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- Reposted by Blank Verso Books@sanders.senate.gov and the minority staff on the Senate HELP Committee did not come to play in advance of RFK Jr.'s testimony before the committee tomorrow. RFK Jr. and his entire team are a disgrace. www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom...
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksPoisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksSome sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksSo if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
- “President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation” bit.ly/43amMei
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksEvery book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
- Reposted by Blank Verso Books"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksOne glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksThe entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr. NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.
- Reposted by Blank Verso Books"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksAOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
- Reposted by Blank Verso Booksyeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksIf only we had an entity—call it “Congress”—that could exercise oversight over out-of-control, so-called “law enforcement” agencies that are acting in illegal and authoritarian ways. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksTrump's EO calls for military and national security "assets" to be deployed on American streets to assist with law enforcement, and for the prosecution of local officials who talk about "DEI stuff" like the history of racist police violence. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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- Reposted by Blank Verso Books“How much injustice will Americans take? Has the arrest of a judge crossed a line you cannot tolerate? How about the taking of three small American children out of the country in the middle of the night without due process? Have we crossed the Rubicon yet?” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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- Reposted by Blank Verso Books10/ Keep in mind that Patel—the most lawless FBI director in agency history—only took about 60 days on the job to arrest a judge for actions she took in her own courthouse. Those of us who have been saying that Trump is moving toward autocracy at blinding speed should repeat that admonition today.
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksA colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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- Reposted by Blank Verso Bookslove how destroying regulators, corporate oversight, corruption enforcement, international diplomatic consistency, environmental standards, consumer protection, public safety standards, the rule of law, all democratic norms, and the social safety net just don't enter into wall street deep thinking
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksElected and appointed officials in America are actually questioning the merits of Due Process. Just needs pointing out where we are. Shocking.
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksThe FDA is said to be preparing to end most of its routine safety inspections, so…
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksYour friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
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- Reposted by Blank Verso Books"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News
- Reposted by Blank Verso Books“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksReminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.
- Reposted by Blank Verso Books“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksShout out to Berine, to AOC, to Corey Booker, to Jamie Raskin, to Chris Van Hollen, to Jasmie Crockett, to Chris Murphy and a few others... When you show you are willing to fight for us, we will rally behind you! Keep it up! This moment calls for fighters, not career "politicians" #FORTHEPEOPLE
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksSanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksYour regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
- Reposted by Blank Verso Booksimportant context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
- Reposted by Blank Verso Booksrepublicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksBREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksAdolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
- Reposted by Blank Verso BooksAmbassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
