lbartnik.bsky.social
@lbartnik.bsky.social
Old. Female. White. Progressive democrat. Woke, and proud of it. Retired librarian. Information lurker.
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A displaced Palestinian girl was filmed gathering bread from the ground in a Gaza displacement camp after Israeli forces bombed the tents.
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Reading about yet another woman who took action against this regime and immediately remembered the words that destroyed the Goblin King in Labyrinth. "You have no power over me." Say it loud and proud.
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.

Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Legacies
I’ve seen this movie before.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Trump treats the words “groceries” & “affordability” like a foreign language and posted 30 times about his marble toilet as he builds a $300 Million ballroom while fighting in court to starve Americans and take away health care - but y’all think he cares about working people?
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
October 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
SB 13 is a bill that removes local control from public schools across Texas and gives politicians (not parents) the power to decide what books are or are not available to students.

action.everylibrary.org/texas_school...
Texas School Bans Students from the Library
Politicians, not parents, are deciding what children can read in the United States.
action.everylibrary.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Multiple studies in multiple places seem to be showing the same thing: reading is down for everyone, everywhere. We explain why econ.st/4884myC

Illustration: Seb Agrest
September 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Netanyahu issued this statement because Israel just bombed journalists in a hospital, then bombed the rescue workers that showed up on live TV, and he knows anyone with a conscience will be horrified.

That’s not a “tragic mishap”. And there will be no “thorough investigation”.
August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
August 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Re-sharing something I learned yesterday: when they autopsied Andrew Goodman, they found traces of red dirt in his lungs.
Which meant he may still have been alive when the Klan buried him in that earthen dam in Neshoba, Mississippi.
History should make you uncomfortable so you don't repeat it.
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM