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•Please pardon my southern accent •Lifelong North Carolinian •I do a thing called “what I want”
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What an excellent piece by Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net -- here's a gift link so you can read it without the paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

Dear parents: You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.

We feed you. They hunt us.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

As Larry the Cable Guy said … “Let’s get 'er done!”

The Summer of "Jaws" 50th anniversary is going to rock. @benstiller.redhour.com $CMCSA youtu.be/jrBN9zcQAGw?...

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

Well payed, Harvard, well played. Harvard offers FREE American Government course.

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.

🚨Please read this gripping recounting of #HurricaneHelene - long, but absolutely worth your time, and possibly your life for future storms! I couldn’t stop reading. The heroics in this NC community are as inspiring as the personal accounts are harrowing. Incredible journalism, @propublica.org! +

Finally, some good news.

*sinatra voice* Start binging the bongs

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Jenny Jenny 🎶

Used books are a low-cost way to see if you like what an author has to offer. If you do find you like them, then you can buy their next book new, possibly from the same bookseller. They're also a way to get books no longer in print. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...

Same

Science!