Rachel/Rowan 🏳️🌈
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UX, Librarian, oncology. Opinions are my own.
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almost forgot this classic somehow
September 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
almost forgot this classic somehow
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
Everyone: oh, like what?
Every centrist hagiographer: very important things
Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?
Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no
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💙 Another child dies from measles 💙
🍼 Infected with measles as an infant BEFORE they were eligible to receive the vaccine.
🧠 They developed SSPE - a rare but fatal complication that shows 2-10 years after infection.
‼️ THIS is we why need need vaccine mandates.
Save our babies. #SacktheQuack
🍼 Infected with measles as an infant BEFORE they were eligible to receive the vaccine.
🧠 They developed SSPE - a rare but fatal complication that shows 2-10 years after infection.
‼️ THIS is we why need need vaccine mandates.
Save our babies. #SacktheQuack
Child dies from SSPE, a rare measles-related complication, LA County Public Health officials say | abc7.com
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abc7.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
💙 Another child dies from measles 💙
🍼 Infected with measles as an infant BEFORE they were eligible to receive the vaccine.
🧠 They developed SSPE - a rare but fatal complication that shows 2-10 years after infection.
‼️ THIS is we why need need vaccine mandates.
Save our babies. #SacktheQuack
🍼 Infected with measles as an infant BEFORE they were eligible to receive the vaccine.
🧠 They developed SSPE - a rare but fatal complication that shows 2-10 years after infection.
‼️ THIS is we why need need vaccine mandates.
Save our babies. #SacktheQuack
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Trump publicly praises a murdered white supremacist.
But refuses to even acknowledge the domestic terrorism attack on a federal institution—or the police officer murdered protecting fed employees.
His silence speaks volumes.
(Thx to whoever made this image - apologies for not giving you credit!)
But refuses to even acknowledge the domestic terrorism attack on a federal institution—or the police officer murdered protecting fed employees.
His silence speaks volumes.
(Thx to whoever made this image - apologies for not giving you credit!)
September 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump publicly praises a murdered white supremacist.
But refuses to even acknowledge the domestic terrorism attack on a federal institution—or the police officer murdered protecting fed employees.
His silence speaks volumes.
(Thx to whoever made this image - apologies for not giving you credit!)
But refuses to even acknowledge the domestic terrorism attack on a federal institution—or the police officer murdered protecting fed employees.
His silence speaks volumes.
(Thx to whoever made this image - apologies for not giving you credit!)
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NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:
September 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:
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Can we please go back to following the scientific evidence?
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Y'know, the "gold standard, evidence based science" the Administration pretends to want - and scientists everywhere just want to go back to.
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Y'know, the "gold standard, evidence based science" the Administration pretends to want - and scientists everywhere just want to go back to.
NIH whistleblower details clash over childhood vaccines with Trump administration: "We became inconvenient"
A former NIH official says she was removed after clashes over vaccines, accusing RFK Jr. and his deputies of posing "a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."
www.cbsnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Can we please go back to following the scientific evidence?
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Y'know, the "gold standard, evidence based science" the Administration pretends to want - and scientists everywhere just want to go back to.
📈📊📉
Y'know, the "gold standard, evidence based science" the Administration pretends to want - and scientists everywhere just want to go back to.
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
September 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
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They kept telling us it was only about SCHOOL libraries.
Guess they lied.
Again.
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
Guess they lied.
Again.
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
September 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
They kept telling us it was only about SCHOOL libraries.
Guess they lied.
Again.
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
Guess they lied.
Again.
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
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good, i fucking hate these things
September 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
good, i fucking hate these things
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no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say charlie kirk died from a grand piano falling on his head and his mouth turned into piano keys and then a flower pot fell on his dick and it honked like a bike horn. don’t say stuff like that
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say charlie kirk died from a grand piano falling on his head and his mouth turned into piano keys and then a flower pot fell on his dick and it honked like a bike horn. don’t say stuff like that
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Email your legislators to support libraries: speakupforlibraries.us
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Email your legislators to support libraries: speakupforlibraries.us
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the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”
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really not feeling in the 9/11 spirit. someone just said "death to america" to me and i was like yeah sure man, you too
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
really not feeling in the 9/11 spirit. someone just said "death to america" to me and i was like yeah sure man, you too
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lol white woman lol.
the scary thing about captain kirk is that could hapepn to anyone of us
September 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
lol white woman lol.
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Charlie Kirk talking about mass shootings at the time he was shot is the sort of detail they make you take out of the story because it's too over the top
September 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Charlie Kirk talking about mass shootings at the time he was shot is the sort of detail they make you take out of the story because it's too over the top
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this is a seismic event online and on the news because Kirk is a longstanding influencer who is closely connected to the white house and had a personal relationship with a shockingly large percentage of the media
I would expect the broader public to be significantly less aware of who he is
I would expect the broader public to be significantly less aware of who he is
September 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
this is a seismic event online and on the news because Kirk is a longstanding influencer who is closely connected to the white house and had a personal relationship with a shockingly large percentage of the media
I would expect the broader public to be significantly less aware of who he is
I would expect the broader public to be significantly less aware of who he is
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It's very difficult to measure harms prevented because they don’t happen. Do the protests or calls or court cases matter given how bad things are now? No one can say for sure. What we do know: if we stop, we lose. So, assume it is working and keep going. It's not unrealistic to hope. It's necessary.
July 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
It's very difficult to measure harms prevented because they don’t happen. Do the protests or calls or court cases matter given how bad things are now? No one can say for sure. What we do know: if we stop, we lose. So, assume it is working and keep going. It's not unrealistic to hope. It's necessary.
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To take a qualified, black female librarian over the world's largest library and replace it with someone who does not even have the qualifications to run any library is the biggest sign that this administration does not favor merit. It favors white men in power who are willing to kiss the ring.
Definitely not hired on merit or qualifications.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting librarian of Congress.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting librarian of Congress.
Deputy attorney general who defended Trump in hush money trial named acting librarian of Congress
President Donald Trump's onetime defense attorney has been appointed acting librarian of Congress. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche replaces longtime librarian Carla Hayden, whom the White House…
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May 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
To take a qualified, black female librarian over the world's largest library and replace it with someone who does not even have the qualifications to run any library is the biggest sign that this administration does not favor merit. It favors white men in power who are willing to kiss the ring.
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An expert on the Library of Congress tells Rolling Stone that Trump’s takeover attempt is “dangerous,” given that the Library’s sub-agencies provide confidential legal advice to members of Congress and help police misconduct by lawmakers.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
www.rollingstone.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
An expert on the Library of Congress tells Rolling Stone that Trump’s takeover attempt is “dangerous,” given that the Library’s sub-agencies provide confidential legal advice to members of Congress and help police misconduct by lawmakers.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
Trump’s removal of copyright chief a ‘power grab’ that followed AI copyright report, top Dem says
Major AI firms like OpenAI, which Elon Musk co-founded, are facing ongoing lawsuits over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted materials in their model training.
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May 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.