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Annie R
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Fiction writer, Narrative Director @Ubisoft Massive. Relentlessly queer.
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This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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the arch antisemite slated for deportation loves to go to shabbat dinner with his jewish friends
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Mar 15
NEW: 17 pages of letters testifying to Mahmoud Khalil's character from his friends, colleagues, and teachers—some Jewish storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Judge Furman, My name is (redacted). I am a Jewish student at Columbia University writing in support of my friend, Mahmoud Khalil. I am writing this letter because I know that if I ever needed him to do it for me, he would, and so much more, because that's the kind of person Mahmoud is. We know each other through sharing space more times than I can count, at protests and at community events and at concerts and Shabbats. He is someone who I trust implicitly. He is someone who always puts himself between those around him and danger, and he does it without thinking and without flinching. He does it even with people who he doesn't know well. We're not best friends but I know that if I was in danger, Mahmoud would do everything in his power to protect and help me—as lead negotiator during the encampment this is exactly what he did, protecting me and so many other student protestors who were being punished for speaking up against genocide. This letter is the least I can do for someone who has always selflessly and courageously put others before himself. I can't believe that it's precisely because of these incredible qualities he is being punished in this way. Mahmoud has protected Jewish students at Columbia like myself more than the university ever has. He has even protected us from the university itself. To punish him under the pretence that this kind, brave, gentle person somehow endangered us is the most egregious lie l've ever heard. His strength is only matched by his calmness even in the most stressful circumstances. I've never heard him raise his voice except at protests. I can't describe the sense of immediate comfort that one felt in his presence, and every minute I think of him detained, it hurts. Please help Mahmoud.
March 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.
March 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.

This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM