@Xfbxtwit

If this child was strong enough to survive colonization, land theft and reservation internment — then white kids should be strong enough to learn about it in school.

Her name was Katie Robideaux (Sicangu Lakota) — J.A. Anderson photography, 1898

- Lakota Man

@Xfbxtwit

If she was strong enough to survive this — then white kids should be strong enough to learn about it in school.
- Lakota Man

Bans books in Florida about baseball greats Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron. Why? Because Fascist Ron DeRacist wants to erase Black people and their contributions from America.

Patricia Bath became a pioneer in the treatment and prevention of blindness - https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_26.html #BlackHistoryMonth #Medicine

Wildebeest is a new project from Cloudflare that’s designed to make it easier for individuals to set up and run their own Mastodon-compatible servers(takes MINUTES to connect to fediverse)

Today we're introducing Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud.

#OpenSource #CoSoTech

https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-wildebeest-the-fediverse-on-cloudflare/

If you still don’t feel a sense of white hot fury that #Republicans are salivating at the chance to shred #SocialSecurity and #Medicare, please consider this. How would you ever pay off your student loans, buy a house, start a business, put your kids through college, pursue your hobbies, or retire if your parents - and maybe your in-laws too - were fully dependent on YOU for their housing, living expenses, and medical care and expenses. #Politics

If you use iCloud Keychain on iOS or Mac as your password manager, here's a way to put a shortcut on your desktop or menu bar to make pulling it up easier.
https://rmondello.com/passwords-shortcut/

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RIP David Crosby

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Deja Vu

https://youtu.be/YCs6Tpd5sFQ

#CoSoMusic
We are Stardust, We are Golden...And We've Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden

Crosby Still Nash and Young

https://youtu.be/8rLmBZ5t28k

Just in case you didn't already know this, I figured I'd share it here on #MLKDay ...

Julia Roberts’ father owned a theater school in Atlanta and one day Coretta Scott King called to have her children enrolled. She wanted to find a safe place for her children to attend. Roberts’ family and the King family soon became friends. In 1967, #JuliaRoberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia and when her parents couldn’t afford to pay the bill, the Kings paid it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/actress-julia-roberts-reveals-an-unlikely-connection-to-martin-luther-king-jr-180981054/

#BlackHistory

#Union

Republicans and the Congressional Workers Union.

“We’re not going to stop”: Staffers are undeterred by Republicans’ union-busting efforts.

By Li Zhou

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/12/23550922/house-republicans-union-busting-staffers-118-congress

#Libraries

(many good links in this.)

Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks

Efforts by governments and cities across the nation to defund the public library indicate a misunderstanding of the essential role that libraries play.

By April M. Short

/nosanitize

https://independentmediainstitute.org/publisher-portal/?article_id=11388

Twin Towers during the Christmas Season, 1995.

Note the "Peace on Earth" Sign