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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#HandsAroundTheKennedyCenter was a smashing success! I don’t know if the fencing allowed a complete encirclement of the building, but we definitely had enough people to do it! Yay, #HandsOffTheArts!

A large crowd forms on the grass across the street from the front of the Kennedy Center.

Selfie: an older woman with glasses and very short brown hair, wearing a blue Penzeys Spices “Resist!” t-shirt, stands in a crowd with the front facade of the Kennedy Center in the background.

A very large crowd stands facing the front facade of the Kennedy Center.

People stand in a line with hands clasped or elbows linked facing out from the Kennedy Center facade, along the line of black bicycle fencing circling the building. Photographers are taking pictures of the line.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This breaks my heart. Lonnie truly is the best, and having him at the helm during the Trump/MAGA/fascist storm has helped tremendously in holding the Smithsonian’s course true. With his departure, I fear for the future of the institution while vandals run the federal government.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 04/09/2026

It’s disturbing that Mt. Sinai is capitulating to the Trump regime by inking an agreement suspending gender-affirming care for transgender young people. Our state’s hospitals and providers have both a moral and legal obligation to provide needed healthcare to all patients, including trans youth.

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Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration, including Texas Children’s Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Connecti...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are a lot of evil shits in this administration, but this gormless ghoul is right up there at the top. I hope @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have a Project 2025-sized playbook of investigations and inquiries into what he's been up to, because I bet we only know a fraction of his fuckery

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And, remember, it’s 15% off for your first year of a paid membership to Law Dork right now through the end of the month. So, if you appreciate my work (even when I’m on vacation!), consider a paid subscription now! www.lawdork.com/summersale

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Underrated thing that goes under the radar but needs to be a part of SCOTUS reform: The Court must and shall explain every single one of its rulings

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We know that Trump's proposed budget destroys the Institute of Museum and Library Services. But what does IMLS do, and why does it matter? You might be surprised! Follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to #fundlibraries bit.ly/3WkmIWG

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What Does Federal Funding for Libraries Pay For?

You'll be surprised!

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Exceptional clarity from Science magazine but we need to take this one step further. Their design to break academic science is coupled with their design to re-segregate higher education and control culture, ideas, and memory. It fits with anti-DEI policies and Trump disclaimers at the Smithsonian.

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hey, @indyfromspace.bsky.social: you’re in the new RTX Living in the Space Age gallery at the @smithsonian.bsky.social National Air and Space Museum on the DC Mall!!

White display panel has an image of part of the Earth seen from space at the top, with black text below reading, “Observing Earth from Space. Satellites that observe Earth greatly improve our lives and understanding of our planet. We know a lot about where we live thanks to Space Age technology. Earth observation satellites provide detailed information about our planet — its land, oceans, and atmosphere. They also monitor human activities. We use these satellites to forecast the weather, aid disaster relief, strengthen national defense, and much more. Like all other satellites, these need to be protected from collisions with space debris and other threats.” A sidebar reads: “[Satellites] allow us to see things very differently. — Sarah Parcak, Archeologist who uses satellite imagery.”

Closeup of white panel sidebar with text reading: “[Satellites] allow us to see things very differently. — Sarah Parcak, Archaeologist who uses satellite imagery, 2009.”

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 20/07/2026

In 10 years of covering Trump’s finances, this is his most-blatant attempt to profit off the presidency. And there’s close to 0% chance Trump Media didn’t consult Trump before launching this product.

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books. That is federal control over ideas. Sign the petition to stop it today. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading

Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Judges are expected to write opinions not only for the sake of precedent, but b/c written opinions act as judicial guardrails. They help keep judges from making arbitrary or insufficiently considered opinions because they have to provide some coherent explanation for their conclusion.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hey, a good way to celebrate Lindsey Graham kicking the bucket is to contact your senators about KOSA and the KIDS Act. Graham was a big proponent of these kinds of laws, as well as of gutting section 230.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I get angry when people talk about "declining trust in science" as though there weren't a coordinated effort by billionaire criminals to smear science as a way to decrease regulations, spread propaganda, and enrich themselves. Scientists are being scapegoated and we should not play along.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/07/2026

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Good god. HUGE ONE? New call sign for AF 1? What arrogant stupidity and utter wastefulness … and I’m someone who loves airplanes.

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This really captures the attitude of the “conservative” SCOTUS majority, and the GOP as well. Amazing, how the “nonpolitical” injustices map so perfectly onto the Republican mindset …

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2026

I do not understand the "fairness in sports" thing, in part because it isn't a thing, but also "fair to who" is always the question. People who are taller have an advantage in basketball. Does that mean we ban tall people? Why would THAT be fair?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have NEVER, in the almost 50 years I’ve lived in DC/VA, seen the Mall this deserted in the week including July 4. Can’t blame this lack of turnout on the heat; it’s been hotter. But fencing off the Mall from museums, limiting access gates, prohibiting packs or bags, & proclaiming MAGA will do it.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 30/06/2026

Do people who've never lived in Washington have a sense of how titanic a labor it is to get the Mall this empty, especially near the Fourth of July? Normally the monuments and Smithsonian would look _carpeted_ with tourists right now. Even 'Gigli' didn't chase people off like this.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 29/06/2026

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissenting in today's Trump v. Slaughter ruling expanding the president’s control over and ability to manipulate independent agencies in service of a political agenda.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The odd baby-splitting in the combination of Slaughter and Cook reveals the right-wing Court’s priorities: It may be sanguine about the demolition of agencies mostly used to regulate big business/protect workers, but is unwilling to let Trump take over the Fed and unleash global economic chaos

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i've been sitting here trying to think of a joke about slaughter/cook, but this truly captures it all

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The National Mall is fenced off in the most hostile, extreme fashion I’ve seen since I came in August 1976. This sign is outside the Mall entrance to the Air & Space Museum. The Bar Americano eatery right across that road is damn near inaccessible, and dying for lack of customers. I tipped well.

Map of DC Mall mounted on unscalable black fencing at 6th St indicates that the only pedestrian access to the Mall is at 4th Street and 14th Street. Obscured by the map is the Bar Americano food kiosk, inaccessible from the Air and Space Museum at 6th Street. (DC blocks on the Mall are very long.)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026

I think the reason the Reflecting Pool is getting so much reaction is because it's a tangible metaphor for all the failures of this regime. It's a physical manifestation of toxicity, vanity, cost, error, and assigning blame.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California

A paperback copy of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler

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Taking Action 4 US🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦🇩🇪📚📗 @takingaction4us.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Please read this @gregsargent.bsky.social 🧵 and the piece It’s by far the best thing I’ve read on President Obama’s speech.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelly blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith." ORDER: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION
ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY; ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL PARK RANGERS;
CATIONAL PARS: SOCIETY ERICA'S
EXPERIENTIAL GRAPHIC DESIGNERS; ) and UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS,
Plaintiffs,
Civil Action No. 1:26-CV-10877-AK
V.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; DOUG BURGUM, in his ) official capacity as Secretary of the Interior; )
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE; and JESSICA BOWRON, in her official
Defendants.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFES' MOTION FOR 5 U.S.C. § 705 STAY OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
ANGEL KELLEY, D.J.

In 1872, Congress established Yellowstone National Park as the world's first national park, setting in motion the principle that natural wonders, historical sites, and cultural memory
belong to and serve the public. With over 433 park sites across the United States today, the
National Park system hosts millions of visitors each year seeking to enjoy the parks' iconic
views, monuments to our Nation's history, and memorials recognizing the sacrifice of many.
Beyond the scenic grandeur, the National Park system also serves as a cornerstone of public
learning, providing rich and informative signs, exhibits, and interpretive waysides on topics ranging from civil rights to environmentalism. From the echoes of abolition in John Brown's
Fort in Harpers Ferry, to the genesis of the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement at the
Stonewall National Monument, to the retreating ice of Glacier National Park in Alaska, the
National Parks preserve the multifaceted and multi-layered history of our Nation, including the good, the bad, and the ugly. Often referred to as "America's largest classroom," National Parks
serve in that spirit by telling the stories both of those who write history and those who go
unheard. The beauty of history is the unvarnished storytelling of a time gone by and the delivery
of undeniable truths. The Government's stewardship of these park sites thus carries a responsibility to present history in full rather than in favored fragments.

Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded these principles. Under the guise of
promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the
removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with
its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths. In recent months, the Government has torn
down exhibits in Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park memorializing the legacy
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of people enslaved by the country's first President; removed signage detailing climate threats at
Fort Sumter in South Carolina, one of the most environmentally endangered sites in the country;
and wiped away descriptions of history and science at countless National Parks across the United
States. Not only does this undermine the integrity of the National Parks; it sets a dangerous
precedent of censorship and sanitization. The National Park Service Organic Act, the National
Park Service Centennial Act, and the National Parks Omnibus Management Act, as well as the
Administrative Procedure Act do not authorize such arbitrary and capricious action. The Court
thus GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for a Stay Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 705.

Because Defendants deemed it important to strip the parks of these undeniable truths in anticipation of the 250th Anniversary of our great Nation, it is equally important that our shared history be honestly told and fully restored by the 250th Anniversary to properly honor the remarkable achievements of the United States. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED:
Plaintiffs' Motion to Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705 is GRANTED forthwith.
2. Defendants are ENJOINED from taking any further action to implement Section
5 of Secretary's Order 3431, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," at park sites
managed by the NPS pending further litigation in this matter.
3. Defendants are ORDERED to take all necessary steps forthwith to restore and reinstall all interpretive materials at park sites managed by the NPS that, pursuant to the Secretary's Order, have been altered, removed, or damaged in the process of such removal since
May 20, 2025, to be completed within twenty-one (21) calendar days of this Order. Defendants are further ENJOINED from making any further alterations to interpretive materials at NPS
park sites pursuant to the Secretary's Order.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For the love of &*$^G! -- the problem here is the standard deal terms offered by most publishers, NOT the frickin libraries (librarians, I love you all and please understand no author I know blames you for the decline in average author income--quite the reverse--we know you send readers our way 💚)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Last year, Trump and DOGE gutted funding for thousands of USAID programs, including monitoring and containing New World screwworm in Central America. Now, the parasite has moved north and infected American livestock. "Efficiency."

forbes.com

Screwworm Is Back In Texas Cattle—Is DOGE To Blame?

The government cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was working its way to the U.S.

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isaac @sevier.io · 05/06/2026

One thing that's notable about this is that it's a policy about energy use - megawatts - not about 'data centers' specifically and so it is revealing the massive subsidy that residential electricity users provide to all industrial customers.

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

From the CEO of AAAS: “If this rule becomes final, Americans' hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation's chief bureaucrat. Alzheimer's disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We’ve reached the steal the copper wiring out of the walls and drive the business into the ground to profit off the bankruptcy and liquidate chapter of capitalism. They’re not there to run a country, they’re there to pick the meat off the bones.

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Nearly half of children in the United States live in “book deserts” — communities without reliable access to public libraries, bookstores, or adequate reading materials. Sign to end book deserts in the US! Via @everylibrary.bsky.social #library #lit #read #reading action.everylibrary.org/s4028

action.everylibrary.org

PETITION: Combat Book Deserts and Illiteracy

Nearly half of children in the United States live in “book deserts” — communities without reliable access to public libraries, bookstores, or adequate reading materials.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 27/05/2026

BREAKING 35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund. Doc buff.ly/1065CA7

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Mary Dominiak @bardicvoice.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ready to watch #MandalorianAndGrogu in #IMAX at the National Air and Space Museum. I need a good break from the real world …

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 27/05/2026

All of this right here All 43 of the GOP senators who could not bring themselves to vote to convict Trump after 1/6 should have that decision tied around their necks for all time

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