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The Eccentric Librarian

@eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social
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Weird librarian and crafty person. Coffee and tea loving queer person. Fight fascism. Free all oppressed peoples. End all wars. Profile picture used with permission from the artist: Jolly Lady Shark.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/08/2025
'Make America Healthy Again' means eating French fries fried in beef tallow and drinking water that gives you cancer, apparently
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will begin phasing out its operations, following Congress’s recent decision to revoke previously allocated federal funding. CPB said it is initiating an “orderly wind-down” after nearly six decades.
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Mels @meloroma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I posted this on Tik tok and was requested to share on other platforms. Feel free to share it, make stickers, or prints. My only request is that my signature and water mark not be edited or erased, as this is my original artwork.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Baby otter doing baby otter stuff!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity. There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Government-sanctioned racism. Don’t even try to pretend it isn’t that.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Do not let up on this Epstein list not only because orange dude is on it, but because anyone on it is a predator and those victims still deserve justice.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A notice sent to State Department employees said 1,107 Civil Service workers and 246 Foreign Service officers will lose their jobs under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s reorganization plan. Several offices focused on human rights, democracy, and refugee issues will be shut down.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Protest today!
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NPR @npr.org · 05/07/2025
UPDATE: Flash flooding slammed the Texas Hill Country overnight on Friday. At least 27 girls from a summer camp next to the Guadalupe River remain missing.
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At least 27 dead in catastrophic Texas flooding and dozens missing from girls camp
Flash flooding slammed the Texas Hill Country overnight on Friday. At least 27 girls from a summer camp next to the Guadalupe River remain missing.
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Josep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
An Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle this afternoon in the town of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, in yet another violation of the ceasefire agreement with the country.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm 💯 with Corey
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C-Bo the Eggman @cbotheeggman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The so-called party of “limited government” and “Don't Tread on Me” just voted to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to create a domestic police state.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible.
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"In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter,
J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing:
Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Of the nearly 100,000 people ICE has kidnapped since January, 8% had violent criminal convictions. More than 60% had no criminal history at all. Out of almost 100,000 people.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack: Powerful documentary exposes Israel's deliberate targeting of medics - www.middleeasteye.net/discover/gaza…
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack: Powerful documentary exposes Israel's deliberate targeting of medics
Expertly produced by award-winning filmmakers, the documentary goes to great lengths to fend off potential attacks by pro-Israel advocates
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I still can’t get past this headline.
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I will NOT be celebrating.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
At least 92 Palestinians killed in Gaza Strip on Thursday - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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At least 92 Palestinians killed in Gaza Strip on Thursday
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Which is making America great again: (1) the contracting economy; or (2) the concentration camps?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"In the morning, #Israeli warplanes struck a humanitarian aid distribution warehouse in the Zeitoun neighborhood of #Gaza City, killing 10 Palestinian civilians... ...several Palestinians were killed... in an airstrike targeting displaced people in Shuja’iyya..." imemc.org/article/gaza... #Israel
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Gaza: Dozens Killed, Injured, In Ongoing Israeli Bombing Of Gaza
On Monday, Day 632 since the beginning of the genocide and Day 103 since its resumption, Israeli occupation forces continued bombing and shelling various pa ...
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I’m feeling lost. I haven’t written poetry for years, but this spilled out of me tonight, so…yeah. To the people of Palestine: I see you. I love you. There are so many of us who are trying to help. And we won’t stop. But I know it’s not enough. #palestine #gaza #poetry #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza
Text from the image (my poem for the people of Palestine):

What more can I do?
All of this pain, this suffering 
And for what?
“Self defense! Self defense!” the aggressors cry
Starving children, burning schools,
an entire people being erased
And the world watches.
Mothers beg, children cry, fathers weep.
No milk for babies as they shrink ever smaller.
But an abundance of food, medicine, water
lies just out of reach, held hostage 
by those who rejoice at this devastation.
Those who could stop this hell, they do nothing.
They side with the beasts of war, of desecration.
Around the world, we SCREAM,
demanding an end to these atrocities 
but our cries mean nothing to the powerful.
We beg.  Demand. Scream. Protest. Give.
We who care, who love, will not be silent.
But still, it is never enough.
Their blood still flows through the land.
What more can we do?
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white “Only caring about your own right is exactly how you lose them”.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This is absolutely fucking disgusting.
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is absurd. We are all in trouble.
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
…I don’t even know what to say about this…
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I'm attending US Campaign for Palestinian Rights's event, “The Encampments (Living Room Edition)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/uscpr/event/...
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The Encampments (Living Room Edition) · US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
Are you ready to take the next step to fight repression and campaigns for Palestinian liberation with your community? Join Watermelon Pictures and USCPR in hosting your own living room screening of Th...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
CUOMO CONCEDES… ZOHRAN MAMDANI WILL BE THE NOMINEE…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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The Eccentric Librarian @eccentriclibrarian.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
YES. Good.
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Home - ICE List
The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.  The ICE List is an open journalistic pro...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Federal agents thought they could stay at LA-area hotels. Communities are trying to make sure they can’t
When federal agents checked into a Pasadena hotel, they didn't expect hundreds of protesters and a day laborers’ band — now the tactic that kicked them out is spreading across LA.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Congress didn’t just lose its power it gave it away. On war, trade, and policy, lawmakers have willingly let the executive branch rule unchecked.
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#gaza #israel #palestine #london #berlin #activism #iran Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London and Berlin on Saturday calling for an end to the war in Gaza, amid concerns that the Iran-Israel conflict could spark wider regional devastation.
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Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian marches in London and Berlin
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London and Berlin on Saturday calling for an end to the war in Gaza, amid concerns that the...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Debbie Rua @debbierua.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Indivisible Hawai’i Statewide Network @indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Israel kills 51 in past day, bringing Gaza death toll to 55,950 - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israel kills 51 in past day, bringing Gaza death toll to 55,950
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