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Ben Bradley

@benjamin-bradley.bsky.social
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He/him Systems Librarian @ the University of Maryland 🏳️‍🌈Gay 🧑‍🏫Sweater-clad, cat-dad librarian Talk to me about: 🧶crochet, 🎲board games, 🎮video games, 📝 role-playing, housing, and transit

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
They don't know what the Library of Congress is.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2025
seems like trump mainly uses “low IQ” to describe black people. of a piece with his birtherism and his insistence that there are specific, low-wage “black jobs” that must be protected from immigrants
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Zuck: the average American has three friends.
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a cartoon of a frog with a scarf around its neck jumping in the air
Alt: a cartoon of three kappas with a scarf around their necks jumping in the air
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Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I love this new free speech regime. popular.info/p/fortune-50...
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Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
When your bus that runs every 30 minutes is now like hourly because there aren’t enough bus operators. 😓😭
Screen shot that reads:

Service Advisory:
F6 Service Alert: Expect delays in both directions on Route F6 because of operator availability.
Check your bus location by visiting https://buseta.wmata.com/#F6
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Ginny Bixby @ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Strathmore in North Bethesda will host a World Pride concert that was removed from the Kennedy Center's lineup following Trump's takeover: bethesdamagazine.com/2025/04/28/s...
bethesdamagazine.com
Strathmore to host World Pride event dropped by Kennedy Center
The International Pride Orchestra will perform a concert at the North Bethesda performing arts venue at 7:30 p.m on June 5.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
nytimes.com
U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/04/2025
Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid
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Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Leadership @stonemaiergames.com takes action. They'll join @pacificlegal.bsky.social's suit against the Trump Administration over the sweeping new tariffs on China.
polygon.com
Wingspan developer Stonemaier Games intends to sue Trump over tariffs
‘I try to lead with compassion and empathy, so legal action is very low on my list of ways to handle difficult situations’
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Using medical records to build a federal "database of people with autism" is, among many other things, going to encourage (more) people to lie to their doctor. To hide information from their nurse. To compromise their health out of, justified, fear.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025
there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”
The Trump administration has nixed a 2023 settlement that was building modern sanitation infrastructure in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2025
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.
propublica.org
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19/04/2025
ErinReed [Apr 19] -- in a legislative frenzy akin to what disability scholars call "eugenics policymaking" in which states seek to legislate some lives out of civil existence, Reps introduced 867 anti-trans bills for 2025. Top issues are care (122) & bathrooms (77). @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Over 850 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Filed In 2025; Most In History
2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 18/04/2025
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen did what Trump refuses to do: help at least one American family. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
dailykos.com
Senator's El Salvador trip exposes lies behind wrongful deportation
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland secured a meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday, fulfilling the promise he made to the Maryland man’s family after he was abducted…
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
He wants to institutionalize people on the autistic spectrum in much the same way he wants to put everyone on antidepressants, ADHD medication, or illegal drugs to rural work camps indefinitely.
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Seth Grimes @sethgrimes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
200 strong is downtown Silver Spring, in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and appreciation of @vanhollen.senate.gov's efforts to win his return to the US.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The American people built a way to file taxes for free and now they're burning it down to enrich the predatory tax-prep industry who helped Trump get elected. Hail to the thief.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
bringing manufacturing back to the US
It's the Star Wars Droid Factory by Kenner sitting in front of its box.  It has lots of parts to make your own droid robots.  I got one of these when I was five, and wish I still had it.
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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
hey DMV folks, Kilmer Abrego Garcia is from PG County. you may have noticed that CASA is the organizing force behind the protests for his return home they've served our Latino neighbors for years and years and could really use your $5 monthly donation
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"[...] selling games at retail using traditional logistics simply won’t be an option. Brick and mortar stores, including thousands of independent local game stores all around the country, likely won’t have as many board games to put on their shelves going forward."
polygon.com
Trump tariffs could shrink board game publishing by nearly 25%
Local game stores likely won’t have as many board games to put on their shelves
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
NEW: Three Maryland institutions signed on to support a lawsuit against the federal government over its revocation of student visas. The University System of Maryland, which includes 12 public universities/centers signed on, but Johns Hopkins did not: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
thebaltimorebanner.com
Maryland colleges back lawsuit to halt Trump visa cancellations
The University System of Maryland, where at least four students abruptly lost visas, was among those who joined the legal battle.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
nytimes.com
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/04/2025
so, stephanie turner—the fencer who took a knee & went on a media tour about it—cost a trans girl the chance to participate in society & did it for $5,000 cash, in addition to, i assume, paid speaking gigs with folks like riley gaines. this is grifting. turner is a grifter. also a garbage person.
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Wagner College confirms transgender fencer at center of controversy is no longer on women’s team
It appears that stories on Wagner College’s website that mentioned the athlete and tournaments she had competed in have been removed.
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Evan Glass @evanmglass.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Trump-Musk cuts to NIH will result in thousands of jobs lost and $34 million in reduced research funding and economic activity for Montgomery County. Bad for science. Bad for healthcare. Bad for the economy.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
💰 Oh look — Elon just took another $6 BILLION in taxpayer funds for SpaceX www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article...
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hey, so it's National Library Week. You're going to see a lot of calls to get a library card and check out books. All well and good. But I'm going to ask you to do something a little more supportive: speak up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/04/2025
One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” By @mckenziefunk.com
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“First on the list is ‘How to Be Anti-Racist’ by Ibram X. Kendi.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library
The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
a penguin with a machete with text overlayed that says become untariffable
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 03/04/2025
to be clear TOMMY FUCKING TUBERVILLE — just one senator who also is unqualified to be a senator — had a blanket hold on Joe Biden's military promotions for TEN MONTHS
washingtonpost.com
Tommy Tuberville announces end to blanket military holds
“We fought hard,” he said after telling his Republican colleagues he was lifting his holds.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/04/2025
incredible website lmfao
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Just got this ad while checking special election results online.
Screenshot of an ad with white text on a black background. The text reads in large letters "Tariffs are a tax" and then in smaller letters "on hardworking Americans".

At the bottom left of the image is fine print reading "Paid for by the Government of Canada" and on the bottom right it reads "Canada" in the style of the Canadian official webpage with the small Canadian flag over the final letter "a". The is a button in the bottom center reading "learn more"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸 (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/03/2025
NEW: TCE, a chemical used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, can cause cancer, organ damage and a potentially fatal heart defect in babies. Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it. By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
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TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/03/2025
WATCH: A new investigative collaboration from @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and ProPublica explores a transnational online network of extremists accused of inciting acts of white supremacist terrorism on the messaging platform Telegram. They called themselves Terrorgram.
youtube.com
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This Texas legislative session, multiple stand-alone bills have been filed that would make it easier to prosecute educators and librarians for the books available in classrooms and school libraries. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Texas bills could remove protections for librarians
A retired school librarian in Austin explains the negative impact of several bills filed in the Texas Legislative session that would make it easier for...
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indie_rachael @indie-rachael.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Libraries all over the country are under attack. We have one in little Fairhope, AL that was just defunded because of Moms For Liberty's attacks on age appropriate books for teens.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The maintenance of racism requires the public’s ignorance of racism. As the Trump administration strives to unwind the Department of Education and defund libraries, I wanted to elevate these words. I went on to explain how enslavers legislated for ignorance. #departmentofeducation #forourlibraries
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