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Joan Ellison
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Singer of the Great American Songbook & loving restorer of Judy Garland's orchestral arrangements, living in Shaker Heights, Ohio 🌈
#KeeperOfTheFlame #RetroMusic #Symphony #OldHollywood #CleanAir
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I'm so excited to finally be able to announce this one! This coming July, I'll be making my Irish debut with the wonderful conductor Niall Kinsella!! Can't wait!! 🍀🌈
WEXFORD, 18 July: www.nationaloperahouse.ie/.../get-happ....
DUBLIN, 19 July: www.nch.ie/.../get-happ...
#judygarlandconcert #gethappy
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This is an example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
#VintageFood
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Cleveland Public Square Voting Booth (1890). Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery.
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the living and the spirit world. The beginning of the darker half of the year. The light this morning was lovely shortly after sunrise here in Glastonbury. #samhain
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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New column up at @thr.com where I offer a history of the Committee for the First Amendment, then and now.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Working on a column about the newly resurrected Committee for the First Amendment. Here are some essential reads that can inform this moment. #nowreading #history #politics #firstamendment
October 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Breaking News: A hard-fought international treaty to protect ocean life, decades in the making, cleared a final hurdle. It allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.
Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle
The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.
nyti.ms
September 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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In 2021, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day. https://to.pbs.org/47isJrb
Educators reflect on the significance of teaching about 9/11
For their first assignment of the school year, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day.
www.pbs.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable happened. Amid the smoke and chaos, New York’s first responders ran toward danger with unwavering courage.

343 @FDNY, 37 @theportauthority_ny_nj, and 23 NYPD lives were lost that day—and many more still suffer from its toll.

Their bravery lives on.
September 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Classic SESAME STREET is coming to YouTube.

With new shows airing on PBS the same day they debut on Netflix, there will soon be multiple ways to watch the show for free — while also expanding reach via the 2 most dominant streaming platforms.

www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #SesameStreet #TVSky
Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform
YouTube and Sesame Workshop have agreed to a new deal that will bring full episodes of Sesame Street to the platform.
www.engadget.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates.

The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students, for example, return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots.
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to school
COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that th...
www.latimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Financial support from people like you has long been a pillar of public media. Now, your support is essential.

If you’ve already given — thank you! Here are a few comments from supporters like you.

If you haven't given yet, click here to keep free, independent journalism strong: n.pr/458sOhq
August 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr. Just Pulled Its Funding.
mRNA Vaccines Are a Game-Changer—Here’s Why
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
www.scientificamerican.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (1949) — 4:00 pm ET — 1h 43m
(Summer Under the Stars: Judy Garland)

Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall; directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.

#TCM #TCMParty
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
www.tcm.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/29/c...
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be ver…
www.themarginalian.org
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Your attention:
CPB winds down January 2025
Your local NPR & PBS stations survive with your contributions.
If "Tiny Desk" and "Finding Your Roots" and "PBS Newshour" are important to you, They Need Your Money Now.
Don't be wringing your hands about what's lost when you have the chance to save it.
August 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM