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Kudos to Rhode Island for protecting libraries and their patrons from book-banning efforts. 📚
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act into law Wednesday.
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Gov. McKee signs Freedom to Read Act into law • Rhode Island Current
Rhode Island joined at least eight other blue states that have taken steps against school library censorship after Gov. Dan McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act into law Wednesday.
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July 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Kudos to Rhode Island for protecting libraries and their patrons from book-banning efforts. 📚
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Every March, most Americans shift their clocks forward for daylight saving time. Studies show this change disrupts sleep and leads to measurable adverse outcomes, including a significant increase in heart attacks. (via @us.theconversation.com)
Daylight saving time causes lower productivity and higher health care costs, studies say
A vast body of research shows that every year, the shift to daylight saving time needlessly exacerbates various health risks, disrupting millions of Americans’ sleep and increasing the likelihood of…
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March 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Every March, most Americans shift their clocks forward for daylight saving time. Studies show this change disrupts sleep and leads to measurable adverse outcomes, including a significant increase in heart attacks. (via @us.theconversation.com)
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"The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals..." www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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February 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals..." www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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In addition to being illegal, unconstitutional and wrong, Trump's lawlessness is also an extraordinary abuse of power as we the people have to pay his legal bills and ultimately for the damages his harms will bring. He is legally and financially liable for nothing. Break laws, get sued, we pay.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In addition to being illegal, unconstitutional and wrong, Trump's lawlessness is also an extraordinary abuse of power as we the people have to pay his legal bills and ultimately for the damages his harms will bring. He is legally and financially liable for nothing. Break laws, get sued, we pay.
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Across the country, libraries are helping their patrons access the internet to learn, work, & grow. But a resolution in Congress to limit the use of #Erate funds could put that access at risk.
Tell Congress to protect funding for wifi hotspots: oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi...
Tell Congress to protect funding for wifi hotspots: oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi...
February 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Across the country, libraries are helping their patrons access the internet to learn, work, & grow. But a resolution in Congress to limit the use of #Erate funds could put that access at risk.
Tell Congress to protect funding for wifi hotspots: oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi...
Tell Congress to protect funding for wifi hotspots: oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi...
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The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore‘s 2007 children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry”
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Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools: ‘I Can’t Help But Wonder What Is So Controversial’
The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore's 2007 children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry' from schools operated by the Department of Defense.
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February 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore‘s 2007 children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry”
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February 5, 2025:
February 5, 2025
Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.
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February 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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The move would come in two parts, the sources said.
The order would direct the secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action and push for Congress to pass legislation to end the department.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...
The order would direct the secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action and push for Congress to pass legislation to end the department.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...
Trump administration drafting executive order to initiate Department of Education’s elimination | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order that would kick off the process of eliminating the Department of Education, the latest move by President Donald Trump to swiftly carry ou...
www.cnn.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The move would come in two parts, the sources said.
The order would direct the secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action and push for Congress to pass legislation to end the department.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...
The order would direct the secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action and push for Congress to pass legislation to end the department.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...
history has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime that seeks to control knowledge and suppress dissent.
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Arresting Librarians Has NEVER Led to More Liberty and Freedom.
History has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime.
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January 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
history has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime that seeks to control knowledge and suppress dissent.
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