Quick reminder of what hate does to you: Stephen Miller is only 39.
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So, heâs saying we need more migration?
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Wow. He made a really concise argument against ICE. Thanks, Steve.
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Yeah, intelligent, socially minded, progressive politicians who actually want to help the people theyâre elected to serve is the sort of society I want to live in, bring on the immigration.
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Speaking as someone who works in a library, with a nesting partner who actually has her MLS and has worked here for almost 30 years now, as long as we have librarians, we will fight to have these books and more. School libraries always have a tougher time of it, since by their very nature they have a lot more restrictions placed on them than public libraries, but reading material from the American Library Association (ALA) has always proven to be encouraging.
The ALA has a long history of calling out censorship and has not hesitated to call a fascist a fascist, unlike most of our media outlets. Itâs been years since information from ALA has said âwhat to do if this happened at your libraryâ and started saying when it happens instead. In some ways itâs depressing, absolutely, but thereâs still a ray of hope for me when they have articles about resistance and how to fight back in our official publications!
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Stephen Miller is the clearest warning yet that Republicans are friggin morons when it comes to money.
The combined GDP of NYC and LA would rank 22nd among US States and exceed the combined GDP of Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska, the Dakotas, and Montana.
If thereâs one thing streaming services have shown, it is that you do not fuck with librarians.
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Learned a new dog whistle from that. Itâs people saying they notice things like last names etcâŚ
For the lucky ones:
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The Ruby Ridge occupation and really a lot of the situation with the Weaver family was full of screw ups by the federal agents, but none of it had anything to do with ânoticing last names.â Randy and Vicki Weaver were not stable people and had loose ties to some white supremacists, but the various agencies involved bungled it so badly that itâs hard to know exactly what to believe about it.
I canât exactly have sympathy for the Weavers, but the investigators were responsible for the largest chunk of the harm here. (And again, it had nothing to do with the Weavers âknowing too much.â)
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Yeah⌠thatâŚ
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I noticed that episode.
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The cult?
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Oh yes. Weâve had them over here for quite a while now.
The sort of politics that may look appealing at the very first casual glance, but once you really look into it⌠oh dear.
Started out as the Europäische Arbeiterpartei (the European Labor Party) in the 1970s, active until the early 1980s.
Morphed into Patrioten fĂźr Deutschland (Patriots for Germany) during the mid 1980s and actually gained some traction in local level politics. Splinter parties made up of weird mixes of people who had dropped out of and/or were disappointed in the established parties (and didnât want to join the Greens) were the style at the time. But most of this sort of fizzled out after reunification in the early 1990s.
Currently morphed into BĂźSo.
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Just a quick update on the book issue- a couple months back the regular shipments of books Iâd been sending to a prison penpal for years were abruptly rejected, with the attached note saying the bookstore where I work and send the books from is âNot a legitimate bookstoreâ.
I called the prison multiple times, finally got an email address to send an inquiry to, and got a response saying theyâd look into it. Weeks later, no new responses. I sent a reminder asking for any kind of update. Dead silence. I sent another a few weeks later. Nothing. I finally sent one more telling them Iâd be contacting the ACLU if I didnât get a response soon⌠which I did not.
So I did contact the ACLU, asking for any help or advice they could give. Completely ignored, not even a boilerplate automated response in reply. Really not sure what to do at this point. The prison is violating her rights by refusing to allow her mail through, and nobody cares or will help.
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The only other thing I can think of is taking it to a local news outlet that does investigative journalism. That often lights a fire under people. That or maybe seek out a prison justice project of some kind?
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She is the editor of Das Hitler-Buch (1984)
I speak no German at all, but âDas Hitler-Buchâ sounds really, really badâŚ
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Well, buch = book, so trust your instincts on that one.
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Wouldnât be a proper Republican display of performative cruelty without a way to milk even more money from the cultists (how do they have any left??)
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