Logging off for a month to work on A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW only, a huge gift. (I’ll pop in a few weeks from now, though, when a big story I spent the last few months on goes up.)
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all I can say about my absence is I'm glad twitter has "still got it"
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Princeton Antifa conspiring to disguise themselves as MAGA & cause a ruckus when T****p is perp-walked in NYC
tomorrow. Almost unbearable excitement.
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(logging off again to go.... write a book some more xx)
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Wanting to get connected with people who are fighting back? Libraries for the People's website just launched with resources for you: librariesforthepeople.org
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I spent the last few months immersed in the right's attacks on public libraries—how library workers are fighting back and how you can join them. The resulting feature is on the cover of the April TNR, and online now: newrepublic.com/article/170920
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"It’s not enough to defend a title. You have to defend the library, the work of defending intellectual freedom. That includes defending the people doing that work. By the time you’re forced to defend a book from a ban, it’s too late."
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"To win, then, it’s not enough to defend a title. You have to defend the library, the work of defending intellectual freedom. That includes defending the people doing that work."
Libraries are public infrastructure that build and sustain #NarrativePower at the community level.
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What gets really right here is that it's collective power, library workers organizing together, that offers the best hope for clawing our public institutions back from the forces that would decimate them.
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"we don’t suffer from a lack of popular support. we suffer from a lack of popular power."
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I spent the last few months immersed in the right's attacks on public libraries—how library workers are fighting back and how you can join them. The resulting feature is on the cover of the April TNR, and online now: newrepublic.com/article/170920
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In many towns and cities, the free public library remains the only true third place—a space open to anyone and meant for everyone, from all parts of the community.
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Libraries are targeted “because we are trusted institutions and trusted members of our community,” President Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada () told .
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The Times has corrected itself on the record re: Bazelon's use of "Patient Zero" as detailed in our letter nytletter.com
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The New York Times has added an editor's note to June 2022 @emilybazelon magazine story titled "The Battle Over Gender Therapy." The note addresses objections to the use of the term "patient zero" in the history of gender-affirming care. nytimes.com/2022/06/15/mag
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Latest additions to getreadystayready.info: 2) Conservatives Are Trying to Ban Books in Your Town. Librarians Are Fighting Back. Powerful addition to the Recommended Reading page proposing a way forward! newrepublic.com/article/170920
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'libraries are targeted “because we are trusted institutions and trusted members of our community.” The book bans are a proxy...a tool to undermine libraries as public entities.'
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For book banners, it was never just about the books.
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This is an excellent piece. The topic is important and also very near to my heart as a Michigander who grew up loving libraries (homeschooled by conservative Christians, libraries were the only place I could access the outside world).
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“Public libraries are one of the only places left, [the youth librarian] Hunter reflected as we watched children browse and play, where they aren’t treated “like people with a lesser amount of rights.””
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absolutely love this piece by for describing the book banning frenzy as a *labor issue for librarians* something a lot of non library news coverage has elided!
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this piece covering library worker organizing against right wing attacks is soooo on point newrepublic.com/article/170920
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is hosting organizing meetings for library workers around the country to build community power against our current hostile environment. They are invite-only for security reasons but you can join our mailing list as one step to find out more lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/
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Library worker Angelo Moreno says it perfectly - “We don’t suffer from a lack of popular support. We suffer from a lack of popular power.” This idea motivates 's current work hosting local events organizing library workers. Next tweet tells you how to get involved.
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this piece covering library worker organizing against right wing attacks is soooo on point
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Will leave you for now with this quote from library worker and organizer Angelo Moreno: newrepublic.com/article/170920
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Defunding the library was “reminiscent of what happened with community pools during the Civil Rights Movement." White people, faced with sharing those spaces with black people, “chose to fill them in [with cement] and deny access to everyone.”
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"You have to defend the library, the work of defending intellectual freedom. That includes defending the people doing that work. By the time you’re forced to defend a book from a ban, it’s too late."
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If you'd like to get plugged into organizing efforts to support libraries and library workers, I highly recommend this virtual event on 3/21:
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My endless thanks to the library workers in Michigan who hipped me to everything they are seeing (including many who could not be named), from the homophobic and transphobic harassment you have heard about to the mass community support for them in the face of it all.
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I spent the last few months immersed in the right's attacks on public libraries—how library workers are fighting back and how you can join them. The resulting feature is on the cover of the April TNR, and online now: newrepublic.com/article/170920
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(n.b. I logged back in just to look at the emails/see what torrent app ppl were using these days)
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If this website is still here in a month—see you then
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good morning
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Even if Ron DeSantis were to fail in his run at the White House, taking comfort in that loss would be like offering Floridians a Mickey Mouse Band-Aid for an already septic wound, @melissagira writes. on.tnr.com/3ZzHzV3
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this poll is framed as whether or not DeSantis is more electable than Trump but what it really tells me is that his stunts have not been nearly as effective in gaining people's attention as Trump's, even though they come with inherently greater liability morningconsult.com/2023/02/13/des
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She was unmasked due to the work of a coalition of antifascist researchers, including from , , , , and .
They first published their work on the great
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. cites an interaction between brandon russell, who faces charges for allegedly plotting an attack on the baltimore power grid, and humber as they discuss an audiobook with instructions on how to commit terrorist acts.
more on russell: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023
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. on dallas humber, whose propaganda lionizing white supremacist terrorists as "saints" and inspired an attack in slovenia.
she collaborated with atomwaffen division founder brandon russell, on whom and i recently reported.
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Me: oh so these are like big firms who pro bono help out an abortion fund once in a while
Them: 🐣
Me: my mistake
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Brings to mind my immediate, naive confusion re: a conference on abortion criminalization including corporate liability issues—not to help providers navigate (say) legal issues w anxious big corporate vendors, but how Name, Name, and Another-Name can protect those corporations
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There are law firms with names and addresses making a lot of money advising these guys on the most conservative path to avoid liability and I would love to know those names and addresses
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BREAKING: Walgreens confirmed to @politico that they will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal. The decision follows pressure and threats of legal action from GOP AGs and anti-abortion groups.
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The video’s release comes amidst weeks of controversy over the Times’s coverage of trans life.
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