This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

I correctly guessed from the first sentence of the preview which board game designer this is :) ( @amabel.bsky.social )

If I'm counting my GR correctly, 68 -- which includes a bunch of picturebooks, though not the ones I only skim-read in trying to pick out gifts for my niblings.

The Plymouth County Correctional Facility is the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts and the linchpin to ICE's infrastructure in New England. It seems like the easiest way to weaken this infrastructure is for the Mass. legislature to pass a law terminating any county-level contracts with ICE.

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

The Indigo Girls?

FT?

So what I'm hearing is that I should move _Dead End: Paranormal Park_ higher up on my to-watch list.

Love your alt-text on this image, Bethany :)

My Rep it's maybe 50/50 if I get a person at her local office during business hours, but her DC office and any of my Senators' offices I always get voicemail even during business hours.

Sorry you had to talk to a live person :(

I read this and had a few solid moments of thinking Claudia Goldin had invented the ice cream scoop 😂 (in addition to being a very accomplished economist).

Taking this prompt to note that NewFest has a lot of its programming available for streaming (Oct 9-21, $14.50/program or $95 pass for all 26) -- about half shorts programs, half feature-length (fiction and documentary). newfest.org/events/?_fil...

The ordering of this sentence implies (to me) that you pay attention to politics out of interest and fashion out of survival. Which was perhaps your intention.

Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!

More info about the Storrows from my Google just now:

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And I enjoy the idea that Storrowing is because Storrow Drive is thus cursed.

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This linked article is from 2021, and I think I may have read it before, but I always forget that the Storrows *opposed* the highway that is named after them.

True that you can't book *currently,* but I live in one of the listed states (MA), and CVS gives me lots of appointment options starting Sept 4 (which I assume is the new booster).

yeah i do have a condition that puts me at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus, it's called being alive

anyway imagine all the creative things dem campaigns could do with their piles of money that go to annoying texts, emails, and celebrity concerts

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

If you’re wondering how you can help DC residents right now, donate to Remora House if you can afford to do so.

They’ve been on the ground supporting and advocating for unhoused people in DC for several years, and your donation goes directly to supporting the people affected by these sweeps.

Unrelated: have you read OP's Amelia Temple books? It occurs to me that the main character is your type in some ways. (And there's an aroace, I believe, supporting character.)