Stop reposting this. It's wrong. The news out of Yosemite is horrific, but this is incorrect. (Former Yosemite ranger here, still connected to folks in the park.) About a dozen employees in Yosemite have lost their jobs. There are still approximately 400 employees in Yosemite.

Yesterday the Republican controlled Missouri Senate, Sen Stephen Webber (D-Boone County) introduced an amendment that would end the statutory ban on same sex marriage. Yes, MO still has a ban on same sex marriages. The amendment failed 6-19, with 9 Senators absent. #MoLeg

We've arrived at the point where most predictions in THEY KNEW have come true and folks can respond to "But no one could have known!" by waving THEY KNEW in their face

“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.”

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Tonight, the Center for Taxpayer Rights, Main Street Alliance, @cwaunion.bsky.social & the National Federation of Federal Employees, rep'd by Democracy Forward, filed an emergency suit challenging Musk’s so-called DOGE from unlawfully accessing sensitive taxpayer & business data from the IRS. (1/2)

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is temporarily closed after Elon Musk fired members of its staff.

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

Any librarian with two brain cells to rub together (which is damn near all of them) know that the public library system as a whole is a natural enemy of the fascist. You either fight as a librarian or die unemployed because they hate everything that makes libraries so fucking important.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.

ALSO.

Hey folks, if you are citing a US (or other) government webpage in a work right now, please make sure to save a PDF version for yourself (and possibly others) to reference. @academic-chatter.bsky.social