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she/her, 25+
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I think if your activism and incentive to be a good person are based on fear it will not be sustainable in the long term. You have to desire to be good because you care about people. Your activism also has to prioritize actionable things you can do, not what you must omit or deny.
March 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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No, when the moon hits YOUR eye like a big pizza pie that's amore. When it hits my eye it fucking crashes into my skull and kills me instantly
March 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Me as the pea under all of those princess' mattresses: I'm gonna fuck her shit up
March 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Rosa Parks needed other people to pay her rent because they just quietly stopped taking her calls

Fannie Lou Hamer had her house regularly challenged for purchase

People are trying to act like Black women specific and people in general aren’t working from historical data as opposed to “emotion”
Do people realize how many Black women ended up broke after sacrificing so much for the civil rights movement?

We don't make a coin from any of it. We go broke. We die broke. Y'all write about it and make millions.

We can no longer be bullied into sacrifice we cannot afford.
March 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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timely books we are constantly out of:

-Parable of the Sower
-On Tyranny
-Poverty, By America
-James
-Babel
-The Serviceberry

books I sell often/have sold recently:

-I Who Have Never Known Men
-The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
-How to Be an Antiracist
-Caste
-Freedom is a Constant Struggle
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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holy, fucking, shit.

go give your neighborhood pantry, food bank, little free pantry, little free fridge, etc all the food and/or money you can. find a food not bombs in your area doing the good work and join them. anything, anything at all.
In case you missed it, the USDA has suspended food shipments to US food banks!!! We need to donate to our local food pantries!

I encourage you to read this article from The New York Times about the food banks. Here's a gift link you can read it for free www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Food Banks Left in the Lurch as U.S.D.A. Shipments Are Suspended (Gift Article)
A representative of a nationwide food pantry network, said U.S.D.A. officials had informed him that some food aid distributed by the federal government was under review.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
is this thing on.....
March 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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If you’re looking for a quick printable to share about the #IMLS, I made this little zine. Download, insert your congresscritters’ information, fold and share.
Today I made a zine to inform people about the EO that would gut the #IMLS. I was asked to share, so hey, why not share widely? You can download and print your own copies at drive.google.com/file/d/1DUsm....

If you need help folding, search for Hotdog Booklet and you should find directions easily.
March 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Tell Congress to overturn the harmful order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Eliminating #IMLS, the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, would be harmful for ALL Americans.
app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-page
March 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Today I made a zine to inform people about the EO that would gut the #IMLS. I was asked to share, so hey, why not share widely? You can download and print your own copies at drive.google.com/file/d/1DUsm....

If you need help folding, search for Hotdog Booklet and you should find directions easily.
March 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Did you know #IMLS is only a FRACTION of the federal budget at .0046% of the total budget.

Libraries have an average Return on Investment of $4-5 dollars for every tax dollar spent.

Let your reps know!

#SaveOurLibraries #SaveIMLS
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗
Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...
www.cdc.gov
September 19, 2023 at 9:20 PM