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Cynthia Ragona

@cynragona.bsky.social
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Book lover, school library volunteer, organizer of things. Photographer at www.seagreen-photography.com. Rhode Island.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/03/2026
This was amazing. People were cheering each time the dial was spun.
Sign what's a circle with an arrow reading "FUCK" - if you spin the circle, the FUCK arrow lands on a name from the Trump Administration. Choices include Miller, RFK Jr, Vought, Vance, Bondi, Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, Kushner, Patel. The arrow is currently pointing at Miller.
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Every time I read the abbreviation SOTU, my brain instead sees the letters STFU. At this time, perhaps there is more reason than letter similarity for that.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 06/02/2026
We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
IDEAS | @phileil.bsky.social: Elected officials should not be lending legitimacy to Elon Musk’s toxic social media site.
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Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, and other New England politicians need to quit X - The Boston Globe
Elected officials should not be lending legitimacy to Elon Musk’s toxic social media site.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas. Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
When I said I wanted to catastrophize less in 2026, i did not mean i wanted all the bad things in my head to become real, to be clear
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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They want us to feel hopeless. Fuck them.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The whole 🧵, folks
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.
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Call Trump's power grab in Venezuela what it is
Corporate media must recognize they're being openly lied to—and report accordingly.
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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Commentary by @risecstate.bsky.social: Misinformation during Brown University investigation disrupted law enforcement’s work www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/01/m...
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Rumors and misinformation during Brown shooting investigation disrupted law enforcement’s work - The Boston Globe
In some ways, this is our new reality. But we have the tools to fight back, writes Rhode Island’s secretary of state.
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I read 72 books this year (probably more, as I don't log rereads). I'm stingy w/ my 5-star ratings. I gave them to: The Everlasting by Alix H. Harrow Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Antidote by Karen Russell Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Video Now: RI Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse addresses Brown U. shooting social media misinformation
YouTube video by WPRI
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This describes the feeling here perfectly.
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Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Brown University shooting investigation reignites criticisms of FBI’s Kash Patel www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/n...
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Brown University shooting investigation reignites criticisms of FBI’s Kash Patel - The Boston Globe
Democrats have been critical of Patel since before he was nominated, but his handling of the Brown University investigation has inflamed the long-simmering frustration with his tenure.
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
One thing that would reduce the anxiety in the neighborhood around Brown University is if the news helicopters would stop circling overhead.
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David Morales @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Following last night’s tragedy in our city, the RI Blood Center is in urgent need of donors. If you have the capacity and are eligible, please consider donating blood. The RI Blood Center’s Providence location (405 Promenade Street) will be open until 7pm tonight. Take care neighbors ❤️
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Nice work Rhode Island and @conormcdonough.com for the footage!
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Wishing I could have been there. Great perspective on this image!
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...
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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”
In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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Christopher Gavin @chrisgavin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What is the Freedom to Read Act recently signed into law in R.I.? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...
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What is the Freedom to Read Act recently signed into law in R.I.? - The Boston Globe
“In Rhode Island, we see censorship for what it is: a way to limit what we can learn about the world – and about each other," said Governor Dan McKee.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Proud of my state and all those who worked to get the Freedom to Read bill made law. rhodeislandcurrent.com/briefs/gov-m... Gov. McKee signs Freedom to Read Act into law • Rhode Island Current
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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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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The result will be chaos for this Nation’s public schools.
Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance
to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent’s religious beliefs will impose impossible
administrative burdens on schools. The harm will not be
borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too. Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting
harm on students’ learning and development.
Worse yet, the majority closes its eyes to the inevitable
chilling effects of its ruling. Many school districts, and particularly the most resource strapped, cannot afford to engage in costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to tracking and managing student absences.
Schools may instead censor their curricula, stripping material that risks generating religious objections. The Court’s
ruling, in effect, thus hands a subset of parents the right to
veto curricular choices long left to locally elected school
boards. Because I cannot countenance the Court’s contortion of our precedent and the untold harms that will follow,
I dissent.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Although Alito frames the remedy here as "notice and opt-out," the reality is that school districts cannot manage such a sweeping opt-out system. They are far more likely to simply pull books with LGBTQ characters off classroom shelves altogether rather than face a ruinous, high-profile lawsuit.
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Call to Action for Ohio! A provision in House Bill 96 requires libraries to segregate materials related to sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, guaranteeing they are not visible to anyone under 18. Demand the Governor veto it.
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OLC Raises Alarm Over State Budget Cuts and Provision Segregating Materials
The Ohio Library Council (OLC), representing Ohio’s 251 public library systems, is sounding the alarm over provisions in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-2027 state budget (House Bill 96) that threaten both ...
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It feels so good to see a W.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Brave Books's right-wing "See You at the Library" event is back–coming to public libraries August 16–and this year, they claim they're partnering with the Department of Education. Everything you need to know to prepare: bookriot.com/see-you-at-t...
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Right-Wing "See You at the Library" Event Back in 2025; Partners with US Department of Education
The now-annual event promoting "Pro-God," "Pro-America" books and beliefs will take place August 16. Here's what it is and how to prepare your library.
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
After a contentious debate, the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed the “Freedom to Read Act,” aiming to combat “censorship” of library materials and to protect librarians.
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R.I. House passes ‘Freedom to Read Act’ aimed at library ‘censorship’ - The Boston Globe
Representative Morales said the bill is needed because R.I. has had 25 attempts to censor books, but Representative Roberts said it would help ‘promote perversion.’
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My latest — I wrote about Trump pardoning reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley’s tax and bank fraud convictions after their daughter praised him at the RNC vs. 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva’s wrongful ICE detainment, and how justice has merely become a presidential transaction. Read here:
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In Trump’s America, wealthy criminals are pardoned, poor innocents are arrested
While ICE patrols court houses for law-abiding immigrants, Trump's friends get a free pass.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... important to acknowledge these people are fucking nuts
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Trump and his crew are nuts
It’s time to stop rationalizing the craziness
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Some good news in the news.
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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"In the real world, the world of cause and effect, when we tear down the best among us and provide bogus reasons for why we did it, reality will eventually come for us."
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Opinion | George Saunders: Shame on the White House
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
NEW: Monday's lesson: Don't mess with librarians. Ultimately, though, Trump's effort to take over the Library of Congress could come down to whether Congress says, "Don't mess with Congress." This morning, at Law Dork:
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Monday's lesson: Don't mess with librarians.
Ultimately, though, the question with Trump's effort to take over the Library of Congress could come down to whether Congress says, "Don't mess with Congress."
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Jennifer Boylan @jenniferboylanri.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Beyond disappointing. Our state's only landfill is nearing capacity. When it's full, we all will pay handsomely to ship our garbage out of state. Even if you don't care about the environment (which you should), the cost should drive food waste diversion as a priority. #foodwaste #EPA #compost
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
More of this, please. This Is How You Interview a Government Official www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-ho...
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This Is How You Interview a Government Official
Michel Martin's relentless questioning of Troy Edgar revealed there may be no evidence behind the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Well, I’m a lawyer, so let me give it a shot.
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
What an amazing lineup! Don’t miss the opportunity to see so many fantastic authors reading and discussing their work.
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Great Poetry Reading Day seems as good a reason as any to remind everyone that when we lose the freedom to books, we lose the freedom to so much more. Support RI's Freedom to Read Act! #FreedomToRead #PassRIFreedomToReadIn2025 @aabbri.bsky.social @davidmoralesri.bsky.social
A handwritten note saying "This is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own trust and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. From What Kind of Times Are These by Adrienne Rich"
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
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Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It's always good to see some coverage of the world of #kidlit in the "mainstream media." As you may know, there's an exhibit at the Eric Carle about endpapers, called "Open + Shut." And the Guardian has covered it. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books
New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids books
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Saying there is no due process for those you allege have broken the law is exactly a “cart before the horse” problem.
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
One thing that is interesting/perplexing to me, an author whose books have been banned, is that I'm constantly being asked to talk about how the book bans affect libraries and readers. This is important, but why not ask me, an author, how book bans affect authors? This could be relevant.
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Sarah S. Brannen @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I have an op-ed in The Boston Globe today, about Uncle Bobby's Wedding and the Supreme Court case. It's behind a paywall. I wish I could help with that. I know there are ways. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...
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I wrote a children’s book 20 years ago. It’s now the center of a Supreme Court case. - The Boston Globe
My story about two men getting married has drawn both scorn and deep appreciation over the years. Now, it’s getting banned.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
At Law Dork, I wrote about that Oval Office visit — and what it means:
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Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
The Trump administration wants to send Americans to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.
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Cynthia Ragona @cynragona.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It was never about protecting children.
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