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cataloging librarian, ILS wrangler, professional hater 🌈

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New post at ACRLog about the breakneck speed at which the Library of Congress implemented the #LCSH changes to Lake Ontario—just 8 days from proposal to approval, with no comments allowed. 📚 The title is from a letter written by our friend Sandy Berman. acrlog.org/2026/09/12/l...
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Library of Congress: “POTUS pawns” - ACRLog
In March 2025, I wrote about anticipatory obedience at the Library of Congress, describing how LC fast tracked changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings relating to the Gulf of Mexico and Mo...
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oops I meant a @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social webinar! Library Juice Connections is doing some really cool stuff to bring library workers into community, if you haven't followed them yet, now's the time! libraryjuiceconnections.org
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Home • Library Juice Connections
Events for the 
Library Community. Knowledge sharing and professional connections, 
supporting growth and solidarity in a challenging time.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nearly forgot to post about my "Zinesters as Librarians" webinar on the website I help run about zines in libraries. 😑 Anyway, come out to our @libjuiceacademy.bsky.social webinar today, my copanelists are terrific & I bet the chat will be fun! libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/zines...
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Zinesters as Librarians, Librarians as Zinesters  • Library Juice Connections
How does being a librarian influence our zine practices? How does being a zinester influence our library practice?
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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Conservatives scaremonger to their base about the sexual threat posed by outsiders (migrants, liberals, queer folk) solely because the hypothetical victims here "belong to" conservative men. But they reserve the right for those same men to treat their own property however they wish.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am so excited that we are 30% funded after just one day!! 😭 This is only my second fundraiser and I'm just astonished what we can achieve together. Thank you to everyone who's donated or shared!
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/08/2026
YOU ARE SMARTER THAN AI Remind yourself and others artologica.etsy.com/listing/4518...
blue brain watercolor with text 
YOU ARE SMARTER THAN AI
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New podcast episode, "Rejecting Neutrality," featuring Deborah Tomaras & Tina Gross talking about the Library of Congress insistence on the idea of neutrality in #LCSH. 📚 #critcat #cataloging lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-690-...
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Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show: Episode 690: Rejecting Neutrality
Catalogers discuss rejecting neutrality in the creation and management of subject headings, taking special notice of the Library of Congress's insistence on (some version of) "neutrality." Guests: Deb...
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i cannot implore you enough to use respiratory protection that *really works* for what you’re facing. yes, the best mask is the mask you’ll wear, but when conditions are this bad, know that not all tools are created equal. if you can access something better and are able to wear it, it’s worth it.
4.9 - The Masks Explained
Underneath the title it says:
Below is a visual side-by-side comparison of each mask.
Efficacy is always dependent on a good fit and seal.
The results of the chart are as follows:
KN95: filters 95% of particulate matter, filters exhalation, easier to breathe in.
N95: filters 95% of particulate matter, filters exhalation, easier to breathe in.
Disposable P100: N95: filters 99.97% of particulate matter.
Reusable P100s with 60926 filters: filters 99.97% of particulate matter, filters gases and vapors.
Reusable P100s with 60926 filters and 604 exhalation filters: filters 99.97% of particulate matter, filters gases and vapors, filters exhalation.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: Did a Meta data center project taint key water supplies in the capital city of Wyoming? City officials say yes, Meta isn’t exactly denying it, and some residents are concerned a cover-up is afoot. One of the wildest stories I’ve reported for @heatmap.news hands down.
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Meta’s Bacterial Mystery Could Poison the Data Center Well
Water pollution in Wyoming has big implications for the future of data center development.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 24/06/2026
Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor has racked up more than half a million dollars in credit card bills without disclosing what it’s purchasing. And the campaign’s credit card spending has jumped dramatically in recent months. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/24/o...
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Ohio GOP candidate for governor has put $500,000 on the campaign credit card • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor has racked up more than half a million dollars in credit card bills without disclosing what it’s purchasing. And the campaign’s credit card…
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These Puzzles Fund Abortion @tpfa.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
While our Fund-A-Thon campaign has officially ended, you can still get access to the puzzles by emailing proof of donation to any abortion fund (suggested minimum $25) and sending it to us at [thesepuzzlesfundabortion at gmail dot com]
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s homophobic to send me emails in June.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
POWER TO THE PEOPLE x FIGHT THE POWER ✊🏾
Public Enemy joins an all star line up to fight the power
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Martin Luther be like
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A day after Mike Johnson and John Thune put out a joint statement declaring a "deal" to fund DHS, the Senate voted early today to pass its bill to reopen DHS and House Republicans... chose not to vote on it. DHS shutdown continues! www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...
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House Hesitates To Pass New DHS Bill Despite Agreement
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you RTd the news of Fobazi's passing, work in LIS, or have ever uttered the phrase "vocational awe", it's time to put your money where your mouth is. We owe her that much at least. Please donate.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Donate in @fobettarh.bsky.social's memory gofund.me/a84e9c2c7
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Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs
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PurpleSoul @purplesoullotus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is the pattern. Purchase/Take Over a media source that has informed the public. Then dismantle them to the lowest form: 1. Twitter 2. Meta 3. Washington Post 4. CBS-60 Minutes/News 5. Public Broadcasting 6. Tik Tok We are up to our necks in state run media.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Maybe because some of us care about other people, which is pretty inconceivable to a lot of empathy-free right-wingers? Though a lot of us aren't exactly mad; we're resolute in our commitment because it's not just one white woman being murdered; it's millions of BIPOC people being terrorized.
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I share this because protests, demonstrations, and activism are often messy and unsuccessful. Many may not end how people intend, especially depending on whom they're up against and the resources they have. But there's much to learn, even from failure, and failure can inform and grow a movement. /12
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
King about Albany: “The mistake I made there was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single and distinct facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing, and the people were left very depressed and in despair.” /10
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/06/2024
Please listen to me very carefully right now: Learn to take and celebrate small short wins, to build momentum and morale, or you and everyone you need to fight beside you will be burned out, demoralized, and demotivated before the next big opportunity comes along.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/01/2026
Do NOT argue with the cop about their probable cause. Let your lawyer do that later, it's what we're there for. - DO say "I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT." And then SHUT UP.
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.
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Call Trump's power grab in Venezuela what it is
Corporate media must recognize they're being openly lied to—and report accordingly.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 23/12/2025
Commentary: What a cop out. What a weak, disingenuous governor pretending to be helpless. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he didn’t want to sign another voter suppression bill into law before he signed a sweeping anti-voting measure into law last Friday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/23/w...
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Weak Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pretends to be helpless, and participates in another attack on voters • Ohio Capital Journal
What a cop out. What a weak, disingenuous governor pretending to be helpless. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he didn’t want to sign another voter suppression bill into law before he signed a sweeping…
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 23/12/2025
ABA is NOT the 'gold standard of autism care.' The lack of autistic staffers is showing here and with so many devastating Medicaid cuts to programs that serve children, focusing on a controversial one targeting autistics in this political climate is a loaded choice.
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It's the 'gold standard' in autism care. Why are states reining it in?
Budget shortfalls and nearly $1 trillion in looming federal Medicaid cuts have prompted states to rein in spending on a widely embraced autism therapy, pinching families who depend on the services.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 11/12/2025
Ohio lawmakers have sent a bill changing marijuana policy to Gov. Mike DeWine's desk, creating a slew of new criminal offenses, from buying weed in Michigan and bringing it back, to smoking in a public area. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/11/d...
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Did Ohio GOP lawmakers' marijuana reform just create a bunch of new crimes? • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio lawmakers have sent a bill changing marijuana policy to Gov. Mike DeWine's desk, creating a slew of new criminal offenses, from buying weed in Michigan and bringing it back, to smoking in a…
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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
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Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We at Portland Tennis Courterly are honored and humbled to feature the brilliant writing + brave reporting of @marisakabas.bsky.social in our latest issue. This is a reprint of her dispatch from the US Open, which first appeared in The Handbasket on September 8th www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-o...
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Why I had to see Trump at the US Open with my own eyes
Staring straight across the court at a fascist is bad for the soul, but certainly instructive.
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EPIC @epic.org · 05/12/2025
Here is what EPIC's AI and Human Rights team wants to see more and less of in 2026! Your support will enable them to continue to promote regulatory frameworks that focus on the real-world human impacts and harms of AI. Donate now: epic.org/donate
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
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What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I was with a panel of people who were all making good arguments about why AI will never replace this or that skill or job, so maybe we'll be okay, and I finally said to one teacher: "you can just say no. you don't have to use it. it steals from people and teaches no skills. it's not a good tool."
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2025
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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You Have to See This Mamdani Ad
I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
An important discussion on MLIS debt by @violetbfox.bsky.social 📜 📚
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On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog
I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We only need $140 more to fully furnish our second classroom with a host of awesome new books: www.donorschoose.org/project/book...
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Bookshelves, {Some} Banned Books, and {Lost} Books, Oh My!, a project from Mrs. Gall
Help me give my students new books to choose from in my classroom library! For years, books have been banned or challenged because of different or unpopular ideas. It is so important that students ...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 16/09/2025
huh. see, this actually looks like it’s remarkably easy to do. weird that very nearly every other federal-level democrat can’t quite figure it out. as ever, big fan of @katmabu.bsky.social
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 16/09/2025
2. email your senators, too. contact: reps.fyi you're a poster; you can do this. there are too many moving pieces to speak to on a call. they need to know we're watching & trans folks don't have a lobbyist on the hill. add either of these into the body of your email. ALL OF THIS MUST BE FOUGHT. 🧵
Trans healthcare bans are a part of HB 3944, HB 4016, HB 3838, SB 2296, HB 4213, HB 4779, HB 5342, HB 5304, and HB 5116. Provisions that end the legal recognition of trans people are part of HB 3838, HB 4552, and HB 5342. 

Sec 594 of HB 5342 is a prison ban that sees that no federal funding can be used to place an incarcerated person in a prison inconsistent with their "biological sex." Trans women should be housed in women's prisons regardless of surgical status, but there's not a carveout for women who have had bottom surgery— and having a vagina in men's gen pop may as well be a "here's who you rape" sign.

There are SOCIAL transition bans as part of HB 5342 and HB 5304. A provision to ensure trans and queer foster kids can be taken in by homes where they'll be forced to endure conversion therapy and abuse is part of HB 5304.

Bathroom bans are a part of HB 3838 and HB 5342. Despite House and Senate Democrats uniting as a bloc against transgender sports bans in January and February of this year (with the exception of the 4 notable and vocal House-D bigots), sports bans are a part of HB 3838, SB 2296, HB 5304, and HB 5342. 

Sections that even allow same-sex marriage discrimination appear in HB 4016, HB 4121, HB 4213, HB 4249, HB 4552, HB 4553, HB 5342, HB 4754, and HB 5304.

Are you getting the picture?House Bills 
3838 - Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
3944 - Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
4016 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
4121 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2026
4213 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
4249 - Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026 4552 - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2026 Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2026
4553 - Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
4754 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
4779 - National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
5116 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026
5304 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
5342 - Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

Senate Bill
2296 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 16/09/2025
so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵
Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown.

[you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt.

[you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't] 

Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it.

[you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't] 

I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/09/2025
For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the DOJ's threat to ban trans people from owning guns and how I unexpectedly found myself agreeing with the NRA for once. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Discrimination against trans people is bad—yes, even when it’s about gun control | Xtra Magazine
Trump’s proposal to ban trans people from owning guns is yet another way for conservatives to regulate trans lives
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/09/2025
For people in a state that is asking for a prescription, try a CVS MinuteClinic. Some MinuteClinic’s are getting around restrictions by having nurses on site who will give you a prescription during a visit. They ask to confirm if you are high risk but don’t ask for proof.
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MinuteClinic
Get quality care for your family at MinuteClinic with virtual or in-person appointments 7 days a week. We accept most insurance plans and offer affordable self-pay options.
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Chloe (she/her) @cmisorski.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Eternally impressed by @brimwats.com So grateful to have some of my lived experience included in this research. #critcat #critlib
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
This is Ms. Gaines’s intuition as an activist, too: If people accept the premise that transgender women do not belong in women’s sports, then they have conceded that transgender women are not fully, truly women.

As she sees it, more sweeping restrictions of transgender people flow from there, including the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states can ban gender-affirming care for minors and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s change of its eligibility rules to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.

“The gender ideology movement is a house of cards, and I believe it’s lying on that sports issue,” she said. “This will be the card that makes all of it crumble.”
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Chloe (she/her) @cmisorski.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention invites participation in a survey investigating potential impacts of the Library of Congress' omission of form subdivisions ($v) in subject headings. Please share! tinyurl.com/2792hbkn #critcat #critlib
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Feedback Survey about Form Subdivision ($v) Omission from Subject Headings
The Library of Congress announced in January 2025 that as part of a linked data-friendly “Modern MARC” cataloging practice, they will no longer include form/genre subdivisions (e.g., 600 $v, 650 $v, 6...
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We talk a lot about the black box problem in AI and not enough about AI as censorship.
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