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🧵 1/5 Thanks, Trump. Because only you could turn a shutdown into an asbestos awareness week. 🎉
#EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness
#EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
🧵 1/5 Thanks, Trump. Because only you could turn a shutdown into an asbestos awareness week. 🎉
#EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness
#EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness
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Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, concluded a marathon speech on the Senate floor Wednesday evening after 22 hours and 37 minutes, saying he was “ringing the alarm bells” on the arrival of authoritarianism under President Trump.
Senator Merkley Warns of Authoritarianism Under Trump in Nearly 23-Hour Speech
The Oregon Democrat achieved a goal of topping the previous longest speech by a senator from his state.
nyti.ms
October 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, concluded a marathon speech on the Senate floor Wednesday evening after 22 hours and 37 minutes, saying he was “ringing the alarm bells” on the arrival of authoritarianism under President Trump.
Rereading @marthawells.com Murderbot #5 and right on the first page this phrase leaps out: “…intense xenophobic, paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.” *sigh
August 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Rereading @marthawells.com Murderbot #5 and right on the first page this phrase leaps out: “…intense xenophobic, paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.” *sigh
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The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life
July 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life
The Reality TV President show is really awful. Still brings up bad memories of Stephen King’s The Running Man. Which incidentally is getting a new screen adaptation this year.
Ideally, when your country’s on the brink of war, you don’t want a reality TV game show host hyping it like: “Will we bomb them? Will we not? Tune in for the next episode of “Who Wants to Start World War III?”
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Reality TV President show is really awful. Still brings up bad memories of Stephen King’s The Running Man. Which incidentally is getting a new screen adaptation this year.
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“Working with students that love to read, that’s great, but quite a number say they don’t like reading. I ask them about their interests so they can find their perfect match. It’s always cool to find a reluctant reader and turn it around for them.”
- Tatanisha Love
- Tatanisha Love
Tatanisha Love: Spreading the Power of Libraries | 2025 School Librarian of the Year Finalist
What's the favorite part of her job? Turning reluctant readers into bookworms, says Tatanisha Love, library media specialist at Southwest Academy Magnet School for Science and Engineering in Baltimore...
www.slj.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Working with students that love to read, that’s great, but quite a number say they don’t like reading. I ask them about their interests so they can find their perfect match. It’s always cool to find a reluctant reader and turn it around for them.”
- Tatanisha Love
- Tatanisha Love
Amen.
Guys, I just want to say that on Friday I renewed my library card and took out a bunch of books that are not worthy, or serious, or educational. They're just stories, and they have already fundamentally made my mental health better.
Thank God for the story tellers.
Thank God for the story tellers.
May 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Amen.
At the end of today’s newsletter there’s a general overview of how people are standing up for democracy. @ariellaelm.bsky.social has been marking these efforts—both large and small—daily, if that’s the kind of galvanizing content you need.
April 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
At the end of today’s newsletter there’s a general overview of how people are standing up for democracy. @ariellaelm.bsky.social has been marking these efforts—both large and small—daily, if that’s the kind of galvanizing content you need.
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Just a reminder that nothing matters and there are no rules anymore so you can pretty much watch A Muppet Christmas Carol whenever you want now
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Just a reminder that nothing matters and there are no rules anymore so you can pretty much watch A Muppet Christmas Carol whenever you want now
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Did you know every $1 invested in our statewide digital library (MeL) returns $25+ to Michigan? $4.8 million in federal IMLS funding has a huge impact on our state. But now it's at risk.📚💔
You can visit bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding to tell your reps how the order to eliminate IMLS could impact you.
You can visit bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding to tell your reps how the order to eliminate IMLS could impact you.
March 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Did you know every $1 invested in our statewide digital library (MeL) returns $25+ to Michigan? $4.8 million in federal IMLS funding has a huge impact on our state. But now it's at risk.📚💔
You can visit bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding to tell your reps how the order to eliminate IMLS could impact you.
You can visit bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding to tell your reps how the order to eliminate IMLS could impact you.
Not a fan of this aesthetic, and the Secretary of Homeland Security’s promo video was full of it. @peters.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov
March 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Not a fan of this aesthetic, and the Secretary of Homeland Security’s promo video was full of it. @peters.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov
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“When hate is the seeds, you can only harvest weeds.” (Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees, 44)
March 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“When hate is the seeds, you can only harvest weeds.” (Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees, 44)
Hits just the right note.
"There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." - Lady Catherine de Bourgh
March 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Hits just the right note.
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Something to think about
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Something to think about
Time gets there in the end.
Credit also to Mary Shelley for stewarding her husband’s work.
Credit also to Mary Shelley for stewarding her husband’s work.
March 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Time gets there in the end.
Credit also to Mary Shelley for stewarding her husband’s work.
Credit also to Mary Shelley for stewarding her husband’s work.
And why thoughtful history books for kids are so important. I hear the History Smashers series is great ❤️😉
When I present to kids about history, we talk about how some history gets lost by accident - and how some is intentionally erased. That's when it falls on all of us to make sure those stories are shared. www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g....
Arlington National Cemetery stops highlighting some historical figures on its website
Articles, photos and videos that are seen as promoting DEI will be removed under the new approach.
www.npr.org
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
And why thoughtful history books for kids are so important. I hear the History Smashers series is great ❤️😉
For folks in Western Wayne County.
Join me and state legislators on Thursday, March 20th at 5:00PM for our Western Wayne town hall. I look forward to seeing you all!
March 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
For folks in Western Wayne County.
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Good morning, fellow time travelers.
a poster for daylight savings with a clock
Alt: a poster for daylight savings with a clock
media.tenor.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Good morning, fellow time travelers.
It looks like they are creating a desert and calling it efficiency.
Here's what we lose when teams like USDS and 18F are suddenly deleted.
New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...
New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...
DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.
www.wired.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It looks like they are creating a desert and calling it efficiency.
One of the words that keeps popping up lately is engagement. And while it’s a little buzz-wordy, I think that reinvigorating our civic engagement is so utterly necessary. This seems like a reasonable idea to incorporate into all the many ways to be engaged in society and political life.
March 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
One of the words that keeps popping up lately is engagement. And while it’s a little buzz-wordy, I think that reinvigorating our civic engagement is so utterly necessary. This seems like a reasonable idea to incorporate into all the many ways to be engaged in society and political life.
Sometimes it’s too easy to laugh at things we don’t understand. For all its recent popularity, I did not know where Ozempic came from, nor the purpose of shrimps on a treadmill.
There's an event today to Stand Up for Science, and I can't go because I don't work near DC or the state Capitol.
If that's you, too, perhaps you can stand up by reading this and being prepared to defend basic research when people in your life mock it. wapo.st/4byrVAk. [GIFT LINK]
If that's you, too, perhaps you can stand up by reading this and being prepared to defend basic research when people in your life mock it. wapo.st/4byrVAk. [GIFT LINK]
Opinion | Why jogging shrimp (and transgender mice) are good for science
Plus: DOGE’s superior predecessor. The five-year covid-versary.
wapo.st
March 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sometimes it’s too easy to laugh at things we don’t understand. For all its recent popularity, I did not know where Ozempic came from, nor the purpose of shrimps on a treadmill.
Lifelong learning is important. Visit or call your local library to look up words like “transgenic.”
Trump claims DOGE found $8M in wasted spending on "making mice transgender."
It was actually $8M for transgenic mice, used to study gene function or generate models to help cure genetic disease in humans.🤦♂️
Just 1 of Trump's many lies I debunk in my fact check:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-2025...
It was actually $8M for transgenic mice, used to study gene function or generate models to help cure genetic disease in humans.🤦♂️
Just 1 of Trump's many lies I debunk in my fact check:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-2025...
Trump 2025 Joint Session Fact Check
Debunking Trump's disinformation speech with all the receipts
www.qasimrashid.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Lifelong learning is important. Visit or call your local library to look up words like “transgenic.”
Nor yet “demand gratitude for being extorted and moan about not getting enough respect.”
Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
March 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Nor yet “demand gratitude for being extorted and moan about not getting enough respect.”
Yes they are. If you haven’t looked at a picture book in a while, spend some time in your local library.
“Children’s picture books are a glorious art form,” writes National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Mac Barnett | Washington Post
Children’s picture books are a glorious art form
Mac Barnett, the new national ambassador for young people’s literature, explores innovative storytelling hiding in humble places all around us.
buff.ly
February 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yes they are. If you haven’t looked at a picture book in a while, spend some time in your local library.
*shakes my fist* at the buttons and touch screens.
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
*shakes my fist* at the buttons and touch screens.