Julie Johnson
@julielib.bsky.social
Book lover, retired librarian, European, wife, mother, Nan and great Nan.
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Trump halts funding for promising HIV vaccine research one week before scientists were to begin clinical trials
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US aid cuts halt HIV vaccine research in South Africa, with global impact
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history̵...
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July 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Trump halts funding for promising HIV vaccine research one week before scientists were to begin clinical trials
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
May 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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It can't be all doom and gloom. So each day we try and intersperse our resistance with pictures and words of encouragement.
We can do this
We just have to maintain a positive attitude and keep at it.
To that end
Someone somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
We can do this
We just have to maintain a positive attitude and keep at it.
To that end
Someone somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
April 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
It can't be all doom and gloom. So each day we try and intersperse our resistance with pictures and words of encouragement.
We can do this
We just have to maintain a positive attitude and keep at it.
To that end
Someone somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
We can do this
We just have to maintain a positive attitude and keep at it.
To that end
Someone somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
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Another unvaccinated child has died from the measles in Texas.
There are over 600 cases in the US right now.
Letting children die to a completely preventable disease is absolute insanity.
There are over 600 cases in the US right now.
Letting children die to a completely preventable disease is absolute insanity.
April 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Another unvaccinated child has died from the measles in Texas.
There are over 600 cases in the US right now.
Letting children die to a completely preventable disease is absolute insanity.
There are over 600 cases in the US right now.
Letting children die to a completely preventable disease is absolute insanity.
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It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
April 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
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Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it.
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it.
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
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I want my government to be boring and competent enough so that I don’t have to think about it every goddamn minute.
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I want my government to be boring and competent enough so that I don’t have to think about it every goddamn minute.
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Libraries are essential for many communities. But funding for them is constantly being reduced, and we are losing these places of knowledge.
Our libraries are under threat
Libraries are essential for many communities. But funding for them is constantly being reduced, and we are losing these places of knowledge
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April 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Libraries are essential for many communities. But funding for them is constantly being reduced, and we are losing these places of knowledge.
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️
March 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️
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This petition calling on the Government NOT to make cruel cuts to benefits that will force more people into poverty now has almost 65,000 signatures.
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
NO cruel cuts to benefits
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now.
act.38degrees.org.uk
March 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This petition calling on the Government NOT to make cruel cuts to benefits that will force more people into poverty now has almost 65,000 signatures.
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
Let’s make it 100,000 this weekend. It only takes a moment to sign🙏
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
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🚨This is such an important and powerful video. Please do watch it and consider joining the @dkms-uk.bsky.social stem cell register if you can. It’s simple & easy to do. Just hit this link 🙏❤️
dkms.org.uk/Stefanovic
dkms.org.uk/Stefanovic
March 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨This is such an important and powerful video. Please do watch it and consider joining the @dkms-uk.bsky.social stem cell register if you can. It’s simple & easy to do. Just hit this link 🙏❤️
dkms.org.uk/Stefanovic
dkms.org.uk/Stefanovic
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Trump fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday, gutting the government office responsible for conducting oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
March 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trump fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday, gutting the government office responsible for conducting oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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As @trusselluk.bsky.social point out with at least a year before these cruel cuts come into force there’s still time for the government to rethink. You can help the call for the government to change course by emailing your MP now using this tool👇
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...
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Cruel cuts to disability support: the Prime Minister needs to hear from your MP
Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government is making huge cuts to disabled people’s support when they’re already three times more lik...
action.trussell.org.uk
March 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As @trusselluk.bsky.social point out with at least a year before these cruel cuts come into force there’s still time for the government to rethink. You can help the call for the government to change course by emailing your MP now using this tool👇
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...
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🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol
Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget
westenglandbylines.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
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That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
March 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
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The arrogance, the delusion, the entitlement… the horror! 😱
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters says that he finds it offensive that Canadians don't want to be taken over by America as everyone wants US citizenship
March 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The arrogance, the delusion, the entitlement… the horror! 😱
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It’s #InternationalWomensDay2025 right after #worldbookday2025 which feels right. I am who I am because of books. #SavePublicLibraries
March 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s #InternationalWomensDay2025 right after #worldbookday2025 which feels right. I am who I am because of books. #SavePublicLibraries
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In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
March 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
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Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
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It's why I'm petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads in the UK , to halt these companies so flagrantly greenwashing their dirty reputations for financial gain – add your name now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
petition.parliament.uk
January 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's why I'm petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads in the UK , to halt these companies so flagrantly greenwashing their dirty reputations for financial gain – add your name now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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An escape room but it’s just your nice warm car with your favorite songs on shuffle and the actual world is outside
January 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
An escape room but it’s just your nice warm car with your favorite songs on shuffle and the actual world is outside
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Financial Times reporting Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election
The government needs to wake up & start taking this seriously before it’s too late
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The government needs to wake up & start taking this seriously before it’s too late
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Musk discussed ways to oust British PM Starmer before next election, FT reports
Billionaire Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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January 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Financial Times reporting Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election
The government needs to wake up & start taking this seriously before it’s too late
www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...
The government needs to wake up & start taking this seriously before it’s too late
www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...
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I am planning on visiting 300 libraries in 2025 - here is one of my library poems #libraries #poetry @britishlibrary.bsky.social @librarian.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I am planning on visiting 300 libraries in 2025 - here is one of my library poems #libraries #poetry @britishlibrary.bsky.social @librarian.bsky.social