“Tequaila Reid, a mother of five, fears a government shutdown could cut off the nutrition assistance programs that help her feed her children while she battles breast cancer.” www.13wmaz.com/article/news...

**NEW**

Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy.

bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

In the 1990s, 85-year-old Maria Zarembska was one of a dozen embroidery artists who called Kyiv home. Now, she says, she’s the only Ukrainian folk artist remaining in her neighborhood.

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

Another Judge Chips Away at Library Patron First Amendment Rights: bookriot.com/parnell-vs-e...

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is walking along, carefully shielding his plushie dragon toy from passersby.
Frowning sternly at the world while giving Dragon a comforting pat on his furry scales.
He is Dragon's friend and he will protect him. (1)

We have actual domestic terrorists in this country, and they now control the government and have declared anyone opposed to them domestic terrorists; it's great, come to the not-so United States.

From the makers of I can’t believe it’s not butter comes I don’t think these are medical professionals and I’m pretty sure this isn’t real life

Drudge this morning.

Cannot escape the feeling that people would care more about the nightmare unfolding in Chicagoland if Trump had actually sent the National Guard. People hung all of their ideas about fascist escalation looks like on that. Meanwhile, agents hunt our neighbors and gas protesters here.

We should all get a Christmas bonus for making it through this year

I'm not asking people to stop talking about Kimmel or the coming repression tied to their latest martyr project—all of this is important. I am just saying, can we work in more discussion of our neighbors being hunted and protesters being gassed, beaten, and shot with pepper balls in Chicagoland?

Whose life matters?

A reminder that THIS is what a man who died telling the truth looks like.

Be in peace Anas Al Sharif.

سلام عليك يا أنس الشريف

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...