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FamilyGirl2025
@silverzane2025.bsky.social
Enthusiastic Middling Genealogist
Armed with degrees in criminal justice and political science with a side of history
Lover of all things about libraries and will support them until my last breath.
She/Her
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NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It means a lot to me when the billionaire tells me that affordability is a hoax. I'm sure he understands my hardships and struggles to pay my bills. Of course he wouldn't add tariffs to most of the items that are imported into the country that just makes it worse.
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)

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December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Minutes ago today the Trump regime abruptly cancelled citizenship ceremonies for several immigrants in Boston.

THEY CANCELLED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES.

These immigrants followed every rule & did everything right—Trump banned them anyway. All are from Black & brown majority nations.

This Is Fascism.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.

The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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“I don’t know about that.”

“I just saw a headline as I walked in.”

“I didn’t see it.”

“I was a little busy.”
Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock
House Speaker Mike Johnson has made a habit of pretending not to know about Trump-related news events when asked to comment by reporters.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Wild how you never see this stuff in mainstream/legacy media
This is fucking amazing
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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More of that free speech absolutism eh?

CAIR: “Abducting a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator on a speaking tour in 🇺🇸 because he dared to criticize the Israeli government’s genocide is a blatant affront to free speech.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/u...
October 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.
Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients
A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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NEW: On inspection reports, the FDA routinely blacks out the names of drugs coming from foreign factories found to have manufacturing failures, keeping information about potentially ineffective or unsafe medications secret from the public.
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.
www.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Award-Winning THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Sets Widespread Release

bookriot.com/the-libraria...
Award-Winning THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Sets Widespread Release
The award-winning documentary THE LIBRARIANS, which explores contemporary book bans and attacks on librarians, to release nationwide.
bookriot.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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U.S. companies have an unwelcome message for inflation-weary consumers: Prices are going up.
Higher Prices Are Coming for Household Staples
Companies from Hormel to Ace Hardware are forecasting rising prices as the costs of President Trump’s tariffs are passed on to consumers.
on.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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This is good, very, very good.
August 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I’ve been studying the role family ties have in linking households during epidemics, as this may play an important part of epidemic modeling. I am excited to share a preprint of this work: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
(Under peer review)

@psioxford.bsky.social 🧪
The effect of local extended families in epidemics: the case of COVID-19 deaths in the US
Do extended family members that live near each other significantly affect the dynamics of large respiratory infectious disease outbreaks? While current epidemiological consensus recognizes household f...
www.medrxiv.org
August 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Libraries are an office away from the office. That means library users have an office they can use anywhere they go!
Planning a Working Vacation? The Library Can Help!
Public libraries are your office away from the office.
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August 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Big get from Saagar - this is outrageous
‼️ Saagar Enjeti has obtained exclusive arrest docs showing senior Israeli official Tom Alexandrovich was nabbed in a Vegas sting after allegedly soliciting a 15yo. He told police he’d met FBI & NSA that week and had an NSA meeting the next day—and was allowed to escape without facing justice.
August 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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August 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Breaking news: The White House will launch an aggressive review of Smithsonian exhibitions, collections and operations ahead of America’s 250th birthday celebrations next year.
White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums
In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Thou shalt not cry about being mocked when you are literally the person in charge of ICE kidnapping people off the street.
Kristi Noem Melts Down Over Her Face Melting Down On South Park
A letter from God to Kristi Noem.
www.thegodpodcast.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.
August 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
www.propublica.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM