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MolllyT
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Retired RN from Midwest
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...
Should You ‘Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever’?
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November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The bill to reopen the gov will enable the crucial work of the Library of Congress to continue, but we still need to secure funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as the National Archives.

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Statement on FY2026 "Minibus" Funding for the Library of Congress
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November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries.

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I Believe in Libraries.
EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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BREAKING!

Delaware officially enacted House Bill 119, the Freedom to Read Act, yesterday.

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A Win in Delaware! HB119, The Freedom to Read Act, is Now Law
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September 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The one crime Trump doesn't seem to have a problem with? Domestic violence. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The one crime Trump doesn't seem to have a problem with? Domestic violence.
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I can't claim 100 percent [reduction in crime]," the president said Monday.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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This overlooked lifestyle change could be hurting your brain
August 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/b... via @statnews.com
Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives
Breaking: The Gates Foundation said it would commit $2.5 billion through 2030 to support women’s health initiatives, its largest funding commitment ever to the issue.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and Artifacts  hyperallergic.com/1030562/fire...
Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and Artifacts
Among the structures destroyed was a building housing the Creativity Center, where community members learned to sew, bead, and make traditional patchwork.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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July 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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The Death of the Public Library
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The Death of the Public Library
Public libraries are in decline not because of the internet or because people are reading less, but because they have become de facto homeless shelters, writes Zac Bissonnette.
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July 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Pub Jun 12, 2025
#QuestionofGuilt by @sally.rigby.author #DetectiveSebastianCliffordBk7 @stormbooks_co #crimefiction #Englishmidlands #privateinvestigator #murderinvestigation #localLEOs #coldcase
#corruption #excop #greed #bookbub #goodreads #librarything #thriller #bookshop_org #bookshop_org_uk
May 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Severe flooding in Australia
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Met Museum Surrenders Artifacts Thought Looted From Iraq www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/a...
Met Museum Surrenders Artifacts Thought Looted From Iraq
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May 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Why We'd Rather Cancel Gay Penguins Than Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Trainwreck
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Why We'd Rather Cancel Gay Penguins Than Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Trainwreck
A Case of Paranoia, Jealousy, and Misinformation
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May 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try
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Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try
Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive handwriting.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Veterans, Women and Civil War www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Soldiers, Women in Military and Civil War
The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.
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March 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...
The Hot Place to Be Seen for Young Indians: Book Festivals (Gift Article)
From beaches to hilltops, young people are driving a boom in literary events as they read more in India’s dozens of native languages.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I would have enjoyed it more if it had been TTS enabled. Hope this comes out in audio!
#OperationFirefly #MaxVoroninBk1 @lgwilderbooks @ibpa #revenge #thriller #corruption #russianmafia #NetGalley @goodreads @bookbub @librarything @barnesandnoble**** @booksamillion @bookshop_org @bookshop_org_uk
March 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Alabama Senate approves bill requiring adult-size changing tables in public buildings alabamareflector.com/2025/02/28/a...
Alabama Senate approves bill requiring adult-size changing tables in public buildings • Alabama Reflector
The Alabama Senate passed a bill requiring powered, height-adjustable adult-size changing tables in new or renovated public buildings starting in 2028.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books
February 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar stateline.org/2025/01/07/l...
Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar • Stateline
Amid a national rise in book bans in school libraries and new laws in some red states that threaten criminal penalties against librarians, a growing number of blue states are taking the opposite appro...
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January 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Avail Feb 04, 2025
#ILoveMeFromAtoZ by Emily Lauren Dick @Familius @CBCBook #PositiveSelfImage @EmilyLaurenDick @Illustrated #Rhyming Illus Mimi Moffie #NetGalley @goodreads @bookbub @librarythingofficial @barnesandnoble @waterstones ***** #Review @bookshop_org @bookshop_org_uk @childrensbookcouncil
December 14, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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#Wuhan by Liao Yiwu Narrated by Ernest Reid Translated by Michael M. Day #NetGalley #DocumentaryNovel #China #PostHypnoticPressAudiobooks #Politics #Epidemic @goodreads @bookbub @librarythingofficial @barnesandnoble @kobobooks @waterstones **** #Review @booksamillion @bookshop_org @bookshop_org_uk
December 13, 2024 at 5:28 PM