@gauntletconundrum.bsky.social
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Libraries need to be more vocal about the digital pricing problem. I only buy for Sora (the school version of Libby) when specifically requested by a patron. I talk a lot about why I don't buy on the regular and patrons are always shocked at the price difference. I have to pay $75 not $1.99!
Your Libby rental was free for you, but did you know it cost the D.C. Public Library $59.99?
The e-book boom (and a complicated pricing model from publishers) has left library systems strapped for cash. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to fight back. 51st.news/ebooks-are-e...
The e-book boom (and a complicated pricing model from publishers) has left library systems strapped for cash. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to fight back. 51st.news/ebooks-are-e...
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 28, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Libraries need to be more vocal about the digital pricing problem. I only buy for Sora (the school version of Libby) when specifically requested by a patron. I talk a lot about why I don't buy on the regular and patrons are always shocked at the price difference. I have to pay $75 not $1.99!
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Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
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Hatted Ravelry
Reminder that two of Ravelry's top patterns right now are melt the ice hat (knit) and melt the ice hat (crochet)
A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Hatted Ravelry
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Restaurants in the Twin Cities have largely switched to pickup only to protect delivery workers, many undocumented because that is work people going through the asylum process can do, from being disappeared or having ICE use delivery orders as a trap.
January 28, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Restaurants in the Twin Cities have largely switched to pickup only to protect delivery workers, many undocumented because that is work people going through the asylum process can do, from being disappeared or having ICE use delivery orders as a trap.
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I don't want to celebrate how Ilhan Omar was ready to throw down. Tired of valorizing Black women as fighters, that dude should have been stopped and stomped out before he got close to her.
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I don't want to celebrate how Ilhan Omar was ready to throw down. Tired of valorizing Black women as fighters, that dude should have been stopped and stomped out before he got close to her.
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Folks are gonna bad ass Black and Brown congress people right up until an assassination
Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Folks are gonna bad ass Black and Brown congress people right up until an assassination
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I don’t know how much I want to say about my area yet- but there was just a very public protest w county reaffirming refusal to work w ICE and now they’re everywhere. It’s not slowing down and they continue to target places that say no.
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I don’t know how much I want to say about my area yet- but there was just a very public protest w county reaffirming refusal to work w ICE and now they’re everywhere. It’s not slowing down and they continue to target places that say no.
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"My hope is that Tom Homan is different"
he is literally not, he has already demonstrated this. democrats are being so fucking useless.
he is literally not, he has already demonstrated this. democrats are being so fucking useless.
Q: The demand was to get ICE and CBP out. To replace Bovino with Tom Homan...do you think that's a satisfactory change?
TIM WALZ: "I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. ...My hope is that Tom Homan is different...that he is a true law enforcement professional."
TIM WALZ: "I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. ...My hope is that Tom Homan is different...that he is a true law enforcement professional."
January 28, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"My hope is that Tom Homan is different"
he is literally not, he has already demonstrated this. democrats are being so fucking useless.
he is literally not, he has already demonstrated this. democrats are being so fucking useless.
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Voting matters, but it isn’t what matters most. And distilling everything to “blue team will save you from red team” is how we end up here. Do the real work. Voting follows that, not leads.
We have so much more power than a vote ballot. Use it. Or are we just going to let Democrats lul us to sleep again by saying “take this anti fascist energy into the voting booth, vote us in, and just let us do the work while you go back to sleep!”
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Voting matters, but it isn’t what matters most. And distilling everything to “blue team will save you from red team” is how we end up here. Do the real work. Voting follows that, not leads.
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More and more people are saying Abolish Homeland Security because it is the moderate position
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:49 PM
More and more people are saying Abolish Homeland Security because it is the moderate position
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Folks tend to assume that anyone who claims to be an autism advocate is working on behalf of autistic people's wellbeing. Unfortunately, that is often untrue—especially with parents who promote " #ProfoundAutism." Why? @ejwillingham.bsky.social explains in our latest, thread-worthy newsletter. 1/
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Folks tend to assume that anyone who claims to be an autism advocate is working on behalf of autistic people's wellbeing. Unfortunately, that is often untrue—especially with parents who promote " #ProfoundAutism." Why? @ejwillingham.bsky.social explains in our latest, thread-worthy newsletter. 1/
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this is about what I would expect as an eventual cave I'm just annoyed that they had a cave plan ready to go so quick
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:51 PM
this is about what I would expect as an eventual cave I'm just annoyed that they had a cave plan ready to go so quick
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Total fascism is not possible in a society that both despises and is not afraid of the fascist forces
January 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Total fascism is not possible in a society that both despises and is not afraid of the fascist forces
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I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
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The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 AM
The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
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kinda hard to take the Obama and Clinton statements seriously like ok yes we agree it’s bad what else ya got
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 AM
kinda hard to take the Obama and Clinton statements seriously like ok yes we agree it’s bad what else ya got
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I can see I needed to be more direct: bipolar people can see what you’re saying about whether you believe him about what bipolar disorder sometimes leads people to do and he won’t see your comments to me saying you don’t believe him but they will
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I can see I needed to be more direct: bipolar people can see what you’re saying about whether you believe him about what bipolar disorder sometimes leads people to do and he won’t see your comments to me saying you don’t believe him but they will
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The way that many Democratic Party politicians are talking to their base right now about what ICE is doing and how to respond to it is reaching absurd levels of misinformation.
January 26, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The way that many Democratic Party politicians are talking to their base right now about what ICE is doing and how to respond to it is reaching absurd levels of misinformation.
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The Atlantic is not and was never your friend.
It's become pretty apparent to me that the institutionally-transphobic Vichy New York Times and other corporate media are now doing their "pivot to resistance" dance to cover for their obsequious coverage for the last 10 years.
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 AM
The Atlantic is not and was never your friend.
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Bluesky is so funny.
I'm like "what is with all this liberal apologia? Why has everyone lost sight of the root causes of their oppression? Why are these milquetoast politicians and TV journalists getting such high praise?"
Ohhhhhhhh I'm on the Discover Tab!
I'm like "what is with all this liberal apologia? Why has everyone lost sight of the root causes of their oppression? Why are these milquetoast politicians and TV journalists getting such high praise?"
Ohhhhhhhh I'm on the Discover Tab!
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Bluesky is so funny.
I'm like "what is with all this liberal apologia? Why has everyone lost sight of the root causes of their oppression? Why are these milquetoast politicians and TV journalists getting such high praise?"
Ohhhhhhhh I'm on the Discover Tab!
I'm like "what is with all this liberal apologia? Why has everyone lost sight of the root causes of their oppression? Why are these milquetoast politicians and TV journalists getting such high praise?"
Ohhhhhhhh I'm on the Discover Tab!
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The nyt leaders undercut their own reporters yet again. Their video team demonstrated the administration is lying and yet the leaders say, oh we can’t know until … well, when exactly? Until the perpetrators admit it? lmao at such duplicity🧵
January 26, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The nyt leaders undercut their own reporters yet again. Their video team demonstrated the administration is lying and yet the leaders say, oh we can’t know until … well, when exactly? Until the perpetrators admit it? lmao at such duplicity🧵
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.