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Pissed-off immigration attorney details ICE abuses and lawlessness.

Antifa - my grandfather (on the left). Landed at Utah Beach, then Battle of Hürtgen Forest.

They have identified the person in charge of escalators at the UN:

You can check out the Boston Public Library’s unbelievable Special Collections in person at the newly renovated reading room: www.bpl.org/special-coll... We’re also working to digitize even more of these treasures & make them searchable & accessible from anywhere in the world. @bpl.boston.gov

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

😐 So ICE can get student loan forgiveness...

🚨One more time. Terror never ending. It’s 20:30. Air raid alert sounds in Lviv.

Stop.paying.fed.taxes.📢 nwtrcc.org

COMMENTARY: It takes a great country to admit its mistakes. The Trump administration's new signs at Colorado's National Historic Sites reflect weakness and insecurity.

Beretta and ammo made of chocolate.

Just returned from Ukraine, totally inspired by their innovations.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Found in collection - time for a reprint?

Read anything by legendary peace builder Paul Lederach: “the moral imagination requires the capacity to imagine ourselves in a web of relationships that includes our enemies; the ability to sustain a paradoxical curiosity that embraces complexity without reliance on dualistic polarity”

Just a gentle reminder that @lakauffman.bsky.social wrote this amazing book called "Direct Action" in case you are wondering what to do when established political parties do not represent your interests www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...

Boston Public Librarians have set up a whole lot of rad zines to borrow! @timdevin.bsky.social look what I found!

Happy day at Tesla Boston.

Boston shows up.

Observing a lot of “we’re complying”, “we’ve taken down”, “we’re no longer serving these records”, and fear among librarians and archivists. It’s time to build emergency alternatives to protect historic records from being censored and protect access.

Friends and colleagues: if you have work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federal infrastructure, please find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). works.hcommons.org

Artist: Jesse Duquette

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

www.project2025.observer

Have fun! Make your own map. gulfof.mapquest.com

The people wrecking our country right now. Publicly available information.

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

Featuring collections that illustrate the power of the people. Anti-war protest, Boston, 1971. Boston Herald Traveler Photo Morgue, Arts Collection, Boston Public Library

Collecting work that defines our present, for the future. William Evertson, Capitol Offense. Woodcut. Boston Public Library, Arts Department

Heads up, Massachusetts, we've got an M4L style bill to get our representatives to oppose early and loudly. Screenshots from how I found out about this and the poster. Link to bill filing: malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD... Find your rep: malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...

John Cleese on #Extremism youtu.be/WsweqAHBNpU

Theatre kids………..the time is now, the day is here From Antifa by @mark-bray.bsky.social

in times of disaster, you'll notice that the most valued items are objects of personal significance - from a treasured recipe written on paper, to family photo albums. These reorient people who are disoriented by displacement. #nonaturaldisasters

Credit: Trent Sizemore Photography

“…another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”)… This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.””

A beautiful cause! https://gofund.me/1f5941d1 #filmisnotdead #blackowned #heritagepreservation

Wonderful to meet photographer Hrair Hawk Khatcherian, who has spent over 20 years documenting exquisite Armenian manuscripts and the monasteries in which they were created. He’s photographed 5,000 manuscripts, many of which might be considered “survivor objects”. Hymnal, ca. 1500.

In short, there are real reasons for concern about the destiny of Artsakh monuments, should they be abandoned in the Azerbaijan territory, as this despotic state is currently not in a good shape to take care of another folk's heritage. Sadly, propaganda works. www.rferl.org/a/churches-a...

h͎e͎l͎l͎o͎, from a quiet corner of the library.