Andrea Wright
@alwright1.bsky.social
should we even be here fr? (librarian, book arts, queer, dubious)
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On Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation”
www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/n...
On NIH director’s first day, the agency tackles one of his priorities — ending ‘censorship’ in science
On Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation”
www.statnews.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
On Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation”
www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/n...
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Green card holders detained. A French researcher denied entry for anti-Trump messages. A new travel ban on 40+ countries coming.
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.
www.wired.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Green card holders detained. A French researcher denied entry for anti-Trump messages. A new travel ban on 40+ countries coming.
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
Given all these encroachments on travelers' civil liberties, we've updated our guide to digital privacy while crossing US borders. www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
I was in a room at the university yesterday where someone asked where to find good coverage of what was going on in the state legislature in Alabama. I wish I could have found them after to recommend @alabamareflector.com alabamareflector.com
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March 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was in a room at the university yesterday where someone asked where to find good coverage of what was going on in the state legislature in Alabama. I wish I could have found them after to recommend @alabamareflector.com alabamareflector.com
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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
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"Later, as well as smuggling books, the CIA would fund and ship presses and printing equipment into Poland, so that the banned titles could be reproduced in huge quantities by underground printers in situ."
Extract from The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War by Charlie English.
Extract from The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War by Charlie English.
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Later, as well as smuggling books, the CIA would fund and ship presses and printing equipment into Poland, so that the banned titles could be reproduced in huge quantities by underground printers in situ."
Extract from The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War by Charlie English.
Extract from The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War by Charlie English.
This fake LGB bullshit acronym has me ready to burn shit down.
National Parks Service Stonewall page on the Wayback machine vs right now. They wrote trans folks out of Stonewall.
February 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This fake LGB bullshit acronym has me ready to burn shit down.
Apropos of everything: have you heard about the Data Liberation Project? www.data-liberation-project.org
The Data Liberation Project
The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.
www.data-liberation-project.org
February 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Apropos of everything: have you heard about the Data Liberation Project? www.data-liberation-project.org
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This is a clear attempt to drive a small segment of our population out of existence by denying them the means to work, travel, get an education, receive medical care, and otherwise participate in civic life. That it is not drawing the most forceful of denunciations is terrifying.
January 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is a clear attempt to drive a small segment of our population out of existence by denying them the means to work, travel, get an education, receive medical care, and otherwise participate in civic life. That it is not drawing the most forceful of denunciations is terrifying.
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Helpful resource for attending school board/library meetings. Book challengers show up at these meetings--we need people in favor of reading freedom (the vast majority of people!) to be there too. bsky.app/profile/dran...
For those interested, action steps for attending meetings, because being in the room matters.
Guide to Attending Library and School Board Meetings
Make sure local officials know you support the library and access to books of all kinds by attending, listening, and speaking out against censorship.
uniteagainstbookbans.org
January 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Helpful resource for attending school board/library meetings. Book challengers show up at these meetings--we need people in favor of reading freedom (the vast majority of people!) to be there too. bsky.app/profile/dran...