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laulo-bu.bsky.social
@laulo-bu.bsky.social
Detroit, Michigan. No Bullies, No Bigots, No Bullshit. A better world is possible.
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Good morning, all 🌞

It's What's New Wednesday! Here's our first photoset, showing off some new arrivals...everything from young adult series & performer memoirs to fantasy shorts & Stephen King.

We have hundreds of new-to-us titles going on the shelf this week...more pics coming later today!
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Good morning, all

It's BUSY SEASON. Today, I'm up early assembling junk journal/collage packs for the return of Broken Books 🙂

I've collected materials for these for YEARS. It's nice to finally sit down & put together a bunch. The pictured packets + dozens more will be on our shelves this weekend
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Some Chinese public bathrooms require watching ads to get toilet paper, all to prevent waste.

Welcome to the dystopian restroom of the future.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)
On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years.

On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.

So it's net positive.
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Hello, all! Here's what's happening at the bookstore this weekend:

Thursday: CLOSED
Friday: SHORT HOURS (2-6)
Saturday: EXTENDED HOURS (1-9), a cat food drive, and some great deals. Get up to $15 off with donations of cat food & plastic bags!

I am HUSTLING to get ready 🐱 Hope to see you!
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Our new arrivals are in!

...who ordered the cat?
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Sad… The Trump administration keeps pushing antivax rhetoric.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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ok first of all how dare you
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Elon Musk accidentally revealing that basically every right-wing MAGA account is not run by an American and their entire online movement is astroturfed is so funny
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Calling the national crisis “a complete justification” for additional airstrikes on boats purportedly trafficking narcotics, the Pentagon issued a statement Tuesday blaming Venezuela for th...
theonion.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Kristi Noem and Kash Patel were out last night enjoying the Las Vegas F1 race at taxpayers’ expense. This is exactly the kind of fraud, waste, and abuse that deserves a full investigation.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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You absolutely have the constitutional right to record ICE, Border Patrol, or any law enforcement officer in public, and with everything happening in Charlotte right now, people need to understand that clearly.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Reminder: this is TOMORROW. We'll be open from 1-9 PM, and the Swap will be held from 1-6 PM. Hope to see you 🎉
Okay!

Here's the new date for our Ornament Swap!

Again, we WON'T be holding it today.

I also have rough news, and better news... 1/?
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress.

But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right?

(1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"...The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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love this for us.
Scientists tell Americans not to trust the CDC.

Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM