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Social worker to help library defuse crises
This is awesome news for anyone who cares about people. Police don’t have to be the point of contact for those of us in need, and librarians aren’t necessarily trained for this.
The bright side of a Moon
This is awesome news for anyone who cares about people. Police don’t have to be the point of contact for those of us in need, and librarians aren’t necessarily trained for this.
Leanne Brown offers a free PDF cookbook based around the idea of eating well for around US$4.00 per day, coincidentally the rule of thumb for providing SNAP benefits to low-income Americans.
John Scalzi calls out those who are trying to describe the Charleston terrorist’s actions as anything but racist.
Not that there probably still aren’t people who are willing to try to pretzel themselves into arguing it’s something other than racism or racial hatred. So, you know, again, and to be clear: If you are arguing that a white man who clearly held racist beliefs, going into a place where he knew he would find black people, waiting an hour in pretend fellowship with them, announcing he was there to shoot black people, shooting them while spouting racist comments at them while they begged him to stop killing them, reloading several times, and then when arrested declaring that the reason he was killed all those innocent people was to start a race war, wasn’t motivated by racism and racial hatred,
a) you are so very laughably wrong;
b) you are being as racist as you can possibly be.
This is Portland at its best: two guys start providing free phone calls as a lark, and then discover that it can actually change lives.