bank, hold the door for someone
Small things
On it! I’ll start using it at work overmorrow, I promise!
all the other germanic languages in my replies being like yeah we're still using this 😙🎶
english, we could bring overmorrow back, it used to exist and it could come back!
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overmor...
english, we could bring overmorrow back, it used to exist and it could come back!
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overmor...
December 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
On it! I’ll start using it at work overmorrow, I promise!
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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My usual reminder that “we’re gonna file a lawsuit” isn’t news. That’s a press release. “We filed a lawsuit and here’s the complaint” is news.
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
n.pr
December 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
My usual reminder that “we’re gonna file a lawsuit” isn’t news. That’s a press release. “We filed a lawsuit and here’s the complaint” is news.
One of the first books I recommended to another reader (in this case, my father)… I was 10 and who knew that I’d grow up to be a librarian?
December 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
One of the first books I recommended to another reader (in this case, my father)… I was 10 and who knew that I’d grow up to be a librarian?
Ummm… what about his aunt Rosemary?
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ummm… what about his aunt Rosemary?
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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Nothing says ‘authoritarian’ quite like trying to shut down anyone who doesn’t praise you.
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Nothing says ‘authoritarian’ quite like trying to shut down anyone who doesn’t praise you.