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Just met with some lovely folks who until recently worked at USAID and their implementing partners. Moving, heartbreaking, and enraging to hear the long-term impacts and wasted potential of our sudden, chaotic abandonment of global health aid.
March 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Why doesn’t President Biden use his SC gifted immunity to override Judge Cannon order and release Jack Smith’s report? What’s he saving it for?
January 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Getting a library card has been life changing. I've finished 10 books since October, all for free 📖 go support your local library!!
December 20, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live

— Nikki Giovanni
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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In case you didn't know, librarians are educated professionals with a master's degree and don't just willy nilly buy any old books for their libraries.
December 8, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Soon I will have to say goodbye to this book that has been my companion and driving force for the last three years. Strange to imagine days without it, but it’s nearly time for it to no longer be mine so that it can become yours.

I sure hope you like it.
December 2, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.

They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .

Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM
So we’re doing introductions! I’m a former children’s books editor at Booklist, the review journal of the Am Library Association. Also a writer: This Boy: The Early Years of John Lennon & Paul McCartney and a picture book, The Golden Rule. (Not sure the prez-elect has heard of it).
November 11, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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The library board “fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are ‘inappropriate.’ The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action.”
We all stand against book bans in theory, but 4 librarians in Prattville, Alabama lost their jobs standing against them. Please join me in donating to the GoFundMe that will help them make ends meet in this tough time.

Show me a receipt, I'll give you a compliment

www.gofundme.com/f/protect-pr...
Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons, organized by EveryLibrary Institute NFP
The Autauga-Prattville Alabama Library board has fired the lib… EveryLibrary Institute NFP needs your support for Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons
www.gofundme.com
April 5, 2024 at 8:09 PM