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🔥 The beacons are lit; the library calls for aid

The Trump administration has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services - the ONLY federal agency for America's libraries.

Using just 0.003% of the federal budget, the IMLS funds services at libraries across the country; services like Braille and talking books for the visually impaired, high-speed internet access, and early literacy programs.

Libraries are known for doing more with less, but even we can't work with nothing.

How You Can Help:

🔥 Call your congressperson!

Use the app of your choice or look 'em up here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Pro tip: If your phone anxiety is high, call at night and leave a voicemail. You can even write yourself a script in advance and read it off. Heck, read them this post if you want to.

Phones a total no-go? The American Library Association has a form for you: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

🔥Tell your friends!

Tell strangers, for that matter. People in line at the check out, your elderly neighbor, the mail carrier - no one is safe from your library advocacy. Libraries are for everyone and we need all the help we can get.

...Wait, why do we need this IMLS thing again?

The ALA says it best in their official statement and lists some ways libraries across the country use IMLS funding:

But if you want a really specific answer, here at LCPL we use IMLS funding to provide our amazing interlibrary loan service. If we can't purchase an item you request (out of print books, for example) this service lets us borrow it from another library and check it out to you.

IMLS also funds the statewide Indiana Digital Library and Evergreen Indiana, which gives patrons of smaller Indiana libraries access to collections just as large and varied as the big libraries' collections.

As usual, cutting this funding will hurt rural communities the most - but every library user will feel it one way or another. Let's let Congress know that's unacceptable.

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We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.

A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .

C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.

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If you’re a terf unfollow. This blog is supposed to be safe and educational for all kinds of people. You’re not welcome here, and you’re not welcome to interact with my content or comment on it to share it within your own spaces. Obviously this applies to more common hatefulness like nazis and racists too.

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Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, using the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

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hang in there. here’s some good news.

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Took this from Instagram because this is urgent US folks.

You need to call and email your reps no matter if you live in a red or blue state. This cannot be allowed to pass.

It will prevent anyone who has ever changed their name from voting (including their last name)

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You guys can talk all the shit you want but I love the cursed Tubi ads and I wouldn't mind looking at the flesh monstrosity every day for the rest of time.

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Preventing Avain Influenza at your farm via the USDA

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THEY COME IN BLUE????

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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The police and ICE have been crawling all over the Save Alot near Jefferson some are in unmarked vehicles. I would avoid the area

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Locals who need to know. ICE was seen on Cherokee street about an hour ago so they are prowling around please be aware and tell who needs to hide.

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hey chat did you guys know there's a whole website with informational videos on the rights you hold when interacting with ICE or witnessing interactions with ICE. all written by immigrants and for immigrants. idk man it'd be a shame if people watched these informational videos y'know.

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Really needed this

feeling like maybe the americans need to hear this for once (and let me know if i'm saying it nicely) america isn't the whole world.

thailand legalised same sex marriage. most of the world is doing an excellent job of acting on climate change, and we're projected to warm no more than 2.5 degrees now. the EU has been working hard to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and is doing a great job. bhutan continues to absorb more carbon dioxide than it emits, and so does tasmania. here in brisbane, queer people of faith have been coming together in queer worship nights, meeting similar people, and accepting themselves, ready to reconcile it with their faith and question the crumbs of christian nationalism that permeate from the US. they're planning to build high speed rail between sydney and newcastle too, and a new inland link between brisbane and melbourne. kakapo have been saved from extinction over in aotearoa (new zealand). solar and wind energy generation are at an all time high. vegan meat alternatives taste the best they ever have. autism speaks shut down in canada, and awareness is rising very quickly about adhd in women, the pda profile, and neurodiversity and disability in general. they've invented a blood test for endometriosis. it's not all bad news

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It was never about the tiktok ban

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