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Independent thinker l Dyslexia Specialist and Advocate l DFTBA I #fundlibraries I All opinions are my own. she-her

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
Recruitment-by-gaming is a project that the Pentagon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on, and it has paid big dividends.
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The White House made an arcade game out of deporting people
It’s part of a long American history of gaming as propaganda.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 05/09/2026
Brazilian beef was recently rejected from the EU for failing to meet quality standards and 30,000 pounds of Argentinian meat was recalled in Texas and Florida this summer.
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Trump Confirms Tariff-Free Beef Is Coming From Brazil And Argentina Amid Quality Controversies
Brazilian beef was recently rejected from the EU for failing to meet quality standards and 30,000 pounds of Argentinian meat was recalled in Texas and Florida this summer.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And they steal your tax money to pay themselves for it, too, thanks to voucher schemes! I feel so hard for this young generation. Books stolen from them. Education stolen from them. Vaccines stolen from them. Public spaces stolen from them. PLUS they have to interact with peers raised with this.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I dunno...I think it's time to stop interviewing James Carville.
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Politico @politico.com · 07/08/2026
BREAKING: An appeals court has ruled against Trump’s attempt to demolish parts of the White House to build a ballroom, saying he needs congressional approval.
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Appeals court blocks Trump’s White House ballroom renovation
But the panel temporarily put their ruling on hold to allow the president to seek relief from the Supreme Court.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It was never going to "just be school libraries." It was never going to be "just Moms for Liberty." This is a long-term, full-scale, right-wing agenda to dismantle public goods. In spaces where privacy is paramount, those who protect and support kiddy touchers want to strip that away.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/08/2026
The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news. We fact-check the hell out of our reporting, and we respect and protect our sources. Have a tip? Drop us a line, confidentially.
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How to Leak to Us
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Wheezy Waiter @wheezywaiter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Why do People Like Grass Lawns? youtu.be/roMW6FfJFIA
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Why do People Like Grass Lawns?
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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My books will be on my shelves where they belong. A few friends used to laugh at me for keeping what they called obsolete things like vinyl records and old books. They all agree it was a good idea now.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A Very Bad Thing to Do….
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 28/07/2026
John Oliver is daring Buc-ee's to sue him after launching a parody "Buc-Off" merch line mocking the Texas chain's aggressive trademark lawsuits.
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John Oliver dares Buc-ee's to sue him with 'Buc-Off' challenge
John Oliver is daring Buc-ee's to sue him after launching a parody "Buc-Off" merch line mocking the Texas chain's aggressive trademark lawsuits.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries. bookriot.com/tools-used-b...
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The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026
Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you're near Daniel Boone Regional Library (MO), they could use your support. The state attorney general is threatening to withhold library funding because the library held a "rainbow storytime." krcgtv.com/news/local/m...
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Missouri officials warn Columbia library funding could be withheld over LGBTQ+ story time
Missouri officals have warned a Columbia library that they will withhold funding if any inappropriate material ahead of a planned LGBTQ+-themed story for kids.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/07/2026
There's a famous story about Joe Stalin making a speech in 1937. When he was done, the audience began clapping wildly but then everyone was afraid to stop. They kept going for 11 minutes. Finally one guy had enough and stopped, and then everyone else could too. That guy was imprisoned for 10 years.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I thought this was on Point….
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CoolHandNuke @mrfawkes50.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/06/2026
Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...
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EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19/06/2026
This is Hope. She was hit by a car and left with a shattered femur and fractured pelvis. While her pelvis is expected to heal with rest and supportive care, her broken femur requires surgery, which will include a plate implant to stabilize the fractures. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/hope-bsd
Hope, a black and white husky mix with icy blue eyes, is laying down on blankets inside a vet kennel. one ear is up and her expression is frightened. an x-ray image of Hope's torso shows a shattered femur and broken pelvis. Hope the husky mix is swaddled in blankets inside a vet kennel. she looks tired and in pain.
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🎶 The more you knooooowww🎶
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/05/2026
Host cities have faced backlash for high transportation prices to World Cup matches—@henrygrabar.bsky.social investigates who’s really to blame:
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No Matter Who Wins the World Cup, the Hosts Lose
Cities and states are covering a lot of the costs of this summer’s matches, and have few options for bringing in much revenue.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/04/2026
Telegraph and Politico owner says journalists must support Israel or resign
MIDDLE EAST EYE
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☀️Sunny☀️ @sunny2u.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The people of the US should be able to vote for impeachment, especially when Congress is full of sycophantic idiots.
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Loud Light @loudlightks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
TELL YOUR KS LEGISLATORS NO AT loudlightaction.org/immigrant-rights 🌞#Kansas
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Ariana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Sen. Rand Paul, chair of Senate Homeland, has used his opening statement to ask Sen. Markwayne Mullin to address his comments where he called Rand a "freaking snake” and addressed sympathy with a neighbor who assaulted Rand.
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Claudia @pinintree.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I say that All Ks legislators have to pass this test first. #ksleg
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
From stealing library board power to redefining obscenity, here are even more bad state-level bills targeting books and libraries. This is long, but there's good news at the end–two terrible bills that died in Utah and an outstanding bill in Maryland to rally for: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Library Legislative Updates, Part 2
From stealing library board power to redefining obscenity, here are even more bad state-level bills targeting books and libraries.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/03/2026
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
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Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
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Morgan Chilson @crazeywriter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Kansas Republican Sen. Mike Thompson has put forth a proposal that would change the state constitution to say life begins at conception. If it passes the House and Senate with two-thirds vote, the issue would be put on the ballot. kansasreflector.com/2026/03/10/p...
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Proposed constitutional amendment would put abortion back on the Kansas ballot  • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas Republican is again looking for a path to stop abortion in the state through a proposal saying life begins at conception.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 11/03/2026
Judge rejects attempt to block law that restricts bathroom use, invalidates driver’s licenses | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
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Judge rejects attempt to block law that restricts bathroom use, invalidates driver's licenses • Kansas Reflector
TOPEKA — Douglas County District Judge James McCabria declined Tuesday to pause enforcement of a new state law that invalidated driver’s licenses and criminalizes bathroom use for transgender resident...
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Mar-rick @marrickg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Politico has confirmed two things from CENTCOM. 1. Trump has no plan for how to end this war (that actually might be the plan). 2. Even if we started scaling back today, the military won't be able to withdraw from Iran until September 2026. Note: No clear objective has been declared.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026
In the week since launching Operation Epic Fury, Trump’s war without an apparent endgame has killed 787 Iranians. When asked whether Americans should be concerned about the possibility of retaliatory attacks here in the US, Trump said: "I guess."
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Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026
“I have a bomb, I have a bomb. Don’t let anyone in or out of the clinic, or I’ll set it off.” After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars
After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
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Morgan Chilson @crazeywriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Mental health impacts and the risk of violence from being constantly outed will likely be the result of an anti-trans Kansas law, experts say. kansasreflector.com/2026/03/05/n...
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New Kansas bathroom law likely to harm mental health, increase risks for trans people, experts say • Kansas Reflector
Refusing to allow transgender Kansans the ability to use the bathroom of their choice or hold documents that match their gender affects their mental health and may open them to acts of violence, resea...
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/03/2026
Read this thread ⤵️
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Greenville Eight and Library Discrimination, Then and Now. That, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/the-greenvil...
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The Greenville Eight and Library Discrimination, Then and Now: Book Censorship News, March 6, 2026
The Greenville Eight protested library discrimination in 1960. Their fight and others like them are a legacy that continues to play out now.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 06/03/2026
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation said it received more than 200 complaints about perceived Christian nationalist sentiments amid war in Iran.
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Iran war, Hegseth agenda test religious freedom in ranks
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation said it received more than 200 complaints about perceived Christian nationalist sentiments amid war in Iran.
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
And here we all are at the beginning of WWIII. Interesting how much a distraction it is from Trump's involvement in the biggest sex trafficking ring in the history of the world 🌎 EVER. Release the fully unredacted Trump/Epstein files. NOW.
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Claudia @pinintree.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
TBF Sen. Time Sheehy physically assaulted a Marine and broke his hand for exercising his freedom of speech. Congress is no longer the best and brightest if it ever was.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/03/2026
A strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran killed at least 175 people, nearly all young schoolchildren.
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Who Bombed Girls’ School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre, 175 Killed
After a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, killed at least 175 people, nearly all young schoolchildren, online reports spread disinformation about the attack, including claims that t...
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Thou Shalt Not Assault Marines While Sending Them To War
U.S. Senator Sheehy Is going to Hell.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/03/2026
“Totally unreviewable” is how the Trump administration apparently views Kennedy’s actions as health secretary.
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DOJ is trying to convince a judge that RFK Jr.'s decisions are untouchable
"Totally unreviewable" is how the Trump administration apparently views Kennedy's actions as health secretary.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/03/2026
Nicole Amor, 39, was an avid gardener who enjoyed making salsa from the peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son, a senior in high school. She also enjoyed rollerblading and bicycling with her fourth-grade daughter. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
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US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.
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Jess @jessicaesquire.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I have worried about what I've seen as my own decreased ability to focus but this article has really shifted my thinking. It's so so interesting. aeon.co/essays/what-...
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Others are drowning, attempting sustained thought in environments engineered to prevent it. They sit with laptops open, seven tabs competing for attention, notifications sliding in from three different apps, phones vibrating every few minutes. They’re trying to read serious material while fighting a losing battle against behavioural psychology weaponised at scale. They believe their inability to focus is a personal failure rather than a design problem. They don’t realise they’re trying to think in a space optimised to prevent thinking.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They’ve already seeded the next few generations.
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