Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
Wounded elephant seeks help from safari lodge after being shot by poachers
IF YOU need further proof that elephants are highly-intelligent animals, this is it. Ben, an injured bull elephant - thought to be 30-years-old - gave staffers at the Bumi Hills…
Desperate Elephants Shot With Poison Arrows Travel To Humans For Help
Last month, a wild elephant and two of his friends were attacked by poachers. Wounded by poisoned arrows, they trudged across the African landscape to the one place that could…
Download 30GB of lost cassettes from the 80s underground
If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org has unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-80 into the mid-90s. According to…
Here’s the Pro-Palestine Speech the DNC Refused to Put on TV
Ruwa Romman, who is a Palestinian American and the first Muslim woman to serve in the Georgia House of Representatives, had hoped to give a speech on Palestine at the…
2 Delta workers killed in tire explosion at Atlanta airport
A tire of a Boeing 757 exploded early Tuesday during maintenance at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, killing two Delta employees and injuring a third, according to the company and local…
Cori Bush Is Leading the Charge Against the Comstock Act. The Man Who Beat Her in a Primary Doesn’t Seem to Know What It Is.
Wesley Bell could not answer Jezebel's questions about a 19th century anti-abortion law that Bush has called to repeal.
New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library
Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft…
Rug-of-War
For nearly thirty years, Afghani weavers have incorporated images of war into hand-woven rugs
Moving Towards Life
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism. In Jordan’s handwritten notes for her 1990 essay, “Intifada,…