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All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025
All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
n.pr
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
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Dozens of foreign nationals are locked up in Venezuelan prisons, accused of crimes they may not have committed. As the U.S. ramps up pressure on Caracas, families fear for their loved ones stuck there.
As U.S. pressure mounts, Venezuela's foreign 'hostages' face growing uncertainty
Dozens of foreign nationals are locked up in Venezuelan prisons, accused of crimes they may not have committed. As the U.S. ramps up pressure on Caracas, families fear for their loved ones stuck there.
n.pr
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Dozens of foreign nationals are locked up in Venezuelan prisons, accused of crimes they may not have committed. As the U.S. ramps up pressure on Caracas, families fear for their loved ones stuck there.
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The one thing I've taken from reading the classics and the past week is the need to live a life worth mourning
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The one thing I've taken from reading the classics and the past week is the need to live a life worth mourning
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Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
September 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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Just going to leave this here in case anyone says we have to put aside our differences with Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just going to leave this here in case anyone says we have to put aside our differences with Charlie Kirk
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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March 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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When bricks were drying in the sun thousands of years ago near the Tigris and Euphrates, I often wonder who wandered among them. Brickmakers? Yes. Dogs? Sure.
Kids? Maybe every once in a while, as it might have been a child who left behind a footprint on this particular mud brick.
Kids? Maybe every once in a while, as it might have been a child who left behind a footprint on this particular mud brick.
February 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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BREAKING: 10,000 grocery store workers will launch a massive strike Thursday.
King Soopers’ workers, unionized with the UFCW, will shut down 77 store locations in the first big strike of Trump’s second term.
King Soopers’ workers, unionized with the UFCW, will shut down 77 store locations in the first big strike of Trump’s second term.
February 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
BREAKING: 10,000 grocery store workers will launch a massive strike Thursday.
King Soopers’ workers, unionized with the UFCW, will shut down 77 store locations in the first big strike of Trump’s second term.
King Soopers’ workers, unionized with the UFCW, will shut down 77 store locations in the first big strike of Trump’s second term.
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Great to see this!
(And much of the time 'naughty' behaviour in young children is typically a normal developmental element, and 100% does not require physical or other forms of violence/punishment to deal with)
(And much of the time 'naughty' behaviour in young children is typically a normal developmental element, and 100% does not require physical or other forms of violence/punishment to deal with)
Note: England, Northern Ireland, and Belgium are the only three countries in Western Europe where it is legal to beat your children for being naughty.
Bravo @jessasatomp.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social and all the MPs backing reform.
humanists.uk/2025/01/23/m...
Bravo @jessasatomp.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social and all the MPs backing reform.
humanists.uk/2025/01/23/m...
MPs propose to ban hitting children in England
Humanists UK welcomes a cross-party amendment to abolish hitting children tabled by Labour MP Jess Asato to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. This comes at a time when the NSPCC has recorded ...
humanists.uk
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great to see this!
(And much of the time 'naughty' behaviour in young children is typically a normal developmental element, and 100% does not require physical or other forms of violence/punishment to deal with)
(And much of the time 'naughty' behaviour in young children is typically a normal developmental element, and 100% does not require physical or other forms of violence/punishment to deal with)
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In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
I’m sorry but vitamins sound fake
January 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
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If it talks like a ____, if it salute's like a ____, then it's a ____
January 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If it talks like a ____, if it salute's like a ____, then it's a ____