NYC, 1919: Perched on a towering pile of donated books, a librarian calls from a megaphone to request more book donations for American troops stationed in France. The American Library Association’s campaign sent up to 55,000 books each month to military camp libraries.

via Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.40926/

#archivespelunking #books #bookstodon

the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

#fuckAI

Hoping for the survival of this wonderful and sacred place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/trump-sattitla-highlands-protection-threatened

[NYTimes-Gifted]:Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Set to Debate Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/29/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.YIoe.wCVCGaxLE54y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#budget #deficit

California Republican David Valadao sent a letter politely pushing back on ICE’s abductions of immigrants w/no record.

But it’s his _vote_ that’s actually going to matter when the MAGA Murder Budget gets back to the House. It would turbocharge the brutal abductions we’ve seen👇🏽

https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/latino-house-gop-members-oops-you?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios

I live in a rural deep red county in a deep red state. Recently a small local Hispanic church invited people from other local churches. They said they wanted support from the local community as many of their members are scared.

I went. In fact, so many people showed up that guests by far outnumbered regulars.

This has never happened here before.

Religious or not, red state or blue state, there are people everywhere that care. Even in the deepest of red places.