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Emily Drabinski
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PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world. .. more

Computer science 23%
Business 20%

Shit. Active shooter at the Shoshone County Courthouse. Awful.

What happens to people who fly in airplanes is of paramount importance.

Report from watching network news at my mom’s house in Boise: restocking and return fees are a really big deal. Huge news. I’ve heard this story four times in the last half hour.

Telluride ski patrol workers are on strike. Support their strike fund as they fight for a thriving wage in a resort economy.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-tellu...
Donate to Support the Telluride Ski Patrol, organized by Rachel Landis
We have been humbled and amazed by the support we’ve received from the community so far… Rachel Landis needs your support for Support the Telluride Ski Patrol
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100%!

Disgusting.
Elon Musk remains at the top of the list with a net worth that has risen nearly 50% to $645bn. ft.trib.al/ARjBBXC
Elon Musk remains at the top of the list with a net worth that has risen nearly 50% to $645bn. ft.trib.al/ARjBBXC
Some people you defeat, not convince.

Coq au vin for Christmas Eve dinner was a hit! So proud!
Most New Yorkers can’t afford childcare.
Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month.

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Nicaraguan Man in ICE Custody Dies in Mississippi Hospital
A Nicaraguan man has died in ICE custody at a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of a person in custody this month.
www.mississippifreepress.org
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

Read/share 👇
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
I received a thank you from some library workers for this piece after a Chicago city budget was passed this week without the previously proposed library cuts I described here. Many thanks to everyone who made noise about this issue. There were wins and losses in this budget, but this win matters.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
Don’t fuck with archivists. They are librarians with sociopathic tendencies.
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com

*county

Ten years since my father was killed by a left-turning driver while crossing the street in a crosswalk with his sister the morning before the annual family Christmas party. Still a shocking and impossible loss.

The country removed the crosswalk lines after his death. It wasn’t safe to cross there.
You couldn't actually write in Bangla on a Mac until incredibly late – maybe 2009 is when Apple added support? Bizarre that it's the sixth-most-spoken language in the world and they could just ignore it.

Just thanked in the elevator on my way up from putting laundry in the wash “for sending a normal email.”

This is mass murder.
President Donald Trump’s administration took major steps Thursday in a campaign to block minors’ access to gender-affirming care nationwide.
Trump health agency proposes rules to limit gender-affirming care for youth | Alabama Reflector
The proposed regulations, which will next undergo a period of public comments, are certain to draw legal challenges.
ow.ly
I had questions about the latest attack(s) on gender affirming care. So grateful for some answers in the latest Beyond Do No Harm newsletter.

mailchi.mp/interrupting...
Proposed Regulations on Gender Affirming Care, Reflecting on 2025, Resistance Lab Jan 12th & more!
mailchi.mp

The language learning apps don’t offer Bangla.
ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5

There is always money for a public conversation, never enough money for food or healthcare or public libraries.
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.

It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
People desperately want structural problems of 🇺🇸 politics to be individual-level problems. It's a category error we embrace to avoid having hard conversations about the collapse of the GOP into extremist authoritarianism & the egregiously antidemocratic minoritarianism of our political institutions.