Clarence Thomas is reprehensible and clearly should resign. He (and #Alito) are embarrassments to #SCOTUS!
“This is a shameless lifestyle underwritten for years by a gaggle of fawning #Billionaires,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wrote on Twitter. “Justices Thomas and [Samuel] Alito have made it clear that they’re oblivious to the embarrassment they’ve visited on the highest court in the land.”
#supremecourt #clarencethomas #samuaelalito #corruptcourt @HuffPost
https://bit.ly/45sSTFm
Notably, in that article the ALA says "The last time that state chapters withdrew from the ALA...was during the Jim Crow era after [ALA] said it would not host events in segregated states." That's not quite true. The larger truth is more complex & also includes ALA being slow to act and uncertain in how to act well.
I forgot I had written up a short history here. Link at the top of the page goes to sources.
https://www.librarian.net/talks/whiteness/whiteness/
Worth understanding how to not be doomed to repeat history.
My friend and colleague Emily Drabinski is the president of ALA at a time when there is a pretty serious culture war surrounding libraries. This is her first interview about what's been happening.
ALA's been decently supportive, but in my opinion not as supportive as they could have been, in part because they are managing their own image issues. I support ALA but also feel they could be better.
When I read all that's going wrong in the world, I feel like having a breakdown. But because I'm intersectionally oppressed, I feel like I'm not allowed to have a breakdown. I have to be strong. I have to ignore all my triggers, and expose myself to everything that causes me despair and stress.. because I have to be informed of what all the evil people are doing. But I can't take any more of this stress! I wanna have my breakdown! I wanna cry, and scream, and hurl my computer out the window! Then I wanna go play with my dolls, read a book that amuses me, and forget about how much the world sucks.
#GOP #republicans #kosa #police #transphobia #bigotry #scotus #slavery #nonbinary #triggers #blacktrans #sagaftra #musk #x #2024election #prolongedstressisbadforyourhealth #internet #america #somepeoplewannawatchtheworldburn #nihilism #heatwave #mentalhealth #atheist
This story by Zack Whittaker about the people behind TheTruthSpy stalkerware is amazing and you should read it:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/thetruthspy-stalkerware-forged-passports-millions/
The new version of @IceCubesApp with Tag Groups is already available! Huge improvement for the way I use #mastodon
And a tip for the icons: there are some secret ones that don’t get suggested (I wish Apple had an oficial API to list #sfsymbol )
Try “swift” and “applelogo” 😉
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