SnarkyL1brar1an

letting my inner book geek run free...

[rex-luscus]

Keep fighting, but take care of yourself first

USA followers, here is your daily reminder in this time of high political energy that it’s okay to take care of yourself. In fact, you must. Change is made by doing things, not by reading Tumblr posts and reacting to them emotionally. In fact, too much emotion can make us less able to act. So it’s okay to scroll past or blacklist important issues on your dash if you need to save your energy. Below are some tools people have designed to keep you informed and equip you for action without overwhelming you:

Daily Action Items for the Easily Overwhelmed

MyCivicWorkout: Emails you everyday with one thing to do

MegaVote: Emails you what your reps are about to vote on

The 65: We’re His Problem Now: Website with daily action items

Keep America Great With a Thing a Day: Website with daily action items

@call-your-representatives: Tumblr blog for same

Other Solid Resources

Call My Congress.com: A quick lookup to find out who your reps are

Indivisible: A Practical Guide For Resisting the Trump Agenda: Good info about the most effective kinds of civic action

Oh Crap! What Now?: A survival guide for living in Trump’s America

How to call your reps when you have social anxiety: It’s hard, so here’s a helpful, compassionate guide

How to throw a weekly anger party: Make calling your reps a group activity!

Being disabled in activist communities: Someone saying a thing many folks need to hear

News/Info Sources That Don’t Suck

Ballotpedia: The Wikipedia of American politics

Politico: U.S. politics news (read sparingly if you get overwhelmed)

Pro Publica: A nonprofit news outlet that does real investigative reporting

PolitiFact: Kind of a Snopes.com for politics

Remember: put on your own oxygen mask before helping others, y’all.

[snarkyl1brar1an]

This is so much awesomeness in one post!

[berniesrevolution]

[biglawbear]

Lawblr side of Tumblr, here. I don’t think anybody even understands how terrifying this is. If the Executive can ignore the Judiciary, then we have a full-on Constitutional Crisis on our hands. Our country immediately falls apart. The only options for enforcement of judicial orders are 1) U.S. Marshals (which are ordered around by the Judiciary but ultimately still a part of the Executive as part of the Department of Justice), in which case we have an ACTUAL ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, or if the Marshals refuse to comply, 2) the Governor of the state, say Virginia, sends in the National Guard of the state, which leads to AN ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN A STATE MILITIA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT In case you weren’t getting the picture, let me be blunt and dramatic: this is literally Civil War-level shit right here. And Trump has been in office a week. This is fucking terrifying.

[pdxjenni]

I spent the day at SeaTac (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport). We got very little done because CBP refused to talk to us at all. When one of the attorneys with us annoyed them so much that they finally answered their office door (she literally knocked on it for 10 minutes straight), they directed her to the press release on their website (side note: I don’t know if there even is a press release on the CBP website). They told her they don’t care how many attorneys show up, they don’t take orders from attorneys or judges. Senator Patty Murray showed up just after 4:00 & CBP refused to talk to her, too. I will repeat that: Customs and Border Patrol refused to talk to a sitting United States Senator. They refused other senators at other airports, too, according to a WaPo article I read earlier.

I had to return to Portland tonight because I have work tomorrow. ACLU & International Refugee Assistance Project attorneys will be back at SeaTac tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. (including my law school bestie, I am so proud). 

There were 13 people detained at SeaTac yesterday who were secretly transferred to a detention facility in Tacoma, so the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is working with attorneys to straighten that right out. 

Basically: Shit is going down, y’all. The women I went up with today? Both were Arabs. One was from Pakistan, the other was from Lebanon (a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew walk into an airport…). When I asked them if I was overreacting by feeling like this was a coup-in-progress, they said no. That’s precisely what this is.

I thought we had a coup-proof system. I was mistaken.

Keep fighting the good fight, lawyers. And if you’re in Portland, I’ll see you at Perkins-Coie tomorrow at 5:30 for the L4GG meeting.

[shinelikethunder]

At Dulles, CBP has been stonewalling four members of the US House of Representatives, the governer and attorney general of Virginia, and Senators Cory Booker (NJ) and Mark Warner (VA)–the latter of whom chewed out the head of CBP in person. No dice. Not even with a federal court order telling CBP at Dulles, only them, and them in particular to give detainees access to lawyers.

And they’re pulling an old trick from the national-security handbook that’s been used to evade the courts on issues like domestic surveillance: “Lawyers and advocates still didn’t know how many people were being held in the secondary inspection area at Dulles or what their immigration status was, which led to a catch-22: Attorneys couldn’t file for contempt of court without having proof that legal residents were being detained and not being given access to lawyers, but they couldn’t get proof without getting access.” (x)

At least two VA reps have found out (via friends and family) about constituents being detained at Dulles, at which point CBP released them in order to dodge the access-to-lawyers issue. The representative for my district is on the warpath–and also on the House Oversight Committee. Here’s hoping these fuckers get slapped with contempt of court so hard their ears ring, then get hauled in front of a committee hearing to see if they want to try their chances with contempt of Congress.

All of which doesn’t even get into the Monday Night Massacre clusterfuck inside the executive branch, when the acting attorney general of the United States refused to make the DoJ defend the lawfulness of the immigration order in court. And was summarily fired and replaced with someone more compliant. So here’s also hoping the Senate puts Jeff Sessions through absolute hell on his role in all this before they vote to confirm him as AG.

It’s like the civics lesson from hell.

[imperatorkhaleesi]

Yeah, I need a break, y'all.

[libraryadvocates]

The American Library Association strongly opposes any actions that limit free access to information, undermine privacy or discriminate on any basis. This includes the temporary suspension of visas and entrance to the US based on anyone’s nationality or religion as well as the increased scrutiny of any individual’s communication such as mobile phone and/or social media activity. “Our nation’s 120,000 public, academic, school and special libraries serve all community members, including people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities and the most vulnerable in our communities, offering services and educational resources that transform communities, open minds, and promote inclusion and diversity.   “ALA believes that the struggle against racism, prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination is central to our mission. We will continue to speak out and support efforts to abolish intolerance and cultural invisibility, stand up for all the members of the communities we serve, and promote understanding and inclusion through our work. “We will continue to speak out and support our members as they work tirelessly for access to library and information resources on behalf of all of their community members, while advocating for privacy, intellectual freedom, critical global research, information literacy, ongoing access to scientific research, and fair and equitable treatment for everyone.

Julie Todaro, press release “ ALA opposes new administration policies that contradict core values” (via libraryadvocates)

Took them long enough...

[snarkyl1brar1an]

"Between Michael Phelps and the Trump Tower climber, it’s been a hell of a news week for the suction cup industry." @gloriousclio I know you said you're bored with Phelps but this pic/caption combo made me laugh, maybe you will too.

[gloriousclio]

Watching the Olympics, cleaning up some fanfic. 

So many commercials. 

I’m bored with Phelps, talk to me. ;) Bring back the gymnasts! 

[snarkyl1brar1an]

Didn’t you hear, there have to be a lot of commercials cause women don’t watch sports; they shop... Getting bored with the sexism at the Olympics too!

[bhampublib-deactivated20180117]

[teesadutta]

[urietrouble]

OK this is cute

[fatpussygoddess]

Weird that this gif is the first time I’ve seen anything with HRC and felt that it was even remotely genuine.

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

Because as she said, she has to carefully craft her appearance or the media will tear her apart.

[feminismandhappiness]

If she dares show passion, raise her voice, make an angry expression, she’s hysterical and a shrew. (Women! So emotional and Irrational! Not capable of handling responsibility!) If she doesn’t show emotion, she’s robotic and not genuine. It’s misogyny, pure and simple. Hillary just can’t win.

[snarkyl1brar1an]

It’s amazing how far we still have to go with the way the media discusses women. All you have to do is listen to the incredibly sexist commentary at the Olympics to see another example of why HRC is so careful and comes across as fake or disingenuous.

[snarkyl1brar1an]

This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical

On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians t ...

I’m gonna preface this by saying I didn’t, and won’t read the original article. Additionally, I’ll think twice before looking at anything the Daily Beast posts from now on. That they allowed this to be released, especially online where it could have serious repercussions for the athletes is disgusting, disturbing, horrifying, bigoted, heinous, and so many other similar adjectives.

These amazing athletes who did nothing wrong, other than unknowingly meet with this hideous man may have to head home from these Olympic games prepared to deal with the fall out of his terrible, ignorant, and hateful acts. This honestly reeks of hate crime to me. I realize, legally, outing someone without their permission is not a crime but it should be, especially with the precarious position it put some of these athletes in, in their non-LGBTQ friendly countries!

WTF were that bastard, and his publishers, Daily Beast, thinking?!?!?

[librarianproblems]

WHEN A PATRON SAYS THEY’VE NEVER HEARD OF AN ITEM ON THEIR ACCOUNT, BUT I KNOW I CHECKED IT OUT TO THEM

[dailydot]

NBC and the Chicago Tribune are being blasted for their sexist coverage of female Olympians

The Chicago Tribune is receiving plenty of flack for a tweet it posted about Corey Cogdell, a trapshooter who won her second bronze medal in women’s trap on Sunday. The article itself now leads with Cogdell’s name, but on Twitter it led with her husband, Chicago Bears lineman Mitch Unrein, while Cogdell was only referred to as “wife of a Bears lineman.”

Some argued that the tweet contextualized Cogdell for the Tribune’s audience, but the tweet appeared online mere hours after Hosszu’s husband was applauded for her accomplishments, and it hit a particularly hard nerve with fans keeping up with coverage over the weekend.

But the Tribune’s reporting was only the beginning of the Olympic coverage that’s being criticized for sexism.

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[snarkyl1brar1an]

The most sexist moments at the Olympics — so far

There's even more to come!

So with the Olympic games underway we have been given another demonstration of of the rampant sexism prevalent in our media. The way the media has been referring to these female athletes (who have worked just as hard as their male counterparts to excel) and, the female Olympic viewers, is disturbing to say the least.

Speak up, speak out, and spread the word that this is NOT ok. Treating women as equals doesn’t diminish the successes of men but it does stop giving those that don’t deserve it the credit for the achievements of women. 

Here’s some additional articles to peruse, that are of a similar vein:

The Media’s Olympics Coverage Reminds Us Just How Taxing It Is to Be a Female Athlete

Women Are Crushing It At The Rio Olympics, But The Media Keeps Focusing On Their Husbands

The Media Are Saying And Doing A Bunch Of Sexist Stuff During The Olympics

[booksdirect]

Quote of the Week by Lemony Snicket 

[easylibrarian]

This is why I downloaded the Kindle app on my phone. I always have my phone, so I always have a book.

[snarkyl1brar1an]

As a series of wildfires raged locally I had the chance to catch a gorgeous, smokey sunset in eastern Washington along the Yakima River. (c) MBrouwer2016

[ebookfriendly]

Books let us aim higher and go further http://ebks.to/29uFpP5

[snarkyl1brar1an]

Books give all of us permission to dream!

[explore-blog]

Beloved Canadian writer and Nobel laureate Alice Munro turns 85 today. Here is her timeless wisdom on storytelling.

[snarkyl1brar1an]

This is a spectacular description of reading.

[ithelpstodream]

“There’s a scene, late in the movie, with Kate McKinnon, that made me feel like I’ve never felt at a movie before. (No, it wasn’t the vibrating chair talking, this was real.) I should confess: Some of this is personal. My favorite character, in any big action-ensemble movie, is always the demolitions guy: the mad scientist, the weapons expert, the damage-dealer, the one who just wants to see stuff blow up. I say “demolitions guy” because he’s always a guy; they never cast the mad scientist or gun nut as a woman. But in this movie, he’s Kate McKinnon.

So she gets the scene these guys always get, in a movie like this. She has a wonderful new toy. The film slows down. She starts moving, and sure enough, she just starts unleashing raw havoc everywhere.

Something in my chest opened up. This is it, I realized. This is the thing I never got to see before. The scene where the demolitions guy is a girl. I was right: It actually does feel different when it’s a girl. This must be how guys feel every time they watch one of these movies. This is it, the version that’s for me, the scene I always wanted, and it’s here.

I don’t know what that feeling was, or how to describe it. But here’s the best way I can: For all the talk about “childhoods,” I got exactly 30 seconds in that movie where I felt like I was 8 years old again. Except that it was better than being 8 years old. It was like being 8 years old would have been, if the world had been fair.

I didn’t realize the political implications until I was out of the theater. I didn’t realize that this was also an openly queer actress, playing a more-or-less openly queer character (and we could do with more “more” and less “less,” Sony), that it might have hit other people in the audience even harder than it hit me, and for that reason. I didn’t think about anything, except that a woman was getting the same big slo-mo blowing-shit-up scene a million guys have gotten, and that scene is awesome. I’ve always loved that scene. Women aren’t treated as a big boundary-breaking historic symbol of progress and equality, in this movie. They’re treated like people.

And then you go out into the real world, where thousands of people are trying to hurt Leslie Jones on Twitter, and everyone hates Ghostbusters again. The same world you went into Ghostbusters to escape. But you can escape it, for a little while, in that theater. There’s a reason we need movies like these, after all.”

– Sady Doyle, These Times

[snarkyl1brar1an]

I loved this movie, and this particular moment too!!! I hope the repercussions of the extreme awesomeness reverberate through the film industry. Kate McKinnon’s Holtzmann is my HERO!!!

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via jwoodham)