Fatemeh Fakhraie 🧿

Everyone, no matter where they live, what they look like, or who they love, deserves to see themselves and their experiences in books—in bookshops, schools, & libraries.⁠
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Reading helps us understand ourselves, our world, & one another.⁠

Make no mistake: They’re going to keep kidnapping as many people from as many communities as they can for as long as we let them.

Evergreen comment from @xylage.bsky.social

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

Tweet from user '@quadcarl_carl' reads, "Imagine being afraid of diversity but not a dictatorship."

Here is where MAGA has gotten us to.

Tell Congress to protect library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

It's officially #TakeActionForLibraries Day!

To celebrate and advocate for libraries and library funding, we want every library lover to make their voice heard today.

Head to ala.org/showup to take action by calling or emailing Congress, writing a letter to your local newspaper, and more!

Avelo Airlines is hiring 'energetic, highly motivated' flight attendants to work deportation flights Officials in Avelo Airlines' home state of Connecticut said they would review business deals the airline has with the state, including tax breaks.

My family takes Avelo flights at least a few times a year.

Southwest is looking really good now. #boycott

www.businessinsider.com/avelo-airlin...

A belated Eid mobarak, dear heart!! 💓

Going off social for Ramezan, my friends. Take care of yourselves and each other, and get into good trouble. 💓

"Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan he's 'not a Nazi' and the online hate he gets is 'pretty stressful" [by] Grace Eliza Goodwin Feb 28, 2025, 11:01 PM CT

hold the line

Get all your vaccines and shots. Make sure your kids are vaccinated. Priority number 1, folks. Not even trying to joke about this or be hyperbolic.

This is also a VERY useful stat sheet for calls tomorrow reminding your members of Congress how many voters they just voted to fuck over in favor of billionaires.

It’s not any government institutions

It’s not the 2026 elections

It’s us.

It’s up to us.

This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent, but also who gets deputized to do what.

I wrote about the very violent, very public detention of a woman for interrupting a speaker at the Kootenai County Republican’s town hall on Saturday. In Idaho, the lines between Republican politics and political violence are thinner than they are in some places; this is a terrifying escalation.

I just did this. It took 5 minutes. If you want protection against DOGE fucking with your data, do this now.

Hmm, would be pretty wild if a bunch of people started making viral Facebook AI slop posts for boomers that casually spread leftist messaging...

In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

Call your reps. Take to the streets. Cut off all ties to businesses, friends, and neighbors who support these fascist monsters. Buy only what you need. Care for those you love. Rage against the dying of the light.

So does this mean Trump is running a black site at Guantanamo? If not, what is this?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

“I, too” by Langston Hughes

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

Best thing I've read all week. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Oh this is so delicious.

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...