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Ethan
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Librarian, JRPG enthusiast, and sports junkie. Ask me about legal research, what the most underrated RPG series is (it's Xenosaga), or Charlotte FC!
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I am no longer at imminent risk of death so BUY SOME ART FROM ME!
June 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Bunch shows how it is done.

The way he points out what the EO *legally* does (directs the VP, acting as just one of many regents) vs what it claims to do (“change the Smithsonian!”—something POTUS can’t do) is fantastic.

We need more of this, less ppl taking EOs as law.
NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.

“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”
March 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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DO NOT PANIC

the immediate impact this will have on you is small, they have to enforce it, and there will likely be lawsuits and ways to fight it

it will be a developing story

and cis friends? no shit:

NOW’S THE TIME TO NOT STAND FOR THIS SHIT

be ready to step up and say NO
🚨 Trump will instruct the federal government tomorrow via an executive order to not recognize that transgender people exist and exclusively recognize people as their sex assigned at birth.

www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’
The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.
www.thefp.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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November 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
*Omega voice*
hello world
August 28, 2023 at 8:18 PM