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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just paid $4.44 for a gallon of skim milk in the Midwest, and I always buy the store brand. My family goes through so. much. milk. It's going to get to $5.00, isn't it? 😬 I don't blame dairy farmers; I've been reading about what they're up against. #inflation #climate
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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US Senator warns of administration plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied migrant children
A U.S. senator is warning of a Trump administration plan to remove over 500 children from the country, bypassing legal protections, in a letter sent to U.S.
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I wish I lived in LA to vote for this engineer. Wow. Great campaign. 🤩
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm pissed. Our once U.S. liberal democracy's now an autocratic plutocracy for my kids who deserve to be governed w/t/values from t/Declaration & Constitution generations before them didn't always meet but aspired to. That's just great. Thx a lot, asshats. youtube.com/shorts/_nz15...
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Trump’s secret settlement
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
x.com/i/status/203... I look @ this photo daily as I read posts of a U.S. com-in-chief I didn't vote for but who, in a republic, reps all of us in t/U.S. T/man & his dog look exactly how my fam & our dog'd look if we were trying to get safe. I can't tell t/man I'm sorry or that I hate this too.
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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The Real Science in Project Hail Mary
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Trump, 2016: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump said in IA. "It's, like, incredible." His men shot a man near 26th St. W & Nicollet Ave. on his behalf this a.m. Is he right? Will his support still be in the mid to upper 30's?
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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People have to know this is happening
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Do what you love, and do it well to make your community better. That will bring progress and strengthen democracy. Advice even for the shy or introverted from Heather Cox Richardson. youtube.com/shorts/1Yzip...
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Do What You Can
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Russian-born Harvard researcher describes detention at ICE facility and deportation fears
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I’ll just let John Lewis say it.
Image of John Lewis with text:

"Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest.
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society."

From League of Women Voters
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #NOAA I appealed to Trump supporters among fam & friends to consider diff vote-I used Proj. 25 goal of limiting & event. privatizing NOAA & reminded them children need the earth longer. They did the verbal equivalent of patting me on the head & cast their votes.
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Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts
‘Crackdown on climate’ predicted as oversight enacted over agency staffers’ email and meetings with foreign nationals
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#superbowl #halftime #kendricklamar By The Associated Press April 16, 2018 Kendrick Lamar Becomes First Hip-Hop Artist to Win Pulitzer Prize for Music His album 'DAMN.' is the first non-classical or -jazz work to win the award.
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order? www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
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Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A beautiful and important piece that is well with your time to read this morning. ☀️
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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Everyone belongs. “There are unhoused people, mentally ill people, library kids, library teens, grandparents, autistic people, neurodivergent people who all use a library, and it belongs to all of them.” - Mychal Threets #ReasonstoLoveLibraries #SLJSummit bit.ly/3RGM52r
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Free societies don't ban books. @historyrhymes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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