For the record, Project 2025, the blueprint for the incoming Trump administration, would privatize the National Weather Service, disband oceanic research (too climate "alarmist") and dismantle NOAA, which is the primary source of hurricane info. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
Librairies are part of your city's resilience infrastructure, but that requires cities (and states) to adequately fund and staff them. You can't just heap more work on already overworked and underpaid librarians.
My first set of binoculars was from company “attaboy” points. Little did I know what I was ACTUALLY getting when I ordered them (a new hobby and reigniting my love of nature).
Just followed DTW
The arguments in this case are completely fucking insane. It’s a far right Dobbs-style effort to overturn long accepted precedent. Book bans and abortion bans always come out of the same playbook.
Jonathan Mitchell told the Fifth Circuit public libraries only exist "as a matter of grace.” These people are trying to weaken and destroy public libraries. 📚 www.lawdork.com/p/jonathan-m...
Mitchell argued the First Amendment shouldn't apply to public library book removal decisions. The appeals court also heard the Mississippi mail voting case.
So nice to see CIA plant Slotkin on this list! Very excited for her Senate election in 40 days!
Reading this article, this isn’t non-consensual and she’s not being exploited. Meta paid her for her voice use and she agreed to it. What she was saying she didn’t agree with was when the training was being used without her input or compensation. Put a sack of money in front of her, and she’s ok.
Looking forward to joining the @washtenawdems.bsky.social Black Caucus non-partisans candidate forum on Saturday to discuss library issues!
"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the former police who commit them”