The Gorilla Librarian
@gorillalibrarian.bsky.social
Happiest when correctly guessing plot twists in tv shows.
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I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle.
No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.
No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.
there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants
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List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle.
No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.
No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.
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PSA: Somebody is posting false reports to ICE tracking apps in Seattle. It’s possibly right-wing trolls or ICE themselves.
This one, posted today, included an AI generated photo of ICE at a 7-11. Use caution before sharing.
This one, posted today, included an AI generated photo of ICE at a 7-11. Use caution before sharing.
January 22, 2026 at 6:11 PM
PSA: Somebody is posting false reports to ICE tracking apps in Seattle. It’s possibly right-wing trolls or ICE themselves.
This one, posted today, included an AI generated photo of ICE at a 7-11. Use caution before sharing.
This one, posted today, included an AI generated photo of ICE at a 7-11. Use caution before sharing.
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what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.
January 23, 2026 at 12:26 AM
what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.
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Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
January 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
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When he died, Washington owned 123 slaves; the nine memorialized here were in his Philadelphia household.
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 11:09 PM
When he died, Washington owned 123 slaves; the nine memorialized here were in his Philadelphia household.
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It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on.
John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:38 AM
It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on.
John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites.
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
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listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.
January 21, 2026 at 3:39 PM
listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.
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Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
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If I describe the terror of the federal government’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Minnesota, a lot of people will think I have somehow gone crazy. Thankfully I’ve built up a lot of trust with you all over my years as a Seattle Mariners fan that you know I have not gone crazy, because of this.
January 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
If I describe the terror of the federal government’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Minnesota, a lot of people will think I have somehow gone crazy. Thankfully I’ve built up a lot of trust with you all over my years as a Seattle Mariners fan that you know I have not gone crazy, because of this.
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
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Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me
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you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Stephen Miller is the only person alive who deserves what they did to Tasha Yar
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Stephen Miller is the only person alive who deserves what they did to Tasha Yar
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Great @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social piece last night on @lLastWordmsnow.bsky.social celebrating the Ford worker who got under Trump’s skin the other day. (With a nice back-story shoutout on the origins of “short-fingered vulgarian.”) youtu.be/6h81QLMzK9k?...
January 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Great @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social piece last night on @lLastWordmsnow.bsky.social celebrating the Ford worker who got under Trump’s skin the other day. (With a nice back-story shoutout on the origins of “short-fingered vulgarian.”) youtu.be/6h81QLMzK9k?...
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ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
www.propublica.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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Heard a credible report of ICE in Burien. Stay safe.
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Heard a credible report of ICE in Burien. Stay safe.
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Elizer Darris, Co-Executive Director of the MN Freedom Fund shared this message during a press conference at the government center.
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Elizer Darris, Co-Executive Director of the MN Freedom Fund shared this message during a press conference at the government center.
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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In 1928, Uwajimaya founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi opened their first Japanese grocery store in Tacoma. Now, the company their granddaughter runs is returning to the city where Uwajimaya got its start. Plans are in the works to open a new Tacoma store in 2027.
After 100 years, a Northwest symbol of Japanese culture returns to Tacoma
In 1928, Uwajimaya founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi opened their first Japanese grocery store in Tacoma. Now, the company their granddaughter runs is returning to the city where Uwajimaya got i...
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January 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
In 1928, Uwajimaya founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi opened their first Japanese grocery store in Tacoma. Now, the company their granddaughter runs is returning to the city where Uwajimaya got its start. Plans are in the works to open a new Tacoma store in 2027.
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Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
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Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...