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ctl-listens.bsky.social
Love your #library and your local #museum? Please share your love + your thoughts with the powers that be & your #neighbors.

#Libraries #Museums #BookSky #ScienceLiteracy #Literacy #Science #STEM #STEAM #IMLS #OpenAccess #LibraryAdvocacy #Education #data #LibraryData #LibraryPolicy #EO #policy
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 21
IMLS, the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums, is one of seven independent agencies that President Donald Trump wants to dismantle because he believes what they do is “unnecessary.” scim.ag/4iryNlY
Trump order could wipe out federal support for U.S. science museums
Institute of Museum and Library Services now run by Department of Labor as part of proposed dismantling
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March 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
We're watching psychological warfare against a workforce that has been committed to furthering the lives of other people. This was a career choice they made to help others even if they disagreed about how to improve USAID. If you want to reform foreign aid, this isn't the way to do it. This approach is going to radically increase the cost of all future foreign aid. That's because if you want to work with anybody in the future and you tell them, "No, no, no, this time we're here. We're not going to fold on you," how are you going to convince them of that? When you can't trust someone, it makes you reluctant to make agreements with them. And that means doing less good with more money to have the same positive impact as we were having before. There's a lot of good that USAID has done across the board in terms of health, education, helping farmers, and helping people in crisis. Now, there are people who are going to be radically worse off and sick and not educated in the same way because of what's happened. Literally taking people who are in hospitals and stopping treatments because the money is not there. And not just that — people are going to die. A lot of people. So we now have a million million tragedies that could have been avoided.
February 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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teadrivendev.bsky.social
Someone's already underway taking the ring to Mordor.... right?
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mrsciencetheater.bsky.social
First, pyuch.

Second, I would never advocate spamming this snitch line with nonsense....

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration launches portal for reporting DEI in public schools
Website arrives before government’s two-week ultimatum to schools and universities to dismantle program
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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lisatellstruth.bsky.social
spot on, Shaggy

#RealMonsters

#MonstersInc
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
They have no answer for what the oligarchs are doing to America.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Mar 1
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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tomrows.bsky.social
Does this idiot realize that most of the people on Medicaid are:
Seniors
Children
People w/ disabilities?
Go eff yourself, Andy Barr!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 26
Andy Barr on Medicaid cuts: "What we need in this country is for the American people to get back to work. Work-capable adults need to get off of the taxpayer rolls and they need to get into private health insurance in private employment."
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.

Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.

But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.

None of this is about waste and fraud.
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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yetanotherjeff.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM