From fees for making phone calls to the physical takeover of communities, the prison system cannibalizes everyone it touches.

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

Be aware

Carl Sagan nailed it back in 1995.

“He’s a smart businessman…he’s going to fix the economy…”

Me:

A damning new DOJ report says people at Atlanta's Fulton County Jail are routinely brutalized and sexually assaulted. People with mental illness, people perceived as gay or transgender, and children are at the greatest risk of violence. theappeal.org/doj-finds-de...

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

#Bluesky

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.

they're thirsty for a dictatorship