Mars
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Mamdani for everything 🥰
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Mamdani for everything 🥰
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This is not border protection. This is terror. And US citizens are not exempt from being the targets, either. My words in the LA Times last month: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Why 'monstrify'? Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human
The category of 'human' is shrinking as politicians, tech bros and right-wing pundits divide the world into two groups: You're a cis-het white man, or you're a monster.
www.latimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is not border protection. This is terror. And US citizens are not exempt from being the targets, either. My words in the LA Times last month: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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I hope @rolandgarros.com is taking notice of this scintillating WOMEN'S match in PRIME TIME
July 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I hope @rolandgarros.com is taking notice of this scintillating WOMEN'S match in PRIME TIME
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
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It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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This is exactly how librarians have been blamed for cuts to library budgets for decades. "You didn't do enough to communicate your value." What that really means is "you don't make any profit, and profit is the only legitimate value an organization can produce."
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is exactly how librarians have been blamed for cuts to library budgets for decades. "You didn't do enough to communicate your value." What that really means is "you don't make any profit, and profit is the only legitimate value an organization can produce."
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A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️🌈
June 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️🌈
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"Be able to afford to live!" is now leftism and socialism in the USA lol
June 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Be able to afford to live!" is now leftism and socialism in the USA lol
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the Big Beautiful Bill is extremely unpopular, fiscally disastrous, callous and cruel and devastating to Americans in need. And still we have national Democrats out on the Sunday morning TV shows criticizing their own party's mayoral candidate.
A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.
A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.
June 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
the Big Beautiful Bill is extremely unpopular, fiscally disastrous, callous and cruel and devastating to Americans in need. And still we have national Democrats out on the Sunday morning TV shows criticizing their own party's mayoral candidate.
A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.
A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.
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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
June 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
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“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4
Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
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“It takes a lot to pull one over on New Yorkers, and when we looked around, the city described in Cuomo attack ads simply did not exist. We recognize that the city’s problems come mostly from the people above, and not the ones sitting next to us on the subway.”
We can have nice things
Zohran Mamdani proved you can fully embrace progressive values—and win.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“It takes a lot to pull one over on New Yorkers, and when we looked around, the city described in Cuomo attack ads simply did not exist. We recognize that the city’s problems come mostly from the people above, and not the ones sitting next to us on the subway.”
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Moving to the center is how you compete for the tiny sliver of Undecided likely-voters.
Doing the right thing is how you inspire the millions who don't usually vote.
Doing the right thing is how you inspire the millions who don't usually vote.
June 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Moving to the center is how you compete for the tiny sliver of Undecided likely-voters.
Doing the right thing is how you inspire the millions who don't usually vote.
Doing the right thing is how you inspire the millions who don't usually vote.
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses
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If we’re really resetting to 2003, can we at least get the $500 rent back too?
June 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
If we’re really resetting to 2003, can we at least get the $500 rent back too?
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I am begging people to realize you can care about multiple things and believe in the liberation of multiple groups of people at the same time.
Being for liberation for all isn't contradictory. It's intersectional.
Being for liberation for all isn't contradictory. It's intersectional.
June 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I am begging people to realize you can care about multiple things and believe in the liberation of multiple groups of people at the same time.
Being for liberation for all isn't contradictory. It's intersectional.
Being for liberation for all isn't contradictory. It's intersectional.
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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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I’m sorry if ur uncomfortable with the fact that California is in Latin America but actually I’m not sorry this is the world we live in these are the people who live here it’s beautiful grow up
June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I’m sorry if ur uncomfortable with the fact that California is in Latin America but actually I’m not sorry this is the world we live in these are the people who live here it’s beautiful grow up
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
June 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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🔥 LA PROTEST QUEEN 👸 TO ARMED NATIONAL GUARD IN LA: “This is how ridiculous you look!”
*Puts on a dinosaur costume* 🦕
THEN: “What the hell is this? You’re Americans, aren’t you? Put down your weapons, don’t follow these fascists.” 🇺🇸
(Someone pls buy her a drink on us)
*Puts on a dinosaur costume* 🦕
THEN: “What the hell is this? You’re Americans, aren’t you? Put down your weapons, don’t follow these fascists.” 🇺🇸
(Someone pls buy her a drink on us)
June 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🔥 LA PROTEST QUEEN 👸 TO ARMED NATIONAL GUARD IN LA: “This is how ridiculous you look!”
*Puts on a dinosaur costume* 🦕
THEN: “What the hell is this? You’re Americans, aren’t you? Put down your weapons, don’t follow these fascists.” 🇺🇸
(Someone pls buy her a drink on us)
*Puts on a dinosaur costume* 🦕
THEN: “What the hell is this? You’re Americans, aren’t you? Put down your weapons, don’t follow these fascists.” 🇺🇸
(Someone pls buy her a drink on us)