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📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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We’re a DECADE into this and y’all still refuse to accept that the world you knew pre-2016 is never coming back.
And that world was fucking trash too.
And that world was fucking trash too.
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We’re a DECADE into this and y’all still refuse to accept that the world you knew pre-2016 is never coming back.
And that world was fucking trash too.
And that world was fucking trash too.
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I’m all for family togetherness but all six of you don’t need to go grocery shopping together on a busy Saturday afternoon.
September 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m all for family togetherness but all six of you don’t need to go grocery shopping together on a busy Saturday afternoon.
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Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.
July 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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POLITICS IS NOT A SPORT. YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO COVER POLITICS LIKE IT'S ALL A BIG GAME.
"Trump is at the top of his game right now," says our Capitol bureau chief and senior Washington columnist Rachael Bade.
Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
ow.ly/XJWA50WkI3k
Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
ow.ly/XJWA50WkI3k
July 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
POLITICS IS NOT A SPORT. YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO COVER POLITICS LIKE IT'S ALL A BIG GAME.
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Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.
July 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.
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We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
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Yes, he's polling poorly, but he still has the power to do what he wants. If we want to stop him, we must *build the power* to do that. Sadly, we cannot disapprove our way out of fascism.
June 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Yes, he's polling poorly, but he still has the power to do what he wants. If we want to stop him, we must *build the power* to do that. Sadly, we cannot disapprove our way out of fascism.
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You know what’s deeply frustrating and exhausting about this?
Black folks are always being prop up as the educators and the ones expected to fight, dismantle, and carry the moral weight of America’s conscience, while still being stereotyped, dismissed, or actively harmed.
Black folks are always being prop up as the educators and the ones expected to fight, dismantle, and carry the moral weight of America’s conscience, while still being stereotyped, dismissed, or actively harmed.
Seems like today would be a good day for Barack Obama to give a fiery, inspirational speech. Or just say anything.
June 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
You know what’s deeply frustrating and exhausting about this?
Black folks are always being prop up as the educators and the ones expected to fight, dismantle, and carry the moral weight of America’s conscience, while still being stereotyped, dismissed, or actively harmed.
Black folks are always being prop up as the educators and the ones expected to fight, dismantle, and carry the moral weight of America’s conscience, while still being stereotyped, dismissed, or actively harmed.
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The complication with asking major national Dems or past Dem presidents/ candidates to say anything now is that they too actively expanded the reach of ICE + the militarization of law enforcement + endorsed crackdowns on protesters.
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The complication with asking major national Dems or past Dem presidents/ candidates to say anything now is that they too actively expanded the reach of ICE + the militarization of law enforcement + endorsed crackdowns on protesters.
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lol gentle reminder to anyone who needs to hear this:
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
June 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
lol gentle reminder to anyone who needs to hear this:
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
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The quiet part is getting really loud. People were okay with all of this when the targets were darker than a paper bag.
They attacked us with dogs. Blew kids down the streets with fire hoses, lynched, raped, murdered, …. sprinkled us with crack! Like get the fuck outta here with this “we’ve never seen this before” bullshit!
June 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The quiet part is getting really loud. People were okay with all of this when the targets were darker than a paper bag.
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I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.
May 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.
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Putting it behind a paywall is intentional when the show itself and the network were created as a result of there being limited access to educational programming in underserved communities.
New episodes of “Sesame Street” and library episodes will be available to watch on Netflix worldwide
'Sesame Street' Streaming Rights Head to PBS Kids, Netflix
The streaming rights to Sesame Street are going to Netflix and PBS Kids. This news comes after HBO and Max ended their deal in 2024.
www.thewrap.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Putting it behind a paywall is intentional when the show itself and the network were created as a result of there being limited access to educational programming in underserved communities.
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🧵 @baltimorebeat.bsky.social matters because we are thoughtful about not only what stories are told, but who is telling the story. Here’s a few examples of reporting you won’t see anywhere else in the city.
May 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🧵 @baltimorebeat.bsky.social matters because we are thoughtful about not only what stories are told, but who is telling the story. Here’s a few examples of reporting you won’t see anywhere else in the city.
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Some of the cruellest people I've ever met have been religious leaders, police officers, teachers, and doctors.
A police officer pursuing me romantically bragged about murders he's committed.
You think felons, people with the least amount of power in society are the ones who are really fucked up?
A police officer pursuing me romantically bragged about murders he's committed.
You think felons, people with the least amount of power in society are the ones who are really fucked up?
May 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some of the cruellest people I've ever met have been religious leaders, police officers, teachers, and doctors.
A police officer pursuing me romantically bragged about murders he's committed.
You think felons, people with the least amount of power in society are the ones who are really fucked up?
A police officer pursuing me romantically bragged about murders he's committed.
You think felons, people with the least amount of power in society are the ones who are really fucked up?
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Picked up a few books for Independent Bookstore Day.
April 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Picked up a few books for Independent Bookstore Day.