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@ratczarina.bsky.social
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 11h
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Only made it halfway through the new Different World on Netflix I'm glad all these beautiful Black people got jobs but what genre is this supposed to be? Is it a comedy with no jokes or a drama with nothing dramatic happening?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.
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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NYC All Targets are giving away free baby/kid stuff as part of a promotional event Only 1 per person, but still - wipes? Diapers? Baby snacks? Get some for free!!
A small table with wipes, chocolate milk, diapers, and packages of healthy toddler snacks
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gonna need a cinematic adaptation of this stat
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really gotta delete my meta accounts (my social life will suffer tho!) futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Man Says Meta's Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
A man complains Muse gave out his address and sent a stranger to his home after letting the AI handle his Facebook Marketplace account.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“Attorneys for the observers say that DHS’s efforts have had a chilling effect on their First Amendment rights.”
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In January, Ramirez introduced a standalone bill to abolish ICE and redirect its funding to safety-net programs that can help people navigate the spiraling affordability crisis. truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org
The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum
As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can’t decide if I can stand to watch this www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
theguardian.com
The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’
Film-makers Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s new short is an unvarnished portrait of ICE-occupied Minneapolis
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today I’m staffing the self check out area at the internet’s least favorite retailer and if I never post again, know that its because I didn’t survive
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Such a small ask. Please contribute and share.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A protest organized by @jvp.bsky.social has just blocked traffic on First Avenue at 39th Street to protest today’s speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politely reminding people about *right wing* infighting, which the internet doesn’t spend nearly as much time laughing about www.wflx.com/2026/04/16/s...
wflx.com
Some Moms for Liberty leaders resign, claiming group’s focus has shifted to donors and Donald Trump
Former members of Moms for Liberty are speaking out, claiming the Florida-born organization is plagued with infighting, membership turnover, and leadership focused more on photo ops with Trump
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Week 3 of job at internet’s most hated retailer I think the secret to success in retail is to be a 19 year old who doesn’t give a shit and does everything wrong I bring my 40 yr old sticktoitivness to this like I do everything and I am burning the fuck out
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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Six families have lost someone they loved at the hands of federal immigration agents. TODAY at 3:30 PM ET, Congress will listen to their stories and hold DHS accountable. Join us in bearing witness, because these families deserve to be heard, and they are not alone: facebook.com/SenBlumenthal/
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“It’s rude when NYCers complain about transplants” If your main concern isn’t the displacement of Black NYers, go fuck yourself
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 20/09/2026
NEW: Tues 9/22, Sen Blumenthal & Rep Garcia will hold their 5th public forum on DHS abuses with witness testimony from family members of Ruben Martinez, Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, & Johan Durán Guerrero—who were all fatally shot by federal immigration agents
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In the breakroom, overhearing my coworkers who are in their early 20s, talk about Jennifer's Body - nature is healing
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looking for media representation of librarians In MLS school, the Parkey Posey classic Party Girl has been mentioned several times, and some assigned reading mentioned Kathryn Hepburn's Desk Set (1957) I'd love to know if there's more!
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At my awful new job at the internet’s least favorite retailer, I learned that they’ve lost 10mil more in theft per year since adding self checkout And are “developing technology” to ensure ppl pay at self checkout My guy, we have the tech - it’s called a human employee
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can’t remake what was already perfection
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/09/2026
I got to ask some repro health and law experts to help make sense of what's going on with legal challenges to mifepristone—and what's next (non-spoiler: more attempts to expand abortions bans across the country)
newrepublic.com
The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States
In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But they want the same thing.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had to read this for homework (in library school) and it was excellent and you should read it too Author Fobazi Ettarh was a queer Black librarian and PhD student who sadly passed earlier this year www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
“Salvadorans were the first immigrant group granted temporary protected status (TPS), initially in 1990 to those fleeing the country’s civil war, and again in 2001 after two massive earthquakes.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
TPS expires for an immigrant group shielded from deportation for decades
Immigrants from El Salvador were the first group granted temporary protected status. The Trump administration has been canceling it for scores of immigrants fleeing war and disaster.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🧶🧶🧶 😃😃😃 !!! gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
gothamist.com
Brooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft library
Cardholders can borrow tools and kits.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Brian was born in Denver, but he was pulled over by a Texas state trooper, handed over to Trump’s goons, & deported to Mexico. No one is deserving of ICE’s ongoing rampage against our immigrant & refugee neighbors - including those of us who were born in the U.S.
usatoday.com
Born here but deported. A Texas man's harrowing ordeal.
A traffic stop in Texas landed Brian Morales García, a U.S. citizen, in immigration custody. After he was deported to Mexico, a lawsuit helped bring him back.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/09/2026
did some reporting on a new tool that shows you how much union-busting campaigns cost employers. it's a lot! prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
prospect.org
How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"This was someone who ...did all of the following: oppose the war in Vietnam, quash a resolution proposed by anti-Zionist feminist women at the UN, attempt to prevent the decriminalization of sex work, march alongside Dolores Huerta and the UAW, join the DSA, and campaign for Hillary Clinton"
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Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Started working at the internet's least favorite retailer this weekend and I am fucking exhausted
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A note: the highway/expressway question should include an option for I Don’t Drive as an answer, immediately identifying the respondent as a NYer mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
mydialect.us
Standard Language Quiz — Dialect Map Quiz
Take the Standard Language Quiz to see your regional US speech profile on an interactive dialect map. Based on the Harvard Dialect Survey.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m learning I’m not the only one at grad school for a second time Forget a literacy crisis, we’ve got a crisis of over education and unemployment
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Never come back
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm so unsettled by the pro-AI sentiments of one of my classmates I have to calm down by listening to some great, informative media Beyond Back to Normal podcast with Ejeris Dixon, episode with Marisa Franco www.fascismbarometer.org/podcast-epis...
fascismbarometer.org
Beyond Back to Normal with Marisa Franco — The Fascism Barometer | Podcast and Learning Hub hosted by Ejeris Dixon
Ejeris sits down with organizer, strategist, and Mijente co-founder Marisa Franco for a layered conversation about Latino communities, rising fascism and authoritarianism, and the political failures t...
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CNN @cnn.com · 02/09/2026
New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. cnn.it/4iGlH79
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.”
lamag.com
LAUSD Bans Students From Using AI on School Devices
LAUSD has blocked about 378,000 students from accessing generative AI tools on district-issued laptops and tablets.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A fellow MLS student appears to be pro AI, how is this possible
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
sex trafficking panics have always been about criminalizing a racialized other
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is my first week of library school and I will be joining the fight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds
PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I hate to admit that random social media celebrity chatter has some use to me But when someone I only know as an actor, and a good one, has a history of terrorizing the public with ignorant racist nonsense, I appreciate that being brought to my attention!
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just rewatched with my friends' parents so am recommending again But don't watch before bed bc you will wanna stay up for some amateur internet sleuthing
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just finished and damn, I am feeling fucked up wwnorton.com/books/978163...
wwnorton.com
The Dead Are Arising
WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY • WINNER — 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION • TIME Magazine — 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 • A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and Editors' Cho...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/08/2026
we simply don’t need to pay guys to do this to us
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The number of misdemeanor arrests citywide are up 22% for the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2019... the number of people locked up in City jails has been steadily growing again since 2021, from an average population of 4,921 that year to 6,714 people this June"
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Zohran Mamdani's Policing Looks a Lot Like Eric Adams's Policing
Advocates confront yet another mayor apparently committed arresting lots of people on low-level charges.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Gullspang Miracle on Kanopy - highly recommend! (Though I’m tempted to fly to Norway to solve the case myself)
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
theappeal.org
Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.
The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Black women in Chicago and elsewhere are disproportionately criminalized for it [self defense], even when they are demonstrably victims of domestic violence fighting back against their perpetrator" spitfirenews.com/p/keshia-gol...
spitfirenews.com
How the state punishes victims who kill their abusers in self-defense
Three Black women in Chicago were unjustly charged with murder. Their outcomes prove vast systemic failures.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
Always keep this in mind when people tell you that abolition is just a roundabout way to excuse abusers.
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Cheese Queen @ratczarina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I feel bad about how many organizing/volunteer roles I’ve left in my life But I had to quit this books-to-prisoners thing I’ve been doing cause the coordinator expressed gross + stigmatizing attitude about incarcerated/formerly incarcerated people
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