This week's Rage & Softness

here’s what made me rage and what kept me soft this past week

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Without further ado, here’s what made me rage and what kept me soft this week:

Rage:

Reading:

This is really heartbreaking/enraging: Growing Up in Climate Chaos—interviews with teens who have had their lives uprooted due to climate disasters.

I’m honestly tired of take after take of people wondering what caused the Dems the election (it’s not hard to figure out the MANY things), but this article about how Dems ignored public health was spot-on.

Testimony begins in Idaho case filed by women denied life-saving abortion care—I’m glad women filed this lawsuit, but it shouldn’t have to happen.

I hate this: Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize: “The Project 2025 blueprint for the next Trump administration sets its sights on two crucial public institutions: libraries and higher education. Librarians show up on page 5—targeted for their support for LGBTQIA+ reading—while dismantling the Department of Education, eliminating student loan programs, and restricting what can be taught about gender, race and class feature throughout the document. But even as academic librarians live in dread of what will happen to their libraries after January 20, many of them are also already facing termination now.”