Librarybarb
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The full gamut of humanity can be in found stories. If you think someone is less than you, you haven’t heard their story. Posting any instances of people standing up for others.
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People assume this started with Ttump. It did not. Things have been really messed up awhile. I hope this is the wake up call we needed. Idk, seems many are still willing just to ignore it.
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
People assume this started with Ttump. It did not. Things have been really messed up awhile. I hope this is the wake up call we needed. Idk, seems many are still willing just to ignore it.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Trump’s economic policies are for corporations, not the rest of us. They’re flattening communities like Warren. We’re fighting for an economy that builds jobs through small businesses, empowers unions, and protects your healthcare.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
In Michigan city where Trump held his 100 days rally, voters wait for economic turnaround
In April, Trump went to Warren, promising "the greatest economy in the history of the world." Residents there say they're still trying to make ends meet.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trump’s economic policies are for corporations, not the rest of us. They’re flattening communities like Warren. We’re fighting for an economy that builds jobs through small businesses, empowers unions, and protects your healthcare.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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consultant: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
consultant: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
elected dem: *nods*
consultant: “That’s why we came up with this slogan.”
dem: “Okay, what does it mean?”
consultant: “Allow me to explain,”
(25 min later)
dem: “Great, love it. Here is $200k that struggling families donated to my campaign.”
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Expiring ACA tax credits will hit small businesses especially hard. Meanwhile, 74% of small business owners are worried that their business won’t survive due to Trump’s tariffs.
Trump is crushing small businesses while doling out tax breaks to his big corporate donors.
Priorities.
Trump is crushing small businesses while doling out tax breaks to his big corporate donors.
Priorities.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Expiring ACA tax credits will hit small businesses especially hard. Meanwhile, 74% of small business owners are worried that their business won’t survive due to Trump’s tariffs.
Trump is crushing small businesses while doling out tax breaks to his big corporate donors.
Priorities.
Trump is crushing small businesses while doling out tax breaks to his big corporate donors.
Priorities.
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Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
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If nothing else the free speech panic should be an object lesson in the way people work to *produce* nuance to avoid the heart of the matter.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If nothing else the free speech panic should be an object lesson in the way people work to *produce* nuance to avoid the heart of the matter.
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FYI the whole point of Fox News is to reinforce the message in the video below
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
FYI the whole point of Fox News is to reinforce the message in the video below
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I don’t consider ICE to be a law-enforcement organization. I consider them to be an organized crime syndicate. Nothing more, nothing less.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don’t consider ICE to be a law-enforcement organization. I consider them to be an organized crime syndicate. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I KNOW this is going to sound really out there, but hear me out:
Maybe he should have been fired when he planned top secret ops over a popular iPhone app, breaching every national security protocol, and accidentally including a journalist in the group.
I’m just sayin….
Maybe he should have been fired when he planned top secret ops over a popular iPhone app, breaching every national security protocol, and accidentally including a journalist in the group.
I’m just sayin….
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I KNOW this is going to sound really out there, but hear me out:
Maybe he should have been fired when he planned top secret ops over a popular iPhone app, breaching every national security protocol, and accidentally including a journalist in the group.
I’m just sayin….
Maybe he should have been fired when he planned top secret ops over a popular iPhone app, breaching every national security protocol, and accidentally including a journalist in the group.
I’m just sayin….
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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The Solar Intelligence Training Academy, a workforce development program launched in June, is designed to equip Detroit residents with skills in solar technology, environmental justice, and sustainable energy. planetdetroit.org/2025/12/detr...
Solar training academy aims to make Detroiters 'energy leaders'
Detroit's Solar Intelligence Training Academy equips residents with skills in solar technology, environmental justice, and sustainable energy.
planetdetroit.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Solar Intelligence Training Academy, a workforce development program launched in June, is designed to equip Detroit residents with skills in solar technology, environmental justice, and sustainable energy. planetdetroit.org/2025/12/detr...
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality.
It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.
It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality.
It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.
It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.
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imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
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In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents. Then you spend the rest of the night in bed reading them and eating chocolate. Sounds perfect to me.
the aurora borealis is shining over a waterfall
ALT: the aurora borealis is shining over a waterfall
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents. Then you spend the rest of the night in bed reading them and eating chocolate. Sounds perfect to me.
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
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Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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Trump is enjoying any distractions away from Epstein. Don’t let up on it. The fact that people require the files from a deceased person to believe what happened to a thousand living women reveals everything about whose voices they value and whose they don’t. 🔄
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump is enjoying any distractions away from Epstein. Don’t let up on it. The fact that people require the files from a deceased person to believe what happened to a thousand living women reveals everything about whose voices they value and whose they don’t. 🔄
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To achieve Elon Musk's wealth, a person on an average salary would have to work for 8 MILLION YEARS!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
To achieve Elon Musk's wealth, a person on an average salary would have to work for 8 MILLION YEARS!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
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this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
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There is hope for the future
There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
There is hope for the future
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Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.