#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Project 2025: Because nothing says 'freedom' like the government telling educators what they can and can't teach. Orwell would be proud. #AcademicFreedom #BreakingNews #WTF #ClownShow #BigBrainTakes #ICYMI #Fail #Project2025
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/project-2025-project-esther-university-crackdown-plans-00272750

Over $6 trillion was wiped from Wall Street. But hey, at least Trump's keeping his promise to 'drain the swamp'—of money. #EconomicChaos #BreakingNews #WTF #ClownShow #BigBrainTakes #ICYMI #Fail
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-06/trump-tariffs-are-here-to-stay-video

#ICYMI: I wrote about the White House's scary claim that federal courts are powerless to order the government to bring back individuals who have been unlawfully removed from the United States, and the judicial decisions pointing entirely in the other direction: www.stevevladeck.com/p/138-abrego...

138. Abrego Garcia, Constructi...

#ICYMI: James Rodden, a North Texas #ICE prosecutor who the Observer revealed also operated a white supremacist account on the social network X, has drawn both public protest and condemnation from a sitting member of Congress. https://www.texasobserver.org/congressman-veasey-ice-response-racist-x-account/

#ICYMI from my #blog: "Being a librarian who reads books helps me help students better"
https://simplelibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/being-librarian-who-reads-books-helps.html

Just one of those short random thoughts I write about once in a while.

#ICYMI

The 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats maps out the digital infrastructure deployed by foreign actors, mainly by #Russia and China, to manipulate and interfere in the information space of the EU and partner countries.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/3rd-eeas-report-foreign-information-manipulation-and-interference-threats-0_en

#ICYMI, Ben Sargent on our looming Constitutional Crisis ...

More from Ben and Loon Star State: https://www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-star-state/

#ICYMI from my #blog: "Ostara Spread 2025."
https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/ostara-spread-for-2025/

Happy and blessed #Ostara for those celebrating.

#ICYMI: If the voucher bill were to pass, select private companies could soon be reeling in tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year. We took a closer look at who stands to gain the most.
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-vendors-millions-legislature/

#ICYMI

Fiona Hill: "Many times when #Putin and #Trump are interacting, Putin’s actually making fun of him. It’s just completely lost in the translation... And he [Trump] doesn’t do a readout afterwards."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fiona-hill-donald-trump-putin_n_67d3d4d0e4b0c55eb8c0bcf0

#ICYMI: A transgender prisoner held in solitary confinement reports on the growing usage of Tasers against the most vulnerable of the incarcerated in #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/

#ICYMI: What if you could have coffee every Saturday morning with Dorothy Woodend and other friends who tip you off to what’s current in arts and ideas?

Our free Weekender newsletter is here. ️

https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2025/02/24/Look-Lively-Weekender-Newsletter/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

So I've been using this DIY bag I made the other week loads and I still love it, there's probably a couple of changes I'd make on a next iteration, the front pockets could do with some kind of closure, velcro, zip, or even just a button... If you're wondering what I am waffling on about I also blogged about this project a while back! https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/02/edc-bag-diy-sewing-project.html

“Because of Rodden’s explicit bigotry and racism, he cannot be trusted to properly exercise his discretion.”

#ICYMI, three U.S. House members demanded an investigation after the Texas Observer revealed a top ICE lawyer also runs an explicitly white supremacist X account. https://www.texasobserver.org/investigation-ice-prosecutor-racist-x-account/

#ICYMI new on my YouTube channel: "End of the Road: an Under 5 Review."
https://youtu.be/wAlprojns8c?si=3on8RdAXwgwhJEtm

#Under5Reviews: where I tell you in 5 minutes or less about a book and help you decide if you want to read it or not.

#books #reading #reviews #ItinerantLibrarian #BookReview #vlog #Bookstodon

@bookstodon

#ICYMI, an update on the #ICE lawyer with a fascist X account: Following the Observer’s reporting, three U.S. House members have demanded accountability, while James Rodden still appeared on an ICE court schedule this week.

https://www.texasobserver.org/investigation-ice-prosecutor-racist-x-account/

In case you missed it: The annual donation project of the @maxplanckgesellschaft supports a new research project at @mpi_grav in Potsdam. It will combine gravitational waves and gravitational lensing into a novel method for exploring the Universe.

https://www.aei.mpg.de/1227766/with-einstein-on-crooked-paths

https://www.mpg.de/annualproject2024